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Max Holloway on UFC 223 withdrawal: NYSAC pulled me out because I looked ‘skinny’

UFC 223 will go down in history as one of the oddest, most fiasco-filled events that ever came to be.

In a span of six days, we saw one of the biggest lightweight fights fall out because of cable wires, three opponent changes for Khabib Nurmagomedov, and an angry Irishman throw a dolly at a bus window to ultimately force two matchups off the card.

But some of the incidents that happened behind the scenes were apparently as messy. One of them involved Max Holloway, the first man tapped to replace the injured Tony Ferguson.