Dustin Poirier wants to walkout with Lil
Wayne for his retirement fight in New Orleans at
#UFC318 👀🎥 @arielhelwani
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#MMApic.twitter.com/v7Xeb6sHd4— Championship Rounds (@ChampRDS)
April 28, 2025
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Dustin
Poirier walking out with Lil’ Wayne for his last fight would be
quite the spectacle.
Poirier will step into the Octagon for the last time in a trilogy
against Max
Holloway at
UFC 318 on July 19 at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans,
Louisiana. Poirier had welcomed Holloway to the
UFC in his debut in 2019, and now “Blessed” will be his last
opponent.
Poirier also has a special wish for his walkout music at UFC 318.
While Poirier usually walks out to “The Boss” by James
Brown, he used a mashup with Willie Spence’s cover of Rihanna’s
“Diamonds” for his last fight against Islam
Makhachev. Poirier is considering the same track for UFC 318
but would like Dwayne Michael
Carter, Jr., — aka Lil’ Wayne — to do his walkout with him.
Poirier revealed that he had walked out to Wayne’s “Drop the World”
back in his promotional debut at UFC 125 in 2011.
“Dude, I might stick with the same mashup I did in Jersey. I don’t
know,” Poirier told Ariel Helwani. “But here’s the thing I was
thinking. My first fight in the UFC, when I fought Josh Grispi,
I walked out to Lil’ Wayne. If Lil’ Wayne wants to walk me out in
New Orleans, I will walkout to Lil’ Wayne on my last fight and
switch up the James
Brown.”
Poirier has been in the UFC since 2011, going 22-8 with one no
contest. “The Diamond” is among the top fighters in promotion
history to never capture UFC gold. The Louisiana native dropped his
first title shot against Khabib
Nurmagomedov in 2019, then another against Charles
Oliveira in 2021 and most recently against Islam
Makhachev last year.