Welterweight Competent Geoff Neal called his hardest-hitting opponent in February 2024.
Days before he fought Ian Garry, 'Handz or Steel' looked back on his long career in MMA.
Geoff Neal has large UFC victories at Belal Muhammad, Mike Perry, Santiago Ponzinibbio and Vicente Luque.
The harsh American also shared the Octagon with Neil Magny, Stephen Thompson and Shavkat Rakhmonov but he says that someone he fought outside of MMA's most important promotion hit him the hardest.
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Geoff Neal Revisits fight with Kevin Holland
In January 2017, Geoff Neal off with Kevin Holland on Xtreme Knockout 34.
The future UFC stars had a 6-1 and 7-2 records before they collided in a middleweight title.
Holland appeared with a TKO victory on the third round, but he had to wait 18 months for his shot in the UFC.
In the meantime, Neal won a comeback fight before he impressed Dana White on the Contender Series to earn a MMA MMA MMA.
Yet all those years later, Neal remembers how hard Holland hit him when they fought.
“Kevin Holland, to be honest,” he said when he was asked to call his hardest affected opponent so far.
“That mother – – hit hard. Long, lanky guy.
'Don't know. The way he generates his [power]He is so long and he has a range of 80-I-I-inch.
“Yes, at the end of that mother – he almost beaten me.”
What is the next step for Kevin Holland?
Kevin Holland has become known for bouncing between weight classes during his UFC run.
Last Time -Out he pronounced Gunnar Nelson in his return to welterweight of middleweight.
Holland will take place on 170 pounds when he fights on Saturday night at UFC 316 in Newark, New Jersey.
One of Neal's old opponents, Vicente Luque, stands in the way of Holland and a two-field profit reak.
Only the time will tell whether the power of Holland will bring him to the victory over the Merab Dvalishvili vs Sean O'Malley 2 Undercard.