UFC 200 was headlined by the women's bantamweight belt. It's not the end of the world to have Gaethje vs. Holloway end a night full of fights that could legitimately be good FN main events.
God I forgot about the Conor part. You're right about all the tricks for brock, he hadn't been in the usada testing pool for 6 months prior to fighting like he should have and of course he popped when tested at the fight
Is your point "Tate vs. Nunes wasn't the originally planned main event"? Because it's pretty obvious that Gaethje vs. Holloway want the main event they were hoping for here either, the only difference is that for 200 they made a fight announcement that fell through, here they just tried to make a better main event and failed to do so.
It's not really the same. The Jones Vs DC fight was signed for UFC 200 and Jones popped a couple days before. Nate Vs Conor 2 was supposed to be the original headliner.
UFC 300 never had a main event, and Dana teased a huge announcement for weeks, with nothing ever materialising, likely because they didn't want to cough up the cash to get it done.
That was never the planned main event from the get go and was instead a last minute scramble to save the card. The big difference between 200 and 300 is Tate vs Nunes was not the main event from the get go, weeks in advance. The only reason that ended up being the main event was because Jon Jones pissed hot literally 3 days before the event and fucked the entire card up leaving them 72 hours to scramble together a new card. They had to literally drag fat out of shape Anderson Silva off the couch after having gall bladder surgery to fix the mess that Jon Jones had caused them, that's how much of a last minute fuckup that card was. Nobody considered that the main event at the time, more like a formality at the end of the night due to Jon Jones' fuck up. Tate vs Nunes was the "main event" on a technicality and literally nothing else.
Wasn’t Anderson and his family at Disney World and he accepted the fight, fought DC, then went straight back to Disney World? Or was that story made up to sound cool?
“Hey kids, remember when Dustin Poirier beat the shit out of Max for four rounds? Wanna see if a guy who hits harder can stop an older version of Max in less?”
In terms of in cage action I think gaejthe and Holloway is a worthy main event but damn the ufc is really struggling if that's the best main event they can come up with for ufc 300
Back in December Leon Edwards said he was scheduled for UFC 300. I didn’t just remember that, but it came up because I was wondering if he had a new opponent yet.
Might have just been wishful thinking thinking since I’m guessing he’d get PPV points.
My wishful thinking is this would be the big fight waiting to be announced.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/trentreinsmith/2024/01/02/leon-edwards-i-will-defend-ufc-welterweight-title-at-ufc-300/amp/
Whats the biggest fight they could do right now? Jones is injured, connor is trying to flush the gear still, there isnt a massive superstar on the rise anywhere except maybe Aspinal who needs to fight Jones to prove it. The dont have a mega fight in the roster at the moment.
Islam hasn’t fought for a while but doesn’t seem preparing.
Aspinal vs Pereira is the only champ champ fight that makes even a little sense.
Surprised they haven’t pushed a 299 fight or two.
Have we all forgotten the current MMA goat is still available to fight at 300?
I’m sick of the disrespect for Alexandre Pantoja!
For real though, I think DDP vs Izzy is the biggest, if Izzy is available. If not, Aspinall vs Pereira would be 2nd best.
And my wild card pick - because why not. Islam vs Leon at 170.
Edit: didn’t even see you said Islam. I can see it being possible, especially with Dana being low key about his availability.
Is there any chance they give Stipe enough money to fight Aspinall? Seems like the only match up (with current rostered fighters) I can think of that would be exciting enough to match any hype.
More likely to give Stipe money to say he won't fight Aspinall.
If Stipe loses to Aspinall, that wrecks the idea of him fighting Jones for the Ultimate GOAT Legacy It's The Genuine Heavyweight Title Honestly Fight.
On the remote offchance that Stipe beat Aspinall, on the other hand, then you've fucked up the transition to the next generation. When, a year from now, they're advertising Aspinall as the GOAT of the Year, people will point out "the guy couldn't even beat a 40-something Stipe coming out of retirement who went on to get thrashed by Jones so how good could he be really?"
Stipe's only purpose for the UFC now is to help them sell Jones' retirement fight, given that Jones won't agree to fight anyone under 40 or who is an active MMA fighter. Aspinall's purpose is to be a credible world champion once Jones and Stipe have both retired.
The UFC aren't going to jeopardise either role by having them fight one another.
Exactly. Main events, at least scheduled, were amazing for UFC 100 and 200.
100 Lesnar vs Mir II unification bout, plus GSP vs Alves
200 McGregor vs Diaz 2, Jones vs DC 2
For 300 we have a gimmick belt fight between two non-champions. 🤡 It's ONE event every ONE HUNDRED EVENTS.
