{"id":2777,"date":"2024-01-17T09:03:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T08:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=2777"},"modified":"2024-01-17T13:13:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T12:13:42","slug":"dana-white-announces-justin-gaethje-vs-holloway-bmf-title-fight-ufc-300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/dana-white-announces-justin-gaethje-vs-holloway-bmf-title-fight-ufc-300\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White announces Justin Gaethje vs. Holloway BMF Title Fight UFC 300"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">UFC CEO Dana White has announced two big fights for the upcoming UFC 300 event, including an exciting BMF lightweight title fight between Justin Gaethje and Max Holloway.<\/h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING NEWS:<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC300?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFC300<\/a> will have Jim Miller vs Bobby Green and Justin Gaethje vs Max Holloway for the BMF Title at Lightweight <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Cx1rbuWKfo\">pic.twitter.com\/Cx1rbuWKfo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; danawhite (@danawhite) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danawhite\/status\/1747415850385322240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jim Miller&#8217;s wish to fight in the main event of the pay-per-view was also granted, as the great Bobby Green was chosen to face him, as White also announced Tuesday night via the networks social.<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">UFC 300 takes place on April 13 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last week, White announced a women&#8217;s strawweight bout between Zhang Weili and Yan Xiaonan, adding the first piece of gold available on the ESPN+ pay-per-view card.<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gaethje will make the first defense of the belt that was revived by the UFC last year, in his match with Dustin Poirier at UFC 291.<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amazingly, Gaethje managed to knock out Poirier with a head kick and win the belt, originally designed for the UFC 244 main event match between Nate Diaz and Jorge Masvidal.<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gaethje was expected to be the first to win the real belt against lightweight champion Islam Makhachev.<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Instead, he will face Holloway, whose path to regaining the featherweight title was complicated by three straight losses to bantamweight champion Alexander Volkanovski.<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his last match, Holloway eliminated Chan Sung Jung, bringing his winning streak to two after his third loss to<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC CEO Dana White has announced two big fights for the upcoming UFC 300 event, including an exciting BMF lightweight title fight between Justin Gaethje and Max Holloway. BREAKING NEWS:#UFC300 will have Jim Miller vs Bobby Green and Justin Gaethje vs Max Holloway for the BMF Title at Lightweight pic.twitter.com\/Cx1rbuWKfo &mdash; danawhite (@danawhite) January 17, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,47],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ufc-news","8":"category-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777"}],"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=2777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2779,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions\/2779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}