UFC 251: Max Holloway says ‘I don’t need sparring’ and vows to finish Alex Volkanovski
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There was a sense that Max Holloway was out-thought as much as he was out-fought the last time he faced Alexander Volkanovski and the Australian duly walked away with the UFC’s featherweight belt.
“Don’t leave it for the judges, they only make you cry,” said Holloway, speaking via the UFC’s international virtual media day overnight on Tuesday. “I can’t wait to go out there and do my thing. Every possible thing that I need to do for this fight I’ve done.
“Some people think that [first] fight went one way, some people think it went another way. I think I had done enough. I’ve got five titles at home in my closet. At the end of the day this is just another fight.”
Holloway was placed in the unique position of being called out by the new champ when the Aussie was looking for the first defence of his new crown. Rematches usually come much later in the piece and Holloway seems to believe Volkanovski feels he still has something left to prove, despite taking a unanimous decision back in December.