{"id":506977,"date":"2026-02-27T06:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T06:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/506977\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T06:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T06:25:11","slug":"charles-oliveira-vs-max-holloway-2-will-be-a-foty-between-future-ufc-hall-of-famers-per-ex-do-bronx-foe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/506977\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Oliveira vs. Max Holloway 2 will be a FOTY between future UFC Hall of Famers, per ex ‘do Bronx’ foe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charles Oliveira is one of the most battle tested fighters in UFC history and a prior opponent of his has weighed in on Oliveira\u2019s looming rematch with Max Holloway. As Oliveira aims to battle Holloway for the latter\u2019s BMF title, Clay Guida offered up some thoughts on that UFC 326 headliner, as Guida said [via Bowks Talking Bouts<\/a>],<\/p>\n

\u201cMan, you talk about two of my favorite guys to ever grace the octagon. Two guys, if you saw them walking down the road, didn\u2019t know anything about sports, didn\u2019t know anything about mixed martial arts, probably wouldn\u2019t assume that those guys are world champs, former world champs. Two of the most dominant badass dudes in the UFC of all time. I\u2019ll put those guys instant hall of famers guaranteed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst ballot, the day they retire, boom, they should be inducted immediately after. Two guys, yeah, like I said, very unassuming that don\u2019t really look like fighters, you know what I mean? When you see them go out there, they are every bit of what you want to see in a champion, what you want to see in a fighter, someone that represents your country, someone that represents the sport very, very well.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am so pumped about that event. That fight\u2019s going to be balls to the wall. Two highly skilled athletes that haven\u2019t slowed down in their career. They\u2019ve done nothing but improve, it\u2019s unreal. I remember there was that time when Oliveira was going back and forth between \u201945 and \u201955 when he was the youngest. I think at one point he might have been the youngest UFC fighter a long time ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Charles Oliveira win over Clay Guida kicked of his all time career run, per \u2018The Carpenter\u2019<\/p>\n

When further discussing \u2018do Bronx\u2019 Oliveira before also describing his viewpoint on \u2018Blessed\u2019 Holloway, Guida continued [via Bowks Talking Bouts<\/a>],<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he came in when he was 18 or 19, 20 or something like that.\u00a0 He had a lot of hype around him and then people were like, \u201cOh, you know, blah blah blah this and that.\u201d But then he got back on his horse at 155 and yeah, unfortunately he beat me about five miles from here in Chicago at the house that Michael Jordan built. I fought him at the United Center in front of a home crowd and safe to say it didn\u2019t go very well. Didn\u2019t go as planned.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut that was the first fight of his trajectory when he went on what I call one of the most remarkable lightweight runs or UFC runs of all time. I think he won like maybe eight or ten straight fights in that run to having that title, defending that belt for quite some time. So, he\u2019s incredible. The guy just keeps getting better, keeps putting top tier athletes away. Max Holloway on the other hand, this guy just continues to not surprise me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe continues to impress me each performance in and out. It\u2019s just unreal. The guy I mean, he beats wrestlers, he beats jiu-jitsu guys, he beats strikers, he beats boxers, and he beats them with authority. He literally takes these guys will from them. He makes these guys quit in there. He points to his opponent, he points to the mat, he puts his hands up, and he backs it up. You know, he is pure entertainment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe guy doesn\u2019t look like he could hurt a fly, you know what I mean? If you see him, but when he gets in there, that dude is all business. Just an absolute savage. So, this fight it\u2019s got all the makings of a fight of the year, fight of the night, for sure. You get to see two legends go at it for the BMF belt<\/a> and who more deserving than these guys. So yeah, as you can tell, I\u2019m a little bit excited about this matchup.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charles Oliveira is one of the most battle tested fighters in UFC history and a prior opponent of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,17500,5777,786,1395,785,254506,254507,85,787,193818],"class_list":{"0":"post-506977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-charles-oliveira","11":"tag-clay-guida","12":"tag-fighting","13":"tag-max-holloway","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-raf","16":"tag-raf-6","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-ufc","19":"tag-ufc-326"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506977","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=506977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}