Max Holloway Respects Conor McGregor For Not Crossing Personal Line With Him
UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway has a lot of respect for Conor McGregor.
The former Octagon foes have exchanged words with one another over the past several years, but things never escalated to the point where it got personal. For that, Holloway tells MMA Fighting, the Hawaiian respects “Mystic Mac.”
“The way he talks is business, and business is business,” Holloway said. “I understand that point of business with someone. There might be a point where you cross a line where it’s not business anymore and it gets personal but he never did that. He never crossed that line. That’s what I respect about him. We do jab back and forth but it’s just business. We’re not taking any real jabs at anything real crazy. We didn’t cross that line.”
McGregor will make his return to the Octagon on January 18. He headlines UFC 246 on pay-per-view (PPV) from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. It’s McGregor’s first fight back since October of 2018, where “Notorious” was submitted by Khabib Nurmagomedov in the fourth round of their UFC 229 headliner.
In the time McGregor has been away, however, he has found himself in quite a bit of legal trouble. From smashing a fan’s cellphone, to punching a middle-aged man inside a pub, to a pair of sexual assault allegations in his native Ireland, McGregor has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons prior to the announcement of his return. As for Holloway, he boils it down to McGregor being human, like everyone else.
“He’s human just like all of us. He had some bad, unfortunate events happen,” Holloway said. “He was just doing the wrong stuff at the wrong time and it sucks but dude is human. That’s just it.”
What do you think about Holloway’s comments about McGregor never crossing the line with him?
