Max Holloway joins The Pat McAfee Show to talk about his stunning finish at UFC 300 by flattening Justin Gaethje with a second …
ladies and gentlemen joining us now is the former featherweight champion of the world but now the baddest mother in the UFC o from Hawaii ladies and gentlemen Max all the way how are you what’s up Pat brother I’m good brother how are you feeling how are you feeling here two days removed well I guess less than two days removed from that battle with gaii I’m feeling like the bless man forever that’s how I’m feeling right now that’s amazing leg uh leg kind of hurts man I got kicks like a horse saw a lot of that obviously that’s going to be a a tactic kind of take away your base especially with how hard you throw just uh being able to sh octagon was uh with him is just he’s a legend man he’s a legend I don’t know if I’m ever going to [ __ ] octagon with him ever again and UFC 300 the biggest card for probably the next decade the BMF title if if this is not BMF worth I I don’t know what is wow it’s certainly yeah hey you’re a BMF uhhuh have been 29 fights in the UFC obviously 2012 you make your debut I went through in reg your resume again you had four fights in the year 2012 uh and then you had like three the like you’re just a how’d you get into this how do we start this entire thing do you feel like you’re representing for all the islands of Hawaii whenever you step in there and if you let them down you can’t fly back like what is the mindset and how did you get into this for sure for sure you know you know from the island for the islands you know so that’s just what it is you know where I’m from why not Hawaii I mean everybody always say a joke you know when the UFC James came down to uh to aahu Hawaii they said Oh look The First UFC JY that was a lie the first UFC jym was uh R in high school where we from and the kids is just fighting all the time so I got into I got into it because I just wanted to be able to protect myself yeah well turns out everybody probably on the other side of that was like enough prot yourself yeah we’re trying to protect oursel from this entire thing I saw obviously kickboxing uh jiujitsu in there Muay Thai I think but also boxing you’re an absolute stallion at are you still working on all these are you still getting better you think like where do you put yourself right now versus maybe five 10 years ago oh for sure for sure you know MMA is a forever growing Sport and to stay with the pack if you want to stay with it you gotta you got to keep growing keep evolving I you’re you’re you’re an athlete but you know how it is with the game you gotta evolve every year if you stay the same then you lose your job you know and I want to be remember of one of the greats in the sports so that’s that’s just what you got to do you got to keep evolving your sport if you don’t then it’s going to go right past you well obviously you’re going to be remembered forever uh because of what happened at UFC 300 and everything else you’ve done before that now the next conversation is you know who’s next who’s next Who’s Next that’s that feels like the biggest UFC thing of all time immediately upon a fight being over it’s like all right call somebody out or get called out or do what you got to do here in your promo I saw elas send a tweet congratulating you saying he’d be the first person to knock you out if you guys got in a ring together have you thought about the future and have you thought about the future and where are you right now with all of it I mean you know it is what it is you know about that tweet he ain’t the first one that said that you know many guys did the only guy who actually I mean it it technically didn’t count you know that put me on my butt was gy this past Saturday but uh according to UFC uh it didn’t it didn’t count as the countdown so I guess so my my record is still clean but we see what happens you know we see what happens you know if it’s if it’s elot 145 his tone changed a lot you know he didn’t want to fight he didn’t want to fight and now he’s coming around finally because I don’t know what he was thinking of saying that we don’t deserve the title shot and then you know with you know 55 are having a BMF now got some big fights coming up we just wait and see you know wait see see what Dana White see what uh Dana whitew wants we see what Hunter wants and we figure it out I don’t know if you saw the press conference Dana wants Max all the way back in the Octagon he knows the deal and it feels like you know the deal too it feels like being an entertaining fighter is a part of your thing is that true or am I misreading this oh for sure for sure brother you know everybody think uh fighting is fighting fighting is one thing but we’re entertainers at the end of the day we got to say pay-per-views and and people got to got to want want to tune in you know you you see it all the time some guys is really good at fighting he just just get no traction you know so this is we’re in the entertainment business too we saw Bo nickel be upset about the way that he won his fight I think because he hears the chirping about his fights maybe more grappling a little bit more boring and he’s working on his strikes and I think a Cormier was like you should not be you just tap the dude out like you should not be upset but it is reality of the situation and do you think did you chew on like rocks as a kid metal glass why do you think your jaw is is so strong legitimately why do you think is just since birth I I just think so it’s it’s being a Polynesian being from the islands being Hawaiian Samo all that helps no C that definitely helps you know the vibranium they probably implanted in my chin hey the uses are the best dude I wish I was an oose first of all I wouldn’t sunburn so quick but also I’d be much tougher