Dana White announces the main event for UFC 300 in todays Wrestling news
The 300th PPV will feature a title fight between light heavyweights and heavyweights.
After weeks of speculation and buzz, UFC head Dana White has announced the main event for April’s UFC 300 — one that had some fans disappointed given the hype going into it.
UFC light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira will defend against former champion Jamahal Hill in the pay-per-view headliner, set for Saturday, April 13th at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
White revealed the fight after UFC 298 Saturday night, adding that welterweight champion Leon Edwards accepted three different opponents for the event, but no fight could be made.
In the weeks leading up to the event, White had pushed that the main event would be a “huge” one in his effort to make the 300th PPV a great one. White said he had talked to “lots of people, trying to make lots of fights.”
Some speculation was whether Conor McGregor vs. Michael Chandler would be pushed up to the event or possibly Israel Adesanya vs. Dricus Du Plessis for the middleweight title.
In the end, White turned to Pereira, who will make the first defense of the title he won last November, and Hill who hasn’t fought in over a year due to a ruptured Achilles tendon suffered in July during a pickup basketball game.
Hill said afterward that he was asked on Friday if he would do the fight.
White said the difficulties were trying to put together great lineups for UFC 298, 299 and 300 and that money demands from potential fighters didn’t have anything to do with it.
“It was all about timing. We’ve got three killer cards in a row and in this business, you have injuries and all kinds of other bullsh*t that goes on behind the scenes. We have been talking about 300 forever. We were just trying to make the best fights that we could possibly make. We had two more fights to make and we’re trying to put on two bad ass fights,” he said.
Here’s the current card:
- UFC light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira defends against Jamahal Hill
- UFC women’s strawweight champion Zhang Weili defends against Yan Xiaonan
- BMF championship: Justin Gaethje vs. Max Holloway
- Charles Oliveira vs. Arman Tsarukyan
- Jiri Prochazka vs. Aleksandar Rakic
- Calvin Kattar vs. Aljamain Sterling
- Bo Nickal vs. Cody Brundage
- Deiveson Figueiredo vs. Cody Garbrandt
- Holly Holm vs. Kayla Harrison
- Sodiq Yusuff vs. Diego Lopes
- Jessica Andrade vs. Marina Rodriguez
- Bobby Green vs. Jim Miller
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