On Friday, we looked at three examples of the brilliant, angular footwork that Max Holloway used to outmaneuver, outwork, and outright befuddle Brian Ortega at UFC 231.
This was one of those fights which becomes more and more one-sided in review. For four rounds, Holloway landed seemingly endless salvos of strikes. Literally hundreds of blows to the head. Dozens of body shots. The featherweight king threw two hundred more strikes than his opponent (196 in the fourth round, alone) and more than doubled—nearly tripled, in fact—the number that actually connected. He found the mark on a full 59 percent of his 490 significant strikes, all while stuffing nine of Ortega’s 11 attempted takedowns (and quickly scrambling free of the two that he managed to secure).