The BMF title fight between Max
Holloway and Charles
Oliveira failed to impress many, including
UFC boss Dana White.
Holloway (27-9) put his BMF title on the line against Oliveira
(37-11) in the main event at
UFC 326earlier this month. Oliveira dominated Holloway on the
ground for over 20 minutes to earn a unanimous decision victory.
Despite Oliveira’s dominant performance, some didn’t find it
befitting of the BMF title.
Not Impressed
Joe Rogan recently revealed that White also wasn’t impressed with
the BMF title fight. Rogan was pitching the idea of muay thai and
kickboxing fights to White when the UFC head honcho told him that
he didn’t like fight between Holloway and Oliveira.
“The fights on [ONE Championship] are amazing, especially the muay
thai fights,” Rogan said on his podcast. “I was trying to pitch this to Dana.
So I started sending Dana all these high level muay thai fights and
high level kickboxing fights. And they are f—-ing phenomenal. He
didn’t like the Max
Holloway–Charles
Oliveira fight. He didn’t like it. He was like, ‘The BMF fight
wasn’t that good.’ I thought it was a great fight.”