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Max Holloway recently discussed the difficulties that fighters face when trying to get fans to look past a previous loss.
'Blessed' recently shocked the MMA community after earning a spectacular last-second knockout win over Justin Gaethje to win the 'BMF' title at UFC 300. The knockout immediately went viral and resulted in him being linked to title fights at both featherweight and lightweight.
During his appearance on Joe Rogan's JRE MMA Show, the 'BMF' title holder opened up about the perception that fans had about him due to his most recent loss to Alexander Volkanovski. He mentioned that it is difficult to get to look past a previous loss despite the success in the bouts that follow. Holloway said:
"You have a bad fight like with Alex [Volkanovski], that fight don't get erased off until I have something great. Even if you have a good fight...I had a knockout over 'Korean Zombie' and they're [fans] are like, 'Yeah, well 'Korean [Zombie]' is old]'...and then finally now with this Justin [Gaethje knockout], now everybody forgets. It takes us a while to make them forget about your last fight." [26:39 - 27:02]
Check out the full JRE MMA Show episode with Max Holloway below:
Joe Rogan refers to Max Holloway's win over Justin Gaethje as the greatest knockout of all time
Joe Rogan heaped praise on Max Holloway for his knockout win over Justin Gaethje at UFC 300 and claimed that it is the greatest knockout of all time.
During the aforementioned interview, the UFC commentator noted that it was a spectacular knockout to witness live. He mentioned that he was amazed at what 'Blessed' had done and outlined why it deserves to be recognized as the greatest knockout. He said:
"I say it's the greatest knockout win of all time...Here you're gonna fight this bigger guy and all these people were writing you off...And then for you to stand, winning four rounds to one in the middle of the octagon and point to the ground with ten seconds left and then to knock him out with one second left. The way I reacted, the way I jumped up, I've never done that before." [24:55 - 25:37]
Check out Max Holloway's knockout win over Justin Gaethje at UFC 300 below:
