UFC 326’s Max Holloway is sick of seeing fighters mess up his ‘point to the ground and bang’ thing, as made famous at UFC 300 against Justin Gaethje.
Holloway created the ‘Holy S–t moment of all time’ when he challenged Gaethje to an all-out slobberknocker with just 10 seconds left in their fight. “The Highlight” accepted, but ended up face down on the canvas with a second left to go in the fight. It was wild, it was epic, and it is often imitated but never duplicated.
That may be why Holloway is now
explaining exactly what conditions fighters need to meet if they’re gonna try and pull the move off during their fight.
“Here are the official rules, guys,” Holloway said (via Home of Fight). “This is the rules right here. Whatever round you guys is at — if you guys fight in a two round or a three round or a five round or a four round or whatever it is — if you’re winning the fight, you’re the person who can call the ten seconds. And then when you call the ten seconds, you cannot step back or shoot or clinch. The other guy, if he obliges and he shoots and clinches? Whatever, because he’s on the losing side already.”
“The whole thing is ten seconds,” Max reiterated. “Guy’s winning, the last ten seconds. I saw Charles, people asked me about it. Charles was pointing down for it in the first ten seconds. That’s not the gist of the ten seconds. The gist is: the guy winning the fight, the last ten seconds, you give this guy a Hail Mary and see if he can catch it. That’s that’s what it is, guys.”
Holloway has been pretty clear about this from the start, but now it’s in stone. So hopefully that clears the whole thing up against the many fighters attempting to recreate the Holloway UFC 300 moment. At this point, has anyone done it right? Other than Max himself at UFC 318 against Dustin Poirier? Poirier stepped up for a moment before realizing he’d get knocked out, making it a bit less special.
If you’re wondering if Max Holloway will pull the move out at UFC 326 against Charles Oliveira (or if Charles will), now you know the proper textbook conditions. It’ll have to be in the last 10 seconds of the fifth round, if Holloway is up on points. And then you can expect “Blessed” to give “Do Bronx” one last shot at glory.
