{"id":272598,"date":"2018-03-16T11:46:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T18:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=272598"},"modified":"2018-03-16T11:46:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T18:46:42","slug":"max-holloway-excited-to-try-new-cupcake-flavor-brian-ortega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/brian-ortega\/max-holloway-excited-to-try-new-cupcake-flavor-brian-ortega\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Holloway Excited to Try &#8216;New Cupcake Flavor&#8217; Brian Ortega"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Brian Ortega did what no man has done before to Frankie Edgar, the hype surrounding <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/video-max-holloways-defense-against-brian-ortega-in-the-works-for-ufc-227-in-hawaii\/\">a big title fight against UFC featherweight champion<\/a> Max Holloway is growing to epic proportions. In many ways, it almost mirrors the UFC 223 fight against Tony Ferguson and Khabib Nurmagomedov. Holloway is on a 12-fight win streak and Ortega is on a 13-fight win streak. A fight like this hasn&#8217;t gone down in the division since Conor McGregor&#8217;s scrap against Jose Aldo. It&#8217;s reasons like this why Holloway believes this fight is huge.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMy interest in fighting [Brian Ortega]: I\u2019m very intrigued. I can\u2019t wait to fight. I love fighting and I love competition. You want to be the best, you\u2019ve got to beat the best. The best is \u2018Blessed,\u2019 and right now he\u2019s saying and people are saying he\u2019s the one. I can\u2019t wait. We\u2019ll find out. [&#8230;]\u00a0He proved to the world why he\u2019s the No. 1 contender. Looks like I\u2019ve got a new cupcake flavor, so I\u2019m excited. I like horchata, so I can get that horchata flavor \u2013 it\u2019s delicious.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\">&#x1f602; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3h81pUDPfT\">pic.twitter.com\/3h81pUDPfT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Max Holloway (@BlessedMMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlessedMMA\/status\/971543171644534785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI think this fight is huge. He\u2019s got a lot of fans. It\u2019s exciting. I think it\u2019s a huge fight. I think people are talking more about this one than the Frankie [Edar] one. It\u2019s cool; this is finally the first fighter that I didn\u2019t watch growing up. Everyone is telling me he\u2019s the future, but I\u2019m right here. I\u2019m the present. [&#8230;] Last year I was the GOAT featherweight, now this year I\u2019m a nobody and a guy who is going to lose my belt because time passed me, but last year was three months ago. These guys think they\u2019re going to beat me and it\u2019s just another reason why I\u2019m going to prove I\u2019m the best to do it. These are the kind of fights I want.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2018\/03\/ufc-max-holloway-brian-ortega-featherweight-title-knockout-submission-dana-white-mma\">Max Holloway speaking to MMA Junkie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No one, not even the former featherweight king, has been able to stop Max Holloway since 2014. Meanwhile, Brian Ortega has proved that he&#8217;s not just a contender, but a true challenger to the throne. Will the Blessed Era continue, or will Ortega threaten a revolution? The two don&#8217;t have a date for their battle yet, but <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/video-dana-white-calls-brian-ortega-to-tell-him-hes-fighting-max-holloway\/\">Dana White has called Ortega to tell him he is next<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\">BJPenn.com<\/a> on 3\/16\/2018.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Brian Ortega did what no man has done before to Frankie Edgar, the hype surrounding a big title fight against UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway is growing to epic proportions. In many ways, it almost mirrors the UFC 223 fight against Tony Ferguson and Khabib Nurmagomedov. 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