Justin Gaethje will defend his “BMF” title in opposition to former Final Combating Championship (UFC) Featherweight champion, Max Holloway, at UFC 300 this weekend (Sat., April 13, 2024) inside T-Cell Area in Las Vegas, Nevada.
And it’s going to be violent … very, very violent.
“Spotlight” is simply the second man to ever maintain the excellence of the gimmick title (extra on its origin right here), the opposite being Jorge Masvidal.
However, would UFC ever create a feminine model of the “BMF” belt?
In accordance with former UFC ladies’s Strawweight champion, Jessica Andrade, she would have an interest — and honored — to compete for the same manufactured title if Dana White and Co. have been to develop the ego-driven alternative.
“I used to be speaking yesterday about this very topic,” Andrade stated throughout UFC 300 Media Day (by way of MMA Junkie). “I used to be like, ‘What if UFC really had a BMF for the ladies? I simply don’t take into account myself like all these names in such robust fighters who I’d be thought of on this class.’ And he informed me, ‘Are you kidding me? You’re loopy. You simply go on the market and placed on bangers. You’re all the time simply swinging for the fences.’”
Certainly.
So far as the other facet of the first-ever feminine “BMF” equation, Andrade didn’t hesitate to offer her ideas on who she thinks is greater than certified for the unique distinction.
“I’d like to have that chance — that may be actually cool,” she stated. “I’m simply considering of who can be the opponent since you’ve acquired Valentina Shevchenko. You’ve got Zhang Weili. You’ve got Amanda Nunes … if she determined to return again. Angela Hill … it will be a tremendous factor. I hope that UFC take into account me within the pool of candidates for one thing like that – it will be actually superior if the UFC had a BMF feminine.”
Andrade has lengthy competed in opposition to a few of UFC’s greatest feminine fighters throughout a number of divisions, together with Joanna Jedrzejczyk, Rose Namajunas, Weili and Shevchenko, amongst others. She most just lately defeated Mackenzie Dern by way of knockout to snap her three-fight shedding streak (see it once more right here).
She’s going to now look to make it two straight when she takes on Marina Rodriguez on UFC 300’s early “Prelims” undercard, and within the course of, safe a powerful sufficient win to strengthen her case for a possible “BMF” title combat.
She’s greater than certified.
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