The list of UFC fighters who have earned a shot at a title and haven't gotten one is growing. The current booking trends do not seem to be helping. Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson actually compared UFC matchmaking to the WWE on , and he's not wrong. It's not official that he'll be passed up for a title s🎶hot in lieu of a "big money fight" with Tyron Woodley and ♚Georges St-Pierre, but it wouldn't be a huge surprise. Another victim in this scenario is Max Holloway.
Holloway, like a screaming comet, has blasted through the Featherweight division. He's racked up a nine fight win streak, which is unheard of in a fight climate that resembles a death field 🍎of carnivorous dinosaurs. With Conor McGregor preoccupied with his white whale Nate Diaz, the UFC has basically just been shrugging and placing Holloway up with progressively hype-train derailing opponents to no avail. Now, there is pretty much only two options left: José Aldo or Frankie Edgar.
This is not even breaking news. Holloway has been echoing this sentiment for months and months prior. What does a badass have to do to get a title shot around here? Go on an obscenity-laced rant on a live FOX show like Diaz? The good thing about all🍷 this is that at least Edgar agrees.
“This division is full of great fights for me and I want to keep it moving. I know Max Holloway is out there. Jeremy Stephens is out there and either of them would make sense. Just because I fell short in my last fight doesn’t mean I’m letting up in the slightest in my push to become the featherweight champion," said Edgar to .
It seems at🍷 this point, that Holloway is a guy doing all the right things but just cant catch a break. He's had not one boring fight, including a now infamous ten second violence pact made with Ricardo Lamas, he constantly rallies for a UFC Hawaii event and is a devoted company man. It seems likꦕe Holloway may need to do something the UFC can't deny, like emphatically beating one of those opponents like Edgar knocked out Chad Mendes.
