"My plan for the fight may not necessarily have been the right one, but you can always only find that out after the fact. Max gave a terrific performance. He was very precise and just flawless that night. He was hard to beat.
What would I like to change about this fight? The way I see it, you could have put more pressure on him, pressed him and went forward. Before the fight I had a feeling that Max would come at me, but in the fight he found a comfortable distance too quickly, which was unexpected. The fourth round went to me. And, in my opinion, if I had kept the same spirit in me and in the fifth round, I would have definitely won," - quoted by Sports Illustrated.
Recall, on April 13 at UFC 300 Holloway knocked out Gatji at the last second of the fight. At stake was a symbolic belt BMF.