Belal Muhammad misplaced his welterweight title at UFC 315 and perhaps a few of his face within the course of.
There’s no good solution to describe how Muhammad taken care of dropping a unanimous determination to Jack Della Maddalena in Saturday’s essential occasion after the 2 fought tooth-and-nail for 25 minutes. It was clear Muhammad was bloodied and bruised by the tip of the competition, but it surely wasn’t till after the ultimate bell rang that the extent of the harm grew to become distressingly in focus.
UFC CEO Dana White shared a picture to his Instagram Tales later that evening displaying Muhammad’s badly cut up lip, which you’ll be able to see beneath.
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The battle wound was paying homage to these suffered by Robbie Lawler and Alistair Overeem of their respective bouts with Rory MacDonald and Jairzinho Rozenstruik.
Belal Muhammad seems to have suffered the identical sort of ugly lip damage in his battle towards Jack Della Maddalena—just like what we noticed with Robbie Lawler and Alistair Overeem pic.twitter.com/N7APQyQQdh
— AFeldmanMMA (@afeldMMA) Could 11, 2025
Muhammad’s bout with Della Maddalena was exceedingly shut. The brand new champion earned the win with scores of 49-46 and a pair of 48-47s, although a number of rounds felt like coin flips within the second.
It isn’t but identified if Muhammad would require any medical procedures to handle his broken mouth or if will merely be a matter of relaxation and rest earlier than “Keep in mind the Identify” is able to step again into the octagon.
