Analysis: Forget Conor McGregor, Max Holloway has historic chance at UFC 223

UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway gestures while responding to reporters’ questions during Media Day for UFC223, Thursday, April 5, 2018, at the Barclays Center in New York ahead of his upcoming lightweight title fight against Khabib Nurmagomedov.ASSOCIATED PRESS

Conor McGregor looked so emaciated before weighing in the second-to-last time he fought at 145 pounds that Urijah Faber asked him if he was going to survive and inadvertently incited a minor quarrel backstage at MGM Grand Garden Arena.

That’s a notable memory nearly three years later not because McGregor is once again causing conflict and chaos ahead in the bowels of an arena — this time at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.…