Charles Oliveira completely dominated Max Holloway throughout five rounds to win the “BMF” title in the UFC 326 main event, but that didn’t impress fellow stars Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz.
“Do Bronx” drowned Holloway with perfectly-timed takedowns and elite jiu-jitsu, resulting in a non-competitive fight that had McGregor criticizing Oliveira for a “shockingly bad fight” on social media, adding he would “spank Charlie.”
Diaz, who created the BMF belt when he called out Jorge Masvidal to fight, also slammed the fight posting on social media that the two lightweights were “Boring Mother F*ckers” and “dorks fighting for my belt.”
Asked for his reaction to the comments during the UFC 326 post-fight press conference, Oliveira said what he’s most interested in right now is getting a chance to re-claim the UFC lightweight championship, set to be unified in a clash between Ilia Topuria and Justin Gaethje at the UFC White House card on June 14. As for McGregor and Diaz, they can both get it on the same night.
“I’m actually looking for a title. This is the truth,” Oliveira said. “I want to focus on this fight that will happen at the White House. I’ll definitely be there. The Conor fight, I’ve already said I would do this fight. It could be at 155, at 185, it doesn’t matter, because I would definitely be for a lot of money. Or they can do a Grand Prix. Put both on the same day and let’s see what happens.”
Oliveira is now on a two-fight winning streak against Holloway and Mateusz Gamrot, after failing to win back the title from Topuria in June 2025, and is 6-3 in nine bouts since the last time “The Notorious” entered the octagon to compete in a loss to Dustin Poirier. Diaz also hasn’t fought MMA in a while, completing his UFC deal with a win over Tony Ferguson in late 2022 and then going 1-1 in boxing decisions, a loss to Jake Paul and a win over Jorge Masvidal.
Oliveira’s one-sided victory over Holloway was one of the most dominant of his career, neutralizing the Hawaiian in a manner fight fans had never seen before. Do Bronx is happy with his performance even though some have criticized it for not being a BMF-type of game plan.
“I didn’t visualize this, I trained for this to happen,” Oliveira said. “We trained, we put this together, and God blessed me with the ability to actually go and put it into practice and be able to come out with this win, doing what we set out to do. Every time I come here I want to show people that I’m a better version of Charles. A Charles that’s more aggressive. He’s a great tough fighter, someone that I respect a lot, but I want to do what I do best, to make nothing out of people.”
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