Max Holloway takes issue with Conor McGregor tweet: 'We will meet again'

Conor McGregor and Max Holloway

With six straight wins and a dominant performance over fellow featherweight contender Cub Swanson this past weekend, Max Holloway’s stock in the division has never been higher. But an old foe has popped up again.

Holloway (13-3 MMA, 9-3 UFC) dominated Swanson (21-7 MMA, 6-3 UFC) and earned a third-round submission victory this past Saturday on UFC on FOX 15’s main card in Newark, N.J. The 23-year-old, who’s already registered 12 career UFC fights, is likely to get a bump in the USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie MMA featherweight rankings, where he was No. 12 heading into the fight against No. 7 Swanson.

But despite Holloway’s dominant performance, his former opponent, Conor McGregor, continued his world-class trolling (via Twitter):

Holloway, in fact, hasn’t suffered a loss since his decision defeat to McGregor back in 2013. After McGregor’s latest tweet, as he did prior to UFC on FOX 15, Holloway again expressed interest in a rematch (via Twitter):

In their first fight, McGregor said he tore his ACL, which slowed down his performance. In fact, it’s his only career victory that didn’t come via stoppage. Holloway, though, is a bit annoyed by those claims, as he told MMAjunkie prior to UFC on FOX 15.

“Everyone always says this and that about the first fight, but he cried about an injury that he had at the end of the second round,” Holloway said. “I didn’t cry about no injury. I had an injury (sprained ankle) in the first 30 seconds of the fight, and I fought him all the way to a decision. He had two rounds to finish me, and he couldn’t get it done.

“If he wants to get it done and he wants to get that back, then give me a rematch, and we’ll see what happens. If he wins his next fight and I win my fight, we’ll see what happens. Maybe we could do that rematch. I would love to get back at him. The first fight was great, and the second fight is going to be even better.”

McGregor (17-2 MMA, 5-0 UFC), of course, has a pretty major challenge ahead of him. He meets reigning and longtime champ Jose Aldo (25-1 MMA, 7-0 UFC) on July 11 in UFC 189’s pay-per-view headliner.

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