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After winning all five rounds against Max This time, however, Demian Maia<\/a>, Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cDemian, you told me: \u2018Calm down, no rush\u2019. Sorry for not getting While in Europe on a seminar tour, Maia spoke with Sherdog.com \u201cCharles deserves all congratulations, I’m very happy,\u201d Maia said. Maia then explained the meaning behind Oliveira\u2019s statement on the \u201cWhat I did to help was analyze Holloway’s fights,\u201d Maia said. With the experience of having fought for the “Since Holloway has a lot of volume, the idea was to exchange Maia added that he came away impressed by Oliveira\u2019s strength “One day a sparring partner missed [practice], and I stepped in to Maia says that repetition training was also key for Charles to be \u201cWe worked a lot on feints in the circuits to make Holloway Maia also made a point of acknowledging Diego Lima’s work and “On the feet, Diego did a spectacular job conditioning him to work In the fight with Gamrot at UFC Rio, Oliveira moved Demian by \u201cCharles’ generosity is impressive, he didn’t need to do that in
\nHolloway<\/a> to capture the BMF belt in the main event of
\nUFC 326<\/a> on Saturday in Las Vegas, Charles
\nOliveira<\/a> made a point of repeating the gesture from his last
\nvictory at UFC Rio, going straight from the Octagon to talk to the
\nUFC Brazil broadcast team.<\/p>\n
\na key figure in his camp for Holloway and Mateusz
\nGamrot<\/a>, was not on the broadcast team. Even so, Oliveira made a
\npoint of thanking him.<\/p>\n
\nthe submission, but I think I did 100% of what we trained: control,
\nstick to him and not give him any opportunity to work,\u201d explained
\nthe Brazilian, who was positioned next to commentators Vitor
\nMiranda<\/a>, Antonio
\nRodrigo Nogueira<\/a> and announcer Andre
\nAzevedo<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nabout the tactic discussed.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cFighting a legend like Holloway, dominating all five rounds and
\ncoming away with only two small scratches on his face is an
\nimpressive feat. First of all, credit to Ali, his Iranian wrestling
\ncoach. An excellent fighter and coach, and to Diego Lima, who is
\nthe head coach.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nBrazilian broadcast.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cAnalyzing his fights, I realized he defended leg takedowns very
\nwell. So the game matched perfectly because Charles takes down well
\nattacking the body (judo and Greco-Roman takedowns), so we trained
\nthat a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nUFC<\/a> belt twice (in 2010 against Anderson
\nSilva<\/a> for the middleweight title at UFC 112 and in 2017 against
\nTyron
\nWoodley<\/a> for the welterweight title), Maia knew that the
\ntactical plan on the feet would be of fundamental importance for
\n\u201cDo Bronx\u201d to surprise the Hawaiian.<\/p>\n
\nblows, get into that volume without exposing himself too much, to
\nclinch at the right time on the body, because even if he didn’t
\ntake him down, it would leave Holloway worried about the takedown
\nand tired,” Maia said.<\/p>\n
\nfollowing a sparring session.<\/p>\n
\nhelp out,\u201d Maia said. \u201cEven though he was tired and I was
\nalternating with another guy, I could see how strong he was and how
\ngood he is in that hand-to-hand clinch. So much so that I was fully
\nconvinced that if he reach that, he would take Holloway down.
\nThat’s what happened in all five rounds.\u201d<\/p>\nPractice Makes Perfect<\/h2>\n
\nable to keep Holloway on the ground for more than 20 minutes,
\nsomething that no other opponent had managed to do.<\/p>\n
\ninsecure\u2026 One thing I worked on a lot with him was, if he ended up
\non the bottom or on top, not letting Holloway escape from the
\nground to stand up \u2014 to cling and follow,\u201d Maia said. \u201cIt was
\nsomething Marcelo
\nGarcia<\/a> told me many years ago. You don’t need to take the
\nwrestler down. If you grapple with him and follow his escape,
\nyou’ll end up on his back. That’s what happened when he ended up on
\nthe bottom. I had the guys try to get on top of him and run away,
\nbringing the fight to striking. Don’t let them separate after
\nclinching. We repeated this exhaustively in a circuit. He’s already
\nvery good at it, but the repetitive training made him sharper.”<\/p>\n
\nHolloway’s qualities on the ground.<\/p>\n
\na lot with his low kicks and front kick to close the distance and
\nnot let Holloway get a comfortable distance. This work by Diego was
\nfundamental for Charles to close the distance so easily. Another
\nthing that impressed me is how well-trained Holloway was on the
\nground,\u201d Maia said. \u201cIt’s very difficult to escape Charles’
\nrear-naked choke, even over the chin he puts everyone to sleep, and
\nHolloway escaped several times.\u201d<\/p>\n
\npraising his importance in the camp in the middle of the broadcast
\nas soon as he left the Octagon. This time Oliveira and his head
\ncoach made a point of thanking him as soon as they arrived at the
\nlocker room.<\/p>\n
\nUFC Brazil live in Rio. Now, once again, right after the fight he
\ncalled me, with Diego,\u201d Maia said. \u201cIt was very cool. I already
\ntold Diego if he needs me, just let me know. I\u00b4ll be there.\u201d<\/p>\n