After Brian Ortega become the first fighter to finish Frankie Edgar at UFC 222, Dana White called to give him the opportunity to challenge current Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Featherweight champion Max Holloway. Chael Sonnen breaks down the fight on his You’re Welcome podcast.
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Natural fighters will understand chaels insight on max in this video
1:02 dana calls in the show
cool match real test for ortega
GSP gonna reurn
Max the hawaiian bum holloway will murder this hype city ortega, mark my words.
My heart has Ortega brain has Holloway
Damn you blink a lot chael
The grappling advantage as wayyyyy farther than what ur making it seem Ortega out grapples Max on his worst day lol he must not know
Halloway vs Ortega is a really hard matchup for me to call. I think both men will have trouble finishing the other and the fight will go into deep water. Max will try and push the pace in a Diaz brother style of in your face, dirty boxing. The problem I see with Max's style when it comes to fighting Ortega is how he pushes forward. Though he's elite at getting in and out of the danger zone, max has narrow shoulders and is smaller than Ortega. Max also has a tendency to get wild, which could lead to clinching with Ortega and that's bad news for max. I'm thinking max gets submitted in round 4 after a solid go, just see too many ways for max to lose in this one. Not 100% sure though, can't ever count Halloway out of a fight
Real fans of the sport knew Ortega was special way back when he beat Tavares. That's one of the sickest fights I've ever seen.