Max Holloway chats with Daniel Cormier and Ryan Clark about his upcoming fight vs. Arnold Allen at #UFCKansasCity as he …
we are now joined by my best friend in the entire world Max bless Halloween how you doing my guy how you doing good man this guy’s the worst honestly I don’t know how he could do a showing them every week hey Max and don’t fall for it either bro he’s just trying to butter you up so when you get comfortable he could just stab you with the knife man and be say something disrespectful so don’t let him butter you up no I know I know bro I know I know this guy for a long time now I know I know him when he’s a little less heavier too so it’s been a while see the disrespect the disrespect needs to stop bro y’all come up here you were right disrespecting me so now you in the opening the show every week I see you and Ryan laughing at me for some reason like I deserve this I don’t deserve this man Max is fight week again champ you’re in Kansas City you’re taking on Arnold Allen this weekend how you how you doing how you feeling how was training camp how did everything go in preparation for this I feel good I feel great man uh preparation was awesome we felt awesome we got here early we I found out I figured out that uh Casey is actually actually great eating places here so I’m kind of bummed that uh we gotta wait to Sunday to eat but uh watching all my uh my coach’s name eat barbecue and stuff is it’s kind of making me jealous hey Max the barbecue is great in KC I’m going to partake in a little bit of it when I head to the draft uh this year you know you took a little break after fighting Alexander volkonowski for the third time and what was a great Trilogy between you guys what was kind of your focus during that time off before starting to prepare for Arnold Allen I was just uh taking care of little injuries we had little injuries that kept nagging I had to add a a bunch of time now to approach it and really get get good and uh and rest up and we’re here you know we’re here now and I can’t wait Max is this the fight that you expected a guy like Arnold Allen who uh just beat Calvin cater in a fight that we didn’t really get to see all of his skill because cater blew out his knee but like did you expect to see a guy like this uh a young up and coming guy trying to challenge you you’ve been at the top of the division for so long uh yeah for sure you know I mean um and he’s undefeated in the UFC uh I’m right there you know I know I know if he ain’t first you left so I’m not really looking at I’m not really looking at my the number next to my name I think it’s uh it’s kind of crazy but um at the end of the day you know uh whoever was wherever it was you know I was we was ready we we wanted to get after it I wanted to fight what I’m gonna do sit sit on the sideline forever you know I’m here if you want to be the best you gotta be the best and the best is blessed man and we really feel that way about you as well when you look past or you you get outside of your fights with volkonowski and you think about yair Rodriguez on a fight night you go back to Calvin cater and now Arnold Allen you’ve seemed to dominate against opponents like this and also in Opportunities like this what are some of the what are some of the problems when you look at a young guy like Arnold Allen that he could cause for you that you are preparing for this weekend I mean there’s a lot you know on Ireland is athletic I mean like I said he he’s been around with you he got a 10-10 fight win streak but he don’t really got too much tape on him out here uh I mean the only problem is that you can search up my name and there’s the what what people breaking down fights for you and everything so we’ll see what happens you know I I just can’t wait I can’t wait to go out there and uh put on a show man we are on uh we’re on cable TV again the last time I was on cable TV I had a hell of a fight you know I got to talk to my man DC and my man DC is back there uh calling it ringside so we might actually have another conversation when I’m in there hey bro last time you fought against yair Rodriguez they said I was so biased towards you that they blocked me off of the broadcast which was not true for that man I want to put this out there like I just wasn’t scheduled to work that weekend it’s not like because Max oh Max is fighting DC has to sit on the sideline I can do my job fairly or at least I try to the best of my ability Max when you look at where you are in your career right now and you beat Arnold Allen once again you’ll be on the short list of guys that can contend for the championship but with the fact that you’ve lost to volkonovsky those times do you feel like yair needs to win this fight in order for you to make your way back to a championship ah we see what happens you know at the end of that I really want that fourth I really want that Fourth Man it is what it is but we see it happens do I think so he needs to win uh absolutely not man we we live in a world where anime is just wild bro who taught Conor McGregor to ever fight Floyd Mayweather you know what I mean and it just the list goes on about wild fights weird fights that it may happen you know one day Dana White might be saying yeah there’s no way we’re making this fight then after this fight he goes on and say yeah this is the next fight so we’ll see what happens Max as someone who is as accomplished as you are inside of the octagon and having kind of those Championship matches uh of the past what are you still fighting to prove what is still getting Max blessed Holloway up and excited every morning to train uh and my family my family my things I want uh uh legendary status man legendary status I mean Jose Aldo I I still believe he’s the featherweight goat um you know he has all the title uh the title record so that that there it is you know then there’s a guy in the galaxy in front of me you know he motivates me and then there’s other guys and fight nights that that happened you know just like this other fight you know is he going out there doing his thing this past weekend was uh was great to see so there’s a lot of things that motivate me man you know and I just want to be the best man I want to be the best there ever was there ever will be and um we got we got a long way well to do it you know a lot of guys talk to me uh treat me like a veteran like I’m I’m this super old guy or something about I’m only 31 I’ve done 32 at 10 of the year so we’ll see what happens yeah you think the reason they treat you like that is because you won so much for so long but hey bro listen when you start saying stuff like I just want to be the best there is the best there was the best there ever will be no you gotta like at least give Bret Hart credit for saying that because you can’t just kill a man you big wrestling fans you can’t just steal a man stuff like it’s yours dog brother the big merger happens so we can steal whatever we want now I got to make you might see it this weekend you might see one get hit somebody get hit in the head with a chair or something who knows this guy’s crazy champ before I let you go the other day breto Komodo asked you a question do you still think you’re better than Alexander volkonowski and I know you in your face with pressure change like you were almost like dumbfounded like how could anyone believe that I would think any different all right keep maintaining that and I know as an athlete myself how you do it but for the people that don’t know like explain to them how you keep that mentality even in the areas where you faced adversity against the guy who’s the champion I mean it’s simple they’re they’re where they’re at and we are where we at you know it’s a it’s it’s a different mindset you know it it really is you know at the end of the day it’s uh it’s something that you need in in anything you know if you want to be average then you probably don’t have it you know but if you want to be great and then there’s great great integrates and then there’s just Legends you know and uh that’s the guys that you want to be above and this is the mindset you need you know you ever ever heard heard Colby talk about someone better than him you ever heard of Michael Jordan talk about somebody better than him you know you ever yeah yeah and that list goes like did you ever hear DC talk about somebody being better than him come on you know what never what’s going on here you know you can’t hey once you start thinking like oh I think this guy’s better than me then like I said why would I stay in this Division if I didn’t think I could beat the guy you know or or why not even retire there’s a bunch of stuff outside of UFC you know that I can do and but I I still believe I’m here I still believe I’m a I’m entitled contention and I believe I’m a champion you know just because uh he got a brother on his ways you know I got five of them at home you know and I want to add to the collection so you know first things first is Arnold Allen and we’ll go from there hey I’ve been beat I’ve been beat before like nobody beat me more than the kid from Louisiana named Gilbert he’s that dude undefeated against me but every time he starts to beat me I figured I was gonna get him at some point I never gave him hope Max he was with me and sometimes I would run from it sometimes I would stand up to him but I never thought I was ever gonna lose to that guy and that is what ultimately allow for me to do the things that I did and that’s what makes you so great my guy I will see you in Kansas City Max good luck best of luck brother uh and thank you for thinking about the show thank you guys you guys have a good one thank you for watching ESPN on YouTube for live streaming Sports and premium content subscribe to ESPN Plus