Max Holloway leaned into his position of spoiler to Dustin Poirier's retirement fight, and it paid off at UFC 318 with a successful defense of his BMF title. After losing the first pair of meetings in February 2012 and April 2019,

In the Main Event, Waianae’s Max ‘Blessed’ Holloway faced Dustin Poirier for the UFC’s BMF Championship. The fight lived up to the billing, going the distance, concluding with Holloway’s signature point down to the ground with 10 seconds left in the fight.

You understood the situation. You knew they were coming. Hearing the boos that greeted Max Holloway as Moke Boy’s “Hawaiian Kickboxer” blared through the sound system inside of Smoothie King Arena in New Orleans for the main event of UFC 318 on Saturday was not surprising.

Max Holloway further entrenched himself in the record books across multiple categories in his UFC 318 BMF title defense vs. Dustin Poirier.