{"id":862774,"date":"2026-08-18T17:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T17:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/862774\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T17:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T17:50:09","slug":"between-the-links-reaction-to-islam-makhachevs-win-at-ufc-330-din-thomas-plus-previewing-busy-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/862774\/","title":{"rendered":"Between the Links: Reaction to Islam Makhachev\u2019s win at UFC 330, Din Thomas; Plus, previewing busy weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Islam Makhachev is still the UFC welterweight champion, but it was one of the toughest fights of his career as he hung on to defeat Ian Machado Garry in the main event of UFC 330. Since then, there has been a lot of discourse in the MMA community about Makhachev\u2019s performance, what it means now, and for his legacy \u2014 which seems to be a pretty loaded topic,<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">On an all-new edition of Between the Links, The panel discusses what\u2019s next for Makhachev\u2019s record-setting win, everything it signifies, if it\u2019s Carlos Prates or Michael Morales, or somebody else next. Additionally, topics may include Mackenzie Dern\u2019s lopsided win over Gillian Robertson, Din Thomas publicly throwing Robertson under the bus and then apologizing, UFC Sacramento this weekend headlined by Anthony Hernandez vs. Gregory Rodrigues, PFL Tampa headlined by Cris Cyborg\u2019s final fight \u2014 or, that\u2019s how PFL has advertised it, RAF Cleveland, UFC3 33 getting big bouts announced, and much more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Join MMA Fighting\u2019s Mike Heck and Jed Meshew as they answer your questions all show long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Islam Makhachev is still the UFC welterweight champion, but it was one of the toughest fights of his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,37036,329,168750,168751,82,640,702,3194],"class_list":["post-862774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-mmaf-podcast-network","tag-podcasts","tag-raf-wrestling","tag-raf-wrestling-news","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862774","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=862774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}