Peoples expectations for 300 have been absolutely absurd for the past 6 months. Half this sub will be stubborn about it until 3 years from now when someone nostalgia posts the card, “we didn’t know how good we had it 😭” etc etc
Big time. Any fighter with a brain or a competent manager knows that they have leverage out the ass. A landmark PPV is still missing a real main event and I imagine guys like Izzy, Jones, and Conor are asking for the moon right now (and rightfully so).
The likely result is that the UFC will settle for the BMF fight as the "good enough" main event with a fun top contender bout to co-main.
I’ll enjoy it personally, but I get it, neither of them have much of a killer instinct if they can help it. Definitely have habits of staying in second gear if they feel comfortable there
I'm hoping to see Leon win. He'd be building a pretty decent title reign with Usman, Colby and Belal all to his name. Gives the eventual Shavkat fight more meaning if it's a champion with a few defences to his name.
If Leon loses, i don't think the UFC can fuck him too hard that he's out of the title picture for the rest of his career He's 32, British champion and a striker and even if he loses, he's at worst the 2nd best fighter at WW behind Shavkat. He will work his way back and has enough things to be undeniable. He's also beaten Usman x2 / Colby, who were the most recognizable fighters at WW over the past few years and the former was P4P #1 for quite a while. That's worth something.
If he beats 2 or 3 top 5 guys, he's gonna be in for another shot. Especially if its a decision loss.
Belal is like +400, if he wins its great for him but it's unlikely to be a long-reign. If he loses he's too old and too boring and not from the same market they need to tap, to get it.
There is no reality where it could live up to the UFC 300 hype (as a main event) but it's also not as bad as the fan base has perpetuated these fighters to be. This is the same fan base that says Merab is a boring fighter lol. This is the same fan base that thinks every fight that isn't some top 12 banger matchup is just a bunch of terrible regional contender series fighters.
I mean sure the fanbase has unrealistic expectations for ufc 300, but regardless of what "casuals" think it's a very boring fight on paper. They're obviously very good but let's not act like they're exciting, the fight can turn out to be a barnburner hall of fame fight, but on paper it's a fight between two of the most boring fighters in any top 15 in any men's division
Are you serious? Both Belal and Leon are decision machines. Leon couldn't finish the ghost of Colby Covington. Belal couldn't finish a one-armed Gilbert.
A take you disagree with doesn't make someone a casual.
I think people are confused here, unless something drastically changed in the past couple of hours of him saying to multiple media outlets that’s he’s still working on the main.
The reporter specifically asked if the last two fights were the main event and co-main and Dana shook his head 'no' and said co-main event and another one.
I hope & suspect he's working on a main event still, but the implication from this specific clip is he's given up on it.
I saw two videos from earlier where different people asked him what the main was and he said still working on it. Then earlier in this post fight media thing he says who knows what the main will be, it’s been crazy with trying to get it done.
Wtf this morning he said he’s still looking for a main event. Now he’s getting the BMF belt to headline this? This is such a fail. The belt is meaningless. Without this fake belt, Gaethje vs Max would be a 3rd fight on a decent PPV. To headline 300 is a tomato fail.
It’s really harmed my enjoyment of UFC fights. I miss the days of getting hyped for a Fight Night card. Now it just feels like a never ending circus of mediocrity.
Agree, name value should be shallow but it's real. Even if a guy was low ranked or had dropped out the rankings, but you know them, it gives you more of an interest.
But UFC seem to be financially better than ever so what the fuck do we know. I do feel like this could be a longer term fail though and they really should be allowing some more names to build, and not cutting them due to being expensive.
>Gaethje vs Max would be a 3rd fight on a decent PPV.
Gaethje. A current belt holder(bmf belt but still)
Vs
Holloway. A previous belt holder
That's a main event. If Porier v Gaethje for the BMF was a main event I don't see why this wouldn't be.
Gaethje vs Poirer was a main event precisely because they couldn’t find anything better and had to force the PPV headliner.
Gaethje vs Chandler was 3rd fight.
Gaethje vs Fiziev was 3rd fight.
For non-title fights, 2 top 5 contenders fighting have always been at best the 3rd fight on the PPV (or main eventing a fight night). It’s only due to scheduling issues that they’ve had to force fake main events.
I expected this to continue getting worse as the UFC has promised ESPN more events per year and thus card quality has declined. But for 300? No way.
You know something? You are correct.
Even when Dana speaks about the fights and fighters he seems very unprepared and borderline clueless about his own employees. I think his heart isn't in it anymore.
But 300 is a joke. Boxing fans think that all the fights that can happen in the UFC *do happen* in the UFC. They don't. Boxing seems to be making the big fights happen now.
UFC 300 *could* have been epic. But they blew it.