love your Island love the people from there Connor’s got a question for you yeah Max your point about kind of like chasing greatness and wanting to be remembered as you know one of the greatest Joe Rogan said that that was the greatest knockout in the history of the UFC and he’s been around a long time when you hear stuff like that what does it mean to you and then when do you see when you see the reactions of Adisa and volkanovski and all those other guys is that kind of even a bonus to see how impressive it was for them as well to see that knockout because it was absurd yeah for sure you know it’s just amazing amazing to see people react and then to see my my my peers react is even more crazy you know watching Fighters GE out like fans it’s uh it’s pretty it’s a pretty cool thing to see and then to hear Joe Rogan talk about it like that and even Dana White I think Dan way said that’s the that’s the craziest holy [ __ ] moment he has and he’s probably G to see for a long time so you know hopefully we can top it you know everybody always thinks that there’s one moment but you know hopefully we can replicate it and do better a buzz beat or knock out I don’t one second how many times have you watched it have you watched it a thousand times you should Ty has a question for you Max you mentioned how you know gaii kicks like a horse and you’re kind of feeling in your leg right now and then Pat alluded to like you know you fighting multiple times during the year what is the recovery process like after a fight like this because you obviously you’re throwing so many punches you know like you’re you’re going deep and all that kind of stuff like do you ever go into the Octagon feeling 100% or now that you’ve been doing it this long is like you just you’re dealing with [ __ ] no matter what yeah yeah I think so I think so in any sport you go in there you’re not you’re never ever 100% but you get try you try to be pretty close you know you try to be pretty close to that and then the recovery time you know hopefully uh hopefully a week or two i’ be fine and and then we go from there you know a lot of people a lot of people like to like to call me like rubine and stuff because after after a week or so I’m back on it you know it’s just like like I said man he the punches with gate you wasn’t he hits hard don’t get me wrong but when we was in that last 10 seconds he was missing that the wind was hitting hitting me and it hurt you know so but his kicks brother that guy kicks like a donkey or so I don’t know what kangaroo coming off his ta the guy kicks hard I love that uh I enjoy the respect you have for him as well because after watching the fight it’s like I hope these two Warriors know that what they’re doing for us is awesome and you talk about the strikes and everything there’s a bunch of stats coming out about your historic career right now total strikes landed in the history of the UFC 3,622 obviously about a th more in second place and then significant strikes landed couple thousand more than everybody else you’re an absolute monster pal absolute monster are you back in the gym in like a week or two or how does this do you have to like like I think we talked to Michael Chandler and congrats to him finally getting PA McGregor fight on the books that’s good for him he talked about how like it’s just his lifestyle like if he doesn’t train he doesn’t feel like he’s doing life are you the same way are you always in the gym remain in the gym or what is the how do we continue to go dayto day here uh you know we see what happens you know I I I uh my son wasn’t able to make it this fight we promised him a trip to uh to to somewhere so we got to do that first but yeah man I’m not like that if I if I uh if I miss the gym it’s not the end of me like that you and sometimes sometimes I don’t want to see some of the people at the gym you know my strer conditioning coach I mean I tell him all the time brother I I don’t like I do not like seeing your face cuz every time I see his face it’s going to be a tough day well that’s you know inevitably that’s why the fifth round at the end after one second knockout to still have the energy to do the full celebration afterwards like I’m puking 30 seconds into round one you go five rounds literally the longest fight knockout fight in the history of the UFC with one second left and then the juice afterwards is remarkable what is the sparring like going in to fighting somebody like gaii brother like so you know before we gave up sparring just like how you said because like we have so many wars and like I’ve been training so long that I felt like we just needed to be able to move with some of these guys and and even with my training Partners you know like if we start going hard and they got to give me a certain look and they they start you know like even me if I got to give a certain look for to someone and I start getting beaten up and I know my look is going to be better than the look that I need to give I’m going to go to that cuz no one likes to lose you know what I mean at the end of the day so we was doing this sping where it’s like speed so these guys could could give me the look that I needed but for Justin gatei brother brother this is this is like going to the gates of hell and know F this man you know what I mean so we we had to bring sparring back bro you know I had to cut the hair we had to go back to the old ways and uh we did we we we did sparring man we got after it you know shout out to my shout out to my teammates shout out to my coaches we we did the damn thing this one bro it was a it was a tough Camp a hard Camp a hard 10 to 12 weeks and I I’m just happy that we got to get a hand raised after it hell yeah congrats to the entire Camp performance of the night fight of the night and then obviously whatever you’re