Former featherweight champion, Max Holloway seems to be conscious of a symbolic BMF title rematch with former light-weight titleholder, Charles Oliveira — suggesting he and the Brazilian megastar share the Octagon once more as quickly as this summer season throughout Worldwide Combat Week.
Holloway, a former undisputed featherweight champion, has been out of motion since final October, most lately headlining UFC 308.
And struggling his first-ever skilled combined martial arts knockout loss, Hawaiian fan-favorite, Holloway was stopped within the third spherical by unbeaten featherweight kingpin, Ilia Topuria in Abu Dhabi with a brutal stoppage loss within the pair’s title rematch.
“I’m done with 145,” Max Holloway stated in a video posted on his official YouTube channel. “Your boy is only getting older. I turn 33 (in December). No excuses, this cut was easy, bro. Shout out to (nutritionist) Tyler Minton, shout out to my wife, they helped make this cut really easy, but it takes a toll cutting weight, period, at whatever weight you are.”
“…I’m probably not ever going back to ’45,” Max Holloway defined. “I love what I did. I did what I did. I did what I had to do there. I worked my way back, I clawed my back up to the championship fight multiple times there. I was a champion, I defended at that weight. Now it’s time to move on to the next chapter, and 155, there’s a bunch of fun fights that I cannot wait to take.”
And this week, former light-weight kingpin, Oliveira welcomed the possibility to tackle Holloway in a rematch of their forgettable major occasion conflict in Saskatoon again in 2014, suggesting the duo function in opposition to one another for BMF spoils.
“If he (Islam Makhachev) only wants to fight in October, I definitely want to fight before that,” Charles Oliveira instructed UFC Brasil. So, why not problem Max Holloway for the BMF belt?
“We met before, but I suffered an injury right in the beginning, so there wasn’t an actual fight,” Charles Oliveira continued. “I think we deserve to make this fight happen.”
Max Holloway welcomes IFW rematch conflict with Charles Oliveira
And replying to the Sao Paulo finisher’s feedback, Holloway steered they combat as quickly as Worldwide Combat Week later this summer season.
“International Fight Week?” Max Holloway replied to Charles Oliveira.
