{"id":722696,"date":"2026-06-08T08:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T08:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/722696\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T08:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T08:36:08","slug":"holloway-prepared-for-welterweight-rematch-with-mcgregor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/722696\/","title":{"rendered":"Holloway Prepared For Welterweight Rematch With McGregor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Max Holloway is not losing sleep over fighting Conor McGregor<\/a> at welterweight<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The pair meet at UFC 329 on July 11 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, with the rematch set for 170 pounds \u2014 one weight class above where Holloway currently competes at lightweight<\/a>, and two above the featherweight<\/a> limit where they first fought back in 2013. <\/p>\n

“My thoughts on the fight being at 170 was like, who cares? Weight is just a number. Real gladiators back in the day, they didn’t walk around with a scale. You show up and you fight, and I’m a fighter. Open weight class, whatever weight class. I’m glad I get to share the Octagon with him. Weight ain’t nothing but a number,\u201d Holloway<\/p>\n

The first fight with McGregor ended badly for Max. In 2013, McGregor won a lopsided unanimous decision \u2014 30-27, 30-27, 30-26 on all three judges’ cards. Holloway has not spent much time rewatching it ahead of July 11, and he explained why with a clarity that was hard to argue with.<\/p>\n

“That old fight with him, 13 years ago, we fought. And the question was asked a lot: do you watch it? Can you take anything away from it? And the answer is no. It’s 13 years. We was two young scrawny guys trying to make a name for ourselves and now we’re here. He did what he did, he changed the sport in a major way. Glad to have him back, but unfortunately he’s gotta see me,\u201d Holloway<\/p>\n

McGregor is returning from five years away from competition, and Holloway is not taking a diminished version of the Irishman as his working assumption: “I’m getting ready for the best Conor McGregor there is. I know he’s taking it serious. He looks like he’s taking it very serious and I’m excited for the challenge.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Holloway is not losing sleep over fighting Conor McGregor at welterweight. The pair meet at UFC 329…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-722696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722696","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=722696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}