{"id":855982,"date":"2026-08-15T09:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T09:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/855982\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T09:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T09:14:11","slug":"makhachev-vs-machado-garry-ufc-330-predictions-from-aspinall-st-pierre-omalley-moreno-prates-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/855982\/","title":{"rendered":"Makhachev vs Machado Garry: UFC 330 predictions from Aspinall, St-Pierre, O’Malley, Moreno, Prates and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

Islam Makhachev makes the first defence of his welterweight title against Ian Machado Garry at UFC 330 in Philadelphia on Saturday.<\/p>\n

There’s also a title on the line in the co-main event when Mackenzie Dern defends her strawweight belt against Gillian Robertson.<\/p>\n

Both fighters weighed 170lb (12st 2lb) for the contest, with Machado Garry telling booing fans they “should be grateful” about watching “two of the biggest fighters ever in this sport”.<\/p>\n

Former lightweight world champion Makhachev is looking to break Anderson Silva’s record (16) for the longest win streak in UFC history.<\/p>\n

The 34-year-old Russian described Machado Garry as his “next target” at the weigh-ins, before telling supporters he is “ready to make all people happy” with victory.<\/p>\n

Machado Garry, 28, has won 10 of his 11 fights<\/a> since making his UFC debut in 2021, with his sole loss coming against Shavkat Rakhmonov.<\/p>\n

The Irishman, who holds an overall record of 17 wins and one defeat, is aiming to become just the second man to defeat pound-for-pound great Makhachev.<\/a><\/p>\n

Can Makhachev make history by claiming a 17th successive win? Or will Machado Garry pull off an upset?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Islam Makhachev makes the first defence of his welterweight title against Ian Machado Garry at UFC 330 in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":855983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-855982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855982","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=855982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}