{"id":766815,"date":"2026-06-29T01:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T01:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/766815\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T01:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T01:39:11","slug":"new-mcgregor-vs-holloway-ufc-329-promo-drops-im-going-through-max","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/766815\/","title":{"rendered":"New McGregor vs. Holloway UFC 329 promo drops: \u2018I\u2019m going through Max\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">After over 1,800 days, we\u2019re less than two weeks away from Conor McGregor\u2019s return to the cage at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-cards\/444863\/ufc-329-fight-card-start-time-date-location-conor-mcgregor-max-holloway-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 329.<\/a> To mark the occasion, the UFC has dropped a new promo for his second fight against Max Holloway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">McGregor and Holloway faced off for the first time all the way back in 2013, with McGregor dominating Holloway in a one-sided fight that ended with 30-27, 30-27, and 30-26 scores for \u201cThe Notorious.\u201d It was the third loss in the UFC for Holloway, and a fight that \u201cBlessed\u201d said changed him mentally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cThe first time I fight Conor, that was thirteen years ago,\u201d Holloway said. \u201cAfter that fight, I had a two loss streak. My next fight, if you lose, you probably get your papers going home. And I was like, \u2018Brother, I\u2019m not going home yet. I got a belt I need to win.\u2019 I was wanting to fight the best guys and prove that the best is \u2018Blessed.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI think Conor\u2019s coming back because he\u2019s just got something to prove to himself. He did some great things, but he didn\u2019t really check the box on MMA yet. He has some unfinished business. Unfortunately, for him, he\u2019s gotta see me first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">McGregor sees the Holloway fight as his springboard back into the world of elite competition. A win over Max puts him in a position to go for a third belt at welterweight, something <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2020\/11\/13\/21564081\/conor-mcgregor-regrets-not-fighting-woodley-before-mayweather-i-should-have-went-for-that-treble-ufc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe Notorious\u201d has desired for years.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cMax is my child,\u201d McGregor declared. \u201cWhen we first competed, I sonned him. I\u2019m going to go in and son him again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cThese men are not on my level. It is on me now to go and show that, and that\u2019s what I will do. I\u2019m going through Max. It is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">UFC 329 takes place on Saturday July 11th at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After over 1,800 days, we\u2019re less than two weeks away from Conor McGregor\u2019s return to the cage at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85,1396],"class_list":["post-766815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766815","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=766815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}