{"id":80251,"date":"2025-08-19T03:40:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T03:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/80251\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T03:40:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T03:40:06","slug":"couldnt-imagine-maddalena-stopping-wrestling-of-islam-makhachev-says-former-aka-fighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/80251\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Couldn&#8217;t imagine Maddalena stopping wrestling&#8221; of Islam Makhachev, says Former AKA Fighter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islam Makhachev is preparing for his chance to become a two-division champion in a looming matchup against welterweight titleholder Jack Della Maddalena, and a former AKA-based fighter has weighed in on this pursuit from AKA product, Makhachev.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Jack-Della-Maddalena-Islam-Makhachev-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"nlz w-full h-auto wp-post-image\" alt=\"Jack Della Maddalena, Islam Makhachev, UFC, Perth Australia, UFC Perth, UFC Australia\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Andrew Sanchez has worked at some of the best MMA gyms in the world, including a prior history of working out of American Kickboxing Academy, which is where Islam Makachev fights out of. Sanchez appeared on Bowks Talking Bouts ahead of his fight with former PFL champion Impa Kasanganay on August 21st in the PFL smart cage.<\/p>\n<p>When referencing the Makhachev welterweight title bid coming up against Della Maddalena in the context of what his thoughts on this looming contest are, Andrew Sanchez said,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI trained at AKA. I trained around the Russians, but they\u2019re very kind of like; they have their own group, their own clique. I wasn\u2019t really in with them in that way. I mean, I think he\u2019s [Islam Makhachev\u2019s] an incredible fighter. Yeah, incredible wrestler. I couldn\u2019t imagine [Jack Della] Maddalena stopping his offensive wrestling to be honest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Andrew Sanchez: Impa PFL Bout, Rountree vs. Jiri, Magny relationship\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nEJ8UlASUAE?start=1027&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Islam Makhachev is preparing for his chance to become a two-division champion in a looming matchup against welterweight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[48472,49,48,641,23657,23591,23592,48504,638,1863,82,640,48505],"class_list":{"0":"post-80251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-andrew-sanchez","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-impa-kasanganay","13":"tag-islam-makhachev","14":"tag-jack-della-maddalena","15":"tag-kenny-florian","16":"tag-mma","17":"tag-pfl","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-ufc","20":"tag-ufc-315"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80251","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=80251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}