Max Holloway’s health scare underlines MMA’s inherent risks

LAS VEGAS --- Max Griffin isn't proud of his reaction after he heard UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway dropped out of his fight against Brian Ortega with apparent symptoms of a concussion. "To me, we're fighters," said Griffin, a UFC welterweight. "We always have a concussion, you know?" Griffin knows his instinctive skepticism about Holloway's injury isn't healthy. He also isn't afraid to acknowledge the fundamental illogic behind all mixed martial arts fighters' decision to pursue a career in a sport that is designed to hurt them. "We always have concussion-like symptoms, (but) I've been in fights where I couldn't see, and I didn't say, 'I can't see,'" Griffin said T...

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