Max Holloway was reading Jose Aldo early during their fight at UFC 212. He noticed Aldo was reacting a certain way to things he was doing — and quickly. Aldo won the first two rounds of the UFC featherweight title fight, seemed sharp early and even had Holloway in some real trouble in the first.
“When I was putting my hand out and stuff, every time I’d put it, he would shut it down,” Holloway told Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour. “He would throw something, he would do something reactive.