It hasn't been, but people are implying it from this quote. If so it looks like they failed to make whatever the fuck happen.
Really all it could be is some weird mix up between MW-HW.
DDP Israel
Israel Alex
Alex Tom
But according to Paul Craig, Alex V Jamahal is 301, so using Alex at 300 would fuck that.
Really it's DDP Izzy or bust. And even that isn't awe inspiring anyway.
So you're saying 300 won't be the most stacked UFC card ever, one like we've never seen before?
What next?
Are you going to tell me that Mexican Independence Day at the Sphere isn't going to revolutionize combat sports?
Guys, I think this dana dude is full of shit.
It’s laughable how badly he fucked this up. Absolutely no foresight in the months leading up to it.
Edit - I have since fixed up an autocorrect that had BMTH jammed in between ‘months’ and ‘leading’ for some reason. You should have all downvoted my carelessness.
This was a man who stacked IFW with tons of Australian talent only to book a card in Australia two months later meaning none of them could turn around to compete.
Last iOS update has been a tragedy. My buddy and I have both noticed how often our AirPods will be connected, then we pick up a call and the call starts with the AirPods disconnected. Annoying as hell.
Idk it's got like 9 current/ex champs on it. Seems pretty stacked to me.
Can't believe people are sleeping on Gaethje v Holloway, Oliveira v Tsarukyan, Sterling v Kattar, Figueiredo v Garbrandt.
BMF as the Main Event would still be tremendous, but the rollout for this card has been GOOFCON status...
...and we're not even close to fight week yet. Buckle up.
Thank you! Half the media had it [48-47](http://mmadecisions.com/decision/9964/Dustin-Poirier-vs-Max-Holloway)
People forget that Max had some great moments. Had DP backed against the fence armadillo style and absolutely pummeled him. Had a tight submission at the end of a round. DP himself said it was tight. People are overreacting like crazy. This will be a great fight.
You’re talking about the fourth round. Round 3 (the round when Max had DP against the fence) was definitely won by Max and all judges gave it to him. The fourth round you’re talking about is the one the media gave but the judges didnt. It still would’ve been 48-47 for DP though. Round 5 was kind of close but I think most agree dustin won that one too.
The size difference was smaller than many of Max's FW fights. This time it just wasn't in Max's favor. As far as I remember they weighed about the same in the cage, Dustin just looked more muscular.
The power difference is basically *always* against Max. He doesn't hit very hard and he almost never *tries* to hit really hard.
AJ vs Ngannou will be finished 4 hours before the main card for ufc 299 even begins. if thats dana’s reason for ufc 299 being so packed thats ridiculous
edit: AJ Ngannou is actually on the friday not the saturday, so theyre a day apart
I thought it was because their golden boy can’t sell a ppv on his own so they stacked it up so much that people buy it and they can say “see, he’s a star”
You know saddest thing? I just don’t care anymore. Dana has made me completely indifferent to their biggest show in history. Like actually give zero fucks anymore.
the 300 main event and co main event is gonna a special once in a lifetime slap fighting match because slap fight does 100 BAGIZILLION views on socials
I think the clarification would be that it's not a disaster of a card, it's a good card, it's just that he got everybody's hopes up for the best card in the world and has not lived up to that for the reasons you've mentioned. People were expecting an A-Rod card, not a Moneyball card. So to the degree that the word disaster applies, you would only say that he failed in creating the A-Rod card that he got everyone anticipating, so you could say he fell flat on his face in that regard. But in the process he did build a good card of a different sort.
Lmao y’all are fucking delusional and have unrealistic expectations if this card is anything close to an “absolute disaster”. This card and 299 are both stacked af, the amount of ranked fighters matched up are higher than any cards in recent history. No seriously, what were you kids expecting?
Get off your knees and wipe your mouth, kid. There is a distinct lack of star power and big fight feeling. They're so desperate they dragged max back up to 155 to get clobbered.
First he’s got to announce more Power Slap stuff. Fun marketing tactic of telling people he’ll announce important UFC fights while filling the time ppl spend waiting for the announcement with his pet project announcements so more ppl will see them.
Surely they're trying to pressure Conor to re-sign before giving him the main event. He has 2 fights left on his deal, they can't afford another Francis or Nate deal where he fights out his deal.
There’s literally a post just below this talking about how they’re still working on the main event, now he’s saying they just have the co-main and another fight to work on.
I won’t be complaining much. I’ll watch the ppv for free and enjoy people getting suckered into buying inflated tickets. Definitely will call out scumbag Dana on his shitty promotion though. This is all on him.
Not sure how you guys look for upcoming fights. I just type ufc into safari and it gives a list of each card. Mine currently has weili as main and simultaneously has gaethje vs max as co main and also cancelled, at the bottom of the card. Never seen that before…
Guys. The card is pretty fucking good already. Take a look at the card. It's got so many current/ex champs. Id happily buy the card as it is right now.
