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Max Holloway Forced Out of UFC 272 Championship Trilogy With Alexander Volkanovski

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The MMA gods giveth, and the MMA gods taketh away.

On Wednesday, Ultimate Fighting Championship head Dana White announced that Alexander Volkanovski (23-1) would be facing Max Holloway (23-6) for the third time atop UFC 272. The two were set to throw down on March 5 inside the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, but that fight was not meant to be.