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Max Holloway has no doubts what Dustin Poirier will do if their UFC 318 trilogy bout reaches the final 10 seconds.

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'El Matador' is the new No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter after knocking out Charles Oliveira at UFC 317. His last three wins contain two featherweight greats in Alexander Volkanovski and Max Holloway, whom he knocked out in devastating fashion.

The segment takes a special look at the BMF title fight between former featherweight champion Max Holloway (26-8 MMA, 22-8 UFC) and former interim lightweight champ Dustin Poirier (30-9 MMA, 22-8 UFC). Poirier has two wins over Holloway already – and will retire after the fight in front of his home fans in Louisiana.

Max Holloway (26-8 MMA, 22-8 UFC) defends his BMF title against the retiring Dustin Poirier (30-9 MMA, 22-8 UFC) in Saturday's UFC 318 (pay-per-view, ESPN, ESPN+) main event at Smoothie King Center in New Orleans.

However, Holloway has fought at lightweight before, where he failed to win the interim title against Dustin Poirier in their rematch at UFC 236. Holloway is currently 0-5 against his UFC-level rivals Poirier and Alexander Volkanovski and looks to break this trend at UFC 318.

UFC 318 has a main card that starts at 10 p.m. ET on pay-per-view via ESPN+. The preliminary card airs on ESPN and streams on ESPN+ at 8 p.m. ET, and early prelims stream on ESPN+ at 6:30 p.m. ET.