Watch Poirier and Hooker go to war on UFC main event

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Watch highlights from the UFC main event.

Dustin Poirier and Daniel Hooker headlined Saturday’s UFC event, in a bout billed as an entertaining striking affair between two top lightweights. The fight delivered as promised, going back and forth, and each landing (and taking) their best shots for 25 minutes.

In the end, Poirier did enough to take a well earned unanimous decision.

Check out highlights of the bout, along with a snippet from our play-by-play below.

Round 2 – Hooker with a hard body kick, and a jab. Inside leg kick. Knee from Hooker. Two right hooks stun Hooker! But he fires back with a hard shot that stuns Poirier! Poirier catches a knee attempt and he’s beating him up against the fence. Hooker circles out and lands a huge combo! He misses with the next three. Hooker lights Poirier up now! Poirier fires right back! THIS IS AWESOME! Knee from Hooker again. Body work from Poirier. Hooker with a check hook. Body kick from Poirier. Front kick from Hooker. Uppercut from Poirier. Jab and a hard right from Hooker. Poirier with a left and he clinches. Inside leg kick from Hooker. Combo from Poirier. Hard body kick from Poirier. Hooker is cut. Poirier lands a hard left to the nose. Poirier is bleeding now too it looks like. Right hook by Poirier. Hooker misses with the knee but follows it with a hard left hook. He goes to the body too. Body work from both men. Another combo from Hooker. Just non-stop action. Poirier with a huge combo! Now Hooker with a huge combo! I can barely keep up. Body shot and a left from Hooker! Poirier with a huge counter! Hooker with a massive combo and a knee to the horn! HOLY HELL that might be the best round I’ve seen in five years. I can’t breathe. 10-9 Poirier I guess?