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History · 2025 · UFC 318: Holloway vs. Poirier 3 · Max Holloway vs Dustin Poirier
From the tape · 19 Jul 2025

Max Holloway vs Dustin Poirier

UFC 318: Holloway vs. Poirier 3 · New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Result

Max Holloway beat Dustin Poirier

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
LightweightMainReferee · Jason Herzog

We published no prediction for this bout. Everything on this page is the official record and the tape it was fought on — the result, the round-by-round counts, the judges’ cards where they exist and the sportsbook line where one was published. Our graded calls start in 2026 and live on the public record.

Red corner MaxHolloway“Blessed”Waianae, Hawaii
VSOn the tape
Blue corner DustinPoirier“The Diamond”American Top Team · Carencro, Louisiana
Lightweight5 rounds19 Jul 2025
The story going in
  • Has finished 13 of 22 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 15 of 22 UFC wins.
  • Lands 1.7 more significant strikes a minute than Poirier.
28-9
Record
30-10
−3 yr33
Age
36
+2″5' 11"
Height
5' 9"
69″
Reach
+3″72″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
30
UFC bouts
+131
13/2259% of wins
Finishes
+9%15/2268% of wins
Waianae, Hawaii
From
Carencro, Louisiana
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Holloway
Max Holloway26 sig landed
HEAD35%9 of 39BODY42%11 of 16LEGS23%6 of 9
Dustin Poirier16 sig landed
HEAD75%12 of 28BODY6%1 of 1LEGS19%3 of 3
26 of 64
Sig.
strikes
16 of 32
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:08
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holloway firstDerek Cleary10–9Eric Colón10–9Sal D'Amato10–9
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Poirier1 sub attempt
Max Holloway44 sig landed
HEAD70%31 of 52BODY25%11 of 12LEGS5%2 of 3
Dustin Poirier25 sig landed
HEAD84%21 of 36BODY12%3 of 5LEGS4%1 of 2
44 of 67
Sig.
strikes
25 of 43
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:24
Control
0:12
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 31Clinch 0Ground 13
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 2Ground 4
Judges · this round · Holloway firstDerek Cleary10–9Eric Colón10–9Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 35:00 of action
Max Holloway38 sig landed
HEAD47%18 of 36BODY24%9 of 12LEGS29%11 of 13
Dustin Poirier21 sig landed
HEAD71%15 of 41BODY10%2 of 4LEGS19%4 of 4
38 of 61
Sig.
strikes
21 of 49
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 38Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holloway firstDerek Cleary9–10Eric Colón10–9Sal D'Amato10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Max Holloway44 sig landed
HEAD52%23 of 57BODY34%15 of 18LEGS14%6 of 9
Dustin Poirier22 sig landed
HEAD95%21 of 67BODY0%0 landedLEGS5%1 of 1
44 of 84
Sig.
strikes
22 of 68
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 44Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holloway firstDerek Cleary9–10Eric Colón9–10Sal D'Amato10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Max Holloway46 sig landed
HEAD48%22 of 69BODY39%18 of 22LEGS13%6 of 8
Dustin Poirier25 sig landed
HEAD100%25 of 63BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
46 of 99
Sig.
strikes
25 of 63
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 46Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holloway firstDerek Cleary10–9Eric Colón10–9Sal D'Amato10–9

Significant strikes, takedowns, control time, knockdowns and submission attempts exactly as UFCStats recorded them for this bout, round by round. Zone percentages are that round’s landed head, body and leg counts over their own total — raw arithmetic, nothing modelled or smoothed. A round in which a fighter landed nothing shades empty and reads zero; it is never filled in from the round before.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Jason Herzog
Max HollowayDustin Poirier
Official totals — Max Holloway first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide48–47
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide49–46
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide49–46

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Media cards — 21 scored, Max Holloway first · unofficial

Scott Fontana New York Post50–45
Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com50–45
Erich Richter NY Post50–45
E. Casey Leydon50–45
MM AMania.com50–45
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com50–45
Steve Duncan mma.uno50–45
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com50–45
Nolan King MMAJunkie.com49–46
Jake Noecker Home of Fight49–46
Combat Press.com49–46
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection49–46
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News49–46
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com49–46
Sheehan SevereMMA.com49–46
Drake Riggs Uncrowned49–46
Simon Samano MMAJunkie.com49–46
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com49–46
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com49–46
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com49–46
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com48–47

Fan vote · unofficial

50-45 Holloway · 36%49-46 Holloway · 35%48-47 Holloway · 16%48-47 Poirier · 5%50-46 Holloway · 2%

702 fan cards submitted to MMA Decisions.

Official cards come from the UFCStats fight record and MMA Decisions. Media cards and the fan vote are MMA Decisions’ own collection and are not official. Judge tendency figures are that judge’s whole recorded history, not this bout — they are context for how a card was scored, never a claim that it was scored wrongly.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Max Holloway

0.23takedowns / 15 min
0.23 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.15 / 15m
0.43 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.29 / 15m
53%
ACCURACY
35%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.20 / 15m

Dustin Poirier

1.15takedowns / 15 min

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average. Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

The market story

Where the price started and where it finished — the sportsbook consensus, with the vig removed. We captured no price series for this bout, so there is no chart to draw.

Max Holloway↓ −3.2pp
open 54.3%close 51.1%
Dustin Poirier↑ +3.2pp
open 45.7%close 48.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Max Holloway opened at 54.3% and closed at 51.1% (−3.2pp), with Dustin Poirier moving the other way by the same amount — the two are one de-vigged pair, so they always sum to 100%. There is no line between those two points because nobody recorded one: we hold the open and the close for this bout, not the days in between.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Max Holloway-130-11654.3%51.1%−3.2pp
Dustin Poirier110-10645.7%48.9%+3.2pp
Opening and closing moneylines from BestFightOdds (data/refs/bfo_fighter_moneylines.csv), one row per fighter per bout, de-vigged pairwise so the two corners sum to 100% · dated 2025-07-20 on the odds record (1d from the card date; the nearest day inside a two-day window is used, never a guess) · scraped 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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