Max Holloway fires back at UFC champ: ”He’s complaining”

Former UFC featherweight champ Max Holloway is in fight week preparing for his BMF title bout with Justin Gaethje but he couldn’t help but get sidetracked into critiquing current UFC lightweight champion Islam Makachev.

Recently Makhachev told MMA Junkie that he felt the BMF title bout between Gaethje and Holloway was ”useless” – something that undoubtedly irked the former featherweight king. However Holloway countered that byt questioning why Makhachev hasn’t competed for half a year while criticizing others who are staying active. Holloway brought up the fact that Makhachev hasn’t competed since knocking out Alexander Volkanovski – who returned to action in February of this year.

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”You’re just not taking the fights that are offered”

“I saw Islam talk about, ‘Oh, this fight makes no sense and blah, blah, blah.’ I’m like, ‘Brother, you should’ve fought Justin in February,’” Holloway said on the “MIGHTYcast” with Demetrious Johnson. “Why did the guy you knocked out turn around so fast and fight in February when you were healthy? You should’ve turned around and came (back in) February. Everybody knows you can’t fight in Ramadan, and that’s why they couldn’t do the fight on 300 with Leon (Edwards) or he couldn’t get another fight, but he’s complaining like, ‘I can’t get fights.’ I’m like, it’s because you’re only fighting around the times that you want to fight. It’s not that you can’t get fights. You’re just not taking the fights that are offered because of certain things going on.

“If he really wanted to fight, I thought he would’ve turned around and fought in February. It made no sense to make the guy who just got a brutal knockout to turn around and fight in February.”

Holloways scheduled bout with Gaethje will be his second UFC fight at lightweight since competing against Dustin Poirier for the interim lightweight title in April of 2019. The two went toe-to-toe over the coarse of five rounds in one of the best fights of the year, though Holloway ended up losing a decision.

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