Daniel Cormier TVDaniel Cormier TV - Max Holloway "READY FOR WAR" with Justin Gaethje at UFC 300
Max Holloway checks in with Daniel Cormier on the LATEST EDITION of the Daniel Cormier Check-In at UFC 300! The former champ talks about facing Justin Gaethje for the BMF title, and what this win does for his legacy. Plus, don't miss Holloway respond to his most recent call out, and why he "WELCOMES" a fight against Ilia Topuria if he doesn't rematch with Alexander Volkanovski. And why Holloway is ready to be called one of the UFC GOATS by getting a win over Gaethje and eventually reclaiming his title.
3:00 - Fighting Justin Gaethje on short notice
5:15 - "I want to be the GOAT"
7:00 - BMF belt is legit
11:15 - What it means to be on UFC 300
13:30 - Max's next career move
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Guys, the my boy right here? Max Holloway, Max, how you feel?
Man?
I feel good?
I'm good.
I feel good. I feel like DC at heavyweight.
You know that good?
You remember that time you walked into my room. You were like, eh, you fight in a couple of days, fighting a couple of days.
You don't look at Jape. I was like, it is what it is.
But when I saw you in Anaheim, right, you're noticeably bigger. You don't see like I thought the first time when you fall dustin you're a little in between weight. You feel like you put on a good weight that will allow you to compete better at one thirty five.
Yeah, I mean, everybody keep talking about the dust and fight, right, you know, and I hate, I hate bringing it up, but like at the end of the day, short notice, you know, it is what it is. You know. Everybody's like, oh, six weeks. It's like, brother, yeah, six weeks. It's actually four weeks because you take two weeks to you know, recover, come down or whatever. Right, So, like I said, you know, I think Mighty just dropped this video or the interview with him and Tim is not here, but Tim are my agent. He been like teasing me Muffin Top Max because of that fight, like we're gonna see Muffed Topknox fifty five again.
You know.
So at the end of the day, not at all. You know, I feel good. I feel great. We uh we did the right way. We put on muscle weight, more muscle weight, and I I feel like, come Saturday night, should be should be a fun on.
You know.
When this fight started to come together and you're getting these offers to fight a guy like Justin Gaichee, What is the excitement level from the very start and then ultimately what makes a decision, you know, for you like to actually fight Justin Gaigie.
I just wanted to be the greatest of all time, you know, I want to be one.
Well, that's gonna be hard, I am.
Yeah, you're retired though, so it's okay, we need new ones, you know, be up there forever you're you're you're for sure on top of that mount rushmore for me. But then that's just my ask.
Get up there.
I'm knocking you off.
Well you want, yeah, push me down.
Nobody else is spot your spot, on your spot, and wherever you fought on I want to go there too. I'm just gonna follow you around, my great yeah, you know. But at the end of the day, with Justin Gaichee, he's a future Hall of Famer, you know, one of the I think his record is one hundred percent one hundred percent? Uh is that performance? His winning? He's twelve and this ton she sit me, you know, like he's in fighter the knights, he gets performance other knights. These are the fun fights, you know, And if you want to be the greats, you gotta be willing to go and go in between classes. Bro, you know the pampa I don't know about you. You know, correct me if I'm wrong. I know we have different takes on different stuff. But the pump upon fighter. If you're number one pumapon fighter and you're not willing to fight out of your weight class, that's ridiculous.
You're not Pampa pong.
Yeah, you're not. You know what I mean? The pavab fighter in my mind? You know, like when when we was in the Pamfaan together and you was one, I was calling your ass out every time. I still calling you.
Well, I called you out on my show the other day. You saw it. Now. They asked me. They asked me.
They said, if you could go to one weight for one fight, what would you do? So, they said, if you could change yourself for one day for one fight, what would you do? I said, I would go down the one forty five and finally fight Max Holloway. Because we haven't been able to come to terms on the weight class. I say one eighty five because I've seen you out of shape. I've seen you out of shape. I could try to get the one eighty five. I might misswait, not everything, but I might Misswait, but you're a fighter, so you still fight me. So I'm trying to I'm trying to your purse, so I'm not fighting.
Yeah, it's too much, too bad.
But like, yeah, I said I would go fight you one at one forty five because I obviously respect you as a as a competitor. But boy, could you imagine how good I would look in a suit at one forty five?
Brother? You look pretty good. I think it looks slick.
I do, I do, but then you lose.
I wouldn't down there.
You think that if I thought you had one forty five you would actually beat me?
Brother, I would. I would on your head and it looked like another ball.
Brother, Yeah you think? Wait, stop stopping. You believe that?
You remember last time, last time you got arrogant in something that we competed against.
Was mad.
Yeah, and what happened. I lost one time.
No, I beat you twice because I let you win the first time. Then I beat your ass the second couple of times. That's what happened. So the first one you're gonna lose. I let you. So you're coming down little, but I'm not losing to you. Okay, Well we never know it would be.
So bored, you'd be so frustrated because I would just be laying on you, just wrestling.
No, I'll talk to you the whole time. Do you feel because when I get up?
All right? Max?
So the BMF title, for a while, it felt like it was a bit of a gimmick championship because it was Nay Diz versus Ore Masmadal, two very talented fighters, but not championship level guys. Right, they had the whole belts before. Now Gachi fo Pourier, they've both been interim champions. Now you're fighting Gaichi for the belt. Do you think that championship level fighters competing for this championship elevates that belt?
