{"id":282868,"date":"2025-11-14T16:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T16:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/282868\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T16:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T16:04:08","slug":"volkanovski-shares-ufc-322-della-maddalena-vs-makhachev-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/282868\/","title":{"rendered":"Volkanovski shares UFC 322 \u2018Della Maddalena vs. Makhachev\u2019 prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you want expert analysis on UFC 322\u2019s<\/a> main event between Jack Della Maddalena and Islam Makhachev, Alexander Volkanovski has you covered. The featherweight champion has trained extensively<\/a> with Jack and fought Islam twice.<\/a> Now he\u2019s uploaded a 37 minute video breaking down the strengths and weaknesses of both men.<\/p>\n

While Volkanovski started off by praising Della Maddalena\u2019s strong scrambling and ability to get up from his back, he made it clear that the fight will be won on the feet.<\/p>\n

\u201cJack\u2019s great on the ground, but we don\u2019t want it to go to the ground,\u201d Volkanovski said. \u201cEven though Jack\u2019s good there, that\u2019s Islam\u2019s world. That\u2019s all he does 24-7 since he was walking. Like, literally, he\u2019s probably wrestling before he started walking. That\u2019s how long these guys have been doing this for. Do we want to go there?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re comfortable enough in the scrambles and keep that urgency and use your weight and hopefully wear on him, I was able to tire Islam from all the little scrambles. Can Jack be effective where he can burn him there take the gas away? If he\u2019s gonna be complacent in the wrestling and wait till he\u2019s on his back to build up, you\u2019re not gonna tire Islam out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJack has gotta understand,\u201d Volk continued. \u201c\u2018I ain\u2019t even letting you try to get this on the floor. I\u2019m gonna try and beat you on the feet. I\u2019m gonna keep you away. I\u2019m gonna have nice strong hips. I\u2019m gonna be very stubborn on the feet, stubborn on the wrestling. If it goes down, stubborn to build myself back up.\u2019 And he\u2019s a great grappler as well, so he can definitely do that. But Jack needs to keep it on the feet, and that\u2019s what he wants.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIslam\u2019s moving up, people gotta remember that,\u201d he concluded. \u201cWith the weight stuff, I feel when you\u2019re that good, it doesn\u2019t really matter. But when you got someone that good, that\u2019s heavier, that can be a problem. And Jack Della is that good, especially on the feet. That extra weight, tough as nails. I\u2019m going with the underdog, Jack Della Maddalena.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more UFC 322: \u201cJack Della vs. Islam Makhachev\u201d event-related news, video highlights and more click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you want expert analysis on UFC 322\u2019s main event between Jack Della Maddalena and Islam Makhachev, Alexander…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282869,"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-282868","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\/282868","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=282868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}