“I wouldn’t feel 100% the champ if I didn’t run it back with Max Holloway,” Brain Ortega says he needs to settle the score with Max Holloway

“I wouldn’t feel 100% the champ if I didn’t run it back with Max Holloway,” Brain Ortega says he needs to settle the score with Max Holloway

Max Holloway and Brian Ortega

UFC featherweight title is on the line at UFC 260 when the champion Alexander Volkanovski takes on the number one contender Brian Ortega, and Max Holloway is ready to face the winner of this fight.

This is an insane matchup as both these fighters have excellent all-round game; Ortega is a jiu-jitsu expert and has increased his striking leap and bounds from his debut.

The champ Volkanovski on the other hand is a dominating wrestler with striking next to the likes of Max Holloway, and to add to his resume he has already beaten Max twice.

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There was a time when Ortega seemed unbeatable but at UFC 231, Max Holloway absolutely took him apart with his insane volume of strikes, and this stained Ortega’s record, with almost a two-year lay-off he came back to compete against The Korean Zombie and dominated him.

Ahead of his fight with Volkanovski, Ortega said that even if he wins the belt at UFC 260, he won’t feel like a champ until he settles the score with Max Holloway.

“I wouldn’t feel 100% the champ if I didn’t run it back (with Max Holloway). That man has that on his resume. He gave you your first loss, something you can never take from him. So now it’s like, well, we gotta make this right,” Ortega said.

Max Holloway will face the winner of Brian Ortega vs Alexander Volkanovski fight

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Alexander Volkanovski vs Brian Ortega

Max “Blessed” Holloway defeated Calvin Kattar and absolutely demolished him for five rounds in his last fight, he was coming off from a back-to-back loss against Alex and proved once again why he deserves to be the champion.

After the fight Dana White promised that Max would get his title shot at the winner of Ortega vs Alexander. No matter who Max faces it will be a banger for sure.

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