Dillon Danis believes Dustin Poirier let himself and fans down with the very final move of his fighting career.
The legendary former interim lightweight champion went to war with Max Holloway over five rounds in the main event of UFC 318. And in the closing seconds of the fight, the ‘BMF Champion’ made his patented point to the center gesture, which Poirier accepted leading him to begin swinging wildly.
But once Holloway landed a big shot, Poirier quickly grabbed in for a clinch, and the pair’s final seconds were spent in that position. This frustrated a number of viewers for the ‘BMF title’ clash, most notably Danis.
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Dustin Poirier’s final action at UFC 318 had Dillon Danis raging
It was expected by fans that if Dustin Poirier and Max Holloway made it to the final seconds of the fifth round, that the Hawaiian would point to the mat and the pair would go hell for leather. However, the hometown hero admits that after one combination, his survival instincts kicked in and ended that notion.
“I wanted to do it, you know,” Poirier told the media following the fight. “I looked up at the clock like ‘when are we doing this’. You saw me looking at the clock a few times and saying ‘that’s 25 seconds left? Not time yet’.
“Then he pointed down and I said ‘yeah, I’ll oblige’ and he hit me with a few shots. So I said ‘okay, we’re going to wrestle a little bit, let me clinch up’. There’s only eight seconds left.”
This enraged viewers including most notably Dillon Danis, who wrote on X: “Dustin not even throwing a punch and diving for a desperate body lock in the final 10 seconds of a war?
“That swing off moment was everything, and he fumbled it. He’s in aura debt now. Nothing BMF about that… Dustin Poirier’s last moment in the Octagon was him clinching on for dear life.”
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While Danis’ trolling is to be expected, his teammate Conor McGregor’s reaction to the fight was waited on with bated breath by fans. However, it was ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ from the Irishman, whose message survived about five minutes before being deleted.
The former two-weight UFC champion even brought back his old 2014 insult for Poirier as he tweeted: “We love a good scrapper in the company and them two boys are just that! Scrappers! Awesome stuff! Great fight lads, bravo! R.I.Pea head!”
McGregor had four famous battles over the years with Holloway and Poirier. He tore his ACL but managed to out-grapple the Hawaiian in his sophomore UFC outing, and once he returned his second opponent back was Poirier, whom he knocked out in 90 seconds.
However, when he rematched the Louisiana native in 2021 he was viciously knocked out. Their trilogy ended in controversy when he suffered a broken leg at the end of round one that cost them a finale to their feud.