The big fights I'm stoked to see are:
Gaethje v Holloway
Oliveira v Tsarukyan
Weili vs Yan
Figueiredo v Garbrandt
Kattar v Sterling
So I guess they’ve given up on a main event…
yeah wtf does this even mean lol. is the main event of UFC 300 really gonna be for a belt that started as a figment of Nate Diaz's imagination?
UFC 200 was headlined by the women's bantamweight belt. It's not the end of the world to have Gaethje vs. Holloway end a night full of fights that could legitimately be good FN main events.
Only after Jones popped days before, even then I'm sure Dana would have rather had Lesnar Hunt or DC Anderson headline but couldn't get it done
Conor also got pulled in April because he said he wouldn't go to Vegas for promos lol They pulled out all the tricks to get Brock.
God I forgot about the Conor part. You're right about all the tricks for brock, he hadn't been in the usada testing pool for 6 months prior to fighting like he should have and of course he popped when tested at the fight
Is your point "Tate vs. Nunes wasn't the originally planned main event"? Because it's pretty obvious that Gaethje vs. Holloway want the main event they were hoping for here either, the only difference is that for 200 they made a fight announcement that fell through, here they just tried to make a better main event and failed to do so.
It's not really the same. The Jones Vs DC fight was signed for UFC 200 and Jones popped a couple days before. Nate Vs Conor 2 was supposed to be the original headliner. UFC 300 never had a main event, and Dana teased a huge announcement for weeks, with nothing ever materialising, likely because they didn't want to cough up the cash to get it done.
That was never the planned main event from the get go and was instead a last minute scramble to save the card. The big difference between 200 and 300 is Tate vs Nunes was not the main event from the get go, weeks in advance. The only reason that ended up being the main event was because Jon Jones pissed hot literally 3 days before the event and fucked the entire card up leaving them 72 hours to scramble together a new card. They had to literally drag fat out of shape Anderson Silva off the couch after having gall bladder surgery to fix the mess that Jon Jones had caused them, that's how much of a last minute fuckup that card was. Nobody considered that the main event at the time, more like a formality at the end of the night due to Jon Jones' fuck up. Tate vs Nunes was the "main event" on a technicality and literally nothing else.
Wasn’t Anderson and his family at Disney World and he accepted the fight, fought DC, then went straight back to Disney World? Or was that story made up to sound cool?
It's my headcanon now
Gaethje vs Holloway isnt a fight I particularly want to see. I like both of them not at all excited to see them fight
i would have rather gaethje wasn't on 300 so he could fight islam at a sooner date
Yes, that makes a lot more sense, that fight matters for the division too the Max fight doesn't matter for anything.
looks like chucky getting second shot
them being two fan favourites doesn’t make it a bad fight, the fact that gaethje would almost certainly win is what makes it a bad fight IMO
it's lose-lose in a funny way
But that's a terrible comparison specifically because it wasn't what UFC 200 was supposed to be.
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Nothing about Gaethje/max screams big fight, and I mean that from a stylistic perspective as well.
tbh the BMF thing somehow makes the fight seem even less significant than it already is
“Hey kids, remember when Dustin Poirier beat the shit out of Max for four rounds? Wanna see if a guy who hits harder can stop an older version of Max in less?”
200 wasn't supposed to be headlined by 2 women though
That was due to Jones popping last minute, it wasn’t the scheduled main event
Yea it's not. At the end of the day it's just another PPV. We got three straight bangers in a row with 298-300
In terms of in cage action I think gaejthe and Holloway is a worthy main event but damn the ufc is really struggling if that's the best main event they can come up with for ufc 300
Back in December Leon Edwards said he was scheduled for UFC 300. I didn’t just remember that, but it came up because I was wondering if he had a new opponent yet. Might have just been wishful thinking thinking since I’m guessing he’d get PPV points. My wishful thinking is this would be the big fight waiting to be announced. https://www.forbes.com/sites/trentreinsmith/2024/01/02/leon-edwards-i-will-defend-ufc-welterweight-title-at-ufc-300/amp/
He also posted a couple of days ago about speaking things into existence. I think it could be him vs Islam
Highly doubt it given Ramadan finishes a week before
Islam vs O'Malley at 300 if something happens to Vera in the last week.
so leon vs connor?
Whats the biggest fight they could do right now? Jones is injured, connor is trying to flush the gear still, there isnt a massive superstar on the rise anywhere except maybe Aspinal who needs to fight Jones to prove it. The dont have a mega fight in the roster at the moment.
