Paulo Costa is back as a legitimate UFC middleweight title contender. Patricio Freire has no chance of ever being a UFC champion.Ateba Gautier has future UFC middleweight champion written all over him.

Holloway defeated Dustin Poirier in a unanimous decision to retain the UFC BMF Championship in UFC 318 at the Smoothie King Center. The win for Holloway is the first in three fights against Poirier, who beat him in 2012 and 2019.

Max Holloway may have played the role of the villain to the Louisiana faithful Saturday night when he denied native son Dustin Poirier the BMF championship belt at UFC 318, but on Sunday morning he was any other guy looking for some New Orleans comfort food.

Following a career-defining performance at UFC 318, Max Holloway is on the rise once again. The 33-year-old from Waiʻanae moved up to No. 4 in the UFC’s official lightweight rankings this week