In one of the weirdest MMA stories to date, on September 9, 2016, a faulty elevator at the Wyndham Cleveland host hotel interfered with a number of UFC 203 fighters. It was reportedly the sole functioning passenger elevator in the facility.

First, the elevator led to heavyweight title challenger Alistair Overeem showing late to weigh-ins, and he was fined $500 by the Ohio Athletic Commission. Then, far more seriously, an elevator “elbows to asses” full of fighters and coaches, including UFC heavyweight champion Fabricio Werdum, dropped to the basement, trapping the fighters inside for a time.

Most of the fighters were okay, but UFC then-middleweight C.B. Dollaway suffered a back injury and was unable to fight Francimar Barroso. Dollaway is still suffering effects of the incident, and is suing.

Dollaway followed through with a planned move to light heavyweight 10 months later beat Ed Herman at UFC 203. However, Dollaway dropped 10-15 pounds as he struggled to recover from the accident, which made the move up further challenging.

There’s permanent damage, said Dollaway to Shaun Al-Shatti for MMA Fighting. There’s no way to — it’s irreversible, essentially. I could go try to do a surgery or something, but my doctors have been like, ‘Yeah, I wouldn’t recommend it,’ because they don’t know how that’s going to turn out. So it just is what it is, you know?

For his next fight, he is returning to 185+1, but hope to return to light heavyweight.

It just depends if I put the size back on, which, I imagine I will,” he said. “It’s just going to take a little time. Putting on 10 or 15 pounds of muscle, it’s hard, especially with high cardio and everything we do. But yeah, I fought that fight there [in July] and I just didn’t feel the same as I did before.”

At the end of the day, I’m not going to walk away from this sport with millions and millions of dollars, most likely, so you’ve got to make sure your body’s good when you leave the sport. … When you walk away, are you going to be able to function? At the end of the day, I want to make sure I can still live a decent life when I’m done with it.

Next fight is Hector Lombard on March 3, at UFC 222. The former Cuban Olympic judoka is 40 and 0-4 since failing test for PEDs early in January of 2015. Dollaway is taking it seriously though.

He’s a buzz saw, said Dollaway. When you go out there, you know: The first round, you better be ready to get it, because he’s coming. … So it’s kinda one of those things, you’re going to have to survive the storm. Hopefully get through that and then take over. I’ve been in those grueling, crazy-ass fights that you pretty much win on guts, and I’m willing to do that. I don’t know if he is.”

There’s one thing they always say, the last thing to go is your power.”