The only fight by Dustin Poirier in 2020 ended through the decision of the judges, but it should have been a third round victory for “The Diamond”.
The former interim -thuufc lightweight champion Dustin Poirier will retire after his next fight.
Poirier takes on Max Holloway in the main event of UFC 318, in the third and final fight of their trilogy.
“The Diamond” will be at best for his Swan number, but Poirier will have to ensure that the referees do not make any mistakes, as in his classic competition in 2020.
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Dan Hooker admits that he was eliminated by Dustin Poirier, but nobody noticed it
Poirier had one of the best UFC fights ever against Dan hooker in 2020, with an incredible back and forth meeting that both men could have seen the victory pick up.
However, Poirier should have won the fight in the third round when he had locked up a guillotine choke on his Kiwi opponent.
Speaking at FOX Sports in 2024, Hooker Havorless revealed that he was actually fainted in Poirier's Guillotine Choke, but nobody noticed it.
He reclaimed consciousness before he escaped well, and ended all five rounds of the fight before Poirier was given the unanimous decision victory.
Hooker said: 'He had me in the guillotine – I was perhaps the first man he ever submitted with it – but he didn't even realize that I was gone.
“I actually woke up in the third round. It was as if, shoots Takedown, he jumped on the guillotine, and then he must have just hit without steam because I woke up and said:” Oh, the fight is still going. “
“I had something like that, this is cool. So he finished a guillotine. Only nobody realized it.”
Poirier rightly won the fight, but it should have ended two rounds earlier.
Dustin Poirier goes back from fighting with a trilogy fight against Max Holloway
July 19 will be the last time of Poirier in the Octagon while he is preparing to withdraw from fighting at UFC 318.
The former interim light weight champion expects his second child, a son, who is expected to be born after the event.
His pension fight will be against Holloway, a man who has beaten “the diamond” twice before in the Octagon.
He won the first meeting through a first round of entry on UFC 143, before he followed it with a closer unanimous decision victory on UFC 236, seven years later.
Now in 2025 they will have a final outing where Holloway hope to get his victory back on Poirier, while she avoids the famous Guillotine Choke who finished hooker.