couldn\u2019t keep the Aussie down.<\/a><\/p>\nNow fans are questioning whether Jones\u2019 aid will help Jack Della nullify Makhachev\u2019s wrestling as well \u2026 which is a narrative Islam is clearly sick of hearing.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s make this Craig [do] one fight, MMA fight,\u201d Makhachev told Daniel Cormier. \u201cEverybody asked me, like he helped him to improve something. It\u2019s not working like this.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you bring someone for one camp or for two camps? I give you a good example. What about Khamzat [Chimaev] fighting with Dricus [du Plessis]? Du Plessis brought many coaches, many partners, but it didn\u2019t help. It\u2019s not working like this.\u201d<\/p>\n
It may not have helped du Plessis against Chimaev, but Della Maddalena has shown a high level aptitude for wrestling and grappling and scrambling out of bad positions. What he\u2019s been doing was already working before he added Jones to his camp, and now he literally has one of the top three jiu jitsu experts in the world there teaching him how to nullify Islam\u2019s specific attacks.<\/p>\n
Jones joked about the comment in an Instagram post, noting the look in Islam\u2019s eyes when he was mentioned.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat look, I\u2019ve only seen in the exes that really loved me,\u201d he said. \u201cSend him 2-3 years Australia and forget.\u201d<\/p>\n
Della Maddalena has also been training with Alexander Volkanovski,<\/a> who fought Islam Makhachev twice and nearly beat him in their first encounter. Makhachev is right that it comes down to the ability of the men stepping into the cage, but JDM clearly has that too on top of all the talent helping him prepare for this showdown at UFC 322 in Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Does Craig Jones hold the key to defeating Dagestani grapplers like Islam Makhachev? That\u2019s the question once again…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,127022,638,109794,82,127021,702],"class_list":{"0":"post-280396","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-jack-della-vs-islam-start-time","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-preview-and-live-results","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-ufc-322-fight-card","16":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280396","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=280396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}