Max Holloway isn’t co-signing Conor McGregor’s claim as the greatest featherweight ever ahead of their showdown at UFC 329.
McGregor previously objected to not being included in the featherweight greatest of all time conversation, pointing to his knockout win over Chad Mendes for the interim title and his 13-second knockout of Jose Aldo to unify the belt before later being stripped due to inactivity. Holloway, who lost to McGregor in 2013 and is now set to face him in the UFC 329 main event at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, sees the debate differently.
"When people talk about this kind of stuff or stats or history, you want the fans and (media) to talk about it, not us," Holloway said. "He needs to start picking a bone with you guys, not me. It's not my fault."
Asked for his own featherweight hierarchy, Holloway answered, "I think Aldo," before expanding: "Aldo is my favorite, but I can see the case with (Alexander Volkanovski), for sure. I also see through the media's eyes why, and I'm not going to write myself in there. If it's four, it would have to be: Aldo, Volk, maybe you give a little bit more to Ilia (Topuria) because of what he did and the guys he fought. Conor just won it one time then boom, disappeared, became a double champ."