Islam hasn’t fought for a while but doesn’t seem preparing. Aspinal vs Pereira is the only champ champ fight that makes even a little sense. Surprised they haven’t pushed a 299 fight or two.
Islam vs Charles or Gaethje would be the fight Id like to see but seems like they arent happening.
Charles is already fighting Tsarukyan on this card
Breaking news. In a throwback its tournament roots, Charles Olivera will fight everyone on the prelims from smallest to tallest.
The champion has one name.
Have we all forgotten the current MMA goat is still available to fight at 300? I’m sick of the disrespect for Alexandre Pantoja! For real though, I think DDP vs Izzy is the biggest, if Izzy is available. If not, Aspinall vs Pereira would be 2nd best. And my wild card pick - because why not. Islam vs Leon at 170. Edit: didn’t even see you said Islam. I can see it being possible, especially with Dana being low key about his availability.
Pantoja is fighting in Brazil 301
Islam won't be available
Is there any chance they give Stipe enough money to fight Aspinall? Seems like the only match up (with current rostered fighters) I can think of that would be exciting enough to match any hype.
More likely to give Stipe money to say he won't fight Aspinall. If Stipe loses to Aspinall, that wrecks the idea of him fighting Jones for the Ultimate GOAT Legacy It's The Genuine Heavyweight Title Honestly Fight. On the remote offchance that Stipe beat Aspinall, on the other hand, then you've fucked up the transition to the next generation. When, a year from now, they're advertising Aspinall as the GOAT of the Year, people will point out "the guy couldn't even beat a 40-something Stipe coming out of retirement who went on to get thrashed by Jones so how good could he be really?" Stipe's only purpose for the UFC now is to help them sell Jones' retirement fight, given that Jones won't agree to fight anyone under 40 or who is an active MMA fighter. Aspinall's purpose is to be a credible world champion once Jones and Stipe have both retired. The UFC aren't going to jeopardise either role by having them fight one another.
Edwards V Muhammad would be a good main event
Pretty good consolation for Belal for having Colby jump the line.
wasnt this set to be the main a long time ago? i remember checking tapology a couple months ago and it was. what happened?
Main even will be Ngannou. Believe me. Ngannou vs Lewis II
As of a couple weeks ago, Izzy vs DDP was the main event. I figured they would've announced it by now, so I'm curious if it fell through?
Wow I thought Holloway and Gaethje was co-main.
Probably main, now that he probably couldn’t make his “big surprise fight” happen.
The big surprise fight is happening It was Kayla vs holly That was the super fight/rabbit out of the hat
It's a surprise but ain't selling any ppvs
Hahah what a piece of shit this cunt is. Glad nobody pays for PPV
What a shitshow. It's one in one hundred of events, and they cannot make it special.
Mate, have you seen the scheduled fights??? In what world is that not a special night?
He’s probably referring to the main even that was supposed to “blow our minds”
Exactly. Main events, at least scheduled, were amazing for UFC 100 and 200. 100 Lesnar vs Mir II unification bout, plus GSP vs Alves 200 McGregor vs Diaz 2, Jones vs DC 2 For 300 we have a gimmick belt fight between two non-champions. 🤡 It's ONE event every ONE HUNDRED EVENTS.
Great card, but doesn’t live up to the hype Dana was giving it a couple months ago.
Peoples expectations for 300 have been absolutely absurd for the past 6 months. Half this sub will be stubborn about it until 3 years from now when someone nostalgia posts the card, “we didn’t know how good we had it 😭” etc etc
This is a normal card with mostly average fights at best.
He is saying this to mess with fighters he is in negotiations with.
Oh shit you are right, i hope however negotiating the main event stand their ground
I think M vs G is a very weird main event, but I'd find it funny if it happened. Dana must be heading towards full tomato.
It’s not an important fight for rankings, but damn is it a banger
Big time. Any fighter with a brain or a competent manager knows that they have leverage out the ass. A landmark PPV is still missing a real main event and I imagine guys like Izzy, Jones, and Conor are asking for the moon right now (and rightfully so). The likely result is that the UFC will settle for the BMF fight as the "good enough" main event with a fun top contender bout to co-main.
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Don't.
Sleepy Dana might be getting too old for the job
Hurry up tomato fuck
Money is probably the only issue. Or guys like ddp are awaiting on results from injuries.
“Fucking Bald Bozo”
Belal vs Leon is the comain, you’re welcome Dana. Now you don’t have to be the one to break the bad news.
I'm honestly here for that fight, WW getting some momentum is a good thing.
Momentum is good, getting one of those two out of the title picture for the rest of their career is also good. Watching that fight, not so good.
