Before exchanging blows in his UFC 206 interim featherweight title fight against Anthony Pettis on Dec. 10, Max Holloway criticized and called new UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo expletives for backing down from their supposed bout.
According to Holloway, there had been rumors of a Holloway-Aldo bout that was scheduled for either the UFC 205 last November or the UFC 206 in December but none of those rumors materialized, Fox Sports reported.
Nonetheless, the Hawaiian fighter was offered to lock horns against former champion Pettis but said he did not have much detail of what happened with what he heard about his supposed match up against Aldo.
Apparently, even with a chance of becoming a champion should he beat Pettis, Holloway really has his eyes for Aldo whom he said had "pu**yitis" last November in an appearance on SiriusXM Rush's Toe-2-Toe, as per MMA Fighting. Holloway added that after his clash with Pettis, he is running after the Brazilian Aldo and that "a Hawaiian is coming and I'm creeping."
The 24-year-old who has earned the moniker "Blessed" does not have much history with Aldo inside the Octagon but became irate after learning that Aldo asked for a rematch against Conor McGregor who dispatched him in just 13 seconds. For Holloway, Aldo asking for a rematch was too absurd when he did not even put a fight against McGregor in their UFC 194 bout.
Holloway is hungry for a crack at the featherweight belt and his primary target is Aldo who was hailed featherweight champ just this week after the UFC stripped McGregor of the belt he failed to defend when he focused on winning the lightweight title.
"That motherf**ker been running. So tell him he can't run for much longer," said Holloway.
Aside from Aldo, he also has his eyes on a revenge against McGregor who beat him way back in 2013 but that would take for a while as the Irish fighter expressed he would be away from the UFC with his first baby on the way.
Before he potentially face either the two UFC stars, Holloway still has to go through Pettis and he assured that people are "going to see some fireworks" on Dec. 10.