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Max Holloway won’t fight ‘anytime soon,’ UFC president says

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CRAIG T. KOJIMA / ckojima@staradvertiser.com

UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway, shown here during training last month in Honolulu, was taken to the hospital twice this week.

Ultimate Fighting Championship President Dana White said today at a UFC 226 press conference in Las Vegas that Waianae’s Max Holloway will not fight “any time soon.”

Holloway was pulled from Saturday’s co-main event against Brian Ortega on Wednesday after being taken to the hospital for the second time this week.

According to his management team, Holloway also spent Monday night in the hospital due to concussion-like symptoms but was cleared Tuesday.

“It’s a weird situation,” White said. “There’s a couple of different people who think it’s concussion related and some think it’s weight-cut related. They haven’t really gotten down to the bottom of what it is.

“We’re going to continue to try to figure out what’s wrong with Max Holloway. There’s no way this guy is going to fight any time soon.”

Holloway has been pulled from three different scheduled fights this year, including two the week of the fight.

He had to pull out of a featherweight title defense against Frankie Edgar in March due to an ankle injury.

Holloway agreed to step up in weight to fight Khabib Nurmagomedov on six days notice in April for the vacant 155-pound title but was pulled from the fight by doctors with an hour to go to make weight the day before the mixed martial arts fight.

Holloway attempted to cut 30 pounds in less than a week and was three pounds shy of the 155-pound limit when doctors deemed him unfit to fight.

A welterweight bout between Paul Felder and Mike Perry was moved to the main card of Saturday’s UFC 226. Felder took the place of Makaha’s Yancy Medeiros, who originally was set to fight Perry before having to pull out of the bout last week with a rib injury.

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