The UFC announced on Friday that the former interim lightweight champion received the award for his outstanding work with The Good Fight Foundation, a community initiative he created with his wife, Jolie.
“I’m just grateful for the things we have accomplished with the foundation, the way it’s growing and the support and people getting behind it,” Poirier said in a press release. “It’s amazing that when you do something from the heart, something that means something to you and you do it the right way, all the right things fall into place. These things are forced they are just happening.