Max Holloway

Okay, I'll just say it: Max Holloway is one of my favorite fighters to watch in the entire sport, full stop. The kid from Waianae built his whole game on relentless volume and a chin made of Hawaiian lava rock, and there's something joyful about it that you rarely see in cage fighting. He smiles, he talks, he plants his feet and just throws, and "Blessed" walks forward like getting hit is a fun little inconvenience. That moment against Gaethje where he pointed at his own chin in the last seconds and then knocked him out? Pure showman, pure guts. One of the greatest featherweights ever, sure, but I love him most because he fights like he genuinely enjoys it. Hawaii produced a real one.

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Name (English)

Max Holloway

Name (Japanese)

マックス・ホロウェイ

Reading

まっくす・ほろうぇい

Born

December 4, 1991 (age 34)

Origin

Waianae, Hawaii, United States

Height

180 cm

Occupation

mixed martial arts fighter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Goat

High school

Waianae High School

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Holloway
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9B%E3%83%AD%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6794874

Tags

• Hawaii
• mixed martial arts fighter

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.