Now you know the belt is or whatever the BMF or whatever the BMF is. I felt like I was a BMF no matter what the belt or not. And I feel like Gichie's a BMF. But I'll tell you this much. Saturday night, I go out there, I do what I gotta do, I get my hand raised. I'd be the first guy in you see history there to hold the intro. They undisputed it and then the BA man. So that would be pretty cool. You know, distry behind it.
I don't think. I don't think anybody else would do that. What do you expect this week?
It from Justin? A dangerous Dustin, a violent Justin. I think so they want to I know, I know. I saw his interviews saying that he right it hurt me or whatever he said of putting me out. You know, I got nothing but love and respect for the guy. But like like he said, and I agree with him, it's a fight. But I don't care if DC you one of my best friends. You know what I mean, we fight my cameraman as one of my best friends. He signed the contract. I'm We're gonna fight each other. You know, That's just what it is. This is how I feel. So at the end of the day, I think he's gonna be a violent Justin. I think so they need to up the up the performance and the fire night bonuses to cheer under k because I think me and me and Justin are gonna take home something.
So when you watched him against Rafael Faziv, you saw him fight in the way that we came we were accustomed to you. Then in the Dustin Portia fight, he was noticeably different. He was on his heels, a little bit. He kind of played the Matador opposed to being the guy Russian. What did you doing preparation for that? Knowing that he's kind of trying to switch it up a little bit to where he's still effective, but he's not as aggressive.
We see what happens, you know, we see what happens. You know, I'm not a Dustin player, he said in interviews and stuff when when he was getting ready for Phizade, and Dustin was a little bit different in his mindset of when he's getting ready for me, you know, because you know, those guys are big, strong, power punchers, you know, power kickers, and I'm kind of I'm not known as that. So at the end of the day, I think so the one that we saw I got stust In, I'm not too sure, you know. I think in my mind, we're gonna see the old Justin that's gonna go out there, come up, guns blazing in from the first round, and we see what happens.
You've been fighting now for a little bit. We've watched you grow right before our eyes. Right, you've been in the UFC since you were twenty one, twenty twenty, yeah, twenty years old, right.
You know, thirty thirty one. Yeah, and.
You've been in so many big moments, where does this one ring for you?
I mean, this moment is a huge period just because it's UC three hundred, you know what I mean, it's usually three hundred. I wasn't able to get on UC two hundred with you. I wish, I wish I got to get that. I don't know if I'm gonna be around for UFC four hundred. But at the end of the day, this is huge. You know, the card here in Vegas. I mean, if you want to fight in big cards, you fight in Vegas, right, So you know, with Justin Gaetchee BMF title, it's huge. Man, A lot of people, you know, we're third, We're third to the last fight at night, you know, and a lot of people think we should have been the main event. So yeah, it's gonna Hey, this is a huge one. You know, it's a huge one. And I I feel like it's up there. It's like it's like right next to you know, it's it's not the undispeted title. But I guess I'll put this like second, you know, after going to Aldo and fighting the King of Real in Real, that first one for the underspeted title to connect the two titles.
That was.
That was huge. I think that would be number one for me forever.
I watched that at Hamilton to play. I was at Hamilton to play at San Francisco when you were fighting all though, and I had my phone down. They were singing, and I fucking yelled.
Everybody was so mad at me.
I yelled in the play because you when you hit him with the boom and he went back. I yelled in the play because you had one.
I could.
I couldn't not watch it. It was, Oh my god, what a moment it was. You know, what do you make of that? The fans being so excited because when Chaila and I were talking, I'm like, yo, everybody knows that this is the third fight, but it's the one that everybody seems to be most excited about.
Like why is that? What do you make of that? And does that? Does that feel good?
Max to feel so appreciated by the people that watch the sport.
Yeah, for sure, and and and and I think it is just because of our body of work that we put in and how much times you know, me and me and Gaateee we try to fight too. Two times a year, two to three times a year. We always be We always stay busy, you know, and you know with the main event and stuff with hell being taking that time off and coming back now, it kind of slows the role, you know, like I'm coming off a big knockout in Augustus, your name is coming off a big knockout Justin is and I think, so it's just huge right now, just because of you as good as your last fight, right and our last two fights is huge And I think so that's why. And you mix me and him, it's gonna be, you know, a war.
Max.
What does this fight mean for the future though, Like do you go back down to one forty five? Do you go back down and try to get the belt back?
With Illiot to poor?
You now is the champion although he said I'm not giving Max Holloway a title fight.
Yeah, I don't know what that guy is on. I don't know what his brain is, but it is what it is. And at the end of the day, first things first to Justin Gaetchee. You know, but I really want that forty five title. I really like that that matchup with Taporia. But I always thought everybody's giving me a hard time. But I always thought even if Tapia won in any way and then even in the fashion of getting knocked out, I always talked, vocals gonna get the rematch. How do you not give Voke the rematch with the body of work.
That he did.
I understand, but I think he might need some time away exactly.
But what they're gonna do, Like, even if they give him time away, you know what I mean? I stay think so they probably hold that out to go give him a title fight against the Poy again. So I don't know. Man, we see what happens. You know. I go out there, I get my hand raised. We got options, brother, and it's always a good place to be when you got options.
It is the best place to be, my man.
Thank you, brother, you the man.
Guys.
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You can tell you one last thing before I let you go.
Max.
Yeah, the reason you didn't fight you have C two hundred because I was still the man at the time and I requested that they didn't put you.
On the car.
You're they were doing a match maker meeting and I was like, yo, I'll fight as long as Max Holloway doesn't. That's just the way it is. I like to throw my weight around. I say thank you for checking in the this is my brother. Guys, Max Holloway, follow him everything.
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