Youtube channe<\/a>l. \u201cI think the card idea is cool, but there\u2019s no American champion. The only American champion there is is the \u2018BMF\u2019 title, so you\u2019re looking at the man. So am I going to be at the card? I like my odds of being on it.\u201d<\/p>\nWhile Holloway is the only American, male UFC champion, he\u2019s not the only American champion; both Kayla Harrison and Mackenzie Dern are American citizens, and hold the women\u2019s bantamweight and women\u2019s strawweight titles respectively.<\/p>\n
Holloway holds the ceremonial \u201cBMF\u201d title, which he won from Dustin Poirier in June at UFC 318, and it\u2019s unclear if that will even play a factor in the White House card booking. Dana White has suggested the event won\u2019t be an \u201cAmerica vs. the world\u201d themed affair, so perhaps Holloway won\u2019t be on it, which he seems to have mixed feelings about.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I don\u2019t know too much of really wanting to be on it,\u201d Holloway said. \u201cBecause I heard that\u2019s only going to have like 5,000 people on the lawn, and then across the street, they\u2019re going to have like 80,000 people at screens watching and stuff, which is cool, but the 5,000 people, I don\u2019t know if my family would be able to have seats there. So at the end of the day, it kind of sucks not having family members there, especially when I worked my way up so high in the UFC, I\u2019m so used to having them really close, ringside and stuff, and them just being there.\u201d<\/p>\n
And the timeline also matters for Holloway. \u201cBlessed\u201d has not competed since UFC 318, and he doesn\u2019t want to sit out for an entire year just to wait on the White House card.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll see what happens,\u201d Holloway said. \u201cBut first thing\u2019s first, just get through this injury, and hopefully I can get a fight early in the year around March, Aprul, and see if I can do a turnaround. If they wait, or if they hold me, it\u2019s so long. I fought Poirier in June, and the card is going to be in June. That would be a long wait for me.\u201d<\/p>\n
But while Holloway isn\u2019t sure when his next fight will be, he does have a pretty good idea who it will be against: Charles Oliveira.<\/p>\n
Holloway and Oliveira first fought at featherweight in 2015, with Holloway winning a bizarre bout where Oliveira suffered an esophagus injury. Since Holloway won the BMF title, fans have theorized about a rematch between the two, and after beating Mateusz Gamrot at UFC Rio in October, \u201cDo Bronx\u201d called for just that; and Holloway is happy to oblige.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just have history,\u201d Holloway said. \u201cOliveira is just like me. We\u2019re in the top of the division, and I\u2019m sure he wants to erase his last fight to Ilia [Topuria], with Ilia being the champ. And that\u2019s my goal, too. I have history with the champ. \u2026 I think he just wants a fight to better his career and get a title fight, and why not me? There\u2019s a BMF title on the line. A lot of people like to consider him one of the BMF\u2019s in the division, and that would be fun, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Holloway believes there\u2019s a good chance he\u2019s fighting at next year\u2019s UFC White House card. Earlier this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-316965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}