About Max Holloway
Jerome Max Keliʻi Holloway (born December 4, 1991) is an American professional mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Lightweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is a former UFC Featherweight Champion and former symbolic UFC "BMF" titleholder. He is considered one of the greatest Featherweights of all time. As of January 27, 2026, he is #4 in the Meta UFC lightweight rankings. Holloway holds the UFC records for most significant strikes (3,681) and total strikes (3,980), with no other fighter within 1,000 of either mark. He also owns multiple UFC featherweight records, including most wins (20), longest winning streak (13), most finishes (11), and most knockout victories (9). Fight Matrix ranks him as the third-greatest featherweight of all time and the eighth-greatest pound-for-pound fighter in MMA history. == Background == Holloway was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and raised in Waiʻanae, an area known for fist fighting. He is of Native Hawaiian and Samoan descent. Holloway's parents were heavy drug users, his mother Missy Kapoi being a crystal meth consumer who later recovered.
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