{"id":779226,"date":"2026-07-04T20:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T20:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/779226\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T20:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T20:38:13","slug":"holloway-vows-to-beat-mcgregor-complete-trilogy-in-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/779226\/","title":{"rendered":"Holloway vows to beat McGregor, complete trilogy in ’26"},"content":{"rendered":"

Max Holloway is hoping to turn a win over Conor McGregor next weekend into a trilogy at an NFL stadium later this year.<\/p>\n

Holloway, the former featherweight champion, is scheduled to face McGregor in a welterweight bout in the UFC 329 main event at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. It will be McGregor’s first Octagon appearance since he broke his leg in a knockout loss to Dustin Poirier in July 2021.<\/p>\n

Holloway said he plans to beat McGregor and then fight the Irishman again before the end of 2026.<\/p>\n

“I go out there and get my hand raised in some crazy fashion, poke the bear a little bit more (with McGregor), poke (UFC CEO) Dana White, and we do Allegiant Stadium in December,” Holloway told ESPN’s Brett Okamoto<\/a>.<\/p>\n

McGregor and Holloway are squaring off for the second time. McGregor earned a unanimous decision victory in 2013, before either were title contenders.<\/p>\n

Holloway is coming off a lopsided defeat to Charles Oliveira at UFC 326 in March, in which he forfeited the BMF title. The 34-year-old Hawaiian is 2-2 in his last four outings – including a knockout win over current lightweight champion Justin Gaethje – and could reinsert himself into the title picture with a win at UFC 329.<\/p>\n

McGregor, 37, will end a career-long five-year layoff against Holloway. The former two-division champion is riding a two-fight skid and is 1-3 in his last four fights dating back to 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Holloway is hoping to turn a win over Conor McGregor next weekend into a trilogy at an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-779226","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\/779226","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=779226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}