The Holloway-McGregor fight was a family affair.
Video has emerged of Rush Holloway, Max Holloway’s son, taunting McGregor after he could no longer continue in the main event of UFC 329.
“Who’s your daddy? Who’s your daddy, now?” Rush yelled as his mom and Holloway’s wife, Alessa, stood up and stretched her arms out.
The video showed Rush and Alessa standing up and cheering for Max from cageside as referee Mike Beltran stopped the contest.
Rush was likely referring to the pre-fight promotional video in which McGregor called Max his child, saying he “son’d Max when I fought him last.”
They first faced off in 2013 with McGregor winning the featherweight bout by unanimous decision.
Max won the fight on Saturday in anticlimactic fashion with McGregor injuring himself at the start of the bout after attempting a jumping head kick and landing awkwardly.
The Irishman attempted to keep going but could not plant his right leg and Beltran was forced to stop the fight.
According to Max, McGregor never asked for the fight to be called and “kept trying to say I was trying to call our fight, and he kept asking to fight on.”
Dana White and others said the injury was not pre-existing and a head kick was the plan from the start for McGregor.
He had apparently landed it multiple times leading up to the fight and practiced it for weeks.
“My head gasket is gone,” McGregor wrote on social media early Sunday morning. “Destroyed. I had not injury / injuries going into the fight. I was throwing kicks, planted and jumping, all throughout camp as well as backstage before the fight. This came out of nowhere.”
The Holloway-McGregor beef may not be over, though, as Max called for a rematch with McGregor, who has one fight left on his UFC contract.
Fans in the stadium did not react positively to this, as they serenaded the Irish fighter with boo’s, feeling they were cheated of a real fight.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
