Ige (19-9 MMA, 11-8 UFC) meets former two-division Bellator champion Patricio Freire (36-8 MMA, 0-1 UFC) on Saturday's UFC 318 (pay-per-view, ESPN, ESPN+) main card at Smoothie King Center in New Orleans. Ige explains that he's been wanting to fight "Pitbull" for a while.

While Waianae’s Max Holloway headlines UFC 318 on Saturday in a bout against Dustin Poirier for the BMF title, another Hawai‘i fighter will also step into the spotlight. Haleiwa native and Kahuku High School graduate Dan Ige will face former Bellator champion Patricio “Pitbull” Freire in a featured featherweight main card matchup at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans.

The UFC 318 card brings an intriguing clash of featherweight styles as the number 12 ranked Dan Ige welcomes Patricio "Pitbull" Freire for his second UFC appearance. Ige (19-9) is a gritty, high-output striker with a knack for turning technical fights into dogfights.

Max Holloway faces Dustin Poirier for the third time at UFC 318 on Saturday. The trilogy marks the end of an epic career for Poirier, who has asserted this will be his last fight and he will

‘50K’, who sits under the same management banner as the likes of Nurmagomedov, Islam Makhachev, Kamaru Usman, and Kayla Harrison, had won six straight fights since a UFC debut defeat to Julio Arce. That featherweight streak was evidently not something foreseen by Nurmagomedov.

Patricio "Pitbull" Freire made a pivotal decision ahead of his UFC 318 fight against Dan Ige this Saturday, and he thinks it will pay off.

UFC 318 fighter Dan Ige spoke to MMA Junkie and reporters at media day for his main card bout vs. Patricio Freire on Saturday in New Orleans.