{"id":240540,"date":"2017-06-04T17:23:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T00:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=240540"},"modified":"2017-06-04T17:23:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T00:23:34","slug":"new-champ-max-holloway-conor-mcgregor-beg-to-fight-me-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/max-holloway\/new-champ-max-holloway-conor-mcgregor-beg-to-fight-me-now\/","title":{"rendered":"New champ Max Holloway on Conor McGregor: He can beg to fight me now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night, in the main event of UFC 212, Max Holloway scored a career-defining TKO win over once dominant featherweight king Jose Aldo. With this win, Holloway became the UFC’s undisputed featherweight champion, and extended his win-streak to a ridiculous eleven-straight.<\/p>\n

Given his current streak, many fans have broached the possibility of a rematch between Holloway and the last man he lost to, Conor McGregor<\/a>. Yet McGregor, who knocked Aldo out to win featherweight gold in 2015,<\/a> is currently chasing a boxing mega fight with Floyd Mayweather, and Holloway doesn’t plan on chasing him down for a lucrative rematch.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat guy was the 2015 champ,\u201d Holloway told the media after his title win (via MMAFighting.com<\/a>). \u201cHe can go running around wherever he\u2019s at with the belt and celebrate, but guess what? You can\u2019t take that away from him here. This is called the year 2017 right now, he\u2019s the 2015 champ, and I\u2019m the champ.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThis guy\u2019s over here always trying to look for the bigger thing and that\u2019s him,\u201d Holloway continued. \u201cGood for him. I ain\u2019t going to chase someone around. I ain\u2019t going to talk about someone that ain\u2019t talking about me. He gets to choose his fights. Why am I going to cry and beg him to fight me? Get the hell out of here with that sh*t. He can beg to fight me now.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Instead of chasing a big-ticket rematch with McGregor, Holloway now plans to channel flyweight champ demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson and defend his new title as many times as possible.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDemetrious Johnson, he finds his motivation of keep defending, keep defending,\u201d Holloway said. \u201cIt takes a special human being to do that. And that\u2019s me. I want to defend my throne. All my fans know, they love me, I want to defend this, I want to be a champ and keep defending. Come try to take over my village.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

How do you think Max Holloway would do in a rematch with Conor McGregor?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 6\/4\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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