UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway arrives in Detroit on an auspicious day in the Hawaiian calendar. Nov. 28 is Hawaii’s former Independence Day (Kuokuoa in Hawaiian), and it’s a symbolically important date for the ancient Hawaiian warrior caste that have a unique living representative in Holloway.And while connections between the Motor City and the 50th state might not seem obvious at first, the two have a further connection in the Detroit Seamount – at 82 million years old, it is one of the oldest seamounts of the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain. The Detroit Seamount, as la … Read the Full Article Here
Holloway finds significance in Hawaii-Detroit connections
UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway arrives in Detroit on an auspicious day in the Hawaiian calendar. Nov. 28 is Hawaii’s former Independence Day (Kuokuoa in Hawaiian), and it’s a symbolically important date for the ancient Hawaiian warrior caste t…