In a 5-round featherweight bout on the main card, Max Holloway and Dustin Poirier meet Saturday at UFC 318 at Smoothie King Center in New Orleans.

The UFC is back in the bayou for the first time in 10 years, and one of Louisiana’s own will hang up the gloves after the headliner. UFC 318 (pay-per-view, ESPN, ESPN+) takes place Saturday at Smoothie King Center in New Orleans.

Some of the biggest names in the sport help define Poirier's legacy ahead of his UFC 318 retirement fight vs. Max Holloway

There are already questions about whether Dustin Poirier will move into boxing after his UFC retirement, as Nate Diaz and Jorge Masvidal have done. After losing to Islam Makhachev by submission last year,

Here's when to expect Max Holloway and Dustin Poirier to walk out to the cage for their BMF title-fight trilogy at UFC 318.

Dustin Poirier will receive a hero's welcome in his native Louisiana at UFC 318 when he battles Max Holloway for a third time in their careers. It's a respect Poirier earned from his peers and the promotion that they would take a PPV event to New Orleans for the first time in 25 years as a proper send off to one of the good guys in the sport's history.