Video: UFC 222: Brian Ortega talks win over Frankie Edgar, and fighting Max Holloway next
After featherweight champion Max Holloway was forced out of Saturday’s UFC 222 main event due to injury, his challenger, Frankie Edgar, still wanted to fight. In stepped rising star Brian Ortega, who stunned the crowd at T-Mobile Arena and earned a shot at Holloway with a first-round knockout of Edgar in the co-main event.
The finish was the first suffered by Edgar in 28 pro fights.