The constant conversation surrounding this fight, which wasn’t helped by Diaz walking out of the press conference, was ended when Poirier withdrew from UFC 230 due to a hip injury several weeks out from November 3.

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,