UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo was arguably the best fighter in the UFC heading into UFC 194. He hadn’t lost in over a decade and had successfully defended the WEC-UFC belt ten times. Then he lost to Conor McGregor in moments.

Aldo rebounded with a win over Frankie Edgar last year for the interim belt, and that eventually was declared the full title. Now he fights Max Holloway in the main event of UFC 212 on Saturday night. Like so much in this sport, McGregor hangs over the fight.

During a recent JRE podcast, UFC commentator Joe Rogan spoke about Aldo’s legacy.

Aldo’s legacy and his reign is always gonna be tarnished by that 13 seconds against McGregor,” said Rogan, as transcribed by Jed Meshew for MMA Fighting. “Which is so crazy because you take away that fight and he’s got one brutal war with Chad Mendes where he got rocked and stunned, which is a tough fight – the second one – great fight. And those are the only hard moments he’s had inside the Octagon other than maybe round five against Ricardo Lamas.

“Lamas had him down and was doing a little bit of ground and pound in the fifth round and that was Aldo was too drained making that weight, but he’s smaller now. He generally looks smaller. He definitely chose to slim down because he was having unbelievably brutal weight cuts early in his career. He was just too big for the weight class so he just chose to slim his body down.

A dominant win over Holloway on Saturday would restore some of the potential G.O.A.T. talk. Holloway is one a ten-fight win streak, not having lost since 2013; it was to Conor McGregor.