Dana White had second ideas about his choice to not throw within the BMF title for Ilia Topuria vs. Max Holloway.
Topuria put his featherweight gold at stake towards Holloway within the UFC 308 headliner. Forward of the struggle, Topuria wished the BMF title to be on the road. The UFC brass weren’t on board with the thought.
In the midst of Topuria vs. Holloway, White started to second-guess his choice.
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Dana White Wonders If He Ought to’ve Reconsidered BMF Stance for UFC 308 Headliner
Dana White spoke to reporters shortly after UFC 308. He admitted that he was questioning if he ought to’ve added the BMF Championship to the showdown between Ilia Topuria and Max Holloway (by way of MMAJunkie).
“Topuria’s belt was on the road; Max was making an attempt to take that,” White mentioned after UFC 308 in rationalization of why the promotion didn’t convey the BMF strap into the image. “Midway via the second spherical, I mentioned, ‘Sh*t, we should always have put the Unhealthy Motherf*cker title up for this struggle, too, as a result of these guys are each (a BMF).’”
Topuria ended up scoring a third-round knockout win over Holloway to efficiently retain his 145-pound gold. White revealed the standing of the BMF belt following UFC 308.
“I don’t know what we’ll do with it but, however Max nonetheless has it. Max holds the title, so we’ll see what occurs,” he mentioned.
Holloway captured the symbolic title by knocking out Justin Gaethje with one second to spare of their UFC 300 conflict. “Blessed” has mentioned {that a} everlasting transfer to light-weight could possibly be what’s subsequent for him. Holloway admitted that there isn’t a lot else he can do now that he did not seize featherweight gold a second time.
It’ll be fascinating to see if he’ll be in a BMF struggle subsequent yr.
