Jack Della Maddalena is more than pleased to provide Islam Makhachev a crack on the welterweight title.
Subsequent month, Maddalena challenges Belal Muhammad for the welterweight title at UFC 315, and it’s been closely rumored that light-weight champion Islam Makhachev is ready on that combat to find out his subsequent bout. Makhachev is mates with Muhammad and thus received’t transfer up if Belal is the champion, but when Maddalena pulls off the upset, the idea is that Makhachev will get the primary crack at Maddalena. And that’s completely alright with Maddalena.
“That might be good,” Maddalena mentioned on the Grin Reapers YouTube channel. “In Perth. That might be a little bit of a narrative, Volk [revenge]. We’ll see. Something’s attainable. We get by Belal, after which I feel, yeah, I assume alternatives will current themselves.”
Volkanovski, clearly, has loads of historical past with Makhachev, shedding to him in a pair of light-weight title fights in 2023. And whereas Maddalena and Volkanovski aren’t from the identical crew, each are from Australia and have spent a while coaching collectively, together with just lately as Volkanovski ready for his UFC 314 title combat with Diego Lopes. And Maddalena has immense respect for the featherweight champion and what he means for Australia.
“In my view, perhaps Australia’s — clearly, I’m a bit biased, however Australia’s best athlete,” Maddalena mentioned. “You’d should put him up there. Perhaps if he didn’t win this one, you wouldn’t put him in that checklist, however after profitable this one, you need to put him within the dialog.”
Maddalena faces Belal Muhammad in the principle occasion of UFC 315, which works down on Could 10 at Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
