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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.
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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.
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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