{"id":288256,"date":"2025-11-17T05:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/288256\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T05:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:47:08","slug":"saint-denis-lobbies-for-bmf-fight-with-holloway-after-ufc-322-ko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/288256\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Denis lobbies for BMF fight with Holloway after UFC 322 KO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Benoit Saint Denis never has gone the distance for a win. He thinks that’s the kind of fighter who should be in a BMF title bout.<\/p>\n

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UFC 322: Benoit Saint Denis full post-fight interview<\/p>\n

UFC 322 winner Benoit Saint Denis spoke to MMA Junkie and reporters post-fight after his 16 second knockout of Beneil Dariush<\/p>\n

NEW YORK \u2013\u00a0Benoit Saint Denis has an idea of what he’d like his next fight to be, but also knows he’s got some competition to get there.<\/p>\n

Saint Denis (16-3 MMA, 8-3 UFC) on Saturday had a come-to-Jesus talk with Beneil Dariush (23-7-1 MMA, 17-7-1 UFC) that lasted all of 16 seconds to open the main card at UFC 322 at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n

It was the third first-round knockout loss for Dariush in four fights. To make matters worse, he also missed weight for the second time as a UFC lightweight and had to give up 20 percent of his purse to the Frenchman.<\/p>\n

Saint Denis’ win kept his perfect finishing rate intact and gave him three straight wins since back-to-back losses to Dustin Poirier and Renato Moicano, both of whom have fought for the lightweight title.<\/p>\n

So now Saint Denis thinks he could bring something to the game in the form of a shot at the “BMF” title currently held by Max Holloway \u2013\u00a0a symbolic-only belt, but one that continues to hold some cache among the UFC’s favorite proverbial go-to-war fighters.<\/p>\n

But former champion Charles Oliveira (36-11 MMA, 24-11 UFC) has been lobbying for a crack at the BMF belt, too, and that could make things interesting for Saint Denis. Oliveira holds plenty of UFC records and is coming off a bonus-winning submission of Mateusz Gamrot in front of his home fans in Brazil five weeks ago.<\/p>\n

“Of course I want to fight somebody in the top five,” Saint Denis said at his post-fight news conference. “The BMF and the lightweight belt are the two belts I have my eyes on. I want to make this division the greatest again, like it’s supposed to be.<\/p>\n

“I have a 100 percent finish rate \u2013\u00a0against such a veteran, I guarantee war. But I think Oliveira and Holloway is the same, though. Let’s see. I think it’s guaranteed war no matter who you choose.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Benoit Saint Denis never has gone the distance for a win. He thinks that’s the kind of fighter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[101906,76,49,48,21726,15503,7408,1299,641,4441,4225,1262,4440,1698,638,5268,3430,44,26073,8345,1333,1345,7409,1334,82,865,640,31121,5841],"class_list":["post-288256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-101906","tag-arts","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-charles","tag-charles-oliveira","tag-dustin","tag-dustin-poirier","tag-fighting","tag-holloway","tag-martial","tag-martial-arts","tag-max","tag-max-holloway","tag-mma","tag-new","tag-new-york","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-oliveira","tag-overall","tag-overall-positive","tag-poirier","tag-positive","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-322","tag-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288256","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=288256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}