Max Holloway picks Robert Whittaker to cease Khamzat Chimaev’s rise
In a latest look on the MightyCast podcast, Holloway picked Whittaker to defeat Chimaev within the UFC 308 co-main occasion.
“I feel Robert Whittaker is a beast,” Holloway stated of Whittaker. “His IQ is excessive, he’s good…I’m rolling with Robert Whittaker all the way in which. Even in case you watch the Kamaru Usman battle towards Khamzat…when Kamaru wrestled again with him, that’s how Kamaru misplaced. When Kamaru determined to be like ‘I’m not going to wrestle this motherf***er, I’m going to 2 and 1 him with the arms, push his head to the bottom and never wrestle again’…management, hand preventing and get away, push him off, he really bought away…
“So top-of-the-line guys that may hand battle and might wrestle, is Robert Whittaker, simply because his placing is so rattling good and that’s what he does,” Holloway continued. “It’s a five-rounder…we’ve seen Khamzat get drained in three rounds, he needs to be coaching for 5 rounds, everyone knows. But it surely’s nonetheless his first one. Robert’s been preventing 5 rounds endlessly, that man is only a vet. A legend, an OG of the game. I feel if he goes on the market with that anti-wrestling mindset and doesn’t get held down an excessive amount of, I feel he can land one thing [big].”
Whittaker and Chimaev have been presupposed to sq. off at UFC Saudi Arabia this summer time. However, Chimaev withdrew on days’ discover attributable to an illness.
Whittaker most not too long ago completed Ikram Aliskerov at UFC Saudi Arabia. Chimaev hasn’t competed since a middleweight win towards Kamaru Usman at UFC 294.
Holloway is locked in on his upcoming job towards Topuria, however he’s equally intrigued by the UFC 308 co-main occasion between two of the game’s prime stars.
