LAS VEGAS – Max Holloway plans on seeing Conor McGregor again after UFC 329.
Holloway (27-9 MMA, 23-9 UFC) welcomes McGregor (22-6 MMA, 10-4 UFC) back in Saturday’s welterweight main event at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas (Paramount+).
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McGregor won their first outing by unanimous decision in 2013, and Holloway looks to avenge that loss when they run things back in two weight classes above.
“I’m going to go in there and put paws on him,” Holloway said during Wednesday’s UFC 329 pre-fight news conference. “I’m going to make him wish that he didn’t come back. Actually, no. I’m not going to make him wish that. I’m going to make him think he can do it one more time, so we can rematch at the end of the year.”
It took McGregor five years to come back from his leg break suffered in July 2021, and he withdrew from his scheduled fight against Michael Chandler at UFC 303 due to a broken pinky toe. Despite that, Holloway says history proves that there should be no skepticism over McGregor making the walk.
“Not at all,” Holloway said. “I didn’t have too many concerns. Everybody talked about that one Chandler fight. He did only really ever pull out of that fight ever in his whole UFC career. It was one, and people just hold it tooth and nail toward him, which is crazy. But I had nothing. I just trained as usual, and if it didn’t happen, it didn’t happen. If we got to this point and it still didn’t happen, then they’d have other guys in the pipeline, I believe, and we’re just ready for whatever.”
This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: Max Holloway aims to ‘put paws’ on Conor McGregor and land trilogy
