UFC 231 outcomes, features : Max Holloway players Brian Ortega to hold featherweight title .

Holloway and Ortega put on an absolute show over four rounds in Toronto :

Gossipy tidbits about Max Holloway's downfall were incredibly overstated all things considered. 

Setting aside a grievous 2018 in which his wellbeing was raised doubt about, the UFC's 145-pound champion outlived a decided Brian Ortega in a UFC 231 headliner that will go down as extraordinary compared to other activity battles of the schedule year. 

Cageside specialists decided not to give Ortega a chance to turn out for the fifth round with his left eye severely swollen and his nose seeping as Holloway enhanced his win streak to 13 of every a savage war inside Toronto's Scotiabank Arena. 

Holloway (20-3) jumped the fence upon the stoppage and got notwithstanding the UFC's report group to shout, "I let you know," before pronouncing himself the best featherweight champion in organization history. Considering Holloway possesses two merciless stoppage prevails upon long-lasting lord Jose Aldo, his case may not be far away. 

"Is there any other individual?" Holloway said. "Venture forward, how about we go!" 

The 27-year-old Holloway was twice constrained out of battles in 2018 because of therapeutic reasons, including a booked session against Ortega at UFC 226 in July when he looked dormant and was unmistakably slurring his words amid meetings. In spite of specialists demonstrating unfit to settle on a finding for what occurred, Holloway fueled through in the midst of a vocal minority addressing whether him battling so before long was the correct move. 

Holloway additionally turned into the wagering dark horse over the last 24 hours paving the way to the battle. 

"My fans got rich," he said. "The pleasure is all mine my companions." 

In addition to the fact that Holloway quieted faultfinders, including a stressed Ortega, by making weight effortlessly on Friday, he especially looked like pound-for-pound world class inside the Octagon on account of his trademark volume striking and pinpoint exactness. 

The key for Holloway demonstrating ready to keep the battle on the feet where he held favorable position as far as striking was his rehashed capacity to either stuff Ortega's takedown endeavors or rapidly recover his feet each time his back hit the ground. Ortega (14-1, 1 NC), a standout amongst the most unsafe jiu-jitsu experts in the game, was never ready to undermine on the ground. 

That doesn't mean Ortega wasn't viable. Truth be told, his capacity to ingest perfect, hard punches from Holloway and hazardously proceed forward ended up being the motivation behind why the battle was such savage and incredible theater. 

"He's an extreme rival and an intense person and we will presumably observe each other the distance to heavyweight since we like to eat," Holloway said. "What will be will be." 

Despite the fact that Holloway could associate on 54 percent of his critical strikes for the battle, Ortega routinely replied with slippery counter shots. Notwithstanding having his nose bloodied as he was outstruck in Round 2, Ortega encouraged back to arrive what seemed, by all accounts, to be the harder punches to close the round. 

Ortega at that point opened what ended up being a crazy Round 3 with clean right hands. Late in the round, he wobbled Holloway with a couple of rights and quickly brought him down before taking his back. In any case, before Ortega could apply a gag, Holloway slipped out of inconvenience and recaptured his feet. 

With the force showing up as though it was pointing toward Ortega in spite of being down on the scorecards, Holloway strikingly opened Round 4 by turning toward UFC investigator Joe Rogan and motioning that he was going to complete the battle. 

In spite of the fact that Holloway demonstrated unfit to do only that throughout the following five minutes, he battered a gallantly bold Ortega with one clean mix after another. In the end, Ortega's left eye started to swell drastically as blood poured down his face. Notwithstanding the harm, Ortega ascended from a concise knockdown and tried constantly to win. 

Both Ortega, who endured the primary thrashing of his vocation, and his corner seemed prepared to turn out for Round 5 until the point when the specialist hopped in to call an end. 

"I let you know. What did I let you know in the corner?" Holloway told Rogan after the battle. "I said this is the round." 

Regardless of UFC president Dana White discussing late that he would incline toward Holloway's future to be at lightweight, the present featherweight ruler may not be done at this time. 

"I made the weight and I made it look simple," Holloway said. "I'll disclose to you what Dana White, I need to be the No. 1 pound-for-pound. On the off chance that it's the No. 1 at 155 [Khabib Nurmagomedov], we should do it. 

"A lord needs to safeguard his position of royalty. On the off chance that a lord leaves his royal position than another ruler can venture up. Come see me."

UFC 230 card/results

Max Holloway (c) def. Brian Ortega via fourth-round TKO (doctor's stoppage)
Valentina Shevchenko (c) def. Joanna Jedrzejczyk via unanimous decision (49-46, 49-46, 49-46)
Gunnar Nelson def. Alex Oliveira via second-round submission (rear-naked choke)
Hakeem Dawodu def. Kyle Bochniak via split decision (30-27, 28-29, 30-27)
Thiago Santos def. Jimi Manuwa via second-round knockout (ref stoppage)
Nina Ansaroff def. Claudia Gadelha via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
Gilbert Burns def. Olivier Aubin-Mercier via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 29-28)
Jessica Eye def. Katlyn Chookagian via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)
Elias Theodorou def. Eryk Anders via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)