Max Holloway’s title reign will begin with an immediate rematch. With Frankie Edgar from this Saturday’s UFC 218 main event, former winner Jose Aldo will get an opportunity to win back the featherweight belt that he once held for nearly five decades. The pair first collided at UFC 212 last June, with Holloway notching a third-round TKO and walking away with the belt.
Can Aldo reverse the results this time around? Let’s take a look at the UFC odds at BookMaker.eu and discuss your betting choices.
UFC Odds at BookMaker.eu
Max Holloway -298
Jose Aldo +230
Over/under 2.5 rounds, over -150 Matchup Preview
In the first matchup, Aldo started off strong, capturing blank, technical mixtures to take the first round. Holloway, normally an extremely fast starter, did little in the first round, attempting to find his rhythm and array. For a guy that lands nearly six strikes a moment, Holloway threw puzzlingly little strikes to the first two rounds.
It was that has been the strategy all along, as”Blessed” along with his group believed that Aldo was at his most dangerous early, with a gas tank which may be manipulated later. As the third round started, we began to see the typical, higher octane Max Holloway, that started pouring on lively kick-punch combinations. Though Aldo managed to land several counters, Holloway marched down him and put him away before the round ended.
The victory was a decisive one, making it easy to believe that Holloway is a surefire choice. Aldo has long had difficulties with his cardio, while Holloway is a fighter using a non-stop engine. Making matters worse for the Brazilian is Holloway’s iron chin – Aldo’s quick and powerful enough to ice most dudes with a single combination, but he cannot seem to do this with Holloway.
Is there some path to a win for Aldo? Possibly. For starters, he can get back to the debilitating leg kicks that were his bread-and-butter during his early UFC days. Why he has gone away from it’s perplexing to a lot of observers, because it was one of the greatest weapons in the entire fight game. Yet against Holloway and Frankie Edgar before himAldo barely threw any. Softening up the bottoms of a competitive fighter such as”Blessed” would help the Brazilian fight at his favorite pace.
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