MMA News<\/a>). There\u2019s a future for me in the heavyweight division just watch me. It is what it is. That first fight, it\u2019s not how you start the race, it\u2019s how you finish.<\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019m contracted as a 145\u2019er with a belt and I didn\u2019t want to be holding up people or holding up a division. That\u2019s why I came back. If they want me back at 155, who knows? The main event slot is 170. You don\u2019t know what happens fight night. I\u2019ll fight my fight and if they need someone to hurry up and go out there and fight, ‘Blessed’ is here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Holloway added that he learned some crucial lessons in his fight with Poirier \u2014 lessons he carried into his more recent fight with Frankie Edgar.<\/p>\n
\u201cI learned a lot about myself in that fight,\u201d Holloway explained. \u201cI dug deep. I\u2019m a fighter. I\u2019ll fight heavyweight if I like. I did things and stood in front of him that guys in his weight couldn\u2019t do. There\u2019s a lot of things we took away from that fight and it\u2019s only a loss if you don\u2019t take anything away. We took a lot away.<\/p>\n
\u201cI learned. It\u2019s either win or learn and that\u2019s what we did. I learned a lot in that fight, I learned a lot about myself. I learned about my team and coaches and we came back strong. We took everything we learned from that fight and brought it into the next fight [against Frankie Edgar] and you saw how that went.\u201d<\/p>\n
Max Holloway is set to return to action at UFC 245, where he’ll battle Australia’s Alexander Volkanovski.<\/p>\n
This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 10\/9\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway was unsuccessful in his recent lightweight debut, giving up a hard-fought decision to Dustin Poirier. Despite this setback, he’s not done in the division. Speaking to MMA Fighting this week, the featherweight king divulged that he has every intention of fighting at lightweight again in the future \u2014 and perhaps […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":294837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10147,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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