{"id":77795,"date":"2025-07-20T10:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T10:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/77795\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T10:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T10:51:09","slug":"conor-mcgregor-revives-11-year-old-insult-to-take-final-swipe-at-dustin-poirier-in-ufc-318-retirement-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/77795\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor revives 11-year-old insult to take final swipe at Dustin Poirier in UFC 318 retirement message"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Conor McGregor couldn\u2019t resist taking one final dig at his old rival Dustin Poirier. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Notorious\u2019 watched from home as his three-time foe retired from MMA on Saturday night. <\/p>\n<p>BMF titleholder <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2025\/07\/20\/dustin-poirier-vs-max-holloway-ufc-318-result-diamond-retires-in-emotional-louisiana-homecoming\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Holloway outpointed him over five rounds<\/a> in a highly entertaining <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/ufc-318\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"6658\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 318<\/a> main event, before stepping aside to let \u2018The Diamond\u2019 lay down his gloves in front of a hometown crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after, <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/conor-mcgregor\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"234\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conor McGregor<\/a> took to social media with his thoughts on <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/dustin-poirier\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"333\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dustin Poirier<\/a>\u2018s final fight. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"773\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2226077463-scaled-e1752987469555-1024x773.jpg\" alt=\"Dustin Poirier punches Max Holloway at UFC 318\" class=\"wp-image-226203\" \/>Photo by Cooper Neill\/Zuffa LLCConor McGregor takes one last swipe at Dustin Poirier <\/p>\n<p>You might\u2019ve missed McGregor\u2019s UFC 318 reaction, as it was quickly deleted from his X account. <\/p>\n<p>The Irishman was surprisingly nice about Poirier, despite sharing a bitter rivalry with him over the years.<\/p>\n<p>However, McGregor signed off by using the \u2018pea head\u2019 insult first uttered before he <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2024\/10\/10\/conor-mcgregor-bounced-dustin-poiriers-head-off-the-floor-in-106-second-ko-win\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">knocked out Poirier in 2014<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The former dual-weight UFC champion tweeted: \u201cWe love a good scrapper in the company and them two boys are just that! Scrappers! <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAwesome stuff! Great fight lads, bravo!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cR.I.Pea head!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jon Jones and Islam Makhachev react to UFC 318<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/jon-jones\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"351\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Jones<\/a> immediately sent a retirement message to Poirier when UFC 318 concluded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations on an amazing career Dustin,\u201d he tweeted.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you for the years of entertainment. Now go enjoy your retirement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former lightweight champion <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/islam-makhachev\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"331\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Islam Makhachev<\/a> also reached out to the man he <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2024\/06\/02\/islam-makhachev-breaks-hearts-as-he-makes-dustin-poirier-tap-out-in-ufc-302-main-event\/#:~:text=Islam%20Makhachev%20lands%20spot%20in,most%20defences%20in%20the%20division.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">submitted at UFC 302<\/a> in June 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations, Dustin,\u201d Makhachev wrote. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re truly one of the greatest to ever step into the cage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an honor and a privilege to share it with you.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor couldn\u2019t resist taking one final dig at his old rival Dustin Poirier. \u2018Notorious\u2019 watched from home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":77796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[46737,53117,51,560,50,52,552,53768],"class_list":{"0":"post-77795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-conor-mcgregor","9":"tag-dustin-poirier","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-318"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114885183646658694","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}