{"id":320690,"date":"2019-07-28T12:45:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T19:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=320690"},"modified":"2019-07-28T12:45:17","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T19:45:17","slug":"max-holloway-believes-he-has-more-work-to-do-before-becoming-featherweight-goat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/max-holloway-believes-he-has-more-work-to-do-before-becoming-featherweight-goat\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Holloway believes he has more work to do before becoming featherweight GOAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday night, in the main event of UFC 240 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway successfully defended his title by outpointing former lightweight champion Frankie Edgar.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking post-fight, Holloway explained that this victory over Edgar is important to him because Edgar is just the kind of big-name fighter he&#8217;ll need to continue beating if he intends to become an MMA legend himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrankie is a true warrior,\u201d he told the media (transcript via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Max-Holloway-Wants-to-Be-a-Legend-but-Jose-Aldo-Still-the-Man-at-Featherweight-159225\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sherdog<\/a>). \u201cHe\u2019s the guy who inspired me to be here. Without the guys like Frankie Edgar\u00a0you would\u2019ve have guys like me. Frankie was the inspiration. Drake said, \u2018Train until your idols become your rivals.\u2019 He\u2019s why I\u2019m here. He\u2019s a beast. You can\u2019t take nothing away from Frankie. He\u2019s a legend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m trying to be the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world, not the best featherweight in the world,\u201d he added. \u201cI\u2019m trying to be the best pound-for-pound fighter and Frankie is one more step towards me completing that goal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While many fans already consider Max Holloway the best featherweight fighter in MMA history, he believes he still has a few more records to break before he surpasses the former champion Jose Aldo in that regard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just trying to be a legend,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m trying to be the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the world, and that\u2019s the names I got to be up there with, and that\u2019s respect. So like I said, all this GOAT talk and whatever, that doesn\u2019t affect me. When it\u2019s all said and done, I can sit back and relax, and [Jose] Aldo\u2019s still the man. He\u2019s still got the most wins, he\u2019s got the most title defenses and so on. Until I beat those records, then maybe I can be in that conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you consider Max Holloway the featherweight GOAT?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a><i> on 7\/28\/2019. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday night, in the main event of UFC 240 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway successfully defended his title by outpointing former lightweight champion Frankie Edgar. Speaking post-fight, Holloway explained that this victory over Edgar is important to him because Edgar is just the kind of big-name fighter he&#8217;ll need to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54459,"featured_media":320691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10147,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Max Holloway believes he has more work to do before becoming featherweight GOAT | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Max Holloway believes that he still has a few more things to accomplish before he becomes the greatest featherweight in MMA history.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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