Unlike many UFC legends before him, Max Holloway has unequivocally ruled out a future move to BKFC.
Current UFC BMF champion Max Holloway doesn’t have any immediate plans to retire from fighting, but he knows that when he does, he is finished for good.
Holloway’s last fight got here back in July when he took on Dustin Poirier in a rematch fight, in what was Poirier’s retirement fight.
And having successfully defended his BMF title, ‘Blessed’ has recently received just a few callouts, one in every of which coming from Charles Oliveira, which has fans champing on the bit to see that rematch.
Holloway calls BKFC ‘the stupidest thing ever’
Loads of fighters that fought in the identical era of the UFC as Holloway have since retired after which stepped out of retirement to fight under the BKFC banner.
Ever since Conor McGregor became a co-owner of the promotion, it has undoubtedly grown in popularity, and fighters like Eddie Alvarez, Mike Perry and Jeremy Stephens saw it as a chance to proceed their careers within the limelight.
Holloway however has branded BKFC as ‘the stupidest thing ever’, claiming that when he officially retires from MMA, he might be done for good and won’t be following UFC legends which have moved to BKFC.
“I ain’t ever going to bare-knuckle fighting, that’s essentially the most stupidest thing ever on this planet, after I’m retired, I’m retired,” Holloway said in a recent livestream.
“I’ll perhaps do a boxing match but not bare-knuckle man, that’s f—— ridiculous, people who try this, it’s next level.
“People who do (Power) Slap, bare-knuckle, bro, you guys are crazy. Like, the slap one is so nuts, like why would I wanna stand there and just be like, ‘Yeah you’ll be able to slap me, I slap you’, that’s f—— crazy,” he continued.
Who will Max Holloway fight next?
Although he is probably going coming towards the tip of his incredible profession, there are still several enticing fights for the previous UFC featherweight champion.
At this point, it seems likely that considering their recent results and trajectories, Holloway and Oliveira will fight next in what guarantees to be an incredible fight within the 155lb division.