This past Saturday at UFC 212, the MMA world welcomed a new 145-pound kingpin when interim champion Max Holloway stopped champion Jose Aldo in the third round of the main event, unifying the featherweight titles. To many, it was a passing of the torch moment for the division, among those, UFC commentator Joe Rogan.
On his Fight Companion podcast during the event, Rogan opined that this was the natural course of MMA and that the new breed of fighter, Holloway, was ushering out the old, Aldo, and beginning a new era.