{"id":515045,"date":"2026-03-05T02:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T02:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/515045\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T02:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T02:45:09","slug":"max-holloway-eyes-bmf-moment-by-submitting-charles-oliveira-at-ufc-326-that-would-be-pretty-bmf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/515045\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Holloway eyes &#8216;BMF&#8217; moment by submitting Charles Oliveira at UFC 326: &#8216;That would be pretty BMF&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max Holloway is looking to make a statement at UFC 326.<\/p>\n<p>Holloway <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/max-holloway\/ufc-326-pro-fighters-make-their-picks-for-max-holloway-vs-charles-oliveira-2-bmf-title-fight\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is set to defend<\/a> his BMF belt in the main event of UFC 326 in Las Vegas in a rematch against Charles Oliveira. Heading into the bout, many expect Holloway to want to keep it standing to avoid Oliveira\u2019s jiu-jitsu skills.<\/p>\n<p>However, Holloway said he\u2019s open to going down to the ground with the Brazilian and hints at wanting a submission win over Oliveira.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is what it is,\u201d Holloway <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iKfc4gIyVyk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">said<\/a> at UFC 326 media day. \u201cI didn\u2019t get to show too much of my submission skills in the octagon anyway. That would be pretty BMF. That would be pretty BMF to go submit the submission artist. Charles can say whatever he wants. He can say whatever. I can say whatever I want. Come Saturday night, we get to find out. That\u2019s the beautiful thing about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oliveira hasn\u2019t been submitted since Islam Makhachev did it in 2022, and the Brazilian has only been submitted four times in his career. And, although Holloway isn\u2019t known as a grappling specialist, he believes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/max-holloway\/max-holloway-explains-why-he-wanted-to-rematch-charles-oliveira-at-ufc-326\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he has the tools<\/a> to submit Oliveira at UFC 326.<\/p>\n<p>Max Holloway believes Charles Oliveira is BMF worthy<\/p>\n<p>If Holloway can\u2019t get the submission win over Oliveira, he knows the fight will be exciting for the fans.<\/p>\n<p>Max Holloway knows he and Charles Oliveira are always down to scrap and put on entertaining fights, so he expects it to be a BMF-worthy fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he\u2019s a BMF,\u201d Holloway said. \u201cI think it\u2019s fitting for sure. A lot of people are making this fight to be a striker vs. grappler. They\u2019ve got it all wrong. This guy, even he said it. He was a jiu-jitsu guy before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow he\u2019s an MMA guy, and a lot of his submission wins have been coming from striking first. He\u2019s hurting these guys on the feet, and then he\u2019s submitting them. That\u2019s a pretty BMF thing to do. So nothing but love for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Holloway enters the bout coming off a decision win over Dustin Poirier to defend his BMF belt.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Max Holloway will beat Charles Oliveira at UFC 326?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Holloway is looking to make a statement at UFC 326. Holloway is set to defend his BMF&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-515045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515045","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=515045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}