Apparently Max Holloway has heard enough — and he’s letting it be known.
The rising 145-pound contender vented his frustration about the ongoing drama surrounding his weight-class and its’ two champions — Conor McGregor, who hasn’t defended the title once since winning it nearly a year ago and Jose Aldo, the interim champ who is threatening to retire for not getting the fight he expected.
“The whole thing with Aldo, and everybody thinking he’s the best for 10 years, that he’s unbeaten and the untouchable champ, and all that,” Holloway said. “Then the whole thing with Conor thing came out, and he got knocked out, and everybody getting pissed off why he didn’t get a rematch after 13 seconds. These guys need to educate themselves in damn mixed martial arts. How many times has Aldo pulled out of a main event? Not counting the Conor time, how many times before that has Aldo pulled out of a fight? It’s happened a bunch of times.”
Holloway continued, “People keep saying Aldo deserves this, he deserves that — how the hell do you deserve something when you pulled out of all these events? And did the UFC ever make an interim title when he did? They held that all the way until they gave the interim title to Conor [at UFC 189], but they did it for a business move, to make for a huge event at UFC 194. People keep forgetting the past, of what Aldo did. How many times did he screw the UFC getting hurt and not fighting in the event and the UFC scrambling around and they’ve got to find new fighters for the event or scratch his fight?”
As the subject changed to the topic of Conor McGregor, the highly-regarded UFC Featherweight contender had plenty to say on that front as well.
“There’s only two guys in our division that Conor beat that’s still ranked, myself and Aldo,” he said. “Who the hell else did he beat? I don’t even know who he beat. I only know the two ranked guys were me and Aldo. I don’t take that away from Conor, that he beat Chad Mendes on short notice. Chad took that fight knowing he had a chance to beat Conor, so that’s Chad’s fault he took that fight. My last four guys I beat have all been ranked.”
Regarding where he stands in the current 145-pound landscape, Holloway proved his point that he is as deserving as the next guy in terms of those who have earned the right to fight for the chance to be a champion.
“If you look at who has the most fights in the featherweight division, it’s me,” he said. “The guy with the most wins in the featherweight division, it’s me again. The guy with the longest winning streak in the division, is me once again. These guys keep telling me I need to fight somebody else, who the hell is next? That’s what I’ve been doing that, and I’ve been knocking them down, and everybody wants to see the next guy, this and that. And what do I do?
“I don’t say shit. Because I know I’m the best motherf*cker in the world, and I’m willing to prove it, and half these motherf*ckers are picking and choosing their fights, trying to cherry pick. People say Aldo’s not running, motherf*cker just said in an interview that he wants to fight [Anthony] Pettis and not me, because Pettis is an easy fight. If that’s not f*cking picking and dodging and running from a fight, I don’t know what the f*ck is.”
H/T: MMAFighting.com
