{"id":394596,"date":"2022-06-28T15:26:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T15:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=394596"},"modified":"2022-06-28T15:26:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T15:26:59","slug":"happens-every-so-often-in-a-decade-ufc-featherweight-ace-max-holloway-weighs-in-on-the-impact-of-his-ufc-276-trilogy-fight-against-alexander-volkanovski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/happens-every-so-often-in-a-decade-ufc-featherweight-ace-max-holloway-weighs-in-on-the-impact-of-his-ufc-276-trilogy-fight-against-alexander-volkanovski\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Happens Every So Often in a Decade&#8217;- UFC Featherweight Ace Max Holloway Weighs In On the Impact of His UFC 276 Trilogy Fight Against Alexander Volkanovski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC featherweight Max Holloway knows the stakes on his match-up against Alexander Volkanovski which is fast approaching at UFC 276. Holloway is down 0-2 heading into the trilogy bout, making him the first UFC fighter in that position to fight for a belt.<\/p>\n<p>Fans of the sport are excited to see this clash between two of the all-time great pound-for-pound fighters who have turned in spectacular performances. Despite the fact that Alexander \u2018The Great\u2019 has secured wins in both the outings thus far, the intrigue for the match-up is palpable all across the MMA world.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/this-guy-doesnt-want-to-entertain-it-jorge-masvidal-addresses-conor-mcgregor-fight-talks-questions-mcgregors-motivation\/\">\u2018This Guy Doesn\u2019t Want to Entertain It\u2019- Jorge Masvidal Addresses Conor McGregor Fight Talks; Questions McGregor\u2019s Motivation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Max Holloway spoke to MMA Fighting and talked about his upcoming bout. He lamented on the fact that a fight of such epic proportions comes along very rarely in the sport of MMA. He mentioned the competitive rivalry that Daniel Cormier and Jon Jones shared as a possible comparison for the epic fight that is about to go down at UFC 276.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G4QoS_ZH5Cg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIf you look at it this way, it\u2019s crazy. When in the last decade did this fight happen, where two top guys in the top 10 pound-for-pound rankings happen?\u201d Holloway said Monday on The MMA Hour \u201cHow many times did it happen? The only guys that come to mind is \u2018DC\u2019 and [Jon] Jones.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThat\u2019s the only guys. And we\u2019re here now, and this fight, these things don\u2019t happen. And these are the things that excite me. We get to be a part of that history. And to you guys, to all the hardcore fans, this is what they want.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-394350 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/image02-7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/image02-7.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/image02-7-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/image02-7-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/image02-7-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/image02-7-768x768.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThey want the best of the best fighting each other \u2014 and they are. These top pound-for-pound fighters don\u2019t fighters don\u2019t fight each other. They just don\u2019t. It doesn\u2019t happen. It happens every so often in a decade, and we\u2019re getting blessed with one right now.\u201d<\/em> [h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2022\/6\/27\/23185467\/max-holloway-on-alexander-volkanovski-trilogy-fight-at-ufc-276-lets-bring-back-balance-to-the-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mmafighting.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>If Max Holloway is able to secure a win over Volkanovski, the MMA world might be getting a fourth fight between these two men. On the flip side, a win by Volkanovski, no matter how it comes, will likely close this historic chapter of MMA for good.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC featherweight Max Holloway knows the stakes on his match-up against Alexander Volkanovski which is fast approaching at UFC 276. Holloway is down 0-2 heading into the trilogy bout, making him the first UFC fighter in that position to fight for a belt. Fans of the sport are excited to see this clash between two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":394349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394596","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\/394596","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}