Back on the feet, Holloway made his move again and brought the fight back to the canvas, nearly sinking in a choke on Lamas between thudding ground strikes, putting an exclamation mark on another big round. Lamas roared back and briefly rattled Holloway before the fight strayed to the mat briefly. Midway through the round though, Holloway began tagging and hurting Lamas. Having survived that first round, Lamas came out confidently in round two, bruising Holloway’s leg up with low kicks. Holloway’s pressure never allowed Lamas to get into the fight in the first round, with only the Chicago native’s chin and toughness keeping him from getting halted in the opening frame. Scores were 30-27 across the board for the 24-year-old Hawaiian. 4-ranked featherweight contender Max Holloway continued to make his case for a world title shot at The Forum in Inglewood, California on Saturday night, winning his ninth consecutive bout by taking a shutout three-round decision over Ricardo Lamas. Aleandro Caetano gets knocked out by illegal upkick, wins Shooto Brasil title.Ī look at Paul Felder’s fight on five days’ notice.No. Mark Hunt takes a swing at former rugby star Paul Gallen at weigh-ins for boxing match.Ĭhampion. Rafael de Freitas granted pre-trial release, judge grants modified restraining order.īeef. Jake Paul claims $50 million offer to Conor McGregor in profane video callout. Yoel Romero agrees to contract with Bellator MMA, expected to debut at light heavyweight. I truly believe I was put on this earth to fight and compete.” Are we gonna fight again? It’s up to him, but if I had it my way, I’ll fight you 10 times in one night, I don’t care. I’m a competitor and this guy is sitting at a place that’s not right with me. I’ve got five of them downstairs, I don’t really give a f*ck. But, should Max win in January, he knows the idea of a third fight with the champ isn’t going anywhere and eventually he will get a chance to square up with Volkanovski one more time.
However, for now, “Blessed” has other things in his line of sight, namely, a main event fight against sixth-ranked Calvin Kattar in January. In the future, Holloway may well get his chance. I know what I want to do, I know what kind of legacy I want to leave when it’s all said and done.” I don’t know what kind of mentality they have, what they seek and whatever, but that’s something they’ve got to figure out and they’ve got to do. But I’m going to show you that I am the better guy – but that’s just the mentality. If you want to run it back 100 times, we can do it. “If it was Kobe (Bryant) and Michael (Jordan), they would play 10 times just to let people know who the best is,” Holloway said. There is clearly still controversy about who is the better fighter and he would like to resolve it, no matter how many fights it takes. For Holloway though, this is a matter of settling the issue. UFC President Dana White even suggested the possibility of a third fight between the two since the outcome was so controversial, however, Volkanovski was quick to shoot that idea down, saying that he’d already beaten Max twice and wanted to take on new challengers before facing him for a third time. All these guys cannot agree on what color the sky is but they agreed on one thing that night.”Īfter the fight that evening, many fighters and fans did come out in support of Holloway and a majority of media members scored the fight for him. It’s Jorge (Masvidal), Nate (Diaz), it’s Dustin (Poirier), Justin (Gaethje), the list goes on. “After the fight, I could see my peers and what they would say and they were sticking their necks out for me. You care about money, you care about the company, but what else? For me, you care about respect. Whatever job you have at the end of the day, what do you care about is what you’ve got to ask yourself. “It doesn’t matter what I think, but the UFC, you guys, the world, they can see, 80 to 90 percent of the world thinks I won, and that’s what matters to them and that’s what matters to me. Dana White doesn’t call me up after the fight and be like, ‘Hey kid, did you think you won the fight?’
What matters most to me is how most people think. “Me personally, I don’t really think it matters if I won the fight. Five months later, his view remains the same and Holloway is left taking solace in the belief that his colleagues agree he should have won the fight. After the bout, Holloway clearly felt he had done enough to reclaim the title but accepted the loss with his trademark “it is what it is” view. At UFC 251, Max Holloway came up short in his rematch with featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski, losing a controversial split decision to the champion.
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