00:00Dustin Poirier explains why he didn't stand and trade with Max Holloway.
00:05Dustin Poirier didn't want to stand in the pocket with Max Holloway for more than 10 seconds.
00:10Holloway's iconic gesture of pointing down to the ground to invite his opponent to a slugfest...
00:15...started with Justin Gaethje.
00:16After picking apart Gaethje for five rounds, Holloway and...
00:20...invited him to stand and trade in the pocket in the final seconds and knocked him out in an iconic...
00:25...buzzer beater at UFC 300.
00:27At UFC 318, Poirier...
00:30...May 30 and 10 expected Holloway's trademark invite to trade and even planned to avoid it.
00:35With his wife, Jolie, warning him too.
00:37Confident in the pocket, he accepted the exchange.
00:40But Holloway outstruck him late, forcing Poirier to clinch in the final seconds.
00:45Making a business decision.
00:47I knew it was coming, Poirier recently told...
00:50...the UFC.
00:51But when he started pointing down, I was like...
00:53...hold on, let me check...
00:55...the clock.
00:56I don't want to point down with 20 seconds left.
00:58I'm thinking of Justin Gaethje.
01:00...laying face down.
01:01My wife told me the night before.
01:03When he points down...
01:05...don't do it.
01:06You don't point down.
01:08And you don't do it either.
01:10I'm only going to throw for 10 seconds.
01:13And then he started eating...
01:15...lighting me up in the pocket.
01:16That's where I do my best work.
01:18He was lighting me up there.
01:20So I had to clinch him.
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