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Reminder: We will deliver live round-by-round, blow-by-blow coverage of UFC 300’s entire five-fight pay-per-view (PPV) main card RIGHT HERE, beginning at 10 p.m. ET.

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is set to stage its most talent-rich pay-per-view (PPV) event ever TONIGHT (Sat., April 13, 2024) with an absolutely loaded card from inside T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. UFC 300’s main event will feature the 205-pound undisputed championship showdown between newly-minted Light Heavyweight roost-ruler, Alex Pereira, putting his belt on the line for the first time ever against former division kingpin, Jamahal Hill, who never lost the 205-pound strap inside the Octagon. In UFC 300’s co-main event, reigning two-time women’s Strawweight champion, Zhang Weili, will defend her title against her fellow countrywoman from China (and No. 2-ranked contender) Yan Xiaonan. And Justin Gaethje will eschew an earned 155-pound title shot to defend his “BMF” belt against former Featherweight G.O.A.T., Max Holloway, in “The Peoples Main Event” one fight prior. We’ve also got the Octagon debut of Kayla Harrison, as well as Charles Oliveira vs. Arman Tsarukyan and so much more!

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Before that action begins at 10 p.m. ET later this evening, though, MMAmania.com will deliver LIVE round-by-round, blow-by-blow coverage of the entire UFC 300 “Prelims” undercard below, beginning with the first fight at 6 p.m. ET on ESPN+ (ESPN will simulcast the undercard action at 8 p.m. ET). We will then cover UFC 300’s PPV main card in a separate thread right here, beginning at 10 p.m. ET. Bet on UFC 300 at DraftKings Sportsbook.

Keep in mind that we will also be the spot for the latest news, recaps, and post-fight analysis following “Hill vs. Pereira.” Without further delay, see below for the latest UFC 300 “Prelims” undercard results. (Note: This will go from the bottom up; therefore, scroll toward the bottom for the latest detailed round-by-round action.)

UFC 300 QUICK RESULTS:

Alex Pereira vs. Jamahal Hill
Zhang Weili vs. Yan Xiaonan
Justin Gaethje vs. Max Holloway
Charles Oliveira vs. Arman Tsarukyan
Bo Nickal vs. Cody Brundage
Jiri Prochazka vs. Aleksandar Rakic
Calvin Kattar vs. Aljamain Sterling
Kayla Harrison vs. Holly Holm
Sodiq Yusuff vs. Diego Lopes
Jalin Turner vs. Renato Moicano
Jessica Andrade vs. Marina Rodriguez
Jim Miller vs. Bobby Green
Cody Garbrandt vs. Deiveson Figueiredo

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Jiri Prochazka vs. Aleksandar Rakic

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Calvin Kattar vs. Aljamain Sterling

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Kayla Harrison vs. Holly Holm

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Sodiq Yusuff vs. Diego Lopes

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Jalin Turner vs. Renato Moicano

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Jessica Andrade vs. Marina Rodriguez

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Jim Miller vs. Bobby Green

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Cody Garbrandt vs. Deiveson Figueiredo

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To check out the latest and greatest UFC 300: “Pereira vs. Hill” news and notes be sure to hit up our comprehensive event archive right here.

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Renato Moicano likes the idea of facing Paddy Pimblett after UFC 300, but wants the promotion to give his contract a bump to fight someone ranked lower at 155 pounds.

Moicano, who meets Jalin Turner this Saturday at UFC 300 in Las Vegas, said on MMA Fighting’s Trocação Franca podcast that he would agree to an “easy fight” against the English sensation on a UFC pay-per-view in Manchester later this year. But after defeating Turner at UFC 300, Moicano knows taking on Pimblett won’t help his pursuit of title contention other than garnering him some hype and money.

“We’ll have to make some changes,” Moicano said of the monetary aspect of his UFC deal. “How is it going to be? Is it on pay-per-view? We’re going to have to bump up the purse. We’ll bring in the numbers. If I fight him in Manchester, we’ll bring in the numbers and people will watch. ‘Is Paddy Pimblett all that hype? Can he beat a top-15 [fighter]?’

“We’ll have the numbers, so let’s see if the money will be right. We can’t do like [Donald] Cerrone who said he fought [Conor] McGregor for $ 200,000. I’m not comparing myself to Cerrone nor [Pimblett] to McGregor, but if there are people willing to pay, there are people willing to get paid.”

Moicano explained he’s not unhappy with his current purse, adding he’s making “more [money] than people think” to compete against the likes of Drew Dober and Turner, but “there are different levels.”

“Plenty of people want to see Jalin Turner, but way more people want to see Paddy Pimblett,” Moicano said. “It’s all about the numbers. We’re going to have to look at the numbers and sit down with the UFC and negotiate and see what makes sense. I’m giving up an opportunity to fight someone ranked higher, a fight that will get me closer to the title, to fight someone ranked lower, although with more hype.

