This weekend at UFC 236, Max Holloway will fight Dustin Poirier for the second time. Their first meeting was seven years and, for Holloway, 18 fights ago. In fact, it was only Holloway’s fifth professional bout, ever, and his first contest in the UFC, which has many questioning its predictive power, considering that Holloway has since made himself featherweight champion and, in the meantime, developed into the best fighter on the planet, pound-for-pound.
Holloway’s schedule is as unquestionably solid as his skillset. Before his dominant win over the previously undefeated Brian Ortega last December, Holloway twice finished Jose Aldo, the greatest featherweight of all time.