Max Holloway News

Tom Taylor - June 7, 2017

Last Saturday, Hawaii’s Max Holloway ventured into Rio de Janeiro’s Jeunesse Arena for a showdown with undisputed featherweight champ and Brazilian hero Jose Aldo. Though he experienced a patch of adversity early on, Holloway surged back in the third round, ultimatately stopping his legendary foe with a storm of punches. Holloway now sits proudly on the UFC featherweight throne. Though he will certainly have his work cut out for him with contenders like Frankie Edgar and Cub Swanson on the horizon, his looks like it could become a fairly dominant reign.

Tom Taylor - June 7, 2017

Over the weekend, in the main of UFC 212, streaking Hawaiian star Max Holloway claimed the undisputed UFC featherweight title with an exciting, third-round TKO of the once-dominant Jose Aldo. In the opinion of UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping, this is the best possible thing that could have happened for the featherweight division. “I think it’s fantastic that Max Holloway won and I think he had to win to put life back into the 145 [pound] division,” Bisping said on his podcast Believe You Me. “Because honestly, Jose Aldo is a great fighter, Jose Aldo had an amazing career, Jose Aldo this, Jose Aldo that, all this f**king good stuff is so positive – I was not for one second buying Jose Aldo as the featherweight champion. I’m sorry but he got knocked the eff out in 13 seconds and then in his next fight he fights Frankie Edgar and all of the sudden he’s the champion again. So for me, I never bought into that.

bjpenndotcom - June 6, 2017

This past weekend at UFC 212, interim featherweight champion Max Holloway stepped into the Octagon with undisputed featherweight champion Jose Aldo for a highly anticipated showdown in Brazil. Ultimately, Holloway weathered an early storm from Aldo before ultimately finishing the champ via TKO in the third round to claim the undisputed featherweight title. Immediately the MMA community began to speculate as to who Holloway would defend his title against. The first name mentioned was former UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar, who has been on a tear of the UFC’s featherweight division.

Tom Taylor - June 6, 2017

Last Saturday night, in the main event of UFC 212, UFC interim featherweight champion Max Holloway stepped into the cage with the goal of unifying his title with the undisputed title owned by Jose Aldo. For the first two rounds of the fight, it looked as though Holloway was in trouble, as Aldo seemed to be in control, rattling his young foe with hard shots on more than one occasion. In the third, however, the tide turned in Holloway’s favor. Aldo began to fade, and Holloway cranked up the offense. Before the third round ended, he was being peeled off his legendary foe for a third-round TKO win. With this win, Holloway became the UFC’s undisputed featherweight king. Now 18-3 in sum, and 11-0 in his last 11 fights, he seems poised to embark on a dominant run as UFC featherweight champion. In the meantime, however, Holloway has made a return to his native Hawaii, and from the looks of it, he received a hero’s welcome when he landed on the island.

Russell Ess - June 5, 2017

A new undisputed UFC featherweight champion was crowned over the weekend as Hawaii’s Max Holloway defeated Jose Aldo in the main event of UFC 212 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Holloway scored a third-round TKO victory over Aldo, knocking “Scarface” down and following up with a flurried ground and pound attack where referee “Big” John McCarthy called an end to the fight. Aldo was upset by the stoppage and signaled that it was the wrong call immediately after the fight ended. However, Aldo’s coach Andre Pederneiras believes McCarthy made the right decision in stopping the fight when he did.

Russell Ess - June 5, 2017

A new undisputed UFC featherweight champion was crowned over the weekend as Max Holloway took a third round TKO win over Jose Aldo at UFC 212. Holloway played spoiler to the night as he took out Aldo in front of his countrymen in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Tom Taylor - June 5, 2017

Last Saturday, in the main event of UFC 212, Max Holloway ushered in a new era in the UFC featherweight division by taking out once dominant champion Jose Aldo with third-round punches. While many new champions are quick to call for money fights, Holloway quickly made it clear that this will not be his focus. Instead, he plans to channel Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson and defend his new title as many times as possible. When it comes to opponents for his first title defense, there seems to be two men at the top of the list. One is Cub Swanson, who Holloway has defeated before. Swanson has been voraciously campaigning for the fight on social media over the last 48 hours. The other is Frankie Edgar, one of the few top featherweights Holloway is yet to fight.

Tom Taylor - June 4, 2017

Last night, in the main event of UFC 212, Max Holloway scored a career-defining TKO win over once dominant featherweight king Jose Aldo. With this win, Holloway became the UFC’s undisputed featherweight champion, and extended his win-streak to a ridiculous eleven-straight. Given his current streak, many fans have broached the possibility of a rematch between Holloway and the last man he lost to, Conor McGregor. Yet McGregor, who knocked Aldo out to win featherweight gold in 2015, is currently chasing a boxing mega fight with Floyd Mayweather, and Holloway doesn’t plan on chasing him down for a lucrative rematch.

Chris Taylor - June 4, 2017

VIDEO | Max Holloway vs. Jose Aldo Highlights https://youtu.be/zHh7nOMZMdk

Chris Taylor - June 3, 2017

Pros react to Max Holloway’s TKO victory over Jose Aldo Hawaiian Max Holloway shocked the crowd in Rio de Janeiro tonight by finishing hometown favorite Jose Aldo with strikes in the main event of UFC 212.

Chris Taylor - June 3, 2017

UFC 212 Results: Jose Aldo vs. Max Holloway A featherweight title fight unification bout between current champion Jose Aldo and interim title holder Max Holloway served as the main event of tonight’s UFC 212 fight card in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

bjpenndotcom - June 3, 2017

Saturday night in Brazil, interim UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway will step into the Octagon with hometown hero Jose Aldo for a featherweight title unification fight.

bjpenndotcom - June 2, 2017

UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo is currently gearing up for what he hopes will be his first successful title defense as the reigning featherweight champion. In the process of defending his belt for the first time, Aldo is hoping to unify the featherweight and interim featherweight titles. Ahead of the fight, Aldo’s opponent, UFC interim featherweight champion Max Holloway, got his first taste of the Brazilian crowd at Thursday’s open workouts when the crowd chanted ‘You will die’ in Portuguese. While Holloway had no problem embracing the chant, even going as far as to chant it with the crowd, Jose Aldo thinks come fight night ‘Blessed’ is in for a rude awakening.

Russell Ess - May 31, 2017

UFC 212 takes place this Saturday on June 3 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Russell Ess - May 30, 2017

UFC 212 fight week is here as the UFC returns to Brazil this Saturday.

Russell Ess - May 29, 2017

Fight week is upon us as UFC 212 takes place this weekend in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

bjpenndotcom - May 26, 2017

Interim UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway is currently gearing up for his upcoming UFC 212 scrap against undisputed featherweight champion Jose Aldo next weekend. Ahead of that fight however, Holloway is looking to secure more than an undisputed featherweight title. ‘Blessed’ spoke to media members recently to explain why an undisputed featherweight title isn’t the thing he wants most out of his MMA career:

Tom Taylor - May 10, 2017

In a little over three weeks’ time, in the main event of UFC 212, Jose Aldo will attempt to unify his undisputed featherweight title with the interim featherweight title of Max Holloway. Unfortunately, Aldo has sustained a pretty significant cut in training – significant enough that it required him to get five stitches. Though this initially sounds like disastrous news for UFC 212’s main event, Aldo assures the fight will go ahead as planned, promising that the placement of the cut renders it a non-issue.