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Video: Max Holloway Stuns Justin Gaethje, MMA Fans with KO to Win BMF Belt at UFC 300 | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors

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Video: Max Holloway Stuns Justin Gaethje, MMA Fans with KO to Win BMF Belt at UFC 300 | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors

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Max Holloway has a brand new belt to place beside his featherweight championship belts. He is the brand new “BMF” champion after beating Justin Gaethje by fifth-round knockout on the principle card of UFC 300 from Las Vegas.

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THE BADDEST MOTHERF****R 😮‍💨 @BlessedMMA | #UFC300 pic.twitter.com/WHtaTOmniw

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Marc Raimondi @marcraimondi

Max Holloway has been in the UFC for 12 years and he’s still putting on performances like this. He just slept one of the top contenders a division above him after being one of the best featherweights ever. This is absurd. What a legend. #UFC300

Patrick Mahomes II @PatrickMahomes

That was crazy!!!!!!!! #UFC300

Karl-Anthony Towns @KarlTowns

OMG 😳 #UFC300

Bill Simmons @BillSimmons

Max has the fight won, waves JG into the middle for the last 10 seconds just to trade bombs, and knocks him out with one second to spare… I think that’s a first! Just legendary!!!

Louis Riddick @LRiddickESPN

Yo. You call somebody to the center of the ring to trade. And then knock them out…you definitely are a BMFer.

Period

Belal Muhammad @bullyb170

I have an adrenaline dump from the last fight

Matt Brown @IamTheImmortal

Could watch this 1000 times. Possibly the most epic 10 seconds in ufc history! https://t.co/jz4WtnWBbW

Ariel Helwani @arielhelwani

HOLY SHIT.

That’s one of the greatest finishes ever.

The legend of Max Blessed grows.

WOW.

Luke Thomas🏋️‍♀️ @lthomasnews

That’s easily one of the most legendary finishes in UFC history. 4:59 of round 5. BMF title. UFC 300. Up a weight class.

Max Holloway is an all-time great.

Brett Okamoto @bokamotoESPN

Gotta love the f*ck out of both of those guys. Man, oh man. And when we watch this highlight for the rest of time, don’t forget Gaethje didn’t have to take this fight AT ALL. Maybe could have been fighting Islam in June, who knows. Two WARRIORS.

Holloway got off to a strong start in the first stanza. Blessed attacked with a tactical approach. His use of angles and controlled aggression helped him build an early lead. He punctuated the round with a spinning kick that appeared to have damaged Gaethje’s nose.

Andreas Hale @AndreasHale

Holloway’s landed a spinning back kick that almost stabbed Gaethje’s brain with his nose bone at the end of the 1st round. We could hear the sound of it crack Octagon side. #UFC300

Unfortunately, Holloway’s strong performance was marred by two eye pokes in the second round. The fight was paused twice for accidental eye pokes by Holloway leading to some to criticize the referee for not deducting a point:

E. Spencer Kyte @spencerkyte

We have to take points.

Accidental or not, these are fouls and people have to be penalized, especially after two in the same round, one to each eye. #UFC300

Regardless, the fight pressed on and so did Holloway’s impressive performance. Gaethje had success with leg kicks, but it was Holloway who was impressing his fellow fighters by continuously tagging Gaethje with clean boxing.

The Diamond @DustinPoirier

Man max looks crisp tonight #UFC300

Holloway’s speed was particularly striking. He used it as a deterrent for Gaethje’s aggression as well as a tool to lead off some exchanges.

ESPN MMA @espnmma

Gaethje and Holloway are going all out for the BMF title 🔥 #UFC300 pic.twitter.com/0OjZqv9tI3

But it’s never good to completely count out Gaethje in any fight. The Highlight reminded everyone why he had the BMF belt in the first place, digging deep to score the first knockdown of Holloway’s profession within the fourth spherical.

He landed a proper hook behind Holloway’s ear to arrange an intriguing remaining spherical.

As if Holloway wanted to make a good larger assertion he invited Gaethje to interact in a wild change to finish the struggle and landed an enormous proper hand to finish the struggle with one second left.

Marc Raimondi @marcraimondi

The end got here at 4:59. Holloway by knockout. One of many biggest finishes in UFC historical past. At UFC 300. Unreal.

Holloway has long been one of the most entertaining fighters in the business. His trademark toughness and high-action fighting style have made him a mainstay on the main event scene for years.

While the BMF belt is mostly a promotional ploy to add some stakes to non-title fights, it’s a worthy title for Holloway. He has already cemented a legacy as one of the greatest featherweights of all-time.

Adding a title moment on the historic UFC 300 card is a nice addition to his resume.

He also has a few other things he’d like to put on it.

“I really want my undisputed (featherweight) title back,” Holloway said, per Zac Pacleb of UFC.com. “Then, perhaps, we are able to come again up. However I imply, if (UFC matchmakers) provide you with a (light-weight) title shot proper after this one, what do you say?”

The win over Gaethje actually offers him choices.

Present light-weight champion Islam Makhachev does not have a title protection and the 2 have traded barbs not too long ago. Nonetheless, Ilia Topuria simply grew to become the featherweight champion, clearing the way in which for him to keep away from one other struggle with Alexander Volkanovski and struggle for that title once more.

Both manner, Holloway is at the moment the “BMF” of the UFC.

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