"The Italian Dream" takes on bitter rival Brendan Allen on the preliminary card of Saturday's UFC pay-per-view event at Smoothie King Center in New Orleans. Vettori (19-7-1 MMA, 9-6-1 UFC) and Allen (24-7 MMA, 12-4 UFC) have plenty of history, more infamously getting into a brawl on the casino floor of the Hard Rock Hotel in South Florida.

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 fatal mistake wasn't nerves or jitters, no. It was quite the opposite. Freire (36-8 MMA, 0-1 UFC) said his UFC 314 loss to Yair Rodriguez was the result of being too calm.

However, this hasn’t been the case across the board heading into UFC 318 where several fighters have had some bad blood to get off their chests. He may be fighting Roman Kopylov in the co-main event, but that didn’t stop Paulo Costa from speaking about ...

Ahead of Saturday's UFC 318 card, we offer up bold predictions for the night's main card. Will Dustin Poirier retire with another win over Max Holloway?

Patricio Pitbull has his eyes set on Aaron Pico if he gets past Dan Ige at UFC 318 as he wants a Bellator grudge match.