Max Holloway

Max Holloway is an American MMA fighter, currently signed on to UFC under the Featherweight

division. He is the undisputed UFC Featherweight Champion and also holds a Purple Belt in Brazilian

Jiu-Jitsu.

Early Life

Max Holloway has a mixed ancestry of Native Hawaiian, English and Samoan. He started learning

kickboxing in 2010 while graduating high school and also got into Muay Thai. By the age of 19,

Holloway had amassed a record of 4-0. One of the highlights of his early career was a split decision

win against former Strikeforce and WEC veteran Sarimento, thereby earning the lightweight strap at

the Hawaii-based promotion X-1.

Career at UFC

Max Holloway became the youngest fighter to join the UFC roster when he came on board as an

injury replacement for Ricardo Lamas at UFC 143 in 2012. He fought against Dustin Poirier and lost it

via submission. But he won the next three fights he had in the year against Pat Schilling, Justin

Lawrence and Leonard Garcia. In 2014, Holloway earned his first Knockout of the Night by defeating

newcomer Will Chope via TKO and his first Performance of the Night by defeating Akira Corassini.

Max Holloway is on an incredible 13-fight undefeated run and has also recently been crowned the

Undisputed Featherweight Championship. During this streak he has defeated fighters like Anthony

Pettis and Jose Aldo. In his last fight he defeated Brian Ortega after the doctor was forced to stop

the fight seeing Ortega,s condition.

Current Titles:

UFC Featherweight Champion

Weight: 145 LBs / 66 KGs

Class: Featherweight

Win-Loss-Draw: 20-3-0