This title contender has revealed who is going to be his toughest challenge.

Former UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar is preparing for his UFC return. It’s been well documented that Edgar had to pull out of his UFC featherweight title bout against current champion Max Holloway in the main event of UFC 218 after he suffered a facial injury in training that required surgery.

Edgar is on a two-fight winning streak and coming off a win to rising star Yair Rodriguez by TKO on the UFC 211 main card.

Jose Aldo ended up replacing him at the event but lost to the UFC champion by third-round TKO.

UFC officials have already announced that the UFC featherweight champion will make his next title defense against Edgar at UFC 222.

Holloway is currently on a 12-fight win streak, which is the fifth-longest undefeated run in UFC history.

“I’m going to have to say yes, based on what he’s done in his career at this point,” Edgar told Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports (transcript via BJPenn.com). “With him being so young and people want to say I’m being old, so I think this is my toughest test but this is what I want. If you want to be the best, you have to go after the best guys.”

“I do think I have that chip [on my shoulder of being too small]. I think you need to have a chip on your shoulder regardless, but the fact that people tell me I’m too small, or not strong enough, not tall enough and now I’m too old, that’s definitely motivating and I love proving people wrong. If I’m able to do that, that’s a notch on my hat.”

“Everyone says that styles make match-ups. People want to write me off in this fight because he beat [Jose] Aldo twice and I lost to him twice, but MMA math don’t work like that,” Edgar said. “I think it’s going to take an A-level performance [to beat Holloway]. I really don’t see any weaknesses in his game.”

“Obviously, my wrestling background I think is something I’ll try to execute. Everyone knows that. Every fight, I go out there and throw a lot of punches and look for takedowns. It’s going to be no different this time around. We’re going to see. We’re going to see how his wrestling defense really is. He’s fought some wrestlers, but I don’t think he’s fought anyone the level of my wrestling right now.”

UFC 222 is set to take place on March 3, 2018, at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The main card will air on pay-per-view at 10 p.m. ET while the preliminary card will air on FOX Sports 1 at 8 p.m. ET and the promotion’s streaming service, UFC Fight Pass. Here is the updated card:

Champ Max Holloway vs. Frankie Edgar – for featherweight title

C.B. Dollaway vs. Hector Lombard

Sean O’Malley vs. Andre Soukhamthath

Andrei Arlovski vs. Stefan Struve

Mackenzie Dern vs. Ashley Yoder