Max Holloway believes he would have made weight for UFC 223 if the New York State Athletic Commission didn’t pull him from the Brooklyn event on Friday morning.
Holloway stepped up to fight for the UFC lightweight title against Khabib Nurmagomedov on six days’ notice following Tony Ferguson’s withdrawal from the event. During the Friday’s official weigh-ins, it was announced that the Hawaiian would not be medically cleared to compete.
The featherweight champion refused to disclose how much he weighed when he accepted the fight, but suggested that he was above 180 pounds at the time.