The
Number Two ranked Featherweight, Max Blessed
Holloway celebrated his Twenty-fifth birthday on Sunday and the Hawaiian hopes
to end his week by wearing the Interim FW Belt home from UFC 206 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Holloway’s last lost was to
stripped FW Champion, Connor McGregor, but that was over three years ago, an
eternity in a young fighter’s career, at UFC
Fight Night 26 (8/17/13). Since, Blessed
has torn through the division, racking up nine consecutive wins against the UFC’s top Featherweights (4KO/TKO,
2Subs). In his last fight, Holloway earned a Unanimous Decision over Number
Three ranked FW, Ricardo Lamas at UFC 199
(6/4/16). Blessed is revered for his
versatile striking: kicks, knees and punches and his length, at 5’11” he’s tall
and long for 145lbs. 16-3 Holloway faces former Lightweight Champion, Anthony Showtime Pettis.
Milwaukee’s
Anthony Pettis wants to add another trophy to his, already packed list of
achievements. The last WEC LW Champ
and former UFC LW champ is also the
only MMA athlete to appear on Wheaties
cereal box. A flashy striker with superb BJJ,
Pettis has finished sixteen of his nineteen wins (7 TKO/KO, 9 by Sub). After
losing his LW belt to Rafael dos Anjos (3/14/15) and a pair more to top
lightweights, Eddie Alvarez (1/17/16) and Edson Barboza (4/23/16) Pettis made
the decision to drop down ten pounds to the Featherweight class to face Charles
Oliveira, Submitting the BJJ Black
Belt with a Third Round Guillotine-Choke
(1:49) in August. Like opponent, Holloway, Showtime
prefers the finish, he is 3-5 in fights that see the judges’ scorecards.
Donald Cowboy Cerrone has finished his last
three fights at 170lbs. Following his second loss to former LW Champ, Rafael
dos Anjos, Cerrone decided the weight cut was holding him back and moved up to
the Welterweight Division. Cowboy is
a fan-favorite for his laid back attitude coupled with his remarkable work
ethic and toughness. He is known to take fights on short notice and is one of
the promotion’s most active fighters, fighting in his fourth fight of the year.
A tradition the Thirty-three year old has kept up each year since 2013. Last
fight #5 ranked, Cerrone stopped Rick Story by TKO (2nd 2:02) at UFC 202. He faces 20-15 Matt The Immortal Brown in Toronto, due to Kelvin
Gastelum’s weight woes at UFC 205
(for more on that, check out my article: ). Cerrone owns twenty-three finishes,
sixteen by Submission, a fate Brown has fallen to ten times in his career.
Thirty-five
year old, Matt Brown is looking to bounce back from a pair of losses in 2016. He
submitted Tim Means with a First Round, Guillotine-Choke
(4:44) in his last win at UFC 189
(7/11/15). The Immortal has only been
to decision six times (2-4) in his thirty-five career fights. Brown went on a
7-0 run with six TKO/KO wins, from 2012-2014. Brown is a fan favorite for his
head-down, move forward style. A cast-member on Season 7 of The Ultimate Fighter, losing to winner
Amir Sadollah in the quarter-final round in the TUF House. The Ohioan won his UFC
debut at the TUF 7 Finale (6/21/08)
by Second Round TKO (3:40) of Matt Arroyo.
In the
Featherweight Division #11 The Korean
Superboy Doo Ho Choi
gets his hands on a top ten FW, when he faces #4 Cub
Swanson. Twenty-five year old, Doo Ho
Choi’s only career loss came in just his third fight back in 2010. Since he has
won twelve straight with ten KO/TKO stoppages. Choi has collected eight
straight TKO/KO including three First Rounders in the UFC: Thiago Tavares (7/8/16) KO 2:42, Sam Sicilia (11/18/15) KO
1:33, and Juan Manuel Puig (11/22/14) TKO 0:18. The South Korean hopes to
advance into the top 10 with a win over Swanson.
23-7
Cub Swanson has been the gate keeper to the FW division’s top tier. 8-2 in his
last ten bouts, Swanson’s only losses are to Max Holloway (4/18/15) and Frankie
Edgar (11/22/14). A pro since 2004, he has only lost by TKO once in his career.
Winner of his last two, Swanson looks to dig his heals into the divisions’ top
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