Max Holloway vs Calvin Kattar Predictions: Kattar’s last fight against Dan Ige was his only 5 round fight, but he used it to show off just what he could. Kattar averages 5.01 significant strikes per minute himself, which is no small feat, but he has only eclipsed 100 significant strikes landed in a single fight once. The big question is if he can keep pace with Max. The only issue this time is that Calvin Kattar seems more than comfortable with a slow start and ramping up as the fight continues. We saw that strategy implemented correctly against Jose Aldo where Max was able to start slowly and crank the pace up as the legend faded in rounds 2 and 3. Max Holloway uses his gas tank as a weapon. Should that fight have been a 5 round main event instead of 3, many believe that Kattar would have not only beaten Zabit, but Katar would have finished him. Calvin Kattar has been a bit of a slow starter, and it was apparent that he was turning the tide in a very close fight. People may not recall in the fight against Zabit that he was hanging on for dear life at the end of that fight. Kattar came up short and put together back to back first-round finishes but fell short against Zabit Magomedsharipov. Kattar seemed ready for the title picture back in 2018 after TKOing the ever durable Shane Burgos when he ran into Renato Carneiro. In 4 of the previous 9 Fights Holloway has been in, he managed to unload 100+ significant strikes in 15 minutes or less, including a blistering 290 significant strikes against Brian Ortega in a fight that ended in the 4th round.Ĭalvin Kattar has struggled with big jumps in the competition so far in his career.
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It is also worth noting that Max only went the full 5 round distance in the last 4 of those fights. Max has averaged over 100 significant strikes landed in his last nine fights straight, and 8 of those nine fights were for a UFC title. Generally speaking, when you see a stat like that, you can look back to a single one-sided fight that skews the numbers, but that isn’t the case with Holloway. Max Holloway averages an astounding 6.47 significant strikes per minute. You have to give the power edge to Calvin Kattar, but the high-level experience, cardio, and volume go to Max. Both men are strikers with a heavy boxing offense. The men in the main event stack up well against one another. This is a put up or shut up moment for Calvin Kattar, and we will get to see if he is really ready for that title picture.
His opportunity to shine has finally come, and he will face a former champion and truly elite Featherweight on Saturday, while coming in on the UFC odds as the outright underdog.
Kattar has been streaking through the division and has been on a collision course with the top 5 for some time. Calvin Kattar is a fighter who I have felt is a dark horse at 145 for a long time, and we have made a lot of money backing him. We have talked a lot about The Boston Finisher. I felt Max had done enough to win the rematch with Volkanovski, but the scoreboard reads that Holloway is 1-3 in his last four fights. Since then, it has been a bit of a rocky road, however, Max Holloway destroyed Brian Ortega but took a short-notice opportunity up a weight class for the interim lightweight title against Dustin Poirer and lost a 25-minute war.ĭropping back to his natural 145, Max won a clear decision against Frankie Edgar before losing back to back fights against current champion Alexander Volkanovski. In my opinion, the best featherweight fighter we have ever seen, Holloway dethroned the legend, Jose Aldo, with authority and back to back KOs to become the undisputed champion. Max “Blessed” Holloway has had a bit of a fall from grace recently.
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