KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Everyone knows these famous words: It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish. But for Arnold Allen at UFC on ESPN 44, how he finished wasn’t good enough to get the win.
That was something UFC president Dana White emphasized as he assessed Allen’s performance in a unanimous decision loss to former featherweight champion Max Holloway in Saturday night’s main event at T-Mobile Center.
“I think that Allen looked incredible,” White told reporters, including MMA Junkie, during the UFC on ESPN 44 post-event news conference. “I mean, if you think about it, it’s his first big night ever in a main event, whole crowd’s against him, and he came on too late. If he had fought the way he fought in the fifth round from the third round on, he would’ve had a better chance to win the fight.”
