{"id":119841,"date":"2025-09-04T17:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/119841\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T17:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:27:07","slug":"ufc-322s-islam-makhachev-destroys-everybody-in-the-standup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/119841\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 322\u2019s Islam Makhachev \u2018destroys everybody in the standup\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">What may come as news to fanboys of Della Maddalena is that Makhachev is just as comfortable on the feet as he is on the ground, even with an offensive rate of more than three takedowns per contest, dismissing the idea that Belal Muhammad served as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-odds\/386639\/bookie-mistake-belal-perfect-warm-up-fight-underdog-jack-della-islam-showdown-ufc-322\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the \u201cperfect warm-up fight\u201d at UFC 315<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI hope he goes in believing that, because when he gets in there with Islam, he\u2019s going to find out a whole different story,\u201d Makhachev\u2019s head coach, Javier Mendez, told <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/o0AsRbiInyA?si=RWEA4xpFcyJbX2xn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Submission Radio<\/a>. \u201cBecause I\u2019m sorry, but they\u2019re completely different, and by no means is Islam easy for anybody in the standup. Any MMA fighter that\u2019s a striker is not going to have an easy time with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Makhachev (27-1) has just three knockout wins over the last decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI\u2019ve been with this kid going on 11 years, watching him destroy just everybody in the standup,\u201d Mendez continued. \u201cGuys that are much better standup than him, and he still destroys them. Don\u2019t go by what you see. When you\u2019re in there with that man, it\u2019s a whole different ball game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">To see who else is fighting at UFC 322 in New York click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-cards\/385790\/ufc-322-card-start-time-date-and-location-makhachev-vs-jack-della\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What may come as news to fanboys of Della Maddalena is that Makhachev is just as comfortable on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,702,4454],"class_list":["post-119841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119841","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=119841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}