Sean Brady thinks UFC welterweight champion Jack Della Maddalena pulls the upset against Islam Makhachev.<\/p>\n
Della Maddalena (18-2 MMA, 8-0 UFC) defends his title against former lightweight champion Makhachev (27-1 MMA, 16-1 UFC) in the UFC 322 headliner on Nov. 15 from Madison Square Garden in New York.<\/p>\n
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Della Maddalena is coming off an upset win over Belal Muhammad at UFC 315<\/a>, where he claimed the welterweight title by putting on a striking clinic. Brady sees moderate favorite Makhachev struggling to keep Della Maddalena on the ground.<\/p>\n “I think it’s a lot tougher of a fight for Islam than people are giving Jack credit for,” Brady said on UFC Unfiltered<\/a>. “Jack’s very hard to hold down. He’s a big body, hits like a freight train, has knockout power and he’s showed that getting someone down doesn’t mean d*ck. Can you hold him down? Jack’s really good at creating scrambles, getting back to his feet, separating the hands. Like, we’d seen that with Belal.<\/p>\n “Gilbert (Burns) did better at taking Jack down than Belal did. He had better positions on him, but I don’t know. Selfishly for me, I want Islam to win because I want to fight Islam for a legacy thing, and I think I can beat Islam. I think I can beat anybody in the world, and I want my grappling to go against his grappling and see who’s better. I really would love for that to play out. But if I had to pick, and I know Jack would be the underdog, I would pick Jack.”<\/p>\n Brady (18-1 MMA, 8-1 UFC), who’s coming off a dominant submission of ex-champ Leon Edwards in March<\/a>, also hopes to compete at UFC 322 against either Ian Machado Garry, Belal Muhammad, or Shavkat Rakhmonov.<\/p>\n