After authoring a career-defining moment at 155 pounds, Max Holloway is confident he can return to the featherweight division without issue.
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After knocking out Justin Gaethje to claim the BMF belt in a lightweight bout at UFC 300, Holloway will challenge Ilia Topuria for the featherweight strap in the UFC 308 headliner on Oct. 26 at Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi. The Hawaiian star addressed concerns that he might struggle to make the cut to 145 pounds in a recent video on his YouTube channel.“Everybody keeps talking about the weight coming into this fight. The whole question about the last fight was the weight, and now the whole question about this fight is the weight because of what we did in the last fight,” Holloway said. “But it is what it is. I got the best person behind me. I got my wife, she’s chefing it up, and I got my man Tyler Minton back on the team. He’s going to be out there with us fight week, and he’s one of the best …