Don’t expect former UFC champion Max Holloway to venture into bare-knuckle boxing after his MMA career is over.
Holloway (27-8 MMA, 23- 8 UFC) is the current BMF champion known for pointing down to that mat and inviting anyone to throw down with him, but he’s not a fan of the brutal nature of bare-knuckle boxing.
“I ain’t ever going to bare-knuckle fighting. That’s the most stupidest thing ever in the world,” Holloway said on a recent live stream (h/t Championship Rounds). “When I’m retired, I’m retired. I’ll maybe do a boxing match but not a bare-knuckle one. That’s f*cking ridiculous.
“People that do that, it’s next level. People that do slap, bare-knuckle, bro, you guys are crazy. You guys are actually crazy. Like, the slap one is so nuts. Like, why would I want to stay there and just be like, ‘Yeah, you can slap me, I slap you.’ That’s f*cking crazy.”
Holloway scored an iconic last-second knockout of Justin Gaethje to claim the BMF title at UFC 300. He went on to lose a featherweight title fight to Ilia Topuria in his first-ever knockout loss at UFC 308 last October, before rebounding with a BMF title defense against Dustin Poirier at UFC 318 in July.
