The UFC lightweight division has twisted itself into a tricky little knot to begin 2017.
Now, the question is whether the fight company can pull the right strings to untangle it all before the most dependably great weight class in MMA begins to unravel.
Not since the UFC abruptly abandoned the 155-pound division in 2004 (only to pick it up again in 2006) have things been in such disarray.
Newly minted 155-pound champion Conor McGregor remains at odds with the organization on a return, so dead-set is he on boxing Floyd Mayweather.