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As much flack as Holloway has taken for not fighting in February, he’s quick to remind everybody that he was originally supposed to face Aldo last year but the current featherweight champion declined to face him.
“The fight is happening June 3 cause Mr. Aldo didn’t want to show up at [UFC] 205 because he was kicking and crying and complaining to the UFC that he wanted to fight the one guy that everybody is trying to chase and everybody knows who that guy is,” Holloway said referencing Conor McGregor. “He was trying to chase that fight and he already had a fight.
“The fight could have happened way before now. He had the opportunity to fight me at [UFC] 206 but do a little research before coming at me. This is what Jose Aldo said and I quote ‘I don’t want to fight no one except for Conor and if I was to fight someone, I would fight Anthony Pettis because I believe Anthony Pettis is an easier fight and he’s a bigger draw than Max Holloway’. That’s what your champion has been saying. I thought your champion was willing to fight whoever, whenever and go out there and put on a show. Old boy didn’t show.”
Once the ankle injury flared up after his win against Pettis in December, Holloway was then offered the opportunity to star in a new film called “Den of Thieves”, which came directly from UFC president Dana White.
“I went to the doctor later that week and they said I needed to stay off the ankle for four to six weeks. I called the UFC they said no problem and the day after Dana White calls my phone and offers me this movie I’m in now called “Den of Thieves” with Gerard Butler and 50 Cent and O’Shea Jackson, they offered me the movie,” Holloway said. “Then he goes around saying I’m the one whose fault why this fight is taking so long.
“It’s tripping me out. He offered me a movie role. It doesn’t make no sense.”
Holloway takes it one step further by explaining that the main reason he accepted the movie role came after Aldo started talking about moving to lightweight for a potential matchup with undefeated Russian contender Khabib Nurmagomedov.
“I only took the movie because Aldo came out and said he was going to fight for an interim 155-pound title. I’m like I’m not going to wait around for this guy,” Holloway said. “They weren’t going to give me another fight so they gave me a movie role. I took the movie.
“[Aldo] and his alternative facts, they need to get that straight and we’ll see June 3. We’ll see what happens.”
http://www.foxsports.com/ufc/story/...regarding-jose-aldo-and-conor-mcgregor-032717
“The fight is happening June 3 cause Mr. Aldo didn’t want to show up at [UFC] 205 because he was kicking and crying and complaining to the UFC that he wanted to fight the one guy that everybody is trying to chase and everybody knows who that guy is,” Holloway said referencing Conor McGregor. “He was trying to chase that fight and he already had a fight.
“The fight could have happened way before now. He had the opportunity to fight me at [UFC] 206 but do a little research before coming at me. This is what Jose Aldo said and I quote ‘I don’t want to fight no one except for Conor and if I was to fight someone, I would fight Anthony Pettis because I believe Anthony Pettis is an easier fight and he’s a bigger draw than Max Holloway’. That’s what your champion has been saying. I thought your champion was willing to fight whoever, whenever and go out there and put on a show. Old boy didn’t show.”
Once the ankle injury flared up after his win against Pettis in December, Holloway was then offered the opportunity to star in a new film called “Den of Thieves”, which came directly from UFC president Dana White.
“I went to the doctor later that week and they said I needed to stay off the ankle for four to six weeks. I called the UFC they said no problem and the day after Dana White calls my phone and offers me this movie I’m in now called “Den of Thieves” with Gerard Butler and 50 Cent and O’Shea Jackson, they offered me the movie,” Holloway said. “Then he goes around saying I’m the one whose fault why this fight is taking so long.
“It’s tripping me out. He offered me a movie role. It doesn’t make no sense.”
Holloway takes it one step further by explaining that the main reason he accepted the movie role came after Aldo started talking about moving to lightweight for a potential matchup with undefeated Russian contender Khabib Nurmagomedov.
“I only took the movie because Aldo came out and said he was going to fight for an interim 155-pound title. I’m like I’m not going to wait around for this guy,” Holloway said. “They weren’t going to give me another fight so they gave me a movie role. I took the movie.
“[Aldo] and his alternative facts, they need to get that straight and we’ll see June 3. We’ll see what happens.”
http://www.foxsports.com/ufc/story/...regarding-jose-aldo-and-conor-mcgregor-032717