UFC Corridor of Famer Mark Coleman may actually be the “baddest motherf*****” on the earth after his near-death expertise. Now, he’ll really get to crown the “BMF” champion at UFC 300.

Present “BMF” champ Justin Gaethje and Max Holloway, who go to battle in a featured bout on Saturday’s pay-per-view most important card, urged Coleman wrap the belt across the winner. They acknowledged the harrowing expertise he endured, a home hearth in his native Ohio that despatched him scrambling to his dad and mom – and hospitalized with extreme smoke inhalation.

Coleman additionally suffered burns after pulling his mom and father out of his childhood dwelling, which caught hearth in a single day whereas they have been all asleep. The UFC legend spent a number of days within the hospital recovering from the accidents suffered earlier than he was lastly launched.

On the UFC 300 pre-fight press convention, UFC CEO Dana White was requested about Coleman placing the belt on the winner, and he merely answered, “accomplished!”

Coleman is the third individual to honor the “BMF” champion after Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson put the belt on the promotion’s first such titleholder, Jorge Masvidal, who in 2019 defeated Nate Diaz for the strap. Masvidal then put the belt on Gaethje after he knocked out Dustin Poirier this previous July.

UFC 300 caps off a whirlwind month for the previous UFC heavyweight champ and Corridor of Famer, who was just lately gifted tickets the Las Vegas occasion by his former promoter.

Gaethje and Holloway meet in one of many three five-round fights at UFC 300, which additionally features a strawweight tilte combat between Zhang Weili and Yan Xiaonan. In the primary occasion, Alex Pereira defends his gentle heavyweight title in opposition to Jamahal Hill.