When news first broke that Max Holloway was ruled medically unfit to compete against Khabib Nurmagomedov in the main event of UFC 223 this past weekend, Anthony Pettis’s name was the first to come up as a potential replacement.
The former UFC lightweight champion had been scheduled to fight Michael Chiesa at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Saturday, but Chiesa would be ruled out of that contest after being cut by a broken bus window when Conor McGregor made a shocking and violent appearance at a media event on Thursday.