Max Holloway stays in UFC title picture, outpoints Arnold Allen

Max Holloway has been known for more than a decade as one of the most dangerous featherweight fighters in the world. This has not changed.

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Saturday night, in the main event of UFC Kansas City, the former UFC featherweight king beat Arnold Allen by unanimous decision.

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The scores from the three judges were 49-46, 49-46, and 48-47. Holloway did well in a fight that was a turning point in his mixed martial arts (MMA) career. If he had lost,

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it would have been the first time in almost eight years that a top candidate had knocked him off his perch.

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. Max Holloway hasn't lost a fight that wasn't for a title since 2013.

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"That man hits like a truck," Holloway said of Allen in an interview after the fight. "In the last round, he knocked me out and gave me a black eye

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Dammit, Arnold. Because of you, my modeling job is in danger of not going well.

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At the start of the fight, Holloway was ranked third in the world at featherweight by ESPN, while Allen was ranked eighth.

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Allen had won his first ten UFC fights in a row, so he was looking for the biggest win of his career at the time.

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