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Getting injured and being unable to fight (with advanced notice) is not "creating a mess" by any reasonable interpretation of sporting, no?
Kattar Says It's "Kind of Crazy" to Question if Max Holloway was Injured.
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Getting injured and being unable to fight (with advanced notice) is not "creating a mess" by any reasonable interpretation of sporting, no?
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In this case you are certainly right. Just a really bad statement to make in public. Just really bad and only makes him look bad. Like when was the last time Alex tried to move up to fight Khabib on less than a week’s notice? Or actually moving up to fight a guy like Dustin??
Just a really bad look, and I can’t respect that opinion at all. And if Alex were to lose his next fight. It certainly wouldn’t break my heart. He’s a decision machine and now trying to play heel?? He’s barking up the wrong tree, and killed any positve thoughts I had towards the guy.
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all anybody has to do is watch that press conference. Max is a 'fight anyone' type of fighter. He's not a 'picker and choser' type of fighter. He believes he can beat anybody. Max is truly a gift from the "Fight Gods".
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I'm still not sure how this is debateable. The only thing I can imagine is that max fans think this is an attack on max's character, but it's not. He got injured and that affected the next steps in both guys careers. I personally consider it a mess, you can consider it whatever you want, but my point is that this situation is a direct result of things that happened on Max's side.
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I see where Volk is coming from too but Max has a lot at stake in this 3rd fight. Anything less than 100% ready is unacceptable, or at least that's my take on it.
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I think he trolled you and many other max fans who are stuck on that part of the message, but that's just me. Volk is many things, but dumb is not one of them, and claiming max faked an injury is too dumb for volk to believe.
The rest of his message is the part with truth in it. That's just my opinion, though. Maybe I give Volk too much credit.
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Max is focused on Volk right now. Training for him in case KZ pulls out. He will be 100 percent ready for volk if KZ pulls out. Meanwhile volk is prepping for KZ, not Max, so if KZ pulls out, Max will have the advantage against Volk. Max potentially putting Volk in that situation is what volk is unhappy about.
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That makes sense thank you for explaining. If by chance KZ pulls out couldn't Volk just decline the fight with Max? I get turning down fights isn't a fan friendly approach but he is the champ and millions are at stake. I haven't read anything that says it's official Max is the backup but maybe I'm out of the loop.
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Ya, I don't know how people are not finding this strange. I would have never questioned Max otherwise, but this is weird
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Twas clean, this knock out. As much as it pained me.
Obviously the Conor fight garners more views and money and with Conor talking shit on Twitter about Max wouldn't it be something if Max Holloway who is a fighter wants to actually fight someone who he has history and fully believes he can compete against. Volkanovski has his reasons for thinking Max faked a injury or what not, fact is UFC doctors didn't clear Max before and now he is cleared to fight. Fighters do know more about injuries and in this case Kattar is a fighter who knows much more and is speaking his mind.
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Hey I've only seen this from one source and apparently it leads back to Ariel. I decided to post it here since there's isn't much substance to create a whole thread about it, espcially since it didn't materialize.
Idk if this was the best idea, I'd rather Holloway wait out for his TS. That being said he could've done the same after the Kattar fight, but he wanted to fight again and he did against Yair.
If this fight was booked, Max would've demonstrated once again that he'll fight anyone he possibly can.
If it happened I see him beating Emmett pretty decisively.
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not necessarily. Personality sells. Max can never turn heel. So volk has to fill that role to buil the fight.
Gotta remember, modern ufc is more spectacle than sport. You don’t make more money by winning. You make more by selling the fight before you even fight.
If anything, it’s more likely that volk's bad guy image is fake.
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Fighters getting injured prior to an MMA fight is so frequent and pedestrian its of zero note. Its flat out common. Its not a mess, and Volk looks like a lunatic for saying he thinks Max Holloway pulled out of a fight lying about an injury.
I get the idea 'hey its just marketing.' Sure. Its unbecoming of a champion like Volk who previously hasn't acted like an idiot.
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Was it UFC doctors or just regular doctors in Hawaii? Either way no one really knows the answer to this and Volk is free to feel the way he feels. He's fought Max twice and knows how tough he is, but the stuff with this fight just threw him off.
Max did want a money fight but he also wasn't focused on a trilogy fight with Volk, that's why he fought Yair instead of waiting on Volk. I personally think he just understands what another loss to Volk means to his legacy and doesn't want to come into the fight without making the proper adjustments to his game. Exactly what Whittaker did before going into the rematch and that's why Whittaker wasn't focused on an immediate rematch and wanted to fight contenders first before challenging Izzy again. Every time they tried to push for a rematch with Izzy he turned down the idea until he felt like he was better prepared. Whittaker was just more open about his reasonings.
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If we're going to pass off every common occurence in MMA as "zero note" then we'd talk about almost nothing. Max being the cause of this current situation is not of zero note to volk, clearly, and it's not of zero note when it's litteraly the catalyst of everything that lead to the creation of the thread you're posting in right now. Whether the situation is common or pedestrian or a mess is actually the part that's irrelevent. What isn't irrelevant is that volk is in a situation he doesn't like, and he's in it because of Max. I'm not sure why it's so hard for people to look at this from Volk's perspective.
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Max Holloway, gets injured
"What a crazy mess! Its a mess, its a situation."
Bruh. Haha.
Anyhow, Volk is most likely just trying to get some marketing attention by saying something ridiculous. So be it. Its that or he's literally a idiot and I find that unlikely.
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Injuries and pull outs often cause less than ideal situations. Just because it's common, doesn't change the fact that it happens and it happened on Max's end. I'm not sure what we're even talking about.
And yes, I think the part of Volk's message that Max fans are hyper focused on was just volk trolling max fans. The rest of his message, though, I do believe he's sincere about.
