Max Holloway gör upp om bältet med fjäderviktslegendaren Jose Aldo i huvudmatchen på UFC 212 i Rio de Janeiro – ett test som utmanaren uppskattar:
“Kings go to other kings’ villages and they take over”, säger Holloway.
Max Holloway (17-3) vann fjäderviktens interimbälte när han stoppade Anthony Pettis (19-6) i den tredje ronden på UFC 206. I flera månader innan dess hade Holloway jagat efter en match mot dåvarande interim-mästaren Jose Aldo (26-2).
”Har jagat Conor McGregor”
Nu när Holloway vunnit interim-titeln är det bara en tidsfråga innan UFC bokar in unifieringsmatchen mot Aldo. På gårdagens Submission Radio talade Holloway om hur svårt det var att få tag i Aldo och de många omständigheter som försvårade en titelmatch mot brasilianaren:
“It’s crazy. I thought we were all men here, but they’re trying to chase Conor McGregor around, trying to get this and that. It is what it is. If it’s meant to be, it’s meant to be. I ain’t chasing nobody. I’m gonna make my damn self my own money fight. I was kind of irritated that I might have to be out a little longer, that’s why I got the movie so I’m fine with it, but at the end of the day, it’s just kind of mind boggling. I was just mind blown. If that’s what [Aldo] wanted to do, that’s what he wanted to do, but I’m gonna get ready and focus on 145 [pounds] at the moment. If opportunities present itself, I’m gonna take it, but I’m not gonna go out there and start begging like half these guys out there.”
Ville möta McGregor eller Nurmagomedov
Aldo har jagat en match mot Conor McGregor (21-3) sedan titelförlusten mot irländaren på UFC 194 men har aldrig riktigt varit nära en returmatch. När McGregor sedermera vann lättviktsbältet på UFC 205 var Aldo intresserad av en supermatch i lättvikt mot honom och drog till och med in Khabib Nurmagomedov (24-0) i diskussionerna.
Detta var något som inte roade Holloway, som trots allt verkar besitta någon form av förståelse för Aldo:
“I think if you’re a champion you should defend the title, but at the end of the day, if you get offered to fight this guy for six zeros at the end of a number or you get offered to fight this guy with five zeros at the end of a number, it’s pretty easy to choose which one you’re gonna take. It’s a business and at the end of the day it’s a short-lived business. Fighting is short-lived. We can’t do this forever and you’re trying to make sure you’re okay with life after and make sure you can retire a happy man or happy woman at the point. So you can’t blame them but at the end of the day some people have different goals.”
“Är vad kungar gör”
Holloways mål är nu att slå Aldo och därmed bli den enbart tredje mästaren i UFC:s fjäderviktshistoria – en mycket tuff utmaning mot en av fjäderviktens största namn genom tiderna. Matchen utspelar sig dessutom på Aldos hemmaplan i brasilien. Det är dock inget som oroar Holloway:
“This is what kings do. Kings go to other kings’ villages and they take over. That’s what they do and that’s what I have planned come June 3rd. I’m gonna go there and show everybody why I’m a king and what better place to do it than in his backyard, in his own village.”
Max Holloway utmanar Jose Aldo om fjäderviktsbältet i huvudmatchen på UFC 212 den 3 juni i Rio de Janeiro.
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