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Former UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway is coming back to headline another UFC card.
Holloway will make his 27th UFC appearance in a 145-pound bout against Arnold Allen to headline a UFC Fight Night card in Kansas City, Mo., on April 15.
A UFC official confirmed the bout on Wednesday.
Holloway (23-7, 19-7) last fought in July, when he dropped a unanimous decision to featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski, who has handed Holloway three of his seven UFC defeats.
Holloway has lost four of his last seven fights in the octagon but has won 15 consecutive bouts against featherweights not named Volkanovski, who is ranked as the UFC’s No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter entering Saturday’s main event in which he moves up in weight to face lightweight champion Islam Makhachev.
Allen, who is 19-1 overall and 10-0 in the UFC, is ranked No. 4 at 145 pounds. Six of his 10 wins are by decision, but his last two victories were TKOs against Calvin Kattar and Dan Hooker.
Allen, 29, is two years younger and 2 inches shorter than Holloway, who is 5-foot-11.
The fight will be Holloway’s 10th in the main event slot.
The card will be broadcast on ESPN+ and is free to ESPN+ subscribers.
