{"id":403159,"date":"2022-01-07T10:57:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T18:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=403159"},"modified":"2022-01-07T10:57:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T18:57:20","slug":"max-holloway-forced-to-withdraw-from-ufc-272-trilogy-fight-with-alex-volkanovski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/max-holloway-forced-to-withdraw-from-ufc-272-trilogy-fight-with-alex-volkanovski\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Holloway forced to withdraw from UFC 272 trilogy fight with Alex Volkanovski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC featherweight Max Holloway has been forced to pull out of his UFC 272 trilogy showdown with Alexander Volkanovski.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mma\/story\/_\/id\/33013756\/max-holloway-aggravates-injury-ufc-featherweight-title-fight-vs-alexander-volkanovski\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ESPN is reporting<\/a> that Holloway, who accepted the fight just a matter of <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/two-title-fights-announced-for-ufc-272-including-sterling-vs-yan-2\/\">days ago<\/a>, aggravated an old injury on Thursday and will therefore be unable to compete on the March 5 card in Las Vegas. As of this writing, no official statement has been made by the UFC regarding a potential replacement or whether the fight will be rescheduled for a later date.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Blessed&#8221; first fought Volkanovski back at UFC 245 in December 2019 and on that night, &#8220;The Great&#8221; defeated the then-champion to capture the belt. Seven months later, lightning struck twice as the Australian successfully defended the championship in a result that was deemed by many to be more controversial than the inaugural bout.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Max Holloway (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlessedMMA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BlessedMMA<\/a>) has been forced to withdraw from Alex Volkanovski (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexvolkanovski?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@alexvolkanovski<\/a>) trilogy after re-aggravating a previous injury. Happened just days after he accepted. More details here. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V0sa9kSUzk\">https:\/\/t.co\/V0sa9kSUzk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brett Okamoto (@bokamotoESPN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bokamotoESPN\/status\/1479524117900529665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Holloway had to beat Calvin Kattar and Yair Rodriguez in two scintillating performances just to get back to Volkanovski and now, fans are left to wonder when they&#8217;re going to see the highly-anticipated third meeting between these two all-time featherweight studs.<\/p>\n<p>The de-facto main event would currently be Aljamain Sterling vs Petr Yan for the UFC bantamweight title, although as previously noted, there&#8217;s been nothing confirmed by the promotion.<\/p>\n<p><em>Will we see Alexander Volkanovski vs Max Holloway 3 be rebooked, or will the champion get a new opponent? Let us know your thoughts down in the comments, BJPENN Nation!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC featherweight Max Holloway has been forced to pull out of his UFC 272 trilogy showdown with Alexander Volkanovski. ESPN is reporting that Holloway, who accepted the fight just a matter of days ago, aggravated an old injury on Thursday and will therefore be unable to compete on the March 5 card in Las Vegas. 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