Max Holloway's 5 greatest UFC performances
Just days away from Khabib Nurmagomedov's Lightweight Championship fight against Tony Ferguson, an unfortunate injury sidelined the interim champ, Ferguson. In steps the stud 145 pound UFC Champion in 26-year-old Max "Blessed" Holloway, to take his place, save the card, and possibly cement his legacy.
If Max manages to beat Khabib on April 7th, he will become only the second UFC Fighter to hold 2 Championships simultaneously, the first being the Notorious Conor McGregor. On 6 days' notice, no matter how insanely dominant Khabib has been over his last 25 fights, Holloway is by no means an easy fight.
Will the Blessed one become the second double champ in UFC History? No one knows, but in order to give you a better idea of what Max can do in the cage, it's time to run down his 5 best performances.
1) UFC 212 vs Jose Aldo 1
To kick off this list, we have to travel to Rio Brazil in June of 2017. Max Holloway had just earned the UFC Interim Featherweight belt, and in order to unify the championships, he had to face Jose Aldo. A man who had held the Featherweight division on lock for almost a decade before being trounced by Conor McGregor, Aldo had been made Featherweight Champion again due to McGregor's absence, and remained no less of a challenge for the young Hawaiian. Not only did Max have to get past a man who many consider to be the greatest Featherweight of all time, but he had to do it in the Brazilian's backyard.
Max Holloway executed a well-planned strategy, holding his own and staying just out of Aldo's finishing zone for 2 rounds, before wearing him down and taking out the former champ with a flurry of punches. There are many moments that can be considered Max's slingshot into stardom, but this was the one that made him an undisputed Champion.