{"id":295717,"date":"2025-11-19T22:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T22:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/295717\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T22:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T22:24:08","slug":"fedor-emelianenko-calls-for-jack-della-maddalenas-coach-to-apologize-for-islam-makhachev-taunts-after-ufc-322","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/295717\/","title":{"rendered":"Fedor Emelianenko calls for Jack Della Maddalena&#8217;s coach to apologize for Islam Makhachev taunts after UFC 322"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heavyweight MMA legend Fedor Emelianenko slammed Jack Della Maddalena\u2019s grappling coach, Craig Jones, for his taunts ahead of UFC 322.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Della Maddalena\u2019s first UFC welterweight title defense was a disaster as the titleholder lost to Islam Makhachev by a lopsided unanimous decision at UFC 322. Maddalena failed to stifle Makhachev\u2019s relentless wrestling, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/ufc-322-analysts-disappointed-by-jack-della-maddalenas-efforts-against-islam-makhachev\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fading as the fight went on<\/a> and failing to significantly damage the former lightweight champ.<\/p>\n<p>In the leadup to UFC 322, Maddalena\u2019s longtime grappling coach Craig Jones had repeatedly dismissed Makhachev\u2019s combat sambo style. He promised to prepare Maddalena to expose Makhachev\u2019s style en route to a dominant performance, which didn\u2019t pan out in the Octagon.<\/p>\n<p>In light of Jones\u2019s comments, Russian heavyweight legend Fedor Emelianenko believes it\u2019s time for the brash coach to admit he was wrong about combat sambo.<\/p>\n<p>Fedor Emelianenko calls for Craig Jones to apologize after UFC 322<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RedCorner_MMA\/status\/1990935336541958250?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Red Corner MMA<\/a>, Emelianenko reacted to coach Craig Jones\u2019s critiques of combat sambo in light of UFC 322.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course (we can say it was a win for combat sambo),\u201d Emelianenko said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIslam has a sambo background and he makes it famous. He said it himself in interviews, it was a good lesson from him so that they would not say bad things about sambo. Sambo proved to be one of the best bases for MMA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess everything fell into place, (Craig Jones), I don\u2019t even know what to say, he should probably give a sincere apology as his words haven\u2019t been confirmed.\u201d (h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2025\/11\/19\/jack-della-maddalenas-coach-told-to-apologize-by-fedor-emelianenko-for-ufc-322-pre-fight-comments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bloody Elbow<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Jones shared a brief exchange with Khabib Nurmagomedov and Makhachev in the Octagon at UFC 322 that went viral on social media. Makhachev called for Jones and Maddalena to learn how to wrestle Dagestani style moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Makhachev and Nurmagomedov are riding the high after UFC 322 and have proved that combat sambo remains a foundational piece for elite MMA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heavyweight MMA legend Fedor Emelianenko slammed Jack Della Maddalena\u2019s grappling coach, Craig Jones, for his taunts ahead of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,75597,786,27140,27141,785,85,787,72138],"class_list":{"0":"post-295717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fedor-emelianenko","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-islam-makhachev","13":"tag-jack-della-maddalena","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ufc","17":"tag-ufc-322"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295717","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=295717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}