{"id":5759,"date":"2025-04-20T00:29:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T23:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=5759"},"modified":"2025-04-20T14:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T13:37:09","slug":"jack-della-maddalena-vows-revenge-on-islam-makhachev-for-volkanovski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/jack-della-maddalena-vows-revenge-on-islam-makhachev-for-volkanovski\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Della Maddalena Vows Revenge on Islam Makhachev for Volkanovski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"193\" data-end=\"362\">After Alexander Volkanovski suffered two tough defeats against Islam Makhachev, another Australian fighter is stepping up, ready to avenge him: <strong data-start=\"337\" data-end=\"361\">Jack Della Maddalena<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"364\" data-end=\"658\">Volkanovski recently reclaimed the featherweight title (-66 kg) with a unanimous decision victory over Diego Lopes. Prior to that, he lost twice to Makhachev \u2014 once via decision after a strong showing, and again by a brutal head-kick knockout in the first round, taken on just ten days&#8217; notice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"660\" data-end=\"942\">While a trilogy bout between Volk and Islam seems unlikely, Maddalena sees an opening. Speaking on <em data-start=\"759\" data-end=\"773\">Grin Reapers<\/em> podcast, he said:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"660\" data-end=\"942\"><strong data-start=\"794\" data-end=\"942\">\u201cThat would be awesome. Especially if it happens in Perth. It\u2019d be a revenge story for Volk. If I get past Belal, I think the chances are real.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udfc6\ud83d\udc40 Jack Della Maddalena is open to the idea of facing Islam Makhachev for his first title defence at welterweight if he is successful at UFC 315.<\/p>\n<p>Maddalena wants to fight Makhachev to avenge Alexander Volkanovski\u2019s losses.<\/p>\n<p>(via Grin Reapers \/ YT) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WAAzJqz7QN\">pic.twitter.com\/WAAzJqz7QN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Home of Fight (@Home_of_Fight) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Home_of_Fight\/status\/1913682366196834715?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"944\" data-end=\"1160\">Maddalena is set to face Belal Muhammad in the UFC 315 main event. If victorious, he will likely be the next contender for the welterweight title \u2014 a division Makhachev is also eyeing, although Belal is his teammate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1162\" data-end=\"1375\">Maddalena also praised Volkanovski:<br data-start=\"1197\" data-end=\"1200\" \/><strong data-start=\"1200\" data-end=\"1375\">\u201cIn my opinion, he\u2019s probably the greatest Australian athlete ever. I might be a little biased, but after his last win, he definitely deserves to be in that conversation.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1377\" data-end=\"1493\">The message is clear: <strong data-start=\"1399\" data-end=\"1493\">Revenge for Volk may come at the hands of Maddalena\u2026 if everything goes according to plan.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Alexander Volkanovski suffered two tough defeats against Islam Makhachev, another Australian fighter is stepping up, ready to avenge him: Jack Della Maddalena. Volkanovski recently reclaimed the featherweight title (-66 kg) with a unanimous decision victory over Diego Lopes. Prior to that, he lost twice to Makhachev \u2014 once via decision after a strong showing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,86,21,91],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"category-mma-video","9":"category-ufc-news","10":"category-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5761,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5759\/revisions\/5761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}