Jack Della Maddalena's head coach makes bold | MMA News
Newly topped UFC welterweight champion Jack Della Maddalena was three days into his championship reign when his next opponent was named. Della Maddalena will face former light-weight champion Islam Makhachev later this 12 months.
Makhachev vacated the 155-pound championship to transfer up to the welterweight division to pursue changing into a two-division UFC titleholder. Della Maddalena’s coach, Ben Vickers, thinks it is ‘cool’ that “JDM” will get to take on the highest pound-for-pound fighter.
“It looks like Jack’s about to be pound-for-pound No. 1,” Vickers advised Submission Radio. “I’ve always been a guy that will take the next fight. With Jack, I don’t care who that next person is because I know he’ll beat him.
“I believe it is cool. It offers us the chance to have that scrap. He’s pound-for-pound No. 1, so if I believe Jack’s the best in the world then he ought to give you the option to beat that man.”
A fight between Makhachev and Della Maddalena has been signed but it’s clear the fight promotion plans on booking the match. When the two eventually do face off inside the octagon, Vickers believes Della Maddalena will knock Makhachev out.
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“I had a lot of time on my palms in the final x-amount of hours coming back from Canada and I watched a bit of footage on Makhachev, in explicit the [Dustin] Poirier battle,” Vickers said. “I’ve never watched Makhachev before as a potential opponent. I’ve at all times just loved him preventing because he is good to watch, but I believe Jack will knock him out.”
“I just really feel like he isn’t used to taking injury,” Vickers continued. “He’s not used to being in powerful fights with somebody pushing the tempo and he is been knocked out before. And Jack’s received measurement on him… I really feel vey assured going into that battle.”
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