The last UFC Fight Week from Dustin Poirier is here.
The former UFC interim light weight champion will withdraw from MMA in the main event of UFC 318. The pay-per-view card is built around Poirier's 'Last Dance', which takes place in New Orleans, Louisiana-de's first home game of the Lafayette since Yancy Medyros in 2015.
Poirier's last fight is a trilogy with BMF champion Max Holloway, which is 0-2 against 'The Diamond'.
Dustin Poirier seems to end his 40+ fighting career in a high tone, but one of his former enemies has expressed his concern about his pension fight on Saturday evening.
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Eddie Alvarez does not think that Dustin Poirier should have announced a pension before UFC 318
Just like Holloway, Eddie Alvarez shared the Octagon twice with Poirier – both successful.
Alvarez is very much looking forward to the trilogy fight between Poirier and Holloway, but the former UFC champion wishes Poirier to have done things differently in the run-up.
“Personally, I don't like it when a man says:” I'm done. I am retired, “and then will fight,” said Alvarez about Poirier's pension fight in an interview with the Schmo.
“I don't like that.”
Poirier is considering retirement since the Conor McGregor Trilogy Fight in 2021 and confirmed that his next fight would be his last after losing Islam Makhachev on UFC 302 last summer.
“I have never seen it go well for someone who announces that they are retiring, going outside, getting the performance of your life and then walks into the sunset. Rarely do you rarely see that,” Alvarez said.
“I don't think it's great that this is the situation we go in. I prefer that Dustin had stayed still about retirement, just went inside, fought and then might retire afterwards or something …”
Has Eddie Alvarez retired?
Former champion Eddie Alvarez suffered a broken jaw in his last fight, a loss of BKFC Main Event against Jeremy Stephens in Knuckklemania 5 in his hometown of Philadelphia.
This brought Alvarez to back-to-back losses in BKFC, where some calls to retire 'The Underground King'.
After the TKO loss in January, Alvarez focused on coaching the new generation of hunters, his 'Underground Kings' in his gym, Newtown Performance Institute.
When he was asked to continue his combat sport future, Alvarez told Mike Bohn that he is currently 'open to what' at the age of 41, so that the door remains open during fighting.