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Charles Oliveira and Max Holloway first squared off in 2015. | Josh Schaefer/Sherdog.com
Vitor Miranda has an interesting perspective when it comes to Charles Oliveira’s game plan for his upcoming fight with Max Holloway.
Miranda, the UFC veteran who is now a commentator for the promotion in Brazil, recently gave his analysis of the BMF title fight between Oliveira and Holloway scheduled to headline UFC 326 on March 7 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
“I believe that if Charles goes after Holloway in the striking exchanges like he did with [Ilia] Topuria, it won’t be a mistake,” Miranda recently told Sherdog.com. “Topuria finishes the fight with one strike, while Holloway needs to impose his volume of strikes to break down his opponent. In fact, Charles has heavier hands than him and can finish the fight with one strike. Besides, by going for close-range combat, “do Bronxs” has a better chance of taking it to grappling, where he is clearly superior. Holloway has the advantage if he can keep the fight from mid- to long range.”
BMF Worthy
Despite his tactical analysis, Miranda believes that both fighters will end up deviating from the tactical plans drawn up by their teams, delivering a classic BMF fight.
“Both are extremely aggressive strikers who don’t back down,” he said. “I think this fight will not reach the fifth round. This duel has everything to be the fight of the year, doing justice to the BMF belt.”
Oliveira vs. Holloway will be in a rematch of a fight that took place in 2015, when both were still competing at featherweight. It ended with a victory for the American by TKO in the first round after the Brazilian suffered an injury. In the ensuing years, both won UFC belts. Holloway was featherweight champion in 2017 and defended his title four times. Oliveira moved up to the lightweight division where he became champion in 2021, having defended the title twice (against Poirier and Gaethje). Despite submitting Gaethje, the Brazilian lost the belt in his second defense for failing to make weight.
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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