This post was updated at 3:06 p.m. ET after an earlier version of the story incorrectly identified one of the elevator’s occupants as Malki Kawa. The person in question was MMA fighter Maki Pitolo.

Xtreme Couture coach Eric Nicksick was riding in the elevator that plunged approximately two floors, which forced light heavyweight C.B. Dollaway off this past Saturday’s UFC 203 with a back injury.

Several videos released on social media shows a handful of fighters and coaches joking about the incident, which took place after the pay-per-view event’s ceremonial weigh-ins at the host hotel in Cleveland. But Nicksick said it wasn’t all fun and games when the elevator doors suddenly opened and the cabin lurched up, then down – quickly.

“My back’s a little tight,” he told MMAjunkie Radio on Monday, two days later. “Brad (Tavares) described it the best: It was like jumping off a patio covering onto your feet.”

Nicksick was part of a trio who joined the elevator on the hotel’s second floor. He said ex-heavyweight champ Fabricio Werdum was playfully pushing fighter Maki Pitolo out of the elevator when it started moving upward and then suddenly went down. Nicksick said he grabbed Pitolo to avoid a gruesome collision with the concrete walls.

Manager Ali Abdelaziz followed the elevator down to the basement and called for help, Nicksick said. Although Dollaway (15-8 MMA, 9-8 UFC) didn’t immediately appear to be injured, the Xtreme Couture coach noted “a level of seriousness” on the veteran fighter’s face. Later, the UFC announced his withdrawal from a scheduled bout with Francimar Barroso (18-5 MMA, 3-2 UFC), which left the fight card with 10 fights, down from the scheduled 12 (another scratch occurred when Ray Borg fell ill and was scratched from a bout with Ian McCall).

The whole incident lasted just 15 minutes, but it was one of the more bizarre episodes in the promotion’s history of event promotion. Thankfully, the fighters and coaches weren’t on a higher floor.

Check out the above video to hear Nicksick’s story.

And for more on UFC 203, check out the UFC Events section of the site.

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