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Some of the fighters on the upcoming UFC 300 card will sport a new look.

On Tuesday, custom fight kits were revealed on the Venum website for several UFC 300 headliners: light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira; strawweight champion Zhang Weili; BMF titleholder Justin Gaethje; and Gaethje’s opponent, Max Holloway. The images were removed shortly thereafter on the site, but French MMA outlet La Sueur captured the images and posted to social media.

Check out the images below.

Before the images were removed, Venom’s website described the kits as the “UFC Adrenaline Unrivaled” collection.

“The four unique fighters represented across this collection, each known for their unrivaled talent and global contributions to the sport, are set to perform on the best fight card ever assembled,” the Venum website stated.

Later, the UFC’s British broadcast partner, TNT Sports, revealed Holloway’s fight trunks and also special gear for ex-champ Aljamain Sterling.

Pereira puts his light heavyweight title on the line for the first time against former champion Jamahal Hill. “Poatan” captured the vacant title with a TKO win over Jiri Prochazka at November’s UFC 295 event.

Weili puts her 115-pound championship on the line when she faces Yan Xiaonan in the co-main event this Saturday. The loaded card will take place at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

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In the second episode of UFC 300 Embedded, several UFC 300 fighters check out last weekend’s UFC event, Alex Pereira watches his sons train and gets a sendoff from his team, Kayla Harrison and Bo Nickel are ready for their fights, Justin Gaethje plays golf, and more.

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Wishes of all kinds are getting granted at UFC 300.

The upcoming Baddest Motherf—ker (BMF) title fight between the champion, Justin Gaethje, and former Featherweight champion, Max Holloway, is truly a match up of epic proportions that fans only dream about. That’s what we all did until the historic event started to take shape, going down this weekend (Sat., April 13, 2024) inside T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

Gaethje vs. Holloway is essentially guaranteed entertainment for as long as it lasts. To add to the festivity, the fighters atop the bill will get to sport some customized fight attire. Holloway has expressed in recent months his desire to wear floral printed shorts and he now gets his wish. He isn’t alone, however, as his opponent got something special, too. Throw in Light Heavyweight and Strawweight champions, Alex Pereira, and Zhang Weili, and UFC is letting the personalities show.

The other featured fighters in the three title fights will presumably get their own designs as well. We’ll provide an update when they get released.

Pereira and Zhang will close the show with their main and co-main event bouts. Before Pereira makes his first title defense as the 205-pound kingpin against former champion, Jamahal Hill, Zhang looks to turn back her fellow countrywoman, Yan Xiaonan.

MMAmania.com will deliver LIVE round-by-round, blow-by-blow coverage of the entire UFC 300 fight card right RIGHT HERE, starting with the early ESPN/ESPN+ “Prelims” matches at 6 p.m. ET, followed by the remaining undercard balance on ESPN/ESPN+ at 8 p.m. ET, before the UFC 300 PPV main card start time at 10 p.m. ET on ESPN+ PPV.

To check out the latest and greatest UFC 300: “Pereira vs. Hill” news and notes be sure to hit up our comprehensive UFC 300 event archive right here. For the updated and finalized UFC 300 fight card and PPV lineup click here.

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A new heavyweight matchup has been confirmed for Jailton Almeida at UFC 302.

Almeida is set to face Alexandr Romanov at the pay-per-view event, which takes place June 1 in Newark, N.J. The matchup initially was reported by Ag. Fight and confirmed to MMA Fighting by multiple people with knowledge of the news.

Almeida originally was set to face Alexander Volkov at the June 1 event. But UFC CEO Dana White subsequently announced Volkov had instead been booked to fight fellow Russian Sergei Pavlovich at UFC Saudi Arabia, set for June 22 in Riyadh.

Almeida hopes to bounce back after suffering the first setback of his octagon career, a knockout loss to Curtis Blaydes at UFC 299. Prior to that, the Brazilian submission specialist had steamrolled his opposition, winning six straight with just one of his opponents surviving to the scorecards.

Romanov is nine months removed from a comeback win over Blagoy Ivanov, who helped him snap a two-fight skid that deflated the hype he built with a five-fight winning streak. Before his setbacks, none of his 16 wins had involved judges.

UFC 302’s headliner has yet to be confirmed. The event’s main card airs on ESPN+ pay-per-view.

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Former UFC bantamweight champion Henry Cejduo comes to the defence of Jon Jones following latest allegations. 

For just about as long as Jon Jones has been a star a trail of controversies and misdeeds has followed him. Incidents have included hit-and-runs, DUIs, domestic violence and positive drug tests from both cocaine and PEDs have all been linked to Jones.

Now Jones has been accused by a tester from The UFC’s drug testing partners Drug Free Sport International, of threatening to kill her while making a visit to his home. Jones has since denied the allegations, but an arrest summons has been issued for the current UFC heavyweight champion.

Henry Cejudo comes to the defense of Jon Jones

While trouble is still following Jones he remains a revered character in the MMA world with many still willing to show the support of him.  Former training partner Cejduo is now the latest person to come to the public defence of Jones.

Discussing the incident on his YouTube channel, Cejudo says he fully believes Jones is innocent.

“Is Jon Jones innocent? One hundred percent,” Henry Cejudo said. “It’s almost like these people want to somewhat create a story because they want to portray, keep going with the storyline that Jon Jones is ‘the monster.’

“From what I saw in the video, and getting a chance to know Jon, I could get frustrating at times. Trust me by that, I’ve gotten into it with guys from USADA. People who I’ve known for years, people who have tested me for years. They catch you at a party, they catch you at early in the morning. I mean, it’s normal for you to kind of get frustrated like, ‘Hey man, what’s going on here?’” (H/T MMA Junkie)

Cejudo would even go as far as to say Jones should take legal action against the alleged victim and encouraged him to fight for his name. 

“If I’m you Jon Jones, you know what I would do? I would get her for defamation of character,” Cejudo continued. “I would get her for being a two-faced c*nt, and trying to come at you for something that you really didn’t do.

“I think if anything Jon, you should probably start fighting this and go against them. Make them think twice before they start bringing your name up. Make them think twice before they’re going to make up a story about you, you know, threatening to kill somebody or whatnot.”

Do you agree with Henry Cejudo’s stance on Jon Jones?

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