When weight concerns caused the New York State Athletic Commission to pull Max Holloway from UFC 223’s lightweight title headliner, Holloway admits the fighter in him was mad. “When they called it, the fighter in me wanted to fight no matter what,” Holloway told Hawaii News Now . That much we knew already from a tweet Holloway (19-3 MMA, 15-3 UFC) sent out shortly after we found out he wouldn’t be able to meet Khabib Nurmagomedov (26-0 MMA, 10-0 UFC) this past Saturday. The NYSAC’s decision meant that Holloway, who’d stepped in on six days’ notice to fill in for the injured Tony Ferguson, would no longer have his stab at becoming a two-division UFC champ. Considering the effort Holloway had put in up until that point, one can see why he’d be frustrated having that shot taken away
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