EDMONTON, Alberta — Max Holloway finds himself in a rare position on Saturday.
When he steps into the cage to face Frankie Edgar in the UFC 240 main event, “Blessed” will be just the second UFC fighter to enter a title defense coming off of a loss (the other was fellow Hawaiian B.J. Penn who fought and beat Kenny Florian at UFC 101 seven months after losing a welterweight title fight to Georges St-Pierre). Holloway’s last fight saw him lose a unanimous decision to Dustin Poirier with an interim title on the line this past April, a result that snapped a stretch of 13 straight wins for the champ.