Jack Della Maddalena scored the most important win of his MMA profession, defeating Belal Muhammad within the UFC 315 headliner to turn into the brand new welterweight world champion.
JDM appeared to seek out his vary virtually instantly, strolling down Muhammad and touchdown some strong strikes. ‘Bear in mind The Identify’ greater than held his personal on the toes, solely capturing for a single takedown within the spherical, which JDM fended off with relative ease.
Issues remained pretty aggressive within the second stanza, with Muhammad once more failing to get the battle to the mat. Nonetheless, Muhammad is hanging with JDM on the toes, however it seems that JDM could also be touchdown the extra important strikes by means of the primary 10 minutes of the competition.
Muhammad had maybe his finest putting spherical within the third, outlanding the Aussie all through the 5 minutes, however like prior rounds, it appeared that JDM was connecting at the next clip with the extra damaging photographs. Muhammad tried one other late-round takedown, however JDM flipped the script and almost took the champ down earlier than the horn.
‘Bear in mind The Identify’ continued to choose up the tempo within the fourth, urgent ahead and consuming all the things JDM by means of his manner, all within the title of closing the space. Regardless of his finest effort, Muhammad was unable to get his challenger to the mat, however Muhammad nonetheless outlanded JDM on the stat sheet.
The fifth spherical was by far probably the most thrilling, with Muhammad urgent laborious to attempt to retain his title. With JDM pinned towards the fence, Muhammad ate a nasty knee from the challenger that minimize open his cheek. Muhammad stored marching ahead, taking JDM to the mat and touchdown some floor and pound, however earlier than lengthy, JDM fought his manner again up.
JDM turned it up with time working out, hurting Muhammad with a booming proper hand. JDM unleashed a flurry, however he couldn’t put away the notoriously powerful Muhammad earlier than the ultimate horn.
Official End result: Jack Della Maddalena def. Belal Muhammad through unanimous choice (48-47, 48-47, 49-46)
