I hope those rumors about Usman/Edwards getting booked are true and it happens in March/April.
I'm also not surprised to hear they are looking to do Colby/Masvidal for next TUF. It would def be cringe but I'd watch anyway. Feel like I was one of the few that watched the last season lol.
He couldn't have said this on the Ariel interview? lol
“Max? We know what’s next. Leading into this fight, the winner was going to get the title shot, whether it was Max or Yair. UFC said that to us. We were waiting on it. I’m sure the UFC said it to Max. So green light from the UFC on the trilogy, green light from me, but the only one that’s talking about other options is Max Holloway,” Volkanovski said on his YouTube channel (via MMAjunkie.com).
“So this might rattle a few feathers, but I’m gonna leave you with this: Am I saying he’s scared? Maybe. But I want you to hear me out. For Max, this is a big deal. You fight me again and lose and go 0-3 against me in the featherweight division, in your prime, you talk about legacy, your name isn’t in the GOAT conversation anymore. It’s in GOAT conversations now, even though he’s 0-2 against me. People are still throwing his name in the GOAT conversation. If he loses again, we know no more. Your legacy in the featherweight division, tarnished. Let’s be real, 0-3 in your prime. That doesn’t look good. Maybe that’s what it is. Maybe he wants bigger options, money fights because he could still have his legacy talks, get some money fights. But if he loses, that tarnishes that legacy.”
Just hope he doesn’t get hurt in this thing. Funny how it just came up all of a sudden had no idea. Figure with how big his name is this would have been on the radar
He couldn't have said this on the Ariel interview? lol
“Max? We know what’s next. Leading into this fight, the winner was going to get the title shot, whether it was Max or Yair. UFC said that to us. We were waiting on it. I’m sure the UFC said it to Max. So green light from the UFC on the trilogy, green light from me, but the only one that’s talking about other options is Max Holloway,” Volkanovski said on his YouTube channel (via MMAjunkie.com).
“So this might rattle a few feathers, but I’m gonna leave you with this: Am I saying he’s scared? Maybe. But I want you to hear me out. For Max, this is a big deal. You fight me again and lose and go 0-3 against me in the featherweight division, in your prime, you talk about legacy, your name isn’t in the GOAT conversation anymore. It’s in GOAT conversations now, even though he’s 0-2 against me. People are still throwing his name in the GOAT conversation. If he loses again, we know no more. Your legacy in the featherweight division, tarnished. Let’s be real, 0-3 in your prime. That doesn’t look good. Maybe that’s what it is. Maybe he wants bigger options, money fights because he could still have his legacy talks, get some money fights. But if he loses, that tarnishes that legacy.”
Sadly this is true, even though there's a strong argument that Max won the second one. History probably won't remember the controversy.
But honestly Max had to be out of the GOAT conversation after the first fight. Great champs have been caught by a punch in a fight and come back to win (GSP, Stipe), but getting outclassed and soundly decisioned over 5 rounds, nah. Max is for sure an all time great hall of fame type fighter but not a true GOAT candidate imo.
“There were a few options they threw out to me. One fight I really liked was Sean Strickland. They offered him as well, and I actually said to Sean – because I’ve seen him a few times at the UFC – I said, ‘Sean, if you want to get it on at some point, let’s do it because I think you’re a good fighter, I think it would be a good fight.’ So listen, I’m still fighting the top and that’s how it is,” Till told Michael Bisping’s Believe You Me podcast (via MMAFighting.com).
