Dillon Danis believes that Dustin Poirier abandoned himself and fans with the very last move of his fighting career.
The legendary former interim light weight champion went to the war with Max Holloway about five rounds in the main event of UFC 318. And in the last seconds of the fight, the 'BMF champion' made his patented point to the middle gesture, who wanted Poirier to let him swing to swing wild.
But when Holloway landed a big shot, Poirier quickly intervened for a clinch and the last seconds of the couple were spent in that position. This frustrated a number of viewers for the 'BMF title' collision, in particular Danis.
Dustin Poirier's last action on UFC 318 had Dillon Danis Raging
Fans was expected that if Dustin Poirier and Max Holloway would get the last seconds of the fifth round, the Hawaiian would point to the mat and go the couple for leather. However, the hero of the birthplace admits that after one combination his survival instincts came into effect and ended that idea.
“I wanted to do it, you know,” Poirier told the media after the fight. “I looked up at the clock as' when do we do this'. You saw me look at the clock a few times and say 'that is still 25 seconds left? Not time yet.”
Dustin Poirier breaks down the last 10 seconds of the Max Holloway fight:
“He hit me with a few shots and I said,” Okay, we're going to struggle a little “.” 💀 #ufc318 pic.twitter.com/gtcjywdm8q
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“Then he pointed down and I said,” Yes, I will oblige “and he hit me with a few shots. So I said,” Okay, we are going to struggle a little, let me go up “. There are only eight seconds left.”
These furious viewers, including Dillon Danis in particular, who wrote on X: “Dustin does not even hit and dives for a desperate body lock in the last 10 seconds of a war?
“That swing -moment was everything, and he rumbled it. He is now in the debts of Aura. Nothing about that … Dustin Poirier's last moment in the Octagon he was beating for a dear life.”
Conor McGregor removed the mocking message to Dustin Poirier after UFC 318
While Danis's trolls is to be expected, the reaction of his teammate Conor McGregor was waiting for fans with held breath. However, it was 'blinking and you will miss it' from the Irish, whose message survived for about five minutes before they were removed.
The former two-weight UFC champion even brought back his old insult of 2014 for Poirier while he tweeted: “We love a good scrap in the company and those two boys are exactly that! Scrappers! Great things! Great fighting boys, Bravo! Ripea Head!”
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McGregor had four famous battles with Holloway and Poirier over the years. He tore his ACL, but managed to increase the Hawaiian in his second-year UFC outings, and once he returned, he was his second opponent back Poirier, which he eliminated in 90 seconds.
However, when he removed the resident of Louisiana in 2021, he was eliminated. Their trilogy ended in controversy when he suffered a broken leg at the end of the round that cost them a final in their feud.