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Max Holloway

Max Holloway is an American mixed martial artist fighting for the UFC, where he has won the featherweight championship.

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4 Dec 1991

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last updated:

7 October, 2024

Christian Lee holds his two ONE Championship title belts after beating Kiamrian Abbasov. Photo: ONE Championship

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ONE: Lee gets backing from UFC’s Holloway after rankings snub

UFC legend Max Holloway left stunned that two-division ONE Championship king Christian Lee was not No 1 on ESPN’s list of 25 best fighters under 25 years old.

14 Dec 2022 - 6:08PM

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UFC: Max Holloway beats Yair Rodriguez by decision in Las Vegas

14 Nov 2021 - 9:20PM

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UFC: Holloway eyes McGregor rematch – ‘We’re always on the shortlist’

10 Nov 2021 - 10:20PMvideocam

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UFC: Volkanovski says his haters ‘have got to get over it’

UFC featherweight champ Alex Volkanovski believes Max Holloway trilogy is inevitable but insists ‘I’ve stopped trying to please people who don’t care about me’.

19 Mar 2021 - 12:15PMvideocam

Alexander Volkanovski (left) and Max Holloway face off during the UFC 251 official weigh-in inside Flash Forum in Abu Dhabi. Photos: Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC

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UFC: Holloway calls out Khabib, throws shade at Volkanovski

‘Khabib wanted somebody to impress him,’ says former featherweight champ Max Holloway after unanimous decision over Calvin Kattar in UFC Fight Island 7 main event.

17 Jan 2021 - 12:41PM

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UFC: Holloway says most of world thought he beat Volkanovski

Max Holloway insists ‘not just fans, my competitors’ like Dustin Poirier, Justin Gaethje, Nate Diaz and Jorge Masvidal all think he deserved to reclaim UFC featherweight belt.

14 Jan 2021 - 2:22PMvideocam

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UFC: Holloway prepared to step in for McGregor or Poirier

Former featherweight champ Max Holloway says ‘I’m just a call away’ if UFC 257 main event between Conor McGregor and Dustin Poirier falls through.

13 Jan 2021 - 1:19PMvideocam

Max Holloway trading blows with Dustin Poirier at UFC 236. Photo: AFP

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UFC: Emmett says Volkanovski is the featherweight ‘GOAT’

Contender Josh Emmett says UFC featherweight champ Alex Volkanovski ‘looks better and better every fight’ and doesn’t see the Australian losing his title for a while.

14 Oct 2020 - 3:48AMvideocam

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Volkanovski ‘sure’ UFC boss White wanted Holloway to win

Alex Volkanovski admits he is ‘hurt’ by Dana White’s criticism of ‘bad judging’ at UFC 251 after defending his featherweight title in razor-thin split decision against Max Holloway.

25 Jul 2020 - 11:29AMvideocam

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Max vs Volkanovski UFC trilogy ‘not tough’ to book, says Dana

Dana White happy to see a third featherweight title fight between Max Holloway and Alex Volkanovski ‘considering how things went down’ at UFC 251 in Abu Dhabi.

18 Jul 2020 - 12:53PMvideocam

Max Holloway punches Alexander Volkanovski in their featherweight championship fight during UFC 251. Photo: Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC via USA TODAY Sports

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UFC: ‘Korean Zombie’ calls Volkanovski win ‘shameful’

Jung Chan-sung, the ‘Korean Zombie’, doesn’t think featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski beat Max Holloway at UFC 251.

13 Jul 2020 - 3:14PMvideocam

Chan Sung Jung, the ‘Korean Zombie’, has called out Alexander Volkanovski after he beat Max Holloway at UFC 251. Photo: USA Today

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UFC: White questions judging in Volkanovski vs Holloway fight

Dana White sympathises with Max Holloway after his narrow split-decision loss to UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski on Fight Island.

12 Jul 2020 - 8:28PMvideocam

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UFC: Volkanovski edges Holloway in controversial split decision

Alexander Volkanovski returns from losing first two rounds and suffering two knock-downs to beat Max Holloway in their UFC 251 rematch and defend his featherweight title.

12 Jul 2020 - 6:37PMvideocam

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Aldo thinks he’s top three in ‘GOAT’ rankings with UFC 251 win

Former UFC featherweight king Jose Aldo is looking to claim the vacant bantamweight title against Petr Yan – and cement his place in the conversation for greatest of all time.

9 Jul 2020 - 4:52AMvideocam

Jose Aldo reacts after his bout against Marlon Moraes during UFC 245. Photo: USA TODAY Sports

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UFC: Holloway vows ‘I don’t need sparring’ to finish Volkanovski

Max Holloway defends decision to train for UFC 251 title bout on Zoom, and says Alex Volkanovski is talking like a challenger – not the champion – heading into Fight Island.

8 Jul 2020 - 3:46PMvideocam

Alexander Volkanovski hits Max Holloway in their featherweight championship bout at UFC 245. Photo: AP

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UFC: Holloway trains ‘through Zoom’ with ‘no sparring at all’

Max Holloway says he saw his coaches for the first time at the airport on the way to ‘Fight Island’ in Abu Dhabi and likens waiting for Covid-19 tests to fighting.

6 Jul 2020 - 11:42AMvideocam

UFC unveils Fight Island in Abu Dhabi in videos

Located beside the Abu Dhabi International Airport, Fight Island will host 47 fights in 15 days starting July 11. White’s vision, which was initially dismissed as a pipe dream during the coronavirus pandemic, is now a reality.

2 Jul 2020 - 1:47PMvideocam

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MMA community reacts to George Floyd’s death

UFC’s Daniel Cormier, One Championships’s Angela Lee, and Bellator’s Cris Cyborg just some of the mixed martial artists to show support for the Black Lives Matter movement.

2 Jun 2020 - 10:38PM

UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya joins roughly 4,000 New Zealand protesters demonstrating against the killing of Minneapolis man George Floyd in a Black Lives Matter protest in Auckland in June. (Photo: AFP

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UFC’s Volkanovski happy to give Cejudo ‘a bit of a hiding’

UFC lightweight champion Alex Volkanovski responds to call-out from bantamweight king Henry Cejudo – ‘I don’t know if he really wants that or he’s just trying to stay relevant’.

27 Feb 2020 - 5:27PMvideocam

UFC: The Korean Zombie trolls Alexander Volkanovski on Instagram

Jung Chan-sung doubles down on Alexander Volkanovski call-out with post questioning whether the champion is ‘afraid of getting KO’d by the Zombie’.

16 Jan 2020 - 10:47PM

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UFC 245: Volkanovski chops Holloway down to win title

Alexander Volkanovski torches Max Holloway with record number of leg kicks as he enacts perfect game plan to snap Hawaiian’s 14-fight featherweight win streak

15 Dec 2019 - 3:33PM

Alexander Volkanovski hits Max Holloway in their featherweight championship bout at UFC 245. Photo: AP

UFC 245: Volkanovski warns Holloway ‘I’m on another level’

Alexander Volkanovski says Max Holloway will ‘walk into a brick wall’ if he pours it on at UFC 245 – ‘he has habits he doesn’t know that we’re going to capitalise on.’

12 Dec 2019 - 1:41PMvideocam

Max Holloway before his fight with Jose Aldo during UFC 218. Photo: AFP

UFC: Holloway still wants Khabib fight – ‘I’m sure we’ll meet’

UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway says fight with lightweight king Khabib Nurmagomedov ‘excites me’ because it ‘raises a lot of questions’.

10 Dec 2019 - 3:17PMvideocam

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