Max Holloway: I figured out striking from the first UFC game

Max Holloway’s success in his professional career is mainly attributed to his striking. It got him through elite opponents, including former champion Jose Aldo, Anthony Pettis and Frankie Edgar, which earned him the accolades as both UFC champion and the best featherweight fighter of this era.

What makes things more interesting is that Holloway apparently developed those techniques on his own, particularly for his first seven fights in the UFC when he had no striking coach to work with.

According to him, the first UFC video game helped a great deal.

“You know the UFC game? I’d use Renan Barao and Jose Aldo, and I’d do stuff with them,” he told Joe Rogan in his appearance on the JRE MMA Show.…