Summary
- Holloway does not call for trilogy title fight with Volkanovski
- Volkanovski accuses Holloway of playing bullshit games
- Volkanovski tells Holloway fight him or get out of the way
Former UFC featherweight champ Max Holloway put on another epic show last weekend when he defeated Yair Rodriguez in a 5 round dog fight and won by decision.
Holloway once again established himself as the number one contender in the division and deserves a title fight against current UFC featherweight champ Alexander Volkanovski.
Every UFC fighter wants to win the belt in their division and hold on to it. This is why fighters in the top 10 are always calling out the champ and doing their part to get a title fight. Holloway had a great opportunity to call for a title fight during his post-fight interview but chose not to call Volkanovski out for a trilogy fight.
Holloway lost his belt to Volkanovski the first time they fought and fans felt that Holloway was wronged by the judges. When they fought a second time, it was once again a close fight and Volkanovski came out ahead on the judges’ scorecard once again.
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UFC President Dana White said that he feels Holloway deserves a trilogy fight as he is clearly the best in the division after Volkanovski. But it does not appear that Holloway is very keen on the trilogy as he has spoken of other big fights that the UFC is interested in making.
The Hawaiian has spoken of moving up to lightweight and fighting Conor McGregor or current champ Charles Oliveira.
Volkanovski wasn’t very happy to see Holloway brush him aside and not call for a title fight. The Aussie champ told MMA reporters that he feels Holloway is trying to play down the title fight and is pushing across a bullshit narrative that there are bigger fights out there apart from the championship fight.
Volkanovski said he viewed it as a weakness because he feels that Holloway knows if he does the trilogy and loses for the third time, it will clearly establish the fact that he is better than Holloway and the greatest featherweight fighter in the sport.
Volkanovski said if Holloway really does not want to fight him for the third time, then he needs to make that clear and let the next contender make his way forward. If Holloway is not interested, the likely contender will be the winner of Giga Chikadze vs. Calvin Kattar who fight in Jan 2022.
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