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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) featherweight champion, Max Holloway, will collide with top title contender, Frankie Edgar, in the UFC 240 pay-per-view (PPV) main event on ESPN+ later tonight (Sat., July 27, 2019) inside Rogers Arena in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Check out their fight video preview embedded above.
Holloway vs. Edgar was initially booked for UFC 218 back in 2017; however, the bout was scrapped after the former lightweight champion was felled by injury. UFC tried to reschedule their championship dance just a few months later, but it was once again canceled after Holloway suffered a setback of his own.
That prompted Edgar to roll the dice at UFC 222 against late-replacement Brian Ortega, which resulted in the first knockout loss of his career (see it again here). “T-City” eventually went on to lose to Holloway later in the year, while “The Answer” got back into the win column against Cub Swanson.
That means No. 1-ranked featherweight, Alexander Volkanovski, will have to sit on the sidelines for the time being, despite a career-defining win over Jose Aldo at UFC 237 earlier this year in Brazil.
To see the rest of the UFC 240 fight card and line up click here.