Max Holloway's UFC lightweight debut didn't go as planned, but the dominant featherweight champion doesn't give up his dream of becoming a two-part champion someday.
Holloway failed to make a unanimous decision to Dustin Poirier in a temporary lightweight title last April, but & # 39; Blessed & # 39; promises to return to the lightweight division to prove their value & # 39; 100% & # 39 ;.
"100 percent [I will return to lightweight]Holloway said. “There is a future for me in the heavyweight division. What is that. The first fight is not how to start a race, but how to finish it.
“I have a contract with 145 & # 39; and I didn't want to make people or establish a department. So I came back. Who knows if they want me again at 155? The main event slot is 170. You do not know what happens at night. I will fight. If they need someone to rush and go out to fight, here is “blessing.
Holloway said he would reflect much of the loss to Poirier of UFC 236 to learn a lot in that fight and apply future lessons.
“I learned a lot about myself in that fight,” Holloway says. “I dug deep. I'm a fighter. I'll fight heavyweight if I like it. I stood in front of him doing things that a lot of weight can't do. There are many things that we take from that fight, and if you do not take anything away, it is a loss. We took a lot.
"I learned. Win or learn or what we did. I learned a lot in the fight. I learned a lot about myself. I learned about the team and the coach and we returned strongly. We learned in the fight. Brought everything to the next fight [against Frankie Edgar] I saw it happen. ”
Holloway recovered from Poirier's loss with a dominant decision victory over former lightweight champion Frankie Edgar in UFC 240. 14 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.