{"id":286493,"date":"2025-11-15T16:27:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T16:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/286493\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T16:27:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T16:27:14","slug":"ufc-322-dana-white-separates-jack-della-maddalena-islam-makhachev-after-fiery-final-faceoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/286493\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 322: Dana White separates Jack Della Maddalena, Islam Makhachev after fiery final faceoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC 322 headliners Jack Della Maddalena and Islam Makhachev got face-to-face one last time, and it was intense, to say the least.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Della Maddalena and Makhachev will battle in the main event for the welterweight title on Saturday\u2019s blockbuster event at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The two fighters had their final faceoff on Friday afternoon in The Big Apple, and UFC CEO Dana White needed to get in the middle of everything as the heat picked up immensely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check out the final faceoff below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Following the faceoff, Makhachev spoke to UFC 322 color commentator Joe Rogan where the former lightweight champion gave his final thoughts ahead of his opportunity to become a two-division UFC world champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cOne day to my dream,\u201d Makhachev said. \u201c[It\u2019s the] biggest fight of my life. I am ready. Thank you, everyone. See you tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Della Maddalena defends his title for the first time after defeating Belal Muhammad at UFC 315 in May to capture the championship. To a chorus of boos, \u201cJDM,\u201d who enters the fight with 18 straight wins, gave his final message to the fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cJoe, I\u2019m on top of the world,\u201d Della Maddalena said. \u201cTomorrow night, I\u2019m retaining my belt. Australia, it\u2019s coming home.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC 322 headliners Jack Della Maddalena and Islam Makhachev got face-to-face one last time, and it was intense,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,1347,44,41,39,42,40,787,1396,14855],"class_list":["post-286493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286493","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=286493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}