Max Holloway is predicting the UFC 314 foremost occasion.
UFC 314 shall be down this Saturday in Miami, Florida. The cardboard has been headlined by a featherweight title battle, with former champion Alexander Volkanovsky dashing over his competitor Diego Lopez. The division’s belt is at present open as Ilia Topuria dropped the title with plans to go up lighter.
Like Volkanovski, Holloway is taken into account one of many largest fighters in UFC featherweight historical past. Actually, he has been within the third spherical in opposition to Volkanovski, however on every event he misplaced on choices.
Speaking about his YouTube channel forward of UFC 314, Holloway predicted Saturday’s featherweight title battle.
Max Holloway categorizes UFC 314 foremost occasions
In his thoughts, it’s basically a battle of two outcomes.
Holloway believes the primary choice is for Volkanovsky to combine it up and win the choice.
“There are solely two methods to look at this battle go on,” Holloway mentioned. “If Alex is the winner, you recognize he is a classic Alex. Stick and microphone, pop photographs, leg kicks, grapple, maybe fences, soiled boxing in opposition to fences.
However, if Diego wins, Holloway believes will probably be fast and violent.
“If Diego wins, it is inside the first spherical,” he mentioned. “I believe Diego caught him (if he wins), he is coming to you at 100 mph, buddy.
“He is like a loopy prepare. He is like a prepare flying off the prepare. He will run you and punch you.”
Holloway then supplied a ultimate prediction, however he was not sure.
“I believe essentially the most harmful level of this battle is unquestionably the primary two rounds of Volk, maybe three rounds,” he mentioned. “On the finish of the day, I believe Volk will retake it, however we will see Diego catching it.
“It is MMA, we see what occurs.”
Holloway just isn’t combating as he suffered a knockout loss to Topulia in his personal bid to regain the featherweight title. Like Topuria, he’s now planning to maneuver to mild weight ceaselessly.
