Max Holloway wants Conor McGregor rematch next: ‘Weight wouldn’t be an issue’
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Max Holloway is looking to bounce back after his disappointing loss to Charles Oliveira at UFC 326, and he has the perfect opponent to do it against: Conor McGregor.
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McGregor hasn’t fought in nearly five years but is in talks to return at UFC 329 in July for International Fight Week. It’s still unclear whether the UFC will pony up the money needed to make that happen now that the pay-per-view era is over, but everyone involved is working hard to make something happen.
Who it will happen with is still an open question and thus far we haven’t liked the answers leaking from UFC headquarters. Since the promotion ditched Michael Chandler as an opponent, they’ve offered Carlos Prates as a possible opponent. Now Dana White has floated Ian Machado Garry. Neither match-up is particularly exciting, which is on par for the promotion’s current matchmaking.
Max Holloway wants to settle the score with Conor McGregor after his loss to Charles Oliveira
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Now there’s “Blessed,” who wants a rematch against McGregor. “The Notorious” beat him way back in 2013, blanking the Hawaiian 30-27, 30-27, and 30-26 on the scorecards.
“Conor’s there. Conor’s got one over me,” Holloway said on a recent video (via MMA Junkie). “He’s talking about coming back. I’m coming off a loss. It looks pretty fun to get that one back with him. We’ll see what happens.”
Holloway is a lightweight and McGregor wants to return at welterweight, but thus far all of the Mac’s welterweight opponents have been puffed up lightweights anyway.
“I know a lot of people worry about the weight and this and that,” Holloway said of 170. “But if he doesn’t want to cut weight, then I don’t want to cut weight. We can do it at any weight, to be honest. It’s just about getting it back. At the end of the day, that would be a fun fight. But we’ll see what happens. We’ll see what way the UFC wants to go and that’s all we can do.”
“If ’55 is kind of busy right now and we don’t know who to pick, I know Conor keeps talking about coming back. That’d be a fun fight. That fight really excites me and weight wouldn’t be an issue.”
Seeing two aging legends fight would be pretty great, but it’s not really how UFC books this stuff. If someone is gonna get one over on Conor, they’ll want it to be a younger opponent with a lot of years left on their career to maximize the bump they get. That could lead to McGregor fighting ‘a no name’ rather than Holloway.
The door isn’t completely closed though. Accusations of cheap, crappy matchmaking have been at the center of fans’ complaints since the UFC White House card was announced. If the UFC is willing to splash McGregor with cash to bring him back, they may decide it’s worth putting him against a proper name. And there’s no one more proper than Max Holloway.