{"id":782354,"date":"2026-07-06T09:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T09:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/782354\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T09:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T09:27:13","slug":"holloway-on-his-future-at-welterweight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/782354\/","title":{"rendered":"Holloway On His Future At Welterweight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Max Holloway has spent the last decade proving that weight class boundaries are more suggestions than limits. He is not planning to stop now.<\/p>\n

The former UFC featherweight<\/a> champion makes his welterweight<\/a> debut against Conor McGregor<\/a> in the UFC 329<\/a> and has not ruled out more fights at welterweight if the opportunity presents itself. <\/p>\n

“Never say never. I’m not a guy that wants to jump to conclusions. We’ll do what we do and we’re going to figure it out after that,\u201d Holloway<\/p>\n

His most famous moment in recent years came not at featherweight, not at welterweight, but at 155 pounds \u2014 the final second of UFC 300, when he knocked out Justin Gaethje<\/a> with a right hand that has been replayed more times than most fighters’ entire highlight reels. <\/p>\n

Gaethje, now the UFC lightweight<\/a> champion after his stunning upset of Ilia Topuria at Freedom 250, is the holder of a belt that Holloway has made clear he would like to pursue. That fight, depending on what happens Saturday, could become the most logical next step.<\/p>\n

“I have history with the champion at 155. A lot of people are talking that even though this fight is at 170, that the winner of our fight could go down and fight at ’55. I see a lot of people talking about the winner of this could even go and jump to see Islam Makhachev. At the end of the day, I don’t know what’s going on. We’ll see. The UFC loves throwing curveballs. They love doing wild stuff.<\/p>\n

“If you told me with my last fight I would be here fighting Conor McGregor in my next one, I would tell you you’re lying. So we’re here now, and life is good,\u201d Holloway<\/p>\n

At 34, Holloway is competing at his highest commercial profile and arguably his highest level. Meanwhile, McGregor is returning from a five-year absence. Holloway is not looking past Saturday. But he is not pretending Saturday is the end of the conversation either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Holloway has spent the last decade proving that weight class boundaries are more suggestions than limits. He…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-782354","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\/782354","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=782354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}