{"id":394307,"date":"2022-06-27T06:52:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T06:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=394307"},"modified":"2022-06-27T06:52:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T06:52:19","slug":"save-your-chickens-max-holloway-advises-forbes-highest-paid-athlete-conor-mcgregor-against-ufc-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/save-your-chickens-max-holloway-advises-forbes-highest-paid-athlete-conor-mcgregor-against-ufc-return\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSave Your Chickens\u201d &#8211; Max Holloway Advises Forbes Highest-Paid Athlete Conor McGregor Against UFC Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Max Holloway is set to return to action this weekend as he takes on Alexander Volkanovski in what will be the third installation of their trilogy. The fight against \u2018The Great\u2019 will be Holloway\u2019s 26th fight in the UFC. During his time with the promotion, \u2018Blessed\u2019 has faced and secured wins over the very best the UFC has had to offer including current lightweight champion Charles Oliveira and the former two-division world champion Conor McGregor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018The Notorious\u2019 Conor McGregor secured an impressive first-round finish on his <a href=\"https:\/\/ufc.com\/\">UFC<\/a> debut, after which he was booked for a fight against Max Holloway in just his second UFC bout. Although the bout ended with McGregor getting his hands raised, it has not closed the rivalry between \u2018Blessed\u2019 and \u2018The Notorious\u2019.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kxjYasYwZCE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a video posted on his social media, McGregor walked from side to side as he stared Holloway down who was being shown on TV during the fighter introductions ahead of his fight against Yair Rodriguez in November 2021.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:-<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/he-could-not-tie-the-shoes-of-khabib-khabib-nurmagomedovs-manager-shares-his-thoughts-on-jon-jones-status-as-a-goat\/\">\u201cHe Could Not Tie the Shoes of Khabib\u201d- Khabib Nurmagomedov\u2019s Manager Shares His Thoughts on Jon Jones\u2019 Status as a \u2018Goat\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Max Holloway offers advice to Conor McGregor on his UFC return<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a recent interview with Brett Okaomto, when asked if he would entertain the idea of a rematch with Conor McGregor, Holloway said, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;With that Conor fight, I tell you all the time. You know we on the shortlist with that. But first things first, we got Volk&#8230;With all this Conor talk and saying whatever, he never committed to coming back.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Blessed\u2019 continued, \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He never once said that he&#8217;d come back. And rightfully so, He shouldn&#8217;t. Conor is what everybody wants to be. Everybody wants to get in this fight game, make the money and then save your chickens&#8230;I wouldn&#8217;t even blame him if he didn&#8217;t want to come back&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/i><br \/>\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Edj_FjuCTA8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If Max Holloway loses this weekend, he would be a strong candidate to take on McGregor on his return. However, if he wins the fight, he will either have to defend his belt against a top contender at featherweight or have yet another rematch with Alexander Volkanovski.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What do you make of a potential rematch between Conor McGregor and Max Holloway? Let us know in the comments below!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Holloway is set to return to action this weekend as he takes on Alexander Volkanovski in what will be the third installation of their trilogy. The fight against \u2018The Great\u2019 will be Holloway\u2019s 26th fight in the UFC. During his time with the promotion, \u2018Blessed\u2019 has faced and secured wins over the very best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":394309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}