Max Holloway wants ‘big fight’ in boxing against Gervonta Davis: ‘I can s—t talk’

Max Holloway is prepared for some cross-sport motion.

The self-proclaimed finest boxer in combined martial arts (MMA), Holloway, was watching together with a lot of the fight sports activities world this previous weekend (April 22, 2023) when Gervonta “Tank” Davis battled Ryan Garcia. Somebody’s zero needed to go on the evening, and sadly for Garcia, it will be his as Davis (29-0) discovered the seventh-round technical knockout through physique shot (watch highlights).

In a little bit of a limbo place inside Final Combating Championship’s (UFC) Featherweight ranks, Holloway feels that now could possibly be a great time to repeat historical past like his outdated foe, Conor McGregor, did with Davis’ mentor, Floyd Mayweather, in Aug. 2017.

“Let’s make an enormous battle with ‘Tank’ or one thing,” Holloway informed The MMA Hour. “Floyd Mayweather and ‘Tank,’ ‘Tank’ is following Floyd Mayweather’s recipe to the important thing. So, why not he battle a MMA man and we do an enormous one? I can s—t speak to him. Simply don’t put no hydration clause in it like how he did to my man Garcia. That may be a enjoyable one.”

Garcia’s loss has since been adopted by some controversies or potential components that led to his demise. The 24-year-old star within the making has since claimed to have had somebody in his camp leak information of his weaknesses in addition to highlighting the troubles that have been attributable to the aforementioned hydration clause.

“Everyone speaking about that shot like, ‘Oh, he would have gotten up, blah, blah,’ I’m like, bro, the hydration clause is actual,” Holloway stated. “He couldn’t fricken rehydrate correct and that shot, it may not look laborious, however to a fricken dehydrated physique that hurts quite a bit. That shot in all probability hurts quite a bit even in the event you’re not dehydrated. So, I can solely think about, man. And it got here out the identical day that he had a rat and he truly obtained harm to the physique and that sucks. On the finish of the day, that was robust however I might like to do an enormous one. Perhaps do [T-Mobile Arena] like they did the Conor stuff.”

Holloway most not too long ago obtained again within the win column, defeating Arnold Allen through a unanimous choice in UFC Kansas Metropolis’s important occasion two weeks in the past (April 15, 2023).