Newly installed UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo has confirmed that he will be fighting Max Holloway at UFC 208 in Brookyln, New York on February 11th of next year.
After Holloway’s interim title victory on Saturday night at UFC 206, he took to the mic and called out Aldo for the pay-per-view event early next year, and it seems that will indeed be the landing spot for the unification bout.
“About the fight in February, I already knew that, I only didn’t know who I would fight,” Aldo told the Brazilian media yesterday. “It was between him and Pettis, whoever won the fight. It’s not something new. This fight will happen on Feb. 11.”
Aldo was recently handed back the title he’d lost to Conor McGregor at UFC 194 last year after the UFC announced that ‘The Notorious’ would be vacating the belt due to inactivity in the division.
Aldo had got back on track after that loss with a convincing decision victory over Frankie Edgar at UFC 200 in July.
Being recrowned the champion seems to have cooled talk from the Brazilian star about retiring, for the time being at least, and a fight with Holloway, another elite striker who extended his winning streak in the Octagon to 10 fights at the weekend, is a mouth-watering prospect to look forward to in the coming year.