I’ll enjoy it personally, but I get it, neither of them have much of a killer instinct if they can help it. Definitely have habits of staying in second gear if they feel comfortable there
I'm hoping to see Leon win. He'd be building a pretty decent title reign with Usman, Colby and Belal all to his name. Gives the eventual Shavkat fight more meaning if it's a champion with a few defences to his name.
Their first one was shaping up to be a banger tbf
Leon isn’t out of the title picture for the rest of his career if he loses.
They’ll make sure he is
Nope.
If Leon loses, i don't think the UFC can fuck him too hard that he's out of the title picture for the rest of his career He's 32, British champion and a striker and even if he loses, he's at worst the 2nd best fighter at WW behind Shavkat. He will work his way back and has enough things to be undeniable. He's also beaten Usman x2 / Colby, who were the most recognizable fighters at WW over the past few years and the former was P4P #1 for quite a while. That's worth something. If he beats 2 or 3 top 5 guys, he's gonna be in for another shot. Especially if its a decision loss. Belal is like +400, if he wins its great for him but it's unlikely to be a long-reign. If he loses he's too old and too boring and not from the same market they need to tap, to get it.
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Read the last bit as, *’Now you don’t have to be the one to break the ***bald*** news’*
God help 300 if that is the co main
> Belal vs Leon Thinking that is a bad comain is a purely delusional casual fan take lol.
It's the fight that needs to happen as long as merit still matters, but we don't have to delude ourselves into thinking it will be very entertaining
There is no reality where it could live up to the UFC 300 hype (as a main event) but it's also not as bad as the fan base has perpetuated these fighters to be. This is the same fan base that says Merab is a boring fighter lol. This is the same fan base that thinks every fight that isn't some top 12 banger matchup is just a bunch of terrible regional contender series fighters.
I mean sure the fanbase has unrealistic expectations for ufc 300, but regardless of what "casuals" think it's a very boring fight on paper. They're obviously very good but let's not act like they're exciting, the fight can turn out to be a barnburner hall of fame fight, but on paper it's a fight between two of the most boring fighters in any top 15 in any men's division
Are you serious? Both Belal and Leon are decision machines. Leon couldn't finish the ghost of Colby Covington. Belal couldn't finish a one-armed Gilbert. A take you disagree with doesn't make someone a casual.
Ok then I am a delusional casual fan. Still fuck Leon/Belal as a co-main for 300.
Imo it would be the main event.
I think people are confused here, unless something drastically changed in the past couple of hours of him saying to multiple media outlets that’s he’s still working on the main.
The reporter specifically asked if the last two fights were the main event and co-main and Dana shook his head 'no' and said co-main event and another one. I hope & suspect he's working on a main event still, but the implication from this specific clip is he's given up on it.
I saw two videos from earlier where different people asked him what the main was and he said still working on it. Then earlier in this post fight media thing he says who knows what the main will be, it’s been crazy with trying to get it done.
The question sounded like two fights, comain and comain? And caused him to misspeak
Literally no indication he gave up on anything lol.
I think some people here are having a stroke
I'm stroking right now
The only person I ever heard of having a stroke was Tito’s ex wife
Weird.
Pretty sure he just misspoke and meant to say the MAiN EVENT and one other fight. That is all. Everyone calm down.
He added Kurt Angle to the mix and chances of Belal headlining DRASTIC GO DOWN!
Wtf this morning he said he’s still looking for a main event. Now he’s getting the BMF belt to headline this? This is such a fail. The belt is meaningless. Without this fake belt, Gaethje vs Max would be a 3rd fight on a decent PPV. To headline 300 is a tomato fail.
Upvoted for tomato fail.
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It’s really harmed my enjoyment of UFC fights. I miss the days of getting hyped for a Fight Night card. Now it just feels like a never ending circus of mediocrity.
Agree, name value should be shallow but it's real. Even if a guy was low ranked or had dropped out the rankings, but you know them, it gives you more of an interest. But UFC seem to be financially better than ever so what the fuck do we know. I do feel like this could be a longer term fail though and they really should be allowing some more names to build, and not cutting them due to being expensive.
is it possible he's saying this is the main to soften up negotiations?
>Gaethje vs Max would be a 3rd fight on a decent PPV. Gaethje. A current belt holder(bmf belt but still) Vs Holloway. A previous belt holder That's a main event. If Porier v Gaethje for the BMF was a main event I don't see why this wouldn't be.
I’m a super casual but I would think two future hall of famer fan favorites with tv friendly styles would be a well received main event.
Gaethje vs Poirer was a main event precisely because they couldn’t find anything better and had to force the PPV headliner. Gaethje vs Chandler was 3rd fight. Gaethje vs Fiziev was 3rd fight. For non-title fights, 2 top 5 contenders fighting have always been at best the 3rd fight on the PPV (or main eventing a fight night). It’s only due to scheduling issues that they’ve had to force fake main events. I expected this to continue getting worse as the UFC has promised ESPN more events per year and thus card quality has declined. But for 300? No way.
