{"id":24856,"date":"2024-04-07T18:02:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T22:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/?p=24856"},"modified":"2024-04-25T18:10:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T22:10:13","slug":"gaethje-vs-holloway-for-the-bmf-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/mma\/gaethje-vs-holloway-for-the-bmf-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaethje vs. Holloway For The BMF Title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You could say that this contest is all about pride and improving records for both Justin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gaethje and Max Holloway, but technically there is a \u201ctitle\u201d up for grabs. The<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BMF(Baddest Motherf**ker) title will be on the line and while it\u2019s not an official UFC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>championship and is purely symbolic, it still has meaning. Introduced at UFC 244, the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BMF belt is known as one to elevate fan-favorites due to their toughness and propensity<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>for putting on some of the best bouts on the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its inaugural champion, Jorge Masvidal, never actually defended it and it was only<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>brought back after he retired. It was at UFC 291 against Dustin Poirier where Gaethje<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>emerged victorious and earned the BMF title. While The Rock presented the title to the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>inaugural champion in Masvidal, both fighters hope that it will be UFC Hall of Famer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark Coleman who will present the victor the belt this time. Holloway initiated the idea<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>of having Coleman as the presenter because he\u2019s a \u201creal life BMF&#8221; after rescuing his<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>parents from what was a near-fatal house fire back in March. While many are hopeful<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>that it will be Coleman to present the winner with the BMF belt, one thing you can count<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>on is that both fighters plan to paint a violent picture at UFC 300.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Justin Gaethje (-200)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 35 year-old is looking to become the first person to successfully defend the BMF<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>title in UFC history. It\u2019s a title that Gaethje earned thanks to a brutal head-kick knockout<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>against Poirier last July and it\u2019s a title that he takes great pride in. He enters the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>octagon on a two-fight win streak with just four of his twenty-nine pro fights going the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>distance in his lengthy career. Known as \u201cThe Highlight\u201d, Gaethje is known as a heavy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>hitter, finishing six fights via knockout and won\u2019t shy away from going that route once<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Max Holloway (+170)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Known as one of the most exciting fighters in UFC history, the 32-year-old is feeding off<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the doubters who believe he\u2019s making a mistake in going up a division once again. In<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2019, the last time Holloway competed as a Lightweight, he saw a 13-fight win streak<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>broken at the hands of Poirier. Regardless of what others say, Holloway wants the title<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>of BMF and is willing to go up to 155 pounds to do it. He\u2019s riding a two-fight win streak<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>which includes his most recent fight where he knocked out and retired the Korean<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zombie last August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the latest UFC 300 odds, visit BetOnline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You could say that this contest is all about pride and improving records for both Justin Gaethje and Max Holloway,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":24858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[195,194],"class_list":["post-24856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mma","tag-mma","tag-ufc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24859,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24856\/revisions\/24859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}