The UFC had promised an epic card for it’s three hundredth flagship occasion, and few had been left upset as a stacked present, headlined by Alex Pereira retaining his gentle heavyweight title by placing Jamahal Hill to sleep was only one spotlight of a record-breaking evening. M&F takes a have a look at a few of these standout stats.
20,067 MMA followers jack-packed the T-Cell Enviornment in Las Vegas, producing it’s third highest gate ever with $16.5M in income, and organizers say the occasion marked the corporate’s finest merchandise gross sales so far for an area present. In all, 13 fights lit up the strip, as Alex Pereira capped the evening off with a blistering first-round knockout of Jamahal Hill to take care of his dominance over the sunshine heavyweight division. The evening may also be remembered for Max Holloway’s unforgettable dispatching of Justin Gaethje with solely ten seconds remaining on the clock, incomes him the ceremonial BMF belt. UFC commentator Joe Rogan hailed Holloway’s show of brilliance because the “KO of the century,” and the fighter was additionally gifted an eye-watering $600,000 for efficiency of the evening and combat of the evening honors. Max Holloway is now tied for the most victories in UFC historical past with an astonishing 22 wins from 29 fights in a profession spanning 12 years. An extra $300,000 was awarded to Jiří Procházka who stopped Aleksandar Rakic within the second spherical.
In different information, Zhang Weili beat Yan Xiaonan through unanimous resolution to maintain her strawweight title, and Kayla Harrison had a extremely profitable UFC debut along with her second-round submission of Holly Holm. Jim Miller continued his file for many UFC fights with 44, additionally racking up a file 6:47:47 complete UFC combat time within the course of. And, man of the second Max Holloway’s successes continued at as he furthered his file for complete strikes (3,622) and vital strikes (3,378) ever landed in UFC.
WHAT A KO 🤯@BlessedMMA simply blew the roof off T-Cell 🚨 #UFC300 pic.twitter.com/7g0xJXESc4
— UFC (@ufc) April 14, 2024
UFC 300 Full Outcomes
- Mild heavyweight title: Alex Pereira beat Jamahal Hill through KO
- Girls’s strawweight title: Zhang Weili beat Yan Xiaonan through unanimous resolution
- (Light-weight) Max Holloway beat Justin Gaethje by KO, successful the BMF belt
- (Light-weight) Arman Tsarukyan beat Charles Oliveira through break up resolution
- (Middleweight) Bo Nickal beat Cody Brundage through submission
- (Mild heavyweight) Jiří Procházka beat Aleksandar Rakic through TKO
- (Featherweight) Aljamain Sterling beat Calvin Kattar through unanimous resolution
- (Girls’s bantamweight) Kayla Harrison beat Holly Holm through submission
- (Featherweight) Diego Lopes beat Sodiq Yusuff through TKO
- (Light-weight) Renato Moicano beat Jalin Turner through TKO
- (Girls’s strawweight) Jessica Andrade beat Marina Rodriguez through break up resolution
- (Light-weight) Bobby Inexperienced beat Jim Miller through unanimous resolution
- (Bantamweight) Deiveson Figueiredo beat Cody Garbrandt through submission