UFC 300, set to take place in Las Vegas on April 13, is expected to feature a stacked lineup, including four title fights, with UFC CEO Dana White promising one of the most unpredictable lineups in company history.
UFC 300 is all set to be a historic event this April. The lineup is loaded and anticipation is high.
After a year of chaos, UFC is bringing UFC 300 home to Las Vegas on April 13. Dana White, the UFC CEO, has promised a stacked lineup, one that could be the most unpredictable in the company’s history.
Already, four title fights are scheduled for the first quarter of the year. These include Sean Strickland vs. Dricus Du Plessis for the middleweight title, Mayra Bueno Silva vs. Raquel Pennington for the vacant women’s bantamweight title at UFC 297, Alexander Volkanovski vs. Ilia Topuria for the featherweight title at UFC 298, and Sean O’Malley vs. Marlon Vera for the bantamweight title at UFC 299.
With these fights already on the books, UFC has several directions to go in terms of booking potential blockbuster fights. The big question is, will UFC 300 mark the return of Conor McGregor, the sport’s biggest star? Only time will tell. The countdown to UFC 300 is officially on.
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The current UFC 300 fight card includes Zhang Weili vs. Yan Xiaonan, Justin Gaethje vs. Max Holloway for the BMF title fight, Charles Oliveira vs. Arman Tsarukyan, Kayla Harrison vs. Holly Holm, Aljamain Sterling vs. Calvin Kattar, Jiri Prochazka vs. Aleksandar Rakic, Cody Garbrandt vs. Deiveson Figueiredo, and Jim Miller vs. Bobby Green.
In a surprising announcement, two-time Olympic champion and two-time PFL champion Kayla Harrison has left PFL to face Holly Holm at UFC 300. Harrison, 33, is expected to make her bantamweight debut after fighting her entire MMA career at lightweight and featherweight. Holm, 42, is a former UFC bantamweight champion.
Also joining the card is a battle between featherweight veteran Sodiq Yusuff and MMA Fighting’s 2023 Rookie of the Year Diego Lopes.
In a surprise move, UFC CEO Dana White announced that Justin Gaethje is set to defend his BMF title against Max Holloway in a lightweight matchup at UFC 300. White also announced that Jim Miller will get his wish following his third-round submission of Gabriel Benitez at UFC Vegas 84. Miller, the current record-holder for the most bouts and wins in UFC history, faces fellow longtime veteran Bobby Veteran in a lightweight bout on the card. Miller is aiming to become the only fighter to compete at UFC 100, UFC 200, and UFC 300.
UFC CEO Dana White announced a long-awaited matchup between former champions Cody Garbrandt and Deiveson Figueiredo as the latest addition to UFC 300. Garbrandt called for a matchup against Figueiredo following his latest knockout win over Brian Kelleher at UFC 296. The two former champions were previously booked to meet in August 2020 with Garbrandt moving down in weight and challenging for Figueiredo’s then-held flyweight title, however, Garbrandt was forced to pull out of the contest due to illness. Now, they’ll get a chance to settle their business on one of the biggest cards of the year.
Jim Miller has been linked to UFC 300 for years, and there was another hurdle he needed to leap over, and that was his UFC Vegas 84 bout with Gabriel Benitez. Miller extended his UFC win record with a third-round submission victory, and then turned his attention to the April pay-per-view event.
Following the win, “A-10” showed interest in fighting Paul Felder, who was doing commentary for the event, as well as Matt Brown for a potential shootout on the historic card — along with a hilarious callout of Brock Lesnar.
Miller has to be on the card, and at the end of the day, the opponent doesn’t really matter, but either Felder or Brown would be excellent opponents for the veteran lightweight that competed at both UFC 100 and UFC 200.
Nate Diaz might be interested in coming home again. After he was originally scheduled to headline UFC 200 against Conor McGregor back in 2016, Diaz now likes the idea of returning to his old stomping grounds to potentially serve as the UFC 300 main event instead.
Diaz took to Twitter to tease the possible reunion after hitting free agency following his last fight in the octagon — a win over Tony Ferguson in 2022. “I was supposed to headline UFC 200,” Diaz wrote. “Headline UFC 300 would be better.”
The original plan for UFC 200 was to set with McGregor and Diaz squaring off in a rematch but the bout was ultimately delayed until UFC 202 two months