Charles Oliveira has carved out one of the most exciting, violent resumes in UFC. After Saturday’s UFC Fight Night, Oliveira wants to stress test that reputation against another all-action star, BMF champion Max Holloway.<\/p>\n
Oliveira prepares to fight Mateusz Gamrot at UFC Fight Night in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday. It’s an important fight on two fronts: It’s Oliveira’s first time fighting for his fellow Brazilians in six years, and a potential bounce back from his knockout loss to Ilia Topuria<\/a>. “Do Bronx” expedited his return to fight in Brazil. His next goal is to add another belt to his trophy case.<\/p>\n “Winning this fight and fighting for the title, whether it’s BMF or the title of the division,” Oliveira told CBS Sports through a Portuguese interpreter. “This is a great fight that will propel me toward a title.”<\/p>\n A Holloway rematch ticks off many boxes. It’s a high-profile fight that thrusts Oliveira forward in the lightweight title picture, while allowing him to redeem his 2015 loss to Holloway.<\/p>\n “Everyone would love to see the Max [Holloway] fight,” Oliveira said. “And I want this to be my next fight.”\u00a0<\/p>\n Oliveira and Holloway previously fought 10 years ago, before either man became UFC champion. Holloway bizarrely won the fight via an esophagus injury in the first round, a conclusion that kick-started Oliveira’s reputation as a quitter at the time. Oliveira lost three of his next five fights by stoppage.\u00a0<\/p>\n Only after the Paul Felder fight did he turn a major corner, winning 11 consecutive fights, mostly finishes, while becoming a “Rocky” esque lightweight champion. Holloway’s win over Oliveira was the seventh in an 11-fight stretch that turned him into an all-time great featherweight champion.<\/p>\n Holloway, after beating Dustin Poirier<\/a> in the latter’s retirement fight, expressed a willingness to fight Oliveira again.<\/p>\n “There’s also Oliveira, I heard he was yapping, saying our first fight was with injuries,” Holloway told UFC’s “About Last Fight<\/a>” at UFC 318 in July. “He had an injury when we fought. But last time I checked, when they did a follow-up and wanted to find what the injury was, there was no injury report on it. They said he was fine. So I have no idea what the f— he is talking about.”<\/p>\n Check out the full interview with Charles Oliveira below. \u00a0<\/p>\n In August, Holloway announced a hand injury suffered against Poirier would sideline him until 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n Holloway won the ceremonial BMF title with a buzzer-beater knockout<\/a> of Justin Gaethje at UFC 300, which CBS Sports named its 2024 KO of the Year<\/a>. The title was originally awarded to Jorge Masvidal after beating Nate Diaz at UFC 244.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charles Oliveira has carved out one of the most exciting, violent resumes in UFC. After Saturday’s UFC Fight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82,640],"class_list":{"0":"post-198068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}