Max Holloway Tells Joe Rogan That Justin Gaethje Surely ‘Dropped’ Him at UFC 300 – “I Don’t Know How…”

Max Holloway thinks Justin Gaethje‘s knockdown of him in the fourth round, not counting on the official scorecard of their electric UFC 300 clash, is “bulls***.” Gaethje, perhaps the hardest hitter in the stacked lightweight division, caught ‘Blessed’ with a hard right in the fourth round, immediately dropping him.

However, it was adjudged a slip and not counted as a knockdown on the final stat sheet of their ‘Fight of the Night’ winning clash. And no one is more upset about it than Holloway. The BMF title-holder, who defeated ‘The Human Highlight’ with just one second remaining in their fight, spoke about it yet again on Joe Rogan‘s podcast and expressed his disappointment at the knockdown not being scored for Gaethje.

While discussing the bout, Rogan asked Holloway, ” [Gaethje] dropped you. He dropped you in what round?” To which Holloway confirmed it was in the fourth round. However, he was flabbergasted that it didn’t count as a knockdown and felt it was unfair on the fan-favorite lightweight.

Holloway mentioned, “It didn’t count as a drop, which is crazy,” he said. “ESPN is like posting it saying like in however many fights I didn’t get dropped. That’s some bulls**. I’ll take it, you know what I mean. But I wouldn’t be a man sitting here and telling you [I didn’t get dropped].”

“Bro, all I remember is getting hit by that punch, and then, like I sat, I came back up and I was like, what the f*** did he just do to me? I was like ‘holy sh***’ that was a good punch… I was fine as soon as I got up… But I don’t know how that didn’t count as a drop,” he added.Joe Rogan agreed that it should have counted, but concluded that “someone just made a mistake.” 

With the Gaethje bout in the rearview mirror, Holloway can now concentrate on the opponent on his horizon. With the recent developments in the featherweight division, the former featherweight champion is set to face the reigning featherweight champion in a mouth-watering clash, perhaps by the end of this year.

Topuria not impressed with Max Holloway’s UFC 300 performance

After his heroics against Justin Gaethje at UFC 300, Max Holloway will go home to the featherweight division face newly-minted champion Ilia Topuria next. Topuria, of course, had shocked the world and knocked out former champion (and the man considered the featherweight GOAT) Alexander Volkanovski at their UFC 298 bout earlier this February to become the new 145-pound king.

Volkanovski, of course, had taken the title off of Max Holloway and had reigned supreme in the division since then. The duo went on to fight twice more since then, with the Aussie emerging victorious both times. But, ‘Volk’s recent loss has opened the door to another title shot for Holloway.

And Topuria, in typical Ilia Topuria fashion is supremely confident of victory. Unlike the rest of the MMA world, the Spaniard “wasn’t impressed at all” by Holloway’s UFC 300 heroics, and promised to send him to the “back of the line” when they fought.

Holloway, who is remarkably laid-back and doesn’t indulge in trash talk, simply told Topuria he would be “seeing him soon.” But soon enough as far as the fans are concerned. Given the absolute warriors both men are, as well as their elite, world-class skills, Topuria-Holloway is perhaps the most skilled matchup in all of UFC at the moment.

What do you think about Holloway speaking out in favor of Gaethje after their UFC 300 war?