Filed under: Featured , News , Radio Highlight , UFC , Videos Backstage at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, as he prepared for Jose Aldo in his first title defense, UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway was calm, cool and collected. Sounds like the ideal scenario, doesn’t it? Except for the fact that Holloway admits he’s usually on edge before he steps inside the octagon. But this time at UFC 218, before the first fight of the “Blessed Era,” things were different, as he explained Tuesday on MMAjunkie Radio. “I was kind of nervous how relaxed I was,” Holloway said
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