UFC 300: Alex Pereira retains, Max Holloway new BMF champ

Alex Pereira wanted lower than 4 minutes to show who one of the best gentle heavyweight on the earth really is.

Pereira, after checking an unintended kick beneath the belt from Jamahal Hill, despatched his opponent to the canvas with a vicious left hook. After he swarmed Hill with ground-and-pound, referee Herb Dean was compelled to cease the combat.

Hill got here into UFC 300 as the previous 205-pound champion with out really shedding the belt, as an Achilles harm throughout a basketball sport compelled “Candy Desires” to drop the title. Pereira then gained the vacant title after defeating former gentle heavyweight champion Jirí Procházka at UFC 295. In simply 10 MMA profession fights, eight of his wins have come through knockout.

Within the co-main occasion, Zhang Weili retained her strawweight title in opposition to her fellow countrywoman Yan Xiaonan in a five-round bout. Additionally, Max Holloway delivered the most effective knockouts in UFC historical past with a last-second KO of Justin Gaethje to change into the brand new BMF champion.

This is every little thing that came about at UFC 300 in Las Vegas, as Andreas Hale, Brett Okamoto, Marc Raimondi and Jeff Wagenheim break down all of the motion.