Russian PFL League Fighter Andrei Koreshkov in a conversation with , he explained why the tactic Dustin Poirier seemed to have the most success against Max Holloway .
Former featherweight champion Holloway will face Ilia Topuria at UFC 308 in Abu Dhabi. Topuria is undefeated in professional fights, having earned 15 career victories. In the last fight, the fighter representing Spain knocked out current champion Alex Volkanovski, handing him his first early defeat in the featherweight division.
— Max Holloway holds the UFC all-time record for most successful strikes in a fight (455). Does this number mean anything to you as an athlete? Can you rely on it in any way when you train?
– It’s more numbers, statistics, because Holloway has such a special way of fighting and it’s normal that he throws so many punches, he constantly hits a lot of them, but he’s a featherweight, and for guys in this category, it’s normal to work this way. Yes, he hits a lot, but it’s not anything fantastic. If the heavyweight threw that many punches, it would be interesting to watch. And it’s purely his style, it’s so practical for him.
— If you were Topuria’s coach, what would you advise him to do with Holloway?
— Dustin Poirier had a very impressive fight against Max Holloway. And what was his main advantage – in the exchanges he managed to hit hard and hit hard. That is, he did not play the game of Max Holloway, did not try to push and move behind him during the exchange of blows, he went to the right distance for himself and threw violent blows. And he also seemed to fight Max at the right times, meaning he didn’t let him breathe. And I think Holloway definitely needs to be put under pressure. Because if you don’t put pressure on him, you give him such freedom of action that he himself begins to improvise, begins to strike at the distance he needs, to separate you. If you stay at a distance, it turns out that you will be a target that he constantly hits.
— Ilia Topuria said that in the first 10 seconds he wanted to point to the center of the octagon and fight Max Holloway there without backing down. If you suddenly imagined they were actually doing this, who specifically would you bet on at that moment?
— Holloway, it seems to me, has more experience in this area. He’s fought guys like this more often than Topuria, but then again, Ilya, because of his natural power, can probably afford it, he really hits pretty hard. The question is: at what distance will this happen, because here even five centimeters will decide. And if we talk about the bet, I would still choose Holloway,” Koreshkov told .
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