{"id":104422,"date":"2025-08-29T02:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T02:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/104422\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T02:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T02:09:08","slug":"islam-makhachev-vs-jack-della-maddalena-headlines-ufc-322","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/104422\/","title":{"rendered":"Islam Makhachev vs. Jack Della Maddalena headlines UFC 322"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Islam Makhachev gets his shot at greatness when he moves up to welterweight to face reigning champion Jack Della Maddalena in the main event for UFC 322, which takes place on Nov. 15 at Madison Square Garden in New York City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC CEO Dana White announced the news on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A four-time defending champion at lightweight, Makhachev made the decision to move up to 170 pounds after Della Maddalena dethroned Belal Muhammad to become champion back in May. Makhachev has long teased his interest in moving to welterweight but he didn\u2019t want to face Muhammad, who has become a friend and frequent training partner in recent years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now with a new champion cemented at the top of the division, Makhachev relinquished his 155-pound title and sets off on a new course to try and conquer a second division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As for Della Maddalena, the Australian born champion maintains an undefeated record in the UFC while taking out names like Gilbert Burns, Kevin Holland and Randy Brown before earning a decision win over Muhammad to become champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Della Maddalena faces an entirely different challenge with Makhachev moving up to welterweight in one of the most anticipated fights in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Islam Makhachev gets his shot at greatness when he moves up to welterweight to face reigning champion Jack&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702],"class_list":["post-104422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}