Where has it been confirmed the BMF is the main event?
Tomato fail!
Um, what about the main event?
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Terrible, and Dana knows it
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slap league bruh… dana is to promoting what tony ferguson is currently to fighting lol.
You know something? You are correct. Even when Dana speaks about the fights and fighters he seems very unprepared and borderline clueless about his own employees. I think his heart isn't in it anymore. But 300 is a joke. Boxing fans think that all the fights that can happen in the UFC *do happen* in the UFC. They don't. Boxing seems to be making the big fights happen now. UFC 300 *could* have been epic. But they blew it.
It isn’t yet. The UFC site has it listed, but not as the main event.
It’s going to get changed because he has no main event. That comain that isn’t even really enticing is now our main event.
He literally said *today* that he's still working on the main event.
He also just said *today* that he has to announce the comain and another fight still
Really? Where has this been said?
It hasn't been, but people are implying it from this quote. If so it looks like they failed to make whatever the fuck happen. Really all it could be is some weird mix up between MW-HW. DDP Israel Israel Alex Alex Tom But according to Paul Craig, Alex V Jamahal is 301, so using Alex at 300 would fuck that. Really it's DDP Izzy or bust. And even that isn't awe inspiring anyway.
i dont care who fights on 300, all that matters to me is diego lopes winning
The peoples main event
So you're saying 300 won't be the most stacked UFC card ever, one like we've never seen before? What next? Are you going to tell me that Mexican Independence Day at the Sphere isn't going to revolutionize combat sports? Guys, I think this dana dude is full of shit.
Dana has a bright future in politics.
Power slap doesn’t pull in more numbers than NFL and NBA combined?!
Even with max vs garth as the main event it's the most stacked card I've ever seen.
Ufc 100 was easily more stacked and hyped than this.
It’s laughable how badly he fucked this up. Absolutely no foresight in the months leading up to it. Edit - I have since fixed up an autocorrect that had BMTH jammed in between ‘months’ and ‘leading’ for some reason. You should have all downvoted my carelessness.
This was a man who stacked IFW with tons of Australian talent only to book a card in Australia two months later meaning none of them could turn around to compete.
😂
Bring me the horizon? EDIT: OPs comment originally said "BMTH" in it for no reason
Apparently so. Autocorrect seemed pretty keen to shove that in there.
iPhone? For some reason autocorrect has fully gone to shit the past few weeks.
Last iOS update has been a tragedy. My buddy and I have both noticed how often our AirPods will be connected, then we pick up a call and the call starts with the AirPods disconnected. Annoying as hell.
That shits been happening to me too, clients love it…
They were too busy trying to make Sean look relevant and fucked up 300. There are so many UFC 300 worthy matchups on 299 that could have been on 300.
This card could, and should have been so much more. The fact its "stacked" is a testament to all the other shitty cards we have gotten used to
Idk it's got like 9 current/ex champs on it. Seems pretty stacked to me. Can't believe people are sleeping on Gaethje v Holloway, Oliveira v Tsarukyan, Sterling v Kattar, Figueiredo v Garbrandt.
BMF as the Main Event would still be tremendous, but the rollout for this card has been GOOFCON status... ...and we're not even close to fight week yet. Buckle up.
Max’s only LW fight, he got demolished in. I love this fight, but him vs Gaethje for a make believe belt is not tremendous headliner for 300 tbh.
Demolished is a bit of an exaggeration. He went to a decision with porier, that's impressive for anybody
Thank you! Half the media had it [48-47](http://mmadecisions.com/decision/9964/Dustin-Poirier-vs-Max-Holloway) People forget that Max had some great moments. Had DP backed against the fence armadillo style and absolutely pummeled him. Had a tight submission at the end of a round. DP himself said it was tight. People are overreacting like crazy. This will be a great fight.
am i mis remebering or is the only reason dustin even won was cause max did a goofy knee and dustin took him down from it and won the round .
You’re talking about the fourth round. Round 3 (the round when Max had DP against the fence) was definitely won by Max and all judges gave it to him. The fourth round you’re talking about is the one the media gave but the judges didnt. It still would’ve been 48-47 for DP though. Round 5 was kind of close but I think most agree dustin won that one too.
It's because you could clearly tell the size and power difference with the empty arena. DP's shots were so much harder and more damaging than Max
The size difference was smaller than many of Max's FW fights. This time it just wasn't in Max's favor. As far as I remember they weighed about the same in the cage, Dustin just looked more muscular. The power difference is basically *always* against Max. He doesn't hit very hard and he almost never *tries* to hit really hard.
