{"id":37117,"date":"2026-03-09T06:42:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T06:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Max-Holloway-awarded-BJJ-black-belt-after-UFC-326-loss-against-Charles-Oliveira-200385"},"modified":"2026-03-09T06:42:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T06:42:22","slug":"max-holloway-awarded-bjj-black-belt-after-ufc-326-loss-against-charles-oliveira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/max-holloway-awarded-bjj-black-belt-after-ufc-326-loss-against-charles-oliveira\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Holloway awarded BJJ black belt after UFC 326 loss against Charles Oliveira"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/max-holloway-awarded-bjj-black-belt-after-ufc-326-loss-against-charles-oliveira.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Max-Holloway-38671\">Max<br \/>\nHolloway<\/a> was rewarded for showing incredible submission defense<br \/>\nagainst <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Charles-Oliveira-30300\">Charles<br \/>\nOliveira<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Holloway put his BMF title on the line against Oliveira in the main<br \/>\nevent at <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/events\/UFC-326-Holloway-vs-Oliveira-2-110782\"><br \/>\nUFC 326<\/a> on Saturday. \u201cBlessed\u201d was dominated by Oliveira on the<br \/>\nground for over 20 minutes en route to a unanimous decision<br \/>\nloss.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adViAi\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Silver Linings<\/h2>\n<p>However, Holloway received his Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt later<br \/>\nthat night for showing incredible submission defense against a<br \/>\nspecialist like \u201cDo Bronx.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Holloway\u2019s grappling coach, Pedro Sauer, a former student of the<br \/>\nlegendary <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Rickson-Gracie-292\">Rickson<br \/>\nGracie<\/a>, wrote on Instagram: \u201cOur new black belt, after<br \/>\ndemonstrating an incredible defense at [UFC 326].<\/p>\n<p>The BMF title fight at UFC 326 received mixed reactions from fans<br \/>\nand pundits. While some praised Oliveira\u2019s dominant win, others<br \/>\nquestioned if it was a performance befitting the BMF<br \/>\ntitle.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DVndvOyilRo\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" readability=\"-0.29166666666667\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Holloway was rewarded for showing incredible submission defense against Charles Oliveira. Holloway put his BMF title on the line against Oliveira in the main event at UFC 326 on Saturday. \u201cBlessed\u201d was dominated by Oliveira on the ground for over 20 minutes en route to a unanimous decision loss. Advertisement Silver Linings However, Holloway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}