getting paid for the fight and now you’re BMF I mean let’s go what a Saturday what a Saturday in Vegas debutts got a question for you Matt hey speaking of that so 10 to 12 week training camp unbelievable fight all the way down to the wire you talked about an unbelievable pack just brought up unbelievable Saturday night in Vegas what was that postf fight celebration like you know obviously you had that energy we talked about your Wolverine blood how quick you heal but what was that night like after obviously that incredible weekend brother I I I had too many friends and family come out to the fight we just uh we just went to a hotel bar and we just kicked it for a little bit and then not go to sleep until like 5 o’clock in the morning brother it wasn’t like a party or whatever to the club I just had a bunch of like 20 20 to 30 good people that just lived with uh that grew up with me who was around me for a long time and you know just kept it intimate you know we didn’t we don’t really like going out and going doing too much stuff but I just I just uh you know shared that time with the people who dedicated especially my wife you know I gotta give my wife I give her hell for freaking 12 weeks at a 12 weeks at a time so she I’m a lot to deal with brother so just to be able to hang out with her is it means a lot how’s your surfing speaking of your wife can you I assume you can surf because you’re from Hawaii is that an [ __ ] assumption yeah yeah that’s pretty [ __ ] assumption I’m all right my my wife is a professional I like to I like to talk like I’m I’m better you know you gotta speak the game but uh I’m I’m terrible I’m terrible my little boy’s getting my little boy’s getting super good at it and uh yeah it’s pretty good every time I go out there I go to the island a lot oh look at you wow I see rotten barrels dude I see you out there doing your thing I know I know some of the lingo cuz my wife and I we love Hawaii that’s our place like we go to and whenever we’re hanging out wherever we are always look down at the ocean and you just see a bunch of these little kids hopping on these and it’s like absurd I’m scared to death to go out there but I got nothing but respect for those who do sharks and [ __ ] are out there Max oh brother brother ni and what like that’s their house yeah but like you saw what you could do like I’m not doing that to a shark you know what I mean you’re probably punching that thing in the nose doing that I’m getting eight I’m out of there I’m dead dead McAfee is the story shark no shark’s only bite if you touch the private part bro we you just can’t oh can’t be doing that can’t be touching the dong of a shark okay good know I just learned that I just learned that all right last question here from tone Max we appreciate you yeah Max I saw Pereira got his uh black belt after getting his win this weekend uh do you know are you going to be getting your black belt now in Brazilian jiujitsu now that you got your win this weekend at 300 is that how that works brother my my it’s funny you talked about this cuz we was just talking about this after the fight when we saw it happen my coach is the most stingiest guy brother giving us belts giving us stripes and I tease him all the time I’m like you’re stingy with it you know how much guys come to R jam and they’re like you’re not you’re not a proud belt what what are you you’re not a tell like the purple belts or blue belts you’re not a blue belt what are you doing you’re sand bag you know like no our coach is just our coach is Hardcore about it but uh right now I got a deal with my coach I want to be the first MMA black belt there’s one of my boys that got me to with this coach his name is dy Cur former UFC fighter and uh me and him is on the race to get our black Bel like he’s better than me jiujitsu but with me getting my my card stamp and stuff I think I’m closer to getting my black belt for him so black belt jiujitsu you said MMA black belt that’s just like all fighting forms I’m a black belt no I mean I mean I wanted to be his first MMA fighter with a black Bel he don’t have an MMA fighter with a black belt yet got it got it got it well I think you deserve I mean I don’t know how the game works I think some people are just handing out black belts from I mean I I search the internet in some places you know there’s some fugay black belts from what I’ve been told and what I read I next time next time I’m going to show him where the hell you get that from one down that Dojo dropped a couple hundred thousand just like a degree in college uh you know you could kind of pull it off Max congratulations we’re lucky to watch you do your thing brother that’s real thank you brother thank you brother thank you hey when you back out in a while let me know brother we take you surfing we take you let’s go get let’s go get in some waves I’m not going in the water but I’ll watch come on get out there brother I look at the water I don’t get in the water brother you got to get in the water one time one time I got this hole in my eardrum Sparks out there can’t do it I get high and look at the water love your Islands though love everything about him just like I appreciate the hell out of you man thank you so much for joining us thank you guys you guys have good one thank you for having safe travels back to Hawaii that’s the baddest mother in the UFC ladies and gentlemen Max h i mean what a legend dog just o who just beats people’s ass yeah 29 fights in the UFC since 2012 so many he’s not undefeated obviously he’s taken some uh Split Decision losses unanimous decision losses he picked up fights like within the last few day or a few days before the fights because people get injures he’s fighted he’s fought everybody yeah but I mean this vid this knockout is going to be remembered for the rest of time [Music]