{"id":280866,"date":"2025-11-13T18:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/280866\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T18:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:00:16","slug":"what-happened-to-shavkat-ufc-322-champ-insists-division-moved-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/280866\/","title":{"rendered":"What happened to Shavkat? UFC 322 champ insists division \u2018moved on\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As well as rebounding ex-champions like Kamaru Usman and Leon Edwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI think the division has moved on,\u201d reigning UFC welterweight champion, Jack Della Maddalena, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/ufc\/454863\/jack-della-maddalena-argues-shavkat-rakhmonov-no-longer-no-1-contender-i-think-the-division-has-moved-on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MMA Fighting<\/a>. \u201cIf you stay inactive, you kind of fall behind. I think that\u2019s where it is. Someone like Sean Brady has been so active, Ian Garry, these guys are very active. How can Shavkat stay in that top position when these guys are fighting? It\u2019s a hard one, but I\u2019ll just do whatever I\u2019m told. Whoever\u2019s next is who the UFC tells me is next.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI think the next few weeks is a good time for the welterweights,\u201d Della Maddalena added. \u201cIt\u2019s all the top guys are fighting each other. The next few weeks, we\u2019re going to see who in the Top 5, they\u2019ll all pretty much lay out the order of who\u2019s next. It\u2019s exciting who the top contenders are. I think activity is key. You sit on the sidelines too long, you definitely fall behind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For more UFC 322: \u201cJack Della vs. Islam Makhachev\u201d event-related news, video highlights and more click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-322-jack-della-vs-islam-makhachev-start-time-full-results-espn-mma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As well as rebounding ex-champions like Kamaru Usman and Leon Edwards. \u201cI think the division has moved on,\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,127022,33601,638,109794,82,127021,702],"class_list":["post-280866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-jack-della-vs-islam-start-time","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-preview-and-live-results","tag-sports","tag-ufc-322-fight-card","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280866","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=280866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}