UFC interim featherweight champion Max Holloway plans to stay busy if he can’t get a title-unifier with primary titleholder Jose Aldo.

“I’m not going to wait around,” Holloway told MMAjunkie Radio. “I’ll defend the interim title 10 times if I have to.”

Holloway’s team hopes undisputed champ Aldo will be waiting in May, when 25-year-old Holloway expects to recover from an ankle injury that forced him to decline an offer to fight Aldo at UFC 208. But if the champ isn’t ready, they’ll open the doors to other opponents.

Asked about a fight with ex-lightweight champ Frankie Edgar (21-5-1 MMA, 15-5-1 UFC), who recently got back in the win column after a setback to Aldo (25-2 MMA, 8-1 UFC), Holloway (17-3 MMA, 13-3 UFC) said he’s already called out all the top-tier opponents, so he might as well get started fighting them.

“I want to fight Edgar,” he said. “I’d love to fight Edgar. I’d take that fight in a heartbeat. Former champion, back on his win streak, he fought Aldo, and if I can do my thing and win the fight convincingly, (I will) prove to people (I deserve the belt). I’m not trying to race through the division; I’m trying to clean out the division.”

Edgar might be looking at another weight division unless he can get a fight with former Holloway opponent and UFC lightweight champ Conor McGregor (21-3 MMA, 9-1 UFC). But Holloway, the No. 2 fighter in the USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie MMA featherweight rankings, said he’ll take any big-name fights.

“I’ve been calling out Chad Mendes, Jose Aldo, Frankie Edgar forever,” he said. “I’ve been calling out the top-five guys every damn time. We just wasn’t getting a fight. Now it’s here, and I want them even more. The storyline is even better.”

Before he signs on the dotted line, however, Holloway said he he’ll meet with UFC officials, and it sounds like he’ll ask for more money. He joked that he “maybe” would follow McGregor’s request for a piece of the company.

“We’ve got some business moving – it’s secret,” Holloway said. “Private business.”

There’s certainly time to get a new deal done. The Aldo fight was a sure thing after Holloway stopped ex-lightweight champ Anthony Pettis (19-6 MMA, 6-5 UFC) at the surprise hit UFC 206 this past month. Now, it’s a question of whether it ever happens.

UFC President Dana White recently confirmed that Aldo might be moving on. He allegedly requested an interim lightweight title with Khabib Nurmagomedov, only to lose the chance when the Russian fighter’s father advised against it (Nurmagomedov accused the promotion of lying to fans). But Holloway isn’t convinced the bout was a reality.

“He has a better chance of showing up to a soccer game,” Holloway said. “So next contract, I’m going to tell them, put (on Aldo’s contract that) you’re playing at a soccer game, but you need to show up to make this weight. He’s going to show up that way.

“When he signs a contract, I have a better chance of winning on red or black than him showing up to the fight.”

Holloway, of course, has turned his criticism of Aldo over tardiness into a hashtag comparing the champ to Waldo. So far, it hasn’t brought the two into the octagon. At the moment, only one is healthy enough to fight. But Holloway said if Aldo wants to criticize him about not showing at UFC 208, he should look in the mirror.

“I show up to every damn fight I’ve ever fought,” Holloway said. “I’ve never turned down a fight, never backed away from a fight, and we never had a contract for a fight (at UFC 208). It was just in talks.

“I could go crazy on Doo Ho Choi, who I was supposed to fight. I didn’t get a contract, so I’m not going to talk (expletive) on that guy. I was supposed to fight Chad Mendes at one time, but we didn’t get a contract. Even Frankie – I heard we were supposed to fight. Do I talk (expletive) to him?”

If fans want a fighter who will show up without complaining, Holloway said, they should back another guy.

“Brazil deserves better,” Holloway said. “Get off the Aldo train. Waldo’s train? Where is the train? My train is easy to find. Come on over.”

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