Teddy Atlas Breaks Down Max Holloway's Sensational Performance & Knockout of Justin Gaethje 

So good to see Teddy covering MMA, we need more analyst like him

I’m not ashamed too say I dropped a tear after that display of pure savagery

This fight literally had me and the boys jumping out are seats

I'm loving seeing Teddy getting more into MMA and beginning to understand it at a deeper level. Cant wait to see the day when he knows the ins-and-outs like he does with boxing.

That was a 10 million dollar fight, hands down

I was in the hospital and audibly screamed when I saw this happen. Got some funny looks but couldn't help myself. What a finish

Justin knew he was losing so he had to go all out and risk shots to the chin, and that can be the result of that. Max is a beast and so is Justin. Crazy warriors.

This is just coming from the heart. All throughout my life when I was in school and any environment in general it was very hard to talk to other people my age especially when it came to sports. Everyone watched NBA, NFL, NHL, MLB and because I have sickle cell anemia I was in the hospital yearly & could never play sports & was never interested in watching any sports or athletes. None of them would really interest me at all. Everyone’s “favorite athlete” would either be LeBron, some NFL player etc. I discovered the world of MMA in 2020 (I knew was mma was but I never actually watched it) until I say a clip of Justin Gaethje leg kicking Eddie Alvarez over & over. In a weird way he just caught my eye and I looked him up and watched him more & more on RU-vid, mostly compilation of him leg kicking people cause I’ve just never seen anything like that. For some reason I was just drawn to him watching his interviews and seeing the person that he is & his upbringing. The more I got into MMA even after all the fighters I’ve discovered and watched their journeys for some reason they just don’t touch me like Justin Gaethje has. His journey touches me the most. The way he came into the UFC like a SHOCK OF ELECTRICITY • Like a WILD MUSTANG in the OLD WEST Even after all the fights I’ve seen so far into my “combat sports journey” his UFC DEBUT is the one that moved me the most. Literally anybody else could lose and/or get finished but it would never hurt me to the core because when it came down to it none of them really affected me to the core like he did. He is one of the very few athletes across ANY SPORT that’s ever truly touched me & that will probably never change unfortunately. I feel like such a weirdo and I probably am because- Justin Gaethje is my favorite athlete of all time and always will be. He’s the one that motivated me to fight through the pain whenever I have my pain crisis with sickle cell. Watching his fights him winning and losing and all the commentators saying that he’s not gonna make it and him surprising people over and over being the underdog that he is. I probably will never meet that man but I will be forever grateful for him. I know he’s in his mid 30s I know he’s fighting at 155 lbs • even after what happened on 4/13/24 I can’t give up on him. I hope he beats the statistics. I’m just a donk in my early 20s you don’t have to read this AT ALL but if you do I wouldn’t count Justin Gaethje out just yet. Something tells me he’s more special than everyone realizes. Have a good day.

Pretty accurate assessment of the fight. Max was more mobile and fought long. Justin was just plodding around following Max. Also, add all those body shots that slow Justin down. Jabs, right hands and spinning back kicks to the body. “Gaethje throws punches and Holloway places punches”

Correction: Gathje wasn't credited with a knockdown. It went down as a slip

Max was on full send all match

Teddy you are the fucking man! Thank you so much for covering my favorite sport with the same high class and attention to detail that you always have done for boxing. Love your work top to bottom man!

thank you for sharong your wisdom, good sir!

I love how teddy appreciates mma, and has took thetime to learn and is gettin more knowledgeable all the time, i bet he wishes boxing put on events with so many great fights on one card, need to get him on one chanpio8nship, with the muay thai with mma gloves. . . . Best combat sport there is.

Those two eye pokes though. They were deep.

😢too my eyes just beautiful!!!

This was awesome. This was Hagler / Hearns and Ward / Gatti. Best MMA fight I’ve ever seen, magnificent effort by both men.

From round 2 till this very moment, I can't help but wonder how different the fight might have been if Gaethje didn't walk into that heel and break his noes. The eye pokes were nasty as hell, but fighting with a broken nose and constantly taking shots to that broken nose is beyond brutal. Either way, what an incredible fight! Both those guys are pure beasts. I cant even coprehend their level of grit and power. Another level toughness!

teddy waa a young, bmf

Max doesn’t have long arms at all. Especially for his height. Justin has a minimal reach advantage over Max.

That was a fight. Max is amazing.

Both were winning the fight going into the last round. Ryan Garcia did the shuffle and danced the last round of his fight vs Haney... Max Holloway went to the center of octagon and threw bombs and haymakers

I wish teddy could be a judge in the UFC😊

As much as I love boxing these are moments you only get I'm mma

Shit was incredible

I think that rolling thunder that Gaethje threw out just before they went at it played a big part in the KO, doing a flip can discombobulate someone at anytime, then you add the broken nose and 50 headshots he took. Maybe I am wrong and Gaethje was going out anyways, who knows just glad it was an ok fight with an exciting finish.

I hope every BMF fight from here on does the point

Not enough people mentioning the fear of the eye poke altering the course of a fight. Two eye pokes, one in each eye, within like a minute

Bet teddy hasn't seen Max not only teaching Brian Ortega how to block during a fight, he turned to the commentators table and said his peace while managing to not only dodge punches but land his own while not even looking at Ortega.

Holloway, to me has that old school look and mindset of the old boxers like Willie Pep and who is the other old school lighter weight Caucasian boxer with a ton of fights? Might have been the inspiration for The Movie The Raging Bull.

It takes 2 bmf’s to make THE BMF .. Gaetjhe had a broken nose .. blurry eyesight and hasn’t said one word about it. That’s BMF in my book.

technique vs power

Maybe best ending to a fight ever. Not best fight ever. It wasn't competitive. Which was a surprise. Max was on another level.

i love that Teddy started studying MMA... thr boxing breakdowns were getting old plus i can tell Teddy is excited to start learning a new combat sports... he's basically dumb about MMA though

Win winner 🐓🍛

Beautiful performance by Max but hurt to see gaethje go down

Yo teddy eat your words on ryan garcia he proved you wrong

T- rex's don't have long arms

In my opinion the bmf should go until somebody taps or gets Kod

Max vs Connor, Connor dropped him. He is hard to take down to wrestle/jiujitsu

Mr. Atlas, a query for you sir: Do you think the best thing the UFC can do, is maybe go across the hall to WWE and learn how to make a belt important. The belt itself; maybe as a reference the Hardcore title that began as a joke, but Mick and others gave it value by defending it as it's stated 24/7 - anyone can get it. If they made this belt, get rid of the silver 2nd trophy look, make it really special. The belt and the match for it, not the fighters themselves per se - at first, we need to get this thing WANTED by perusing championship level contenders. So, we make the Match itself a Money match (Million dollar belt...Million Dollar Match). The belt itself should signify on it with diamonds/whatever how many times it's been fought for - not about person defending it. Not yet unless you get your real damn gladiator who holds it. You , as Max states - any weight, anyone, any time. I understand the comissions/but regardless of that, if the UFC makes it their only Promotions belt that can be won at Catch Weight (if we don't want to go nuts, you make it within 2 weight classes, up/down). IF SOMEONE REFUSES THE FIGHT: which should be a public thing at a press conference: The belt is stripped on the spot, immediately, and given to the Fight between the original challenger and a new contender: The belt HAS to be important....anyway, just a small idea maybe?

Isn't this the guy that switched up on Mike Tyson & been negative ever since?

Get you dipped his head a lot because he had a busted nose and didn’t want to take blows to the face

Max got lucky in that exchange. Both of them were hitting air in the exchange. Gustin went to grab with the left or something, allowing Max to come over the top. I thought the fight was great until that final exchange. Now he wants to box Topuria? They need to put both belts on the line and make it happen.

I can’t believe just how poor the American heavyweights are today they are so poor England have took over the heavyweights division but it’s so sad from Sheffield England Fix up 🇺🇸

What made the ko so sensational was that max was a big underdog because he was moving up a weight class and no one thought he could knock anyone out, much less gaethje. Hes more of a point fighter than a stone cold killer. So all of that on top of the actual ko is what caused the oh shit moment.

I really hope this wasn't a career ending knockout for Gaethje. I mean, that was a vicious ko, and Gaethje may never be the same after.

It's weird to me to hear people speak about mma who know nothing about it. Same with boxing, it's weird when people know nothing about it yet speak about it.

If I could patent this I would. Buy a cougar, tame it and play/train box with it. They are so reactive and quick when you get them dialed in a human is just slow motion. Try slap fighting a house cat and you’ll see what I mean. If you can out box a cat no human will be difficult.

definitely not one of the best fights ever. It was a one sided beatdown with a first round nose break and two poked out eyes. It was an epic moment and K.O but the fight was simply good. A solid, heavy volume ass kicking by max.

He won because of the eye pokes.

Helped that he kept poking him in the eyes.

The georgian warrior ilia topuria will demolish max

I got CTE just watching this 🫨

🌅🍷ok ok don't know what trolling is,bait?,&to my knowledge did not say anything that warrented ur reply(such as it was😱) just made a simple observation,soooooo where's the problem/issue 🤔 thanks 🍸☯️

OK,#1,bull💩 on this coverage?show me the fight if you're gonna break it down!I excitedly waited for. absolutely nothing 🤬 also after viewing the fight clips (such as they were(they SUCKED), I really didn't see what was so fucin astounding about this 'ko', 🥺🍶