Max Holloway comments on his next fight against UFC Featherweight Champion Ilia Topuria not including the BMF title.
The former UFC Featherweight Champion Holloway turned into a BMF Champion overnight at UFC 300 last April, taking the silver strap from Justin Gaethje with a buzzer-beater KO in his first title defense.
However, we don't always get what we wish for, with "Blessed" saying the UFC never talked to him about upping the stakes with the BMF title on the line at UFC 308.. "That's something you gotta uphold with UFC. That's not my choice. At the end of the day, it is what it is. I go out there, I get my hand raised, it's whatever.... I go out there. I'd be on the bad end of it, people are still gonna consider him as a BMF anyway. So, it doesn't matter.
When it comes to Topuria being in that same discussion, Holloway says it's left to the fans to determine. "Probably," Holloway said when asked if Topuria will have mind games for him, come fight week. "The one press conference that he did, he was talking a bunch. So, at the end of the day, it is what it is. Whatever confidence he needs to get him to himself over the line to get to the Octagon or if you think he's selling fights, he can do whatever he wants. So, if he wants to talk, he can talk - I can talk with the best of him.
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