UFC president recently said that the are actively working on a BMF title fight for . Today, will go through five possible opponents who Holloway could make his first defense of the BMF title against next. The one potential fight which sticks out to many MMA fans as the next BMF title bout is Max Holloway vs .
This is a fight which mainly sticks out for two reasons. One, because it is a fight which everyone would absolutely love to see and 'Do Bronx' is the epitome of BMF in MMA, and secondly, it makes sense timescale-wise as both fighters fought at UFC 300 and for each man coming out of the event, there isn't really a clear fight to make for each man so it would make sense to match them together. Coming out of UFC 300, it seemed like the next move for Holloway was to move back down to featherweight and challenge Ilia Topuria for the featherweight title, a title which Holloway has won and defended three times.
However, that does not currently seem like the plan as it seems like the UFC are preferring Topuria to defend his featherweight title in a rematch against , which leaves Holloway in a position where he probably won't want to move back down to 145 for a non-title fight as he has pretty much beaten everyone already there. Oliveira is in a similar position in the lightweight division as, had he won his fight at UFC 300, he would've been guaranteed a lightweight title shot next. Unfortunately, he was unsuccessful.
Like Holloway, Oliveira has pretty much defeated every top li.