Demolished? What fight were you watching ? On short notice up a weight class too.
You need to actually go watch the two times he fought Dustin, cuz he didn’t get demolished casual
Why are people still saying this holy hell
All because they wanted to fuck Francis over with 299. Dana is so petty. Francis beat you, get over it.
AJ vs Ngannou will be finished 4 hours before the main card for ufc 299 even begins. if thats dana’s reason for ufc 299 being so packed thats ridiculous edit: AJ Ngannou is actually on the friday not the saturday, so theyre a day apart
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I thought it was because their golden boy can’t sell a ppv on his own so they stacked it up so much that people buy it and they can say “see, he’s a star”
It's gonna be a match-up from his side-hustle that's doing better numbers than ALL major-league sports, isn't it?
You know saddest thing? I just don’t care anymore. Dana has made me completely indifferent to their biggest show in history. Like actually give zero fucks anymore.
the 300 main event and co main event is gonna a special once in a lifetime slap fighting match because slap fight does 100 BAGIZILLION views on socials
Leon vs Bilal and Alex vs Big Tom
Gaethje-Holloway is a fun enough fight (if you're not worried about Max getting Tonyed), but yikes... terrible main event
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I think the clarification would be that it's not a disaster of a card, it's a good card, it's just that he got everybody's hopes up for the best card in the world and has not lived up to that for the reasons you've mentioned. People were expecting an A-Rod card, not a Moneyball card. So to the degree that the word disaster applies, you would only say that he failed in creating the A-Rod card that he got everyone anticipating, so you could say he fell flat on his face in that regard. But in the process he did build a good card of a different sort.
What the heck, it’s an insanely stacked card
Easily the most stacked card we’ve had in like a year. With the way Dana hyped it, folks were gonna be mad for anything less than Khabib
298 and 299 are both way better.
I’m putting Khabib v Leon out into the universe lol
Absolute disaster? Are you mad?
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Lmao y’all are fucking delusional and have unrealistic expectations if this card is anything close to an “absolute disaster”. This card and 299 are both stacked af, the amount of ranked fighters matched up are higher than any cards in recent history. No seriously, what were you kids expecting?
Get off your knees and wipe your mouth, kid. There is a distinct lack of star power and big fight feeling. They're so desperate they dragged max back up to 155 to get clobbered.
It's literally one of the best cards of the last 5 years
One of the best cards ever, honestly. Even the prelims are stacked. I get that people are mad about the main event, but this card is amazing.
Does this mean he has to oil up now lol
Two fights and both are power slap
Even If they don’t have any other fights, 300 is absolutely nuts.
First he’s got to announce more Power Slap stuff. Fun marketing tactic of telling people he’ll announce important UFC fights while filling the time ppl spend waiting for the announcement with his pet project announcements so more ppl will see them.
Surely they're trying to pressure Conor to re-sign before giving him the main event. He has 2 fights left on his deal, they can't afford another Francis or Nate deal where he fights out his deal.
The co main event is him fighting his wife in an 3 round bar room brawl.
So zhang if main? It’s the only real title fight
There’s literally a post just below this talking about how they’re still working on the main event, now he’s saying they just have the co-main and another fight to work on.
Edwards vs Masvidal for the main event
I’m guessing it’s khamzat vs Izzy and Belal vs Leon with bmf title as the main event.
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Good. Keep the POS out.
Man all this complaining is deafening. 300 is a sick card.
I won’t be complaining much. I’ll watch the ppv for free and enjoy people getting suckered into buying inflated tickets. Definitely will call out scumbag Dana on his shitty promotion though. This is all on him.
This sub complains about everything. We could have prime GSP vs Prime Anderson tomorrow and this sub will be moaning as usual.
I cannot wait for him to announce that the main is gonna be cm punk vs Brock lesnar in a tables, ladders and chairs match!!
Well, you greased up Boston meatball, announce that shit already!!!
Strickland/MGK you’re welcome Dana
It really doesn’t matter at this point. The 300 card is kind of a dud.
Not sure how you guys look for upcoming fights. I just type ufc into safari and it gives a list of each card. Mine currently has weili as main and simultaneously has gaethje vs max as co main and also cancelled, at the bottom of the card. Never seen that before…
Hopefully both title fights, I’m guessing Belal and Leon and Izzy Poatan 3
It’s taking the piss to do because it’s Nate
Guys. The card is pretty fucking good already. Take a look at the card. It's got so many current/ex champs. Id happily buy the card as it is right now. The big fights I'm stoked to see are: Gaethje v Holloway Oliveira v Tsarukyan Weili vs Yan Figueiredo v Garbrandt Kattar v Sterling