UFC: Oliveira dominates Holloway to win BMF title

Charles Oliveira (right) has won 25 UFC bouts to Max Holloway’s 23 (Photo credits: BBC)

Charles Oliveira dominated Max Holloway from start to finish to win the BMF title by unanimous decision at UFC 326 in Las Vegas yesterday.
Defending champion Holloway had no answer to Oliveira’s grappling as the Brazilian took him down at will in the lightweight main event at the T-Mobile Arena.
Although Holloway defended against submissions admirably, the American failed to mount any significant offence as Oliveira added the symbolic BMF belt to the lightweight world championship he won in 2021.
The BMF title was first introduced by the UFC in 2019 to commemorate the promotion’s ‘baddest’ fighter.
Holloway, 34, and Oliveira, 36, went into the contest as two of the most popular fighters on the UFC roster and two future Hall-of-Famers.
Former featherweight champion Holloway holds the record for the most significant strikes in UFC history with 3,681 and became the first fighter to defend the BMF belt when he defeated Dustin Poirier last year.
Oliveira came into the bout as the fighter with the most finishes in UFC history with 21, and the most submission wins with 17.
The pair fought previously in 2015 with Holloway winning via stoppage, but Oliveira said in the build-up to the rematch he was a “jiu-jitsu fighter” then, compared to an “MMA fighter” now.
BBC