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EXCLUSIVE | ATT owner Dan Lambert has a suggestion for anyone who doesn’t want to see Max Holloway vs. Dustin Poirier
The UFC’s lightweight division will hopefully get a little more organized come UFC 236. In the main event, featherweight champion Max Holloway will move up in weight to take on Dustin Poirier for the interim lightweight championship. However, some fans aren’t thrilled about this matchup, as they thought Tony Ferguson or another lightweight contender deserved […]
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UFC 236 | Dustin Poirier confident he can finish Max Holloway again
In the main event of UFC 236, Dustin Poirier is set to fight for the interim lightweight title against Max Holloway. It will be the rematch of their first fight, which saw Poirier beat Holloway by submission in the first round. Since that fight, the two have gone their separate ways with Holloway staying at […]
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Max Holloway hints at summer showdown with Conor McGregor
Conor McGregor returned to Boston two nights ago to cheer on the Boston Bruins. On a previous visit to Boston, McGregor beat Max Holloway by unanimous decision at UFC Fight Night 26. During his visit to ‘Beantown’, McGregor and Holloway got into it on Twitter discussing their fight back in 2013. And now, the current […]
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Conor McGregor reflects on Max Holloway victory, Holloway issues unbelievable response
Conor McGregor is currently in Boston, where he attended a Boston Bruins game. Bruins home ice, to remind, sits inside TD Garden — the very same arena that played host to McGregor’s 2013 victory over Max Holloway. Speaking on Twitter late on Saturday night, Conor McGregor reflected on his Boston beating of Max Holloway, who […]
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PHOTOS | Check out the official posters for UFC 236, UFC Philadelphia
The UFC has dropped the official posters for two of its upcoming cards: UFC 236 and UFC Philadelphia. UFC Philadelphia goes down on March 30. The card will be headlined by a lightweight bloodletting between Edson Barboza and Justin Gaethje. Other highlights of the bill include a strawweight fight between Michelle Waterson and Karolina Kowalkiewicz, […]
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Max Holloway discusses featherweight future ahead of interim lightweight title fight
At UFC 236, which goes down on April 13 in Atlanta, Georgia, UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway will hike up to the lightweight division to battle streaking contender Dustin Poirier for the division’s interim title. Given that Holloway has always endured a pretty significant weight cut down to the featherweight division, some fans have wondered […]
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Brian Ortega gives take on Max Holloway vs. Dustin Poirier booking
As current UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway prepares to move up to lightweight and challenge Dustin Poirier for the interim lightweight title at UFC 236, the featherweight title picture has become a bit uncertain. Holloway’s most recent featherweight title defense came at UFC 231 when he beat top contender Brian Ortega by TKO (doctor stoppage), […]
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UFC 236 fight card already coming together with 7 confirmed bouts
UFC 236, which goes down on April 13 inside the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia, is already coming together nicely. Earlier this month, we learned that the card will feature an interim middleweight title fight between top contenders Kelvin Gastelum and Israel Adesanya, and this weekend, we learned that it will also include an […]
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Official! Two interim titles will be on the line at UFC 236
It is now official! Two UFC interim titles will be up for grabs when the octagon invades Atlanta on April 13 for the promotions UFC 236 event. In the main event of the evening, current UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway will move up to 155-pounds to take on Dustin Poirier for the promotions interim lightweight […]
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Fighters react to Max Holloway vs. Dustin Poirier interim lightweight title fight at UFC 236
Last night it was announced that Max Holloway would be moving up to 155-pounds for an interim lightweight title fight with Dustin Poirier at UFC 236. The news came as a bit of a shock, as early this week it had been reported that an interim lightweight title fight between Tony Ferguson and Max Holloway […]
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Tony Ferguson explains why he turned down fight with Max Holloway at UFC 236
Tony Ferguson was offered an interim lightweight title fight with reigning featherweight champion Max Holloway for April’s UFC 236 pay-per-view event. Unfortunately for fight fans hoping to see a war between “El Cucuy” and “Blessed”, Tony Ferguson utlimately turned down the matchup. Shortly after UFC President Dana White broke the news that Ferguson had turned […]
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Max Holloway returns at UFC 236 for interim lightweight title fight with Dustin Poirier
UFC 236 is now set to feature two interim title fights. According to ESPN’s Brett Okamoto, Max Holloway will be moving up in weight at UFC 236 to take on Dustin Poirier for the UFC’s interim lightweight belt. Holloway was last seen in action at December’s UFC 231 event in Toronto where he TKO’d the […]
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Report | Officials are working on an interim lightweight title fight between Tony Ferguson and Max Holloway for UFC 236
UFC 226 could get a whole lot better in the coming days. According to a report from BJPenn.com’s Chris Taylor, an interim lightweight title fight between former interim champion Tony Ferguson and reigning featherweight champion Max Holloway is potentially headed to the card. “I was just told from sources (the same that were involved in […]
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Max Holloway hints at interim lightweight title fight with Tony Ferguson
With UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov currently suspended — and potentially sitting out until November — the UFC lightweight contendership picture is a little unclear. If a recent Tweet from UFC featherweight champ Max Holloway is to be taken at face value, it could get a little bit clearer at UFC 236. In his Tweet, […]
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Alex Volkanovski hopes to catch Max Holloway before champ leaves featherweight division
