Overview
- Max Holloway puts the ‘Baddest Motherf***er’ championship on the line against Dustin Poirier, who has announced his retirement following their third meeting.
- Dustin Poirier enters the bout with a 2-0 record over Holloway from their 2012 and 2019 encounters and faces slight underdog odds.
- The co-main event features middleweights Paulo Costa and Roman Kopylov as part of UFC 318’s 14-fight card.
- UFC returns to New Orleans’ Smoothie King Center for the first time since 2015, staging the event in Poirier’s home state of Louisiana.
- US viewers can access the main card on ESPN+ pay-per-view with prelims across ESPN, ESPN2 and Disney+, while UK fans will watch live on TNT Sports and Discovery+.