On the one hand, the thing of the musical champions that the UFC has following the UFC 315 is rather fun, as long as The recently crowned Welters Champion Jack Della Maddalena Do not obtain any brilliant idea of climbing to challenge Dricus du Plessis. Because Islam Makhachev has been since the past decade, he has always tried to distinguish himself from his coach and mentor, Khabib Nurmagomedov, his Sana sister who has been attached to his hip for as long as there was the cover of the MMA.
Now that Della Maddalena has released Belal Muhammad to win the Welter weight title, it seems that Makhachev goes up To do what Nurmagomedov has never done. In other words, go win a title in a second weight class. If there has ever been a moment for Makhachev to create his own legend, this time is now.
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Which is less clear after the UFC 315 in Montreal on Saturday evening is If Makhachev will leave her light title By searching for this story. We did not have immediate clarification because the CEO of the UFC, Dana White, did not attend the press conference after the fight to provide it. Makhachev himself seems to think that he can keep his 155 pound belt when he tries to add another to the collection. This, of course, would decrease some of the other daring movements that take place around him.
The UFC 315 was installed as a week 17 in the image of the NFL Wild Card. It was full of scenarios that would determine who would be confronted with whom, according to the result.
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If Muhammad wins – Makhachev, Belal's Bosom Buddy, remains in light and defends his title for the fifth time against Ilia Topuria.
If Maddalena wins – Makhachev moves to face “JDM” for the Welter weight title now that his boyfriend is away, and Topuria confronts Charles Oliveira for the light title.
We knew that we are going to the UFC 315, there would be many spells that would drive on the main event. Topuria, who left her own title in Featherweight to go up and challenge Makhachev, waited to find out if he would get his wish. Oliveira, who was withdrawn in this waiting food chain in Matchmaking, benefits the most, because it is now (probably) pushed in a form of title against Topuria. It is lacking in a large place.
Light Light Arman Tsarukyan? He is like the little girl who was absorbed in the TV in “Poltergeist”. You can hear his words from the word to help, but you cannot see it.
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Not that what I just had is what the public in general wanted. Or at least not the vast majority. What fans want is a fight between Topuria and Makhachev, Two of the best book champions for current bookEveryone in the prime numbers of their career. This fight should not be an event with a pie in the sky. It was sitting right there so that we have.
It was Right right there. And who knows, maybe that is always. In a game where we refuse so much, optimism has a way of germinating like a bad grass through the sidewalk.
However, the danger of having a third -party game that is so strongly interested in a title fight like Saturday Night is that the interests of large -scale rooting embarrass masterful performance. Maybe the goal should have been less on What is the next step and rather zero on What's going on. Because what happened is that Giacomo della Maddalena, as it was so in line after White wrapped the belt around its size, did Muhammad what for a dozen fights that no one else could.
In other words, he made Muhammad fight according to his conditions.
Jack Della Maddalena managed Belal Muhammad as no one has done for years. (Images Eric Bolte-Imagn
(Imagn Images via Reuters Connect / Reuters)
He closed a dictator by becoming one.
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He said that there are levels involved in winning a Picasso nose like his.
“JDM” turned on Muhammad in the first two laps, remaining on his front foot, advancing, landing shots and thwarting withdrawals. At the end of the second round, the champion was – a little surprising – in a deficit of two laps on the dashboards.
What was more impressive is that Muhammad came to life. He turned into a human level of pairing and changing level that dethroned Leon Edwards last year. He did not remain distant. He actively turned the tables, especially in the fourth round, when he forced Della Maddalena in deep waters.
We did not go without seeing the best of Belal.
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However, in the fifth, it was Della Maddalena who widened deeply. He landed the biggest strokes. He injured and failing Muhammad. He opened the champion's nose and shared his lip, as if to paint a painting of what it is to stand in front of him for five laps. He was not going to be refused, and in the end he left no doubt. He won the clear and definitely controversial fight.
While he begins his race as a new king of 170 pounds, restoring the status of Australia as a manufacturer of champions, he transformed something neat. He made the idea that he defends this title against Makhachev feeling like something more than a consolation price. He made the impression that perhaps Makhachev should be careful what he wants, because there is a buzzing saw that is waiting for now. Now, it seems that it could be “JDM” which destroys all the parts of tomorrow, if only because we had slow to understand that he was party life from the start.
Will the UFC Makhachev dropping its light belt? It is difficult to imagine Topuria fighting Oliveira for something other than the vacant title. But from Della Maddalena's point of view, none of this matters. He has his own thing that he protects. And if on Saturday evening told us something, it is that tearing him out of his hands might not be as easy as the most famous division rider in the UFC believes him.
