UFC 315 is now one for the books and we had been handled to an fascinating evening of fights. In the principle occasion, Jack Della Maddalena upset the chances to seize the UFC welterweight title, placing on an exceptional show towards Belal Muhammad. Within the co-main occasion, Valentina Shevchenko handed Manon Fiorot her first UFC loss over 25 minutes.
Elsewhere, Jose Aldo seemingly hung up the gloves and his MMA shorts (for the second time) after a loss to Aiemann Zahabi. Natalia Silva dominated former champion, Alexa Grasso and Benoit st Denis defeated late discover opponent, Kyle Prepolec.
We play matchmaker after UFC 315 for a few of the huge winners from Canada.
UFC 315 – Who Faces Who Subsequent?
Jack Della Maddalena
The brand new king of the 170lbs division. The world is JDM’s oyster as there are many choices for the Aussie killer. Not many backed him towards Muhammad however he confirmed wonderful takedown defence, his typical slick boxing and really clever ring generalship.
There are two most important choices for the Scrappy MMA product. The seemingly subsequent struggle for him comes within the type of light-weight champion, Islam Makhachev. The Russian is on a run of 15 unbeaten, together with 4 straight title defences. The difficulty with the Makhachev struggle is that he’s but to filter out the division. He’s but to face Justin Gaethje or Arman Tsarukyan. Extra importantly, nevertheless, he hasn’t confronted the undefeated featherweight champion turned light-weight, