{"id":1379,"date":"2023-06-14T18:47:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T17:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2023-06-14T18:47:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T17:47:03","slug":"islam-makhachev-doesnt-want-the-ufc-bmf-belt-%f0%9f%91%80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/islam-makhachev-doesnt-want-the-ufc-bmf-belt-%f0%9f%91%80\/","title":{"rendered":"Islam Makhachev doesn&#8217;t want the UFC &#8220;BMF&#8221; belt!!! \ud83d\udc40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Islam Makhachev\u00a0isn\u2019t interested in fighting for the BMF strap during his next title defense.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_24249\"  width=\"696\" height=\"391\"  data-origwidth=\"696\" data-origheight=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/khysQGJAleU?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier this year, Makhachev solidified himself as the UFC lightweight champion by defeating Alexander Volkanovski on February 11. Since then, the 31-year-old Russian has been waiting for his next worthy title challenger.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although\u00a0Charles Oliveira\u00a0could be next\u00a0after UFC 289, all eyes will be on Dustin Poirier vs. Justin Gaethje 2 on July 29. The lightweight superstars will be competing for the controversial BMF title. During an interview with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@DC_MMA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daniel Cormier<\/a>, Makhachev had this to say about the BMF strap:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis belt for the bums. Who first fought for this belt? Diaz and Masvidal. The people who never can be champion. They give him some belt, guys be happy, fight for BMF\u2026 Gaethje and Poirier, they fight for the real belt many times and they always lose. Now Dana, good guy, give them other belt\u2026 Honestly, if somebody give me this belt tomorrow, I don\u2019t want this sh*t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_65437\"  width=\"696\" height=\"391\"  data-origwidth=\"696\" data-origheight=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yv6tfq_5xxM?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BMF title was introduced in November 2019 when Jorge Masvidal defeated Nate Diaz. Masvidal never defended the controversial belt, leading to some people considering it a gimmick. The UFC looks to bring back the BMF strap on July 29 to honor the wars that Poirier and Gaethje have endured in the Octagon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islam Makhachev\u00a0isn\u2019t interested in fighting for the BMF strap during his next title defense. Earlier this year, Makhachev solidified himself as the UFC lightweight champion by defeating Alexander Volkanovski on February 11. Since then, the 31-year-old Russian has been waiting for his next worthy title challenger. Although\u00a0Charles Oliveira\u00a0could be next\u00a0after UFC 289, all eyes will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"category-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1381,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions\/1381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}