{"id":162368,"date":"2025-09-23T02:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T02:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/162368\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T02:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T02:19:08","slug":"ufc-322-islam-makhachev-full-fight-marathon-with-five-title-fights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/162368\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 322: Islam Makhachev full fight marathon with five title fights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islam Makhachev will take a shot at UFC history in November.<\/p>\n<p>The former lightweight champion vacated that belt not long ago so he could move up to welterweight. There, he&#8217;ll get the first crack at new champ Jack Della Maddalena&#8217;s belt. A win will make him the latest fighter to hold titles in two separate UFC weight classes.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Makhachev (27-1 MMA, 16-1 UFC) challenges Maddalena (18-2 MMA, 8-0 UFC) for the belt in the UFC 322 main event Nov. 15 at Madison Square Garden in New York. Maddalena <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/ufc-315-results-jack-della-055543426.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:upset Belal Muhammad in May;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">upset Belal Muhammad in May<\/a> with a five-round unanimous decision victory.<\/p>\n<p>Makhachev beat Renato Moicano in January for his fourth\u00a0title defense since <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2022\/10\/22\/ufc-280-results-islam-makhachev-vs-charles-oliveira-video-submission-nurmagomedov\/81092818007\/#:~:text=Islam%20Makhachev%20def.,%E2%80%93%20Round%202%2C%203%3A16\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:he won the championship;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">he won the championship<\/a> over Charles Oliveira in October 2022. He also holds two UFC title wins over Alexander Volkanovski and one over Dustin Poirier.<\/p>\n<p>In the video above, check out a marathon of Makhachev\u2019s wins over Arman Tsarukyan in 2019, Drew Dober in 2021, his title win over Oliveira in 2022 and each of his four title defenses.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/09\/22\/ufc-322-islam-makhachev-full-fight-video-marathon-lightweight-title-fights-knockouts-submissions\/86286005007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC 322: Islam Makhachev full fight marathon with five title fights;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC 322: Islam Makhachev full fight marathon with five title fights<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Islam Makhachev will take a shot at UFC history in November. The former lightweight champion vacated that belt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,17500,786,27140,27141,107310,785,85,787],"class_list":["post-162368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-charles-oliveira","tag-fighting","tag-islam-makhachev","tag-jack-della-maddalena","tag-lightweight-champion","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}