Jose Aldo vs. Max Holloway featherweight title fight official for UFC 212

The UFC’s featherweight division is getting a little closer to becoming whole again.

UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo will meet interim champion Max Holloway in a title unification bout at UFC 212 on June 3 in Rio de Janeiro, the UFC announced officially Sunday morning.

Combate reported on the bout Friday and UFC president Dana White mentioned it to ESPN’s Brett Okamoto on a podcast. Presumably Aldo vs. Holloway will be the UFC 212 main event.

Aldo (26-2), who held the UFC/WEC featherweight title from 2009 to 2015, won the interim belt by beating Frankie Edgar by unanimous decision at UFC 200 last July. A few weeks after Conor McGregor, who beat Aldo via knockout at UFC 194 in December 2015, won the lightweight title back in November, the UFC stripped McGregor of the featherweight title and gave it to Aldo.

Holloway (17-3), who has won 10 straight fights, won the interim title by beating Anthony Pettis by third-round TKO at UFC 206 in December. McGregor still considers himself to be the undisputed featherweight champion, since he has beaten both Aldo and Holloway. However, he never defended the title, instead fighting Nate Diaz twice and Eddie Alvarez for the lightweight title last year.

Aldo, 30, was a dominant featherweight champion during his run and regarded as the best titleholder the division has ever had. The Brazilian is a future UFC Hall of Famer and is an all-time great. Holloway, 25, is still coming into his own and is one of the most promising young fighters in the sport. He was only 21 years old when he lost to McGregor in 2013.

The title fight is the only bout currently announced for UFC 212.

Amanda Nunes vs. Valentina Shevchenko II would be a great addition as the co-main event.

When was FW really whole anyway?It's been forever.For a long time there was like 3-5 #1'ish contenders because Aldo very very rarely fought coupled with UFC mixing in fights like Frankie Edgar fighting his first FW fight for the title while there was already a bunch of contenders.FW has been pretty much a mess for a really long time.One of my favorite divisions for sure,but still a mess.Aldo has only fought 6 times in over 5 years and didn't fight a ton before that since WEC.

As long as Aldo is champ I see FW always having problems running smooth and the way they hand out interim belts we'll see tons of those imo with Aldo as champ.I don't have a ton of faith in the division being "whole" again unless Max wins,cause he fights all the time and will fight anyone.

@Kuma Yeah, I like Aldo, but I agree. Though, I have a gut feeling that Aldo is done with MMA if he loses to Holloway. 

McGregor is still the linear FW champ as well. Until that gets united with Aldo's current "undisputed" FW title it will always be less than whole.