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Max Holloway Concussion-Symptoms

During UFC 226 fight week in early July ahead of Max Holloway’s featherweight title defense against Brian Ortega there were troubling signs that something wasn’t quite right with the Hawaiian champion.

In his interviews early in the week Holloway seemed out of sorts – low in energy, slow of thought, and even slurring his words at times, while he lacked energy at the open-workouts on the Tuesdays, hitting the pads for only a few short minutes before hastily wrapping things up.

On UFC Tonight the following day, co-host Michael Bisping felt compelled to ask Holloway about the elephant in the room.

“Max, you say you feel great, don’t be offended when I say this, but you look like you just got out of bed,” Bisping stated. “Are you tired? What’s going on? How’s the weight cut? Are you drained? You look a little sleepy.”

Holloway insisted he was fine, but later that day he was officially pulled from the card after it was revealed he had been suffering from “concussion-like symptoms” since late in the previous week.

It then emerged that after the open-workouts Holloway had “crashed and was very hard to wake up,” according to his management team. “When he did, he had flashing vision and slurred speech.”

It was a troubling time for the 27-year-old, and even more worryingly, despite consulting the finest doctor’s in the land and being put through a battery of tests, the exact reason for all this has to this day still never been established.

Nevertheless, thankfully he has since made a successful return to action at UFC 231 with an impressive TKO victory over Ortega in early December.

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