This is not an April Fools Day joke. UFC 223 has been shook up. Max Holloway steps in to take on Khabib Nurmagomedov, with Tony Ferguson out.
The news was reported via UFC President Dana White.
BOOM!!!!!! We got Khabib vs The Champ Max Holloway for the 155lb title this Saturday in Brooklyn New York!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/quvI3UqGXh
— Dana White (@danawhite) April 1, 2018
This is the fourth time Ferguson and Nurmagomedov have been slated to fight, but it has not come to fruition.