“I’m denying something to gain something else, so the monetary compensation has to be higher because there’s demand for it. People will want to watch that, so the UFC will have to send me more money.”

Moicano joked that “tough guy” Pimblett only called him out after the UFC announced his April 13 match with Turner, but issued the Englishman a warning.

“Paddy Pimblett is f*****,” Moicano said. “If I fight him, I’ll do something that was never done before. I’ll spank him like a child. [Laughs.] You can’t spank kids, by the way. But I’ll beat him up good.”

The American Top Team lightweight sees merit to Pimblett’s hype, however not due to his skills, but rather Pimblett’s charisma and other factors.

Moicano, nonetheless, vows to show Pimblett that he doesn’t belong in the top 15.

“It’s hard for him to beat a top-15 [contender],” Moicano said. “A fight is a fight and you can fight anyone at any given time and lose. Paddy Pimblett is not the best fighter in the world — by far — but he’s a fighter. He’s a professional fighter who has fights and has beaten people — mostly robbed, but he has beaten some. Some [of his opponents] are bad too, but I respect him. I respect any person that enters an octagon to fight professionally, so he has my respect for that, but he won’t get past the first round.”

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The athletes competing on Saturday’s historic UFC 300 pay-per-view event officially weigh-in on Friday morning in Las Vegas.  The fight fighter is expected to step on the scales at Noon ET.

The event takes place at T-Mobile Arena and is headlined by two world title bouts. The middleweight title is on the line in the fight card’s main event between champion Alex Pereira and former titleholder Jamahal Hill.  Hill tipped the scales at 205 pounds.   

In the co-main event, women’s flyweight champion Zhang Weili puts her title on the line against Yan Xiaonan.  Both women officially weighed in at 115 pounds.

Also on the fight card, lightweight contender Justin Gaethje puts the symbolic “BMF” belt up against former featherweight champion Max Holloway.  Both men officially weighed in at 156 pounds. 

UFC 300 Weigh-In Video

UFC 300 Official Weigh-In Results

Main Card: (ESPN+ PPV, 10:00 p.m. ET)

• Alex Pereira (205) vs. Jamahal Hill (205)

• Zhang Weili (115) vs. Yan Xiaonan (115)

• Justin Gaethje (156) vs. Max Holloway (156)

• Charles Oliveira (156) vs. Arman Tsarukyan (156)

• Bo Nickal (186) vs. Cody Brundage (186)

Preliminary Card: (ESPN+, 8:00 p.m. ET)

• Jiří Procházka (206) vs. Aleksandar Rakić (206)

• Calvin Kattar (145.5) vs. Aljamain Sterling (146)

• Holly Holm (136) vs. Kayla Harrison (136)

• Sodiq Yusuff (146) vs. Diego Lopes (146)

Early Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass, 6:00 p.m. ET)

• Jalin Turner (155.5) vs. Renato Moicano (156)

• Jéssica Andrade (116) vs. Marina Rodriguez (116)

• Bobby Green (156) vs. Jim Miller (155.5)

• Deiveson Figueiredo (135.5) vs. Cody Garbrandt (136)

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Drake looks to score more than a $ 1 million payday after playing a huge wager on Alex Pereira to win in the main event at UFC 300 on Saturday.

The rapper, who notoriously puts down serious money ahead of some of the biggest fights in combat sports, showed off his latest wager on Saturday ahead of the historic event in Las Vegas. Drake wagered $ 675,000 on Pereira to win with the chance to earn back just over $ 1.194 million if the Brazilian successful defends his title against Jamahal Hill.

Pereira remains a slight favorite according to most sportsbooks after he knocked out Jiri Prochazka to become champion this past November. Meanwhile, Hill looks to pull off the upset after he relinquished the light heavyweight title when he suffered a torn Achilles’ tendon playing a pickup game of basketball last summer.

The fight at UFC 300 serves as Hill’s first action since January 2023 when he defeated Pereira’s mentor and coach Glover Teixeira to win the belt.

Of course, Drake’s wagers always come along with healthy amount of superstition because the hip-hop star from Canada also notably picks wrong in many of his biggest bets. That’s led to a moniker known as the “Drake curse” whenever he puts money down on somebody.

Ironically, Drake won over $ 2 million when he backed Israel Adesanya in his rematch with Pereira back in April 2023, but he also famously lost $ 400,000 betting on Jorge Masvidal on the same card and he ended up losing a decision to Gilbert Burns.

Pereira attempts to break that curse on Saturday when he headlines UFC 300 against Hill.

