There are fights that change careers. The Robbie Lawler vs. Rory MacDonald bout at UFC 189 was one of those fights. In the aftermath of the January 15, 2021 scrap between Max Holloway and Calvin Kattar, it felt like that contest, which headlined UFC on ABC 1, might have been another of those fights. It wasn’t.
Holloway put on a show in that bout. He dominated Kattar in every way possible. At the time of the fight, I thought the referee or Kattar’s corner could have stopped the carnage at the end of the second round.