{"id":45196,"date":"2025-10-06T03:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T07:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/poirier-accepts-boxing-challenge-wants-to-fight-nate-diaz\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T03:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T07:00:13","slug":"poirier-accepts-boxing-challenge-wants-to-fight-nate-diaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mma\/poirier-accepts-boxing-challenge-wants-to-fight-nate-diaz\/","title":{"rendered":"Poirier Accepts Boxing Challenge: Wants to Fight Nate Diaz"},"content":{"rendered":"Dustin Poirier, a prominent figure in mixed martial arts, has made it clear that he has no plans to return to the octagon. However, a possible boxing match against Nate Diaz could change his plans.\n\nPoirier, 36, announced his retirement from the UFC in July, after his final fight against Max Holloway in his home state of Louisiana. Despite his decision, the fighter surprised his fans with a statement on social media.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Zuffa Boxing, 12 rounds, me and Nathaniel, I would do it.<\/p><cite>Dustin Poirier<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nPoirier and Diaz were scheduled to face each other in the UFC in 2018 in New York, but the fight did not materialize. Both fighters blame each other for the cancellation.\n\nDiaz, 40 years old, left the UFC in 2022 and debuted in professional boxing against Jake Paul in 2023, losing by unanimous decision. His last appearance was a victory against Jorge Masvidal in July 2024.\n\nDiaz has not yet responded to Poirier&#8217;s proposal.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I&#8217;m retired, I&#8217;m done, but Nate is one who got away.<\/p><cite>Dustin Poirier<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nOn Monday, Zuffa Boxing announced a U.S. broadcast deal with Paramount+ and CBS.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dustin Poirier, a prominent figure in mixed martial arts, has made it clear that he has no plans to return to the octagon. However, a possible boxing match against Nate Diaz could change his plans. Poirier, 36, announced his retirement from the UFC in July, after his final fight against Max Holloway in his home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[205,875,9352,9513],"class_list":{"0":"post-45196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-dustin-poirier","10":"tag-nate-diaz","11":"tag-zuffa"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}