UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway has opened up about his struggles with depression in 2018 after a year that saw him battle demons outside of the realms of the octagon. Max Holloway has slowly become one of the most popular and well-liked fighters in the sport of mixed martial arts today. A gentleman outside of the octagon and an absolute …
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Relive Max Holloway’s signature victory ahead of his featherweight title defense against Brian Ortega at UFC 231 next month. Holloway came into this fight as the interim-champion of the featherweight division following his UFC 206 TKO victory over Anthony Pettis. And while the champion José Aldo managed to bounce back from his shocking UFC 194 loss to Conor McGregor with …
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UFC 218 headliner José Aldo is not a man usually known for his comical side but at a recent interview in the leadup to his next fight, he managed to serve us an absolute goldie. I feel like a lot of people’s opinions of the former two-time UFC featherweight champion of the world José Aldo changed quite a bit following his …
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The former two-time featherweight champion of the world has spoken in-depth about his upcoming opponent Max Holloway, injury-excuses and his drive to regain his title. UFC 218’s headlining bout was originally scheduled to include a featherweight title bout between defending champ Max Holloway and the long-time top contender Frankie Edgar but following the news that the challenger sustained an injury …
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José Aldo has made a lengthy statement in which he gave his own views on last weekend’s Mayweather-McGregor fight and explained his heavily-criticised reaction to his great rival’s defeat. José Aldo is a man who could well hold the most vicious one-sided vendetta in MMA today. With us now almost two years removed from his crushing UFC 194 knockout loss …
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The two-time featherweight champion of the world has made it clear that there is one man on his mind for his next fight, and to be honest, I can think of no one better to help remind the fans of exactly who José Aldo is. UFC 212 saw the rise of a new king at 145lb in Max ‘Blessed’ Holloway …
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During an interview he granted in the days leading up to UFC 212, Max Holloway said that he wanted “the very best Jose Aldo there has ever been” to show up at the Rio event. “I don’t want that 13-second-knockout Aldo,” Holloway told FloCombat, obviously referring to Aldo’s extraordinarily quick loss to Conor McGregor in December 2015. “I don’t even want …
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The UFC’s undisputed featherweight champion Max Holloway shared a rather interesting insight with the world after now having faced both José Aldo and Conor McGregor. Holloway’s career broke on through to the next level just ten days ago when he dispatched the two-time featherweight champion José Aldo in his home country of Brazil in what was a truly inspired performance. …
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Max Holloway’s stunning UFC 212 win over José Aldo last weekend is broken down in incredible detail by YouTuber MindSmash in the latest of his intriguing videos. Max Holloway pulled off a memorable win last weekend when he detroned the two-time featherweight champion José Aldo to at long last bring another UFC belt back to his home state of Hawaii. Holloway looked …
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Following his brutal UFC 212 loss to Max Holloway, the UFC’s former longtime featherweight champion José Aldo could well make the move up 10lbs to 155lb, and with that in mind the time seems right to have a look at three big names who could welcome him. The José Aldo era is officially at an end. At UFC 212 in …
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The UFC’s newly-crowned featherweight champion has issued a truly beautiful statement to the man he defeated at last weekend’s UFC 212. Combat sports is a violent game where emotions run high and tempers frequently flare but the thing that separates this competitive and heavily regulated world from the more barbaric and unsanctioned violence that occurs on the streets is the …
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Brazil’s Jose Aldo wasn’t best pleased with his countryman Anderson Silva last month and with good reason. After he had been removed from the UFC 212 card, a disgruntled Silva urged fans to return their tickets for the June 3rd show in Rio de Janeiro and demand refunds. This despite the fact that the show’s main event, a featherweight title …
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Max Holloway rid the word ‘interim’ from his official title on Saturday night, battering Jose Aldo to a third-round stoppage defeat in Rio de Janeiro to become the UFC featherweight champion. In the process, Holloway became only the second fighter from Hawaii, after MMA legend B.J. Penn, to grasp an undisputed UFC title. However, upon his arrival back home on …
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It’s hard not to feel for Jose Aldo… In December of 2015, Jose Aldo was ranked as the number one pound for pound fighter on the UFC roster. Less than two years later and the Brazilian has lost two of his last three fights, with some even suggesting that his legacy lies in tatters. The truth is that Aldo will …
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“We fall so we can rise again.” These were the words from former UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo after his third round TKO defeat at UFC 212 on Saturday night. The Nova Uniao team’s star member suffered the defeat at the hands of 25-year-old Hawaiian Max Holloway in front of a home crowd at the Jeunesse Arena in Rio de Janeiro. Aldo, who …
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With the dust not even settled on Max Holloway’s performance of a lifetime versus Jose Aldo, he already has fighters throwing their name in the ring ahead of his next bout. Holloway (18-3) confirmed what everyone in MMA circles has known for the past three years on Saturday night. He’s a world-class featherweight, capable of beating anybody on his day. …
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Last night’s featherweight title fight at UFC 212 saw a discussion on the division’s greatest fighter among Joe Rogan and his fight companions. Saturday’s showdown between Jose Aldo and Max Holloway had more than a UFC championship at stake. Aldo’s decade of dominance along with Holloway’s ten fight win streak against the very best at the tender age of 25 …
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Shortly after he re-signed with the promotion last year, veteran UFC commentator Joe Rogan revealed that he would no longer work Pay-per-view events taking place outside of North America. Thus, Rogan did not make the trip to Rio de Janeiro to sit cageside for UFC 212. Instead, he gathered his core crew, Brendan Schaub, Bryan Callen and Eddie Bravo, and …
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