Weight classes are not a barrier for Max
Holloway.
Holloway (27-9) is scheduled to take on Conor
McGregor (22-6) in a welterweight matchup at
UFC 329 on July 11 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. While
McGregor is returning from five years of inactivity, Holloway will
be making his debut at 170 pounds. Many believe former
featherweight champion Holloway could be at a size
disadvantage.
However,
Ultimate Fighting Championship commentator Jon Anik recently
revealed that Holloway plans to get even heavier eventually. Anik
claims that “Blessed” told him around a decade ago that he wanted
to fight at middleweight before hanging up his gloves.
Max Holloway UFC 329 welterweight debut explained
“Max Holloway said to me 8 or 9 years ago that he was going to take
a UFC fight at middleweight before all was said and done,” Anik
told Submission Radio. “So I’m fascinated to see how his frame
looks on the scale and what he looks like as a UFC
welterweight.”
Holloway moved up to lightweight for a BMF title fight against
Justin
Gaethje at UFC
300 in 2024. The Hawaiian picked apart Gaethje before knocking
him out cold in an iconic last-round buzzer beater. Holloway
decided to stay put at lightweight, where he came up short in a
title bid against Ilia
Topuria in his next outing. Holloway rebounded from the loss by
beating Dustin
Poirier in the latter’s retirement fight last year.
The 34-year-old has since lost his BMF title to Charles
Oliveira this past March.