Jack Della Maddalena doesn’t have a date for his expected title defense against Islam Makhachev, but it’s never to early to start getting ready for the pound-for-pound king.
Della Maddalena claimed welterweight gold with a unanimous decision triumph against Belal Muhammad at UFC 315 on May 10 in Montreal. With his friend and training partner no longer at the top of the division, that cleared the way for Makhachev to vacate the lightweight strap to pursue championship dreams in a new weight class.
“I think Islam is a better version of Belal,” Della Maddalena recently told The West Sport.