Max Holloway – “I ain’t ever going to bare-knuckle fighting. That’s the most stupidest thing ever in the world”
Don’t look for former UFC featherweight and current UFC BMF champion Max Holloway to compete in bare-knuckle fighting when he retires from mixed martial arts.
“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.”
Max Holloway is NOT interested in fighting Bare Knuckle 😭
“That’s the most stupidest thing ever in the world. When I’m retired, I’m retired bro.”
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— Championship Rounds (@ChampRDS) October 20, 2025
Holloway, 33, is coming off a unanimous decision win over Dustin Poirier in the UFC 318 main event in July.