It is expected that reigning UFC featherweight champ Max Holloway will soon move up to the lightweight division. Many believe he has cleared out the division by beating Jose Aldo, twice, and Brian Ortega during his reign as the champion. Surging featherweight contender Alexander Volkanovski doesn’t share that opinion. “Everyone is talking about him going […]
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Jose Aldo responds to comments from Conor McGregor, Max Holloway and two top contenders after UFC Fortaleza
Last night, in the co-main event of UFC Fortaleza on ESPN+, former UFC featherweight champ and bona fide MMA legend Jose Aldo picked up another huge win, this time at the expense of Renato Moicano, who he dispatched with a volley of second-round punches. This victory generated reactions from many MMA stars — including several […]
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Max Holloway teams up with Jameson Whiskey, seemingly takes shot at Conor McGregor
UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway does not seem to agree with Conor McGregor that ‘Proper Twelve’ is Ireland’s best whiskey. ‘Blessed’ recently took to Twitter where he shared the following post proclaiming ‘Jameson Whiskey’ to be a “true pillar of Ireland”. “238 years of innovation, hard work, and unmatched quality. Not a watered down trend. […]
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Dana White reacts to TJ Dillashaw’s goal of fighting Max Holloway for third title
On Saturday night, in the main event of the UFC’s first-ever card on ESPN+, UFC bantamweight champion TJ Dillashaw will challenge flyweight champion Henry Cejudo in a bid to become one of the sport’s rare two-division champions. Apparently, however, winning two belts is only the primary goal for TJ Dillashaw. In the lead-up to this […]
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Firas Zahabi explains why he’d pick Max Holloway to beat Conor McGregor in rematch
During a recent Ask Me Anything session on the official Tristar YouTube channel, renowned MMA coach Firas Zahabi was asked for his thoughts on a rematch between former UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor and current UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway. When the pair first met in 2013, McGregor walked away with a unanimous decision victory. […]
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VIDEO | Did Max Holloway give Brian Ortega technical advice in the middle of their UFC 231 fight?
On December 8, in the main event of UFC 231 in Toronto, UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway defended his title with a dominant defeat of formerly undefeated challenger Brian Ortega. As if Holloway’s victory over Ortega wasn’t already impressive enough, a fan on Twitter has pointed out that the featherweight champ seemed to be giving […]
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VIDEO | Brian Ortega gets pins removed from broken thumb
Brian Ortega challenged Max Holloway for the UFC featherweight title at December’s UFC 231 event in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. After a valiant effort, “T-City” eventually fell victim to the “Blessed Era” via fourth-round TKO. The title fight had been called off by doctors at the end of round four. Holloway landed a record-setting number of […]
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Let’s have some fun: Nate Diaz vs. Max Holloway at lightweight
Max Holloway handed Brian Ortega the first loss of his professional career earlier this month at UFC 231 and made it look easy. The current UFC featherweight kingpin, Holloway battered “T-City” with a record-setting number of significant strikes on route to a fourth-round TKO victory. Following his impressive performance on the tenth-island, UFC President Dana […]
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Heavy Lies The Crown: Max Holloway Edition
In this week’s “Heavy Lies the Crown” feature, BJPENN.com’s Chris Taylor takes a look at the dangerous challenges awaiting current UFC featherweight king Max Holloway. “Blessed” defended his 145-pound title in stunning fashion earlier this month at UFC 231, scoring a lopsided TKO victory over an insanely tough Brian Ortega in Toronto. The Hawaiian’s record-setting […]
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Estimated PPV buys for UFC 231 card released
The estimate for the pay-per-view buys of the recent UFC 231 card has been released. Wrestling Observer Newsletter is reporting that the card, which was headlined by a featherweight title fight between champ Max Holloway and formerly undefeated challenger Brian Ortega, did roughly 240,000 – 300,000 pay-per-view buys. From WON, the current estimates for #UFC231 […]
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Kevin Lee explains why Max Holloway doesn’t belong in the lightweight division
Last weekend, in the main event of UFC 231, UFC featherweight champ Max Holloway returned to the Octagon in dominant form, defeating formerly undefeated challenger Brian Ortega by doctor stoppage. In the wake of this dominant performance, fans and pundits have once again started calling for Holloway to move up to the lightweight division, where […]
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Dear MMA Gods | Bless us with Max Holloway vs Tony Ferguson
Hawaii’s Max “Blessed” Holloway is the current best 145-pound fighter on the planet. At only 27 years old, Holloway calls himself the undisputed UFC champion. Since the third loss of his professional career in August 2013, Holloway has meteorically risen to elite status in not just his division but all of MMA. His current 13-fight […]
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Frankie Edgar explains why he is “definitely the guy” to challenge Max Holloway next
Former UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar was expected to challenge Max Holloway for the promotions featherweight title at UFC 222. Unfortunately for fight fans, that contest failed to come to fruition after “Blessed” suffered an injury in training. The cancellation marked the second time that a fight between the New Jersey native and proud Hawaiian […]
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Max Holloway set a bunch of records in his UFC 231 fight with Brian Ortega
Current UFC featherweight kingpin Max Holloway set a bunch of records in his impressive UFC 231 victory over Brian Ortega last night in Toronto. “Blessed” put on an absolute clinic in last night’s main event, peppering Brian Ortega with punches for the better part of twenty minutes before doctors were eventually forced to call a […]