To be fair thou.. it certainly is not accurate to say Holloway was outclassed and he is getting a reality check, the only reality check is the power discrepancy.
We have not been watching mma for five minutes in this thread, we have been watching holloway since his first fight with Poirier and his climb up.
What would happen if Poirier fought holloway at holloways weight?
What would happen if holloway had Poiriers power at weekends weight?
You have to remember this, Poirier has a huge arse back and landed clean and plenty of times but even still did not get him out of there, and from what i remember even with the huge power difference, Holloway certainly had his moments, Holloway was around 8 seconds away from finshing poirier at the end of one round by neck lock or what ever, Poirier was super lucky the clock was were it was at.
Its not right to call out Holloway as moved into a more stacked div and he is found to be less or lacking or what ever.
Holloway face was a blood bath and he slowed cause he got massively concussed was the reason he "slowed down" in the 4th.,. etc
Holloway is BETTER than Poirier its just power is/was the factor and even still he worked around that to some extent, and even was calling out for toe to toe in the dieing seconds of the fight for the bonus money.
Poirier has superb boxing and has fought how long and hard to get to where he is at, we have been watching him since he got tooled hard by conor.
this is like mr average bisping grinding at it so long even he climbed to the top... think about that, Bisping got so dialed in he reached no1 and did it legit, even thou it cant be, he did it.
Poirier has huge power over holloway, he was not "better".
good little guy vs a good bigger guy, and even then it was pretty dam close.
rogan said he heard Israel Adesanya say, that he is even better than his last fight vs Anderson (recent)
You can be **** at some thing but if you set aside a life times passion to it you can get red hot on it, then that's were the art and expression starts being able to be expressed.
Poirier is not better than Holloway.
Poirier was not dominate over Holloway or in some way in massive control over the fight.
If holloway had 3/4 the power of poirier it would have ended by KO.
Monday Morning Hangover: What’s next for Max Holloway after UFC 236 title loss?
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Last edited by Balla Shusher; 04-15-2019 at 12:40 PM.