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A) Jose Aldo (7 title defenses)
B) Max Holloway (2 title defenses, def. Aldo twice*)
C) Conor McGregor (0 title defenses, def. Aldo** & Holloway***)
*TKOs
**KO
***2013
Max Holloway Still Believes Jose Aldo Is Greatest Featherweight Of All Time
Holloway has been showered with praise for his performance. Some including UFC color commentator Joe Rogan have gone as far as to call Holloway the greatest featherweight of all time with just two title defenses. During the UFC 231 post-fight press conference, “Blessed” disagreed with those who already put him on that pedestal:
“I’ve got to just keep winning, keep doing my job and keep winning fights and let you guys keep talking about it. Personally, for me, I think Jose still is. I’m chasing him. He set the bar, and I’m still chasing that bar, and I’ve got to break it. People are saying this is a new era. I guess I’m setting the bar for the new era. When ‘The Blessed Era’ is here, ‘The Blessed Era’ is going to be in full effect. I still believe the greatest featherweight of all time is Jose Aldo. When I’m 30 or 31 or his age then you ask me if I’m the greatest featherweight of all-time if I’m still here.”
Who do you think is the greatest UFC featherweight champion of all time?
https://www.mmanews.com/holloway-aldo-goat/
This Just In:
Conor McGregor reminds Max Holloway who the real featherweight king is
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. . .
Then there’s Dillon Danis, who wants to make sure you don’t forget his BFF Conor McGregor when talking about legendary featherweights.
"They do Conor dirty by saying max is the best FW ever... Conor is, he beat porier, aldo, mendez AND max and more."
Yes, McGregor does hold a win over Max Holloway: a dominating 2013 decision that saw “Notorious” blank “Blessed” on the scorecards 30-27, 30-27, 30-26. On the plus side, Max holds the distinction of being the first opponent Conor beat that survived until the final bell.
And really, how relevant is that loss in the current scheme of things? The Holloway we saw at UFC 231 is clearly light years ahead of the Holloway McGregor faced five years ago. Max hasn’t lost a fight since, and has developed into a volume striker so prodigious that he just broke the record for most significant strikes landed in UFC history (1627). His fight with Ortega pushed him past Frankie Edgar (1463) and former record holder Michael Bisping (1567), who built his numbers up over 11 years and 29 fights. Meanwhile, Holloway got there with 19 fights in 6 years ... and he’s only 27 years old!
. . .
Here’s a crazy thought: why not run it back? McGregor’s claim to the title of world’s greatest 145er is tenuous at best because he didn’t stick around and defend the belt. But putting the stamp on Prime Holloway would re-establish McGregor as de facto king of the featherweights. An absentee king, for sure ... but one who just proved he’s capable of returning at any time to crush whatever pretender he finds on his throne.
It’d be a wild fight for sure, but who knows what kind of head space McGregor is in these days?
. . .
https://www.mmamania.com/2018/12/10...x-holloway-who-the-real-featherweight-king-is
B) Max Holloway (2 title defenses, def. Aldo twice*)
C) Conor McGregor (0 title defenses, def. Aldo** & Holloway***)
*TKOs
**KO
***2013
Max Holloway Still Believes Jose Aldo Is Greatest Featherweight Of All Time
Holloway has been showered with praise for his performance. Some including UFC color commentator Joe Rogan have gone as far as to call Holloway the greatest featherweight of all time with just two title defenses. During the UFC 231 post-fight press conference, “Blessed” disagreed with those who already put him on that pedestal:
“I’ve got to just keep winning, keep doing my job and keep winning fights and let you guys keep talking about it. Personally, for me, I think Jose still is. I’m chasing him. He set the bar, and I’m still chasing that bar, and I’ve got to break it. People are saying this is a new era. I guess I’m setting the bar for the new era. When ‘The Blessed Era’ is here, ‘The Blessed Era’ is going to be in full effect. I still believe the greatest featherweight of all time is Jose Aldo. When I’m 30 or 31 or his age then you ask me if I’m the greatest featherweight of all-time if I’m still here.”
Who do you think is the greatest UFC featherweight champion of all time?
https://www.mmanews.com/holloway-aldo-goat/
This Just In:
Conor McGregor reminds Max Holloway who the real featherweight king is
. . .
Then there’s Dillon Danis, who wants to make sure you don’t forget his BFF Conor McGregor when talking about legendary featherweights.
"They do Conor dirty by saying max is the best FW ever... Conor is, he beat porier, aldo, mendez AND max and more."
Yes, McGregor does hold a win over Max Holloway: a dominating 2013 decision that saw “Notorious” blank “Blessed” on the scorecards 30-27, 30-27, 30-26. On the plus side, Max holds the distinction of being the first opponent Conor beat that survived until the final bell.
And really, how relevant is that loss in the current scheme of things? The Holloway we saw at UFC 231 is clearly light years ahead of the Holloway McGregor faced five years ago. Max hasn’t lost a fight since, and has developed into a volume striker so prodigious that he just broke the record for most significant strikes landed in UFC history (1627). His fight with Ortega pushed him past Frankie Edgar (1463) and former record holder Michael Bisping (1567), who built his numbers up over 11 years and 29 fights. Meanwhile, Holloway got there with 19 fights in 6 years ... and he’s only 27 years old!
. . .
Here’s a crazy thought: why not run it back? McGregor’s claim to the title of world’s greatest 145er is tenuous at best because he didn’t stick around and defend the belt. But putting the stamp on Prime Holloway would re-establish McGregor as de facto king of the featherweights. An absentee king, for sure ... but one who just proved he’s capable of returning at any time to crush whatever pretender he finds on his throne.
It’d be a wild fight for sure, but who knows what kind of head space McGregor is in these days?
. . .
https://www.mmamania.com/2018/12/10...x-holloway-who-the-real-featherweight-king-is
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