Duck meet duck?
After Jack Della Maddalena shocked Belal Muhammad to assert the Final Combating Championship (UFC) Welterweight title at UFC 315 final evening (Sat., Could 10, 2025), followers and media eagerly awaited UFC CEO Dana White’s look on the post-fight press convention.
Sadly, the pinnacle honcho didn’t present up.
As a substitute, Senior VP of Worldwide Operations David Shaw took the stage, a lot to the gang’s disappointment, as Shaw offered no readability on the excessive stakes tied to UFC 315.
On Thursday, through the UFC 315 pre-fight press convention (watch right here), White mainly confirmed that UFC 317, the huge annual Worldwide Struggle Week card, will characteristic Ilia Topuria combating for the Light-weight title. He added that the end result of final evening’s most important occasion would decide Topuria’s opponent.
With Maddalena now holding the Welterweight crown, hypothesis factors to Islam Makhachev shifting as much as problem for “double-champion” standing. However the place does this go away Topuria? Will he face Charles Oliveira for an interim Light-weight title or a vacant one? Absolutely, Topuria wouldn’t have vacated his personal belt if Makhachev doesn’t do the identical, proper?
These burning questions wanted solutions from the UFC CEO, who was nowhere to be discovered.
Powerful.
For full UFC 315 outcomes, protection, and highlights click on HERE.