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Three-time NCAA wrestling champion Bo Nickal might be one of the best prospects to ever join the UFC roster but he’s still getting his feet wet with only five professional fights and less than six total minutes in the cage in his entire career.

Still, the 28-year-old fighter landed a coveted spot opening the main card for the historic UFC 300 pay-per-view on Saturday but that move didn’t sit well with everybody. There has been some public blowback that Nickal doesn’t deserve such a high profile spot on the card, especially with a slew of former champions and more established veterans currently decorating the prelims.

UFC Hall of Famer Michael Bisping understands that it’s possible to complain about just about anything — that happens a lot in combat sports — but he doesn’t see why the UFC wouldn’t take advantage of putting Nickal in such an enviable position for this event.

“Listen, I understand why some people may have an issue with that,” Bisping explaind when speaking to MMA Fighting. “Because it seems a far more prestigious position. You’re on the pay-per-view. But if you take that logic then if you’re Deiveson Figueiredo and Cody Garbrandt, you’re really annoyed. If you’re Jessica Andrade, you’re fuming. If you’re Holly Holm, Aljamain Sterling, the greatest bantamweight of all time — guess what? There’s not enough room for everybody because the card is that f****** stacked.

“So once again they go back to something to complain about. The first fight of the night, the first free fight is two former champions taking on one another. There’s not enough room for everyone to be on there.”

When it comes specifically to Nickal’s credentials, Bisping praises the Penn State alum for his long list of accolades in wrestling but also the foundation that gives him for a long, successful career in the UFC.

He may only have five fights on his resume currently but Bisping views Nickal as the kind of talented individual who could become a UFC champion and a dominant force in the sport for years to come. In fact, Bisping believes Nickal could set a standard in the UFC that has only been met by a few select fighters in the past.

“I’ll tell you why Bo Nickal is on [the UFC 300 main card] — because Bo Nickal has the potential to go down as one of the greatest champions that we’ve ever seen,” Bisping said. “An American version of a Khamzat Chimaev or an Islam Makhachev or Khabib Nurmagomedov. That’s the kind of pedigree that he has and has shown so far. When you reach the level that Bo Nickal has in wrestling, you’re a special kind of human being. When I speak to Bo Nickal and I interview him, he’s very aware of what he’s capable of. That doesn’t come from a position of arrogance or anything like that. It’s just simply because he knows what he’s capable of and he knows the work that he’s put in. It’s a different level.

“Bo Nickal’s a guy that’s kind of been bred in a lab since he was a child. Put in the toughest training environments. The training that these wrestlers go through at that kind of level is insane. That’s why when you see somebody like Khabib, even though he didn’t do the same kind of path, was so successful. Bo Nickal has got the ability to be an American Khabib Nurmagomedov.”

Those are lofty expectations but Nickal has received similar adoration since he first decided to try his hand at MMA. That might crumble some athletes but Nickal already achieved so much in wrestling that it’s unlikely he’ll fall apart in the spotlight now that he’s in the UFC.

He’s already been on the pay-per-view main card for both of his previous UFC fights and his upcoming matchup against Cody Brundage will be no different. Bisping says that speaks volumes about the UFC’s investment in Nickal as a future star.

“The UFC know what they have on their hands and he knows what he has got potentially at his fingertips as well,” Bisping said. “It’s called being a promoter. You put him on there because I’ll tell you what, when he fought Val Woodburn or the fight before that against Jamie Pickett, he’d only had two fights on [The Contender Series] and when he walked out, the pop that he got from the arena was phenomenal. So he’s got a big following.

“He’s got the potential to be a very, very long term, dominant champion. Go down potentially as one of the greatest in the sport so promote him. Put him on the main card. Give him a logical step up in Cody Brundage and if you don’t like it, don’t f***** watch!”

For all the ways Nickal is being set up to succeed by the UFC, he still has to go out and win fights.

Bisping acknowledges that Nickal will be an overwhelming favorite to beat Brundage on Saturday — the widest odds for any fight on UFC 300 — but there’s still no guarantees he wins. That level of intrigue mixed with the interest in Nickal’s future make the perfect recipe for a marquee spot on the biggest card of 2024.

“The man’s undefeated and he’s got the ability to retire undefeated,” Bisping said about Nickal. “Yeah, you’re going to get behind that guy a little bit. You’re going to promote him. You’re going to open up a legendary card. They’ve only done that because they know what he is capable of. They’re not taking a gamble here. Bo Nickal is that guy. He’s absolutely that guy.

“On paper, Bo Nickal should run through Cody Brundage. But it’s not a guarantee. That’s what makes this sport so amazing, so much fun to watch and so compelling. The reason he’s opening the main card is because he has the ability to go down as one of the most dominant middleweights that the sport has ever seen.”

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