{"id":334774,"date":"2019-12-10T07:14:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T15:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=334774"},"modified":"2019-12-10T07:14:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T15:14:22","slug":"max-holloway-still-wants-khabib-nurmagomedov-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/max-holloway-still-wants-khabib-nurmagomedov-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Holloway still wants Khabib Nurmagomedov fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC featherweight champ Max Holloway and UFC lightweight champ Khabib Nurmagomedov were briefly scheduled to battle for the lightweight title in early 2018. Unfortunately, this super fight never materialized.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, Holloway still wants it, and is still optimistic it will happen.<\/p>\n<p>While Nurmagomedov has recently beaten Dustin Poirier and Conor McGregor \u2014 two men Holloway has lost to \u2014 the Hawaiian likes his chances against the Russian.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Max Holloway discusses bout with depression, fatherhood and stacked UFC 245 card\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jfJLr2jrDek?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know, none of them is me, I\u2019m not them,\u201d Holloway told Yahoo Sports (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/sport\/martial-arts\/mixed-martial-arts\/article\/3041413\/ufc-245-max-holloway-stills-wants-khabib\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South China Morning Post<\/a>). \u201cKhabib is Khabib. I wish it happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKhabib is on his way to being one of greatest to ever do it. I plan on being one of the greatest to ever do it. I\u2019m sure we\u2019re gonna meet,&#8221; Holloway added.\u00a0\u201cAs long as my goal and his goal is the same, we\u2019re gonna run into each other some time, and that\u2019s being the greatest fighter of all time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll see what happens. That fight excites me. There\u2019s fights that raises lots of questions for someone, and he raises lots of questions. Hopefully we get to fight and find out the answers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Max Holloway is currently days out from a high-stakes featherweight title defense opposite Australian juggernaut Alexander Volkanovski. This bout with the <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/alexander-volkanovski-believes-hell-finish-max-holloway-send-him-up-to-lightweight\/\">absurdly strong<\/a> Volkanovski, which will co-headline UFC 245 on Saturday in Las Vegas, could provide Holloway with some useful experience for a future fight with a powerful grappler like Nurmagomedov.<\/p>\n<p>Nurmagomedov, meanwhile, is currently scheduled to defend his lightweight belt opposite Tony Ferguson in April. This matchup has been scheduled four times previously to no avail, but the hope is that the fifth time is the charm.<\/p>\n<p>Do you want to see Max Holloway and Khabib Nurmagomedov fight in the future? Who do you think would win?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i> on 12\/10\/2019.\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC featherweight champ Max Holloway and UFC lightweight champ Khabib Nurmagomedov were briefly scheduled to battle for the lightweight title in early 2018. Unfortunately, this super fight never materialized. That being said, Holloway still wants it, and is still optimistic it will happen. While Nurmagomedov has recently beaten Dustin Poirier and Conor McGregor \u2014 two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":294992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10114,10147,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Max Holloway still wants Khabib Nurmagomedov fight | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway still hopes to test his mettle against UFC lightweight champ Khabib Nurmagomedov in the future.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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