Holloway landed a stunning 445 significant strikes on Saturday, breaking his own record by 155. Instead, he put on an all-time performance. Losing to Kattar would have been a sign that Holloway was beginning to succumb to the inevitable toll of fighting other people for a living.
In Volkanovski, Holloway was presented with a dark mirror of himself: Volkanovski's game was built, to a degree, to grab the featherweight title from Holloway, just like Holloway's was fine-tuned to take the same belt from Jose Aldo years earlier. He had dropped three of four, including two straight title fights against Alexander Volkanovski.
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In a sport full of kooks and assholes, he stands out by virtue of being a relatively normal and recognizably human person, which says as much about him as the standards we're working with here.īut Holloway came into the fight against Kattar at the lowest point in his career. Holloway is a special fighter, one of the most intelligent strikers in the game, and an ironman who's never been knocked out and holds a 22-6-0 record. Holloway won 50-42 on one judge's scorecard, a well-earned score that hasn't been given since 2006. The request was not fulfilled, as Dean did not stop the fight-not then, not in the fourth round, not at all-giving Holloway 14 extra minutes to cap the UFC's most dominant five-round decision victory in years. One minute into the third round, the commentary trio calling Saturday night's main event between Max Holloway and Calvin Kattar wondered whether referee Herb Dean should stop the fight early to save Kattar from excess punishment.
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