UFC 300: Not to be outdone by the BMF title bout, Alex Pereira and Jamahal Hill prepare for a title fight for the ages

LAS VEGAS -- The first bell of UFC 300 is still five days away, but already millions of words have been written and spoken about how fantastic the card is expected to be.

To be fair, it should be a dynamic card. There are three title fights, a No. 1 contender's fight, the UFC debut of a double Olympic gold medalist and 12 current or former champions competing. When the night ends, it could be 13 current or former champions as long as Yan Xiaonan defeats Zhang Weili for the strawweight title in the co-main event. And would it shock anyone if, at some point in the future, Bo Nickal, Kayla Harrison and Arman Tsarukyan won UFC titles some day?

There's a chance a couple of years from now we could look back at UFC 300 and realize that there were 16 current or former champions on the card.

As long-time sports fans, though, we know that things don't always turn out as expected. Tiger Woods is arguably the greatest player in golf history, and while his 15 majors is second all-time behind the legendary Jack Nicklaus' 18, Woods was pretty much favored to win every major for about a quarter century. 

So while a 15 percent win rate is extraordinary at the highest level of professional golf, 85 majors ended with a different person winning from the one most expected.

There is no such dominance on the UFC 300 card, though former lightweight champion Charles Oliveira gave it a go with 13 Performance of the Night, three Fight of the Night and three Submission of the Night bonuses to his credit.

In all, the 25 eligible fighters on the card have combined for 130 post-fight bonuses. Only Kayla Harrison, who is making her UFC debut, hasn't won at least one post-fight bonus. It breaks down this way:

That averages out to just over five bonuses per fighter, so it suggests that if nothing else, we can expect action.

Most of that action is expected to come in the BMF title fight between champion Justin Gaethje and Max Holloway. There are some who predict that to become the Fight of the Year, and while that's possible, the main event between Alex Pereira and Jamahal Hill just might steal the show. It seems odd to say that the main event could steal the show, given the best is normally saved for last.

This, though, is an unusual case and the expected norms don't necessarily apply.

UFC broadcaster Jon Anik wouldn't be shocked if Pereira and Hill closed the show with an electric battle.

During an interview on my YouTube channel, Anik noted that bouts between Oliveira and Tsarukyan and Pereira and Hill will give Gaethje-Holloway a spirited challenge.

“Jamahal Hill is going to go for it," Anik said. "He’s going to try to knock Alex Pereira out and Alex Pereira might be the biggest superstar actively in the sport right now, with respect to Conor McGregor and everybody else. I don’t think people quite understand the magnitude of the star power of Poatan right now.”

Fans don't necessarily care which fight delivers the goods, just as long as the card as a whole did that. UFC 189 and UFC 249 might be the two finest top-to-bottom cards in UFC history, and it's almost certain fans won't remember the order of the bouts.

At UFC 189, the co-main event between Robbie Lawler and Rory MacDonald was so compelling that many forget that it was the show where, in the main event, McGregor defeated Chad Mendes to win the interim featherweight title, giving the future superstar his first UFC belt.

Few remember that UFC 200 had 10 current or former champions on the card, and one future champion: Miesha Tate, Amanda Nunes, Brock Lesnar, Daniel Cormier, Anderson Silva, Jose Aldo, Frankie Edgar, Cain Velasquez, Johny Hendricks and T.J. Dillashaw were all champions and Julianna Peña was a future champion.

UFC 200, though, didn't turn out to be particularly memorable. It's best known for being the final fight of the Fertitta Era, before co-owners Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta sold their stake in the company to Ari Emanuel and Endeavor. It's also notable as the fight in which Jon Jones fell out due to an anti-doping violation. McGregor was yanked from the card because of his failure to attend a news conference. The show also marked Lesnar's final MMA appearance, as he tested positive twice after the fight (though one of the samples was given before the fight).

It shouldn't take much for UFC 300 to surpass that milestone show. But if it gets close to either UFC 189 or UFC 249, we'll have had a very enjoyable night at the fights.