{"id":392703,"date":"2026-01-05T08:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T08:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/392703\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T08:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T08:08:12","slug":"della-maddalena-on-boring-makhachev-fight-hes-good-at-pinning-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/392703\/","title":{"rendered":"Della Maddalena on \u2018boring\u2019 Makhachev fight: \u2018He\u2019s good at pinning people\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jack Della Maddalena is a man of few words, but he\u2019s finally saying a little about his one-sided loss to Islam Makhachev.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cJDM\u201d was absolutely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-322-jack-della-vs-islam-makhachev-start-time-full-results-espn-mma\/403194\/islam-vs-jack-della-live-fight-stream-ufc-320\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">drubbed by Makhachev<\/a> at UFC 320, who took the Australian\u2019s UFC welterweight title with little difficulty. It was one of the most one-sided fights of the year, made up of Makhachev getting on top of Della Maddalena and Jack being unable to even begin to escape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Things have chilled out since then and n3on is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/407382\/ufc-nfts-flopped-waste-your-money-digital-collectibles-ufc-323-fighters-telegram\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">regularly hobknobbing with fighters<\/a> from the UFC roster, including Jack Della Maddalena. The two spend the day together eating, training, and even having a little party on a yacht. During those several hours, Della Maddalena muttered a few things about his last defeat at the hands of Makhachev.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cMy last fight was a bit boring,\u201d Della Maddalena said when n3on complimented him for his exciting fight style.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cObviously his wrestling is good,\u201d he said of Makhachev later. \u201cHis top position is good, right? He\u2019s good at just holding people down, pinning. He\u2019s really good at pinning people, and I got stuck there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Della Maddalena revealed that he\u2019s hoping to fight Shavkat Rakhmonov next, because a fight against \u201cNomad\u201d would put him in a position to get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/404418\/jack-della-maddalenas-coach-blames-execution-over-gameplan-for-ufc-323-loss\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">back to Islam Makhachev.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201c[A rematch] is the dream,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s why I want to fight Shavkat, because beating someone like him, you get thrown right back in there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Shavkat Rakhmonov hasn\u2019t fought since a win over Ian Machado Garry in December 2024 that trashed his knee. The Kazakh fighter is aiming for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/405858\/ufcs-forgotten-and-most-deserving-no-1-contender-shavkat-rakhmonov-willing-to-fight-anyone-for-next-islam-makhachev-title-shot\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a fight in early 2026,<\/a> so the timeline could work out and give Jack Della Maddalena what he wants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Della Maddalena is a man of few words, but he\u2019s finally saying a little about his one-sided&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-392703","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-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392703","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=392703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}