Muhammad said<\/a>. \u201cHe\u2019s very smart, very controlled and doesn\u2019t let you off the hook when you make a mistake.<\/p>\n\u201cJack makes mistakes on the ground \u2013 he has moments where he lapses safety. He\u2019ll give up his back, he\u2019ll give up his neck, he\u2019ll give up an arm-triangle, and you can\u2019t do that with Islam.<\/p>\n
\u201cIslam is going to see that, and he\u2019s going to exploit it. I think if Islam comes out wrestling right away and forces that takedown right away, making Jack work, it\u2019s going to be a long night for Jack.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor myself, seeing him, being in there with him, he\u2019s very smart. He\u2019s good on the feet, he has good hands, he doesn\u2019t give up on himself.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elsewhere on the card, Valentina Shevchenko will defend her women\u2019s flyweight title in an eagerly-anticipated showdown with Zhang Weili.<\/p>\n
Shevchenko is the marginal favourite with the bookmakers to retain the title, but Zhang will fancy her chances of dethroning the champion.<\/p>\n
UFC 322 \u2013 Full card<\/p>\n
Jack Della Maddalena vs Islam Makhachev (welterweight title)
\nValentina Shevchenko vs Zhang Weili (women\u2019s flyweight title)
\nSean Brady vs Michael Morales (welterweight)
\nLeon Edwards vs Carlos Prates (welterweight)
\nBeneil Dariush vs Benoit Saint-Denis (lightweight)
\nBo Nickal vs Rodolfo Vieira (middleweight)
\nRoman Kopylov vs Gregory Rodrigues (middleweight)
\nErin Blanchfield vs Tracy Cortez (women\u2019s flyweight)
\nMalcolm Wellmaker vs Cody Haddon (bantamweight)
\nKyle Daukaus vs Gerald Meerschaert (middleweight)
\nPat Sabatino vs Chepe Mariscal (featherweight)
\nAngela Hill vs Fatima Kline (women\u2019s strawweight)
\nBaisangur Susurkaev vs Eric McConico (middleweight)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The eyes of the mixed martial arts (MMA) world will be on New York this weekend when the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-278765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278765","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=278765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}