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Max Holloway won't be angered if Paddy Pimblett skips the line to challenge Ilia Topuria for the UFC lightweight title.
Max Holloway told by UFC lightweight he was badly wrong about Ilia Topuria’s destructive 3-fight run
Topuria completed his ascent to two-division glory late last month when he headlined the UFC’s International Fight Week pay-per-view in Las Vegas. After bidding farewell to his reign as featherweight king, Topuria knocked out Charles Oliveira at UFC 317 to collect the vacant lightweight crown.
Max Holloway, a true fan favorite in the UFC, recently received a surprise gift from the Toronto Blue Jays. He’s scheduled to headline UFC 318 against Dustin Poirier in a highly anticipated trilogy fight.
One UFC 318 fighter arrived in the promotion last year with one of the more memorable Octagon debuts in recent memory.
Conor McGregor ‘startled’ Max Holloway after suffering horror injury in their early career UFC fight
McGregor turned awkwardly and tore his ACL, which Holloway recalls led him to make a blood curdling scream that made him temporarily check out from the fight. “The scream was like a painful scream,” he told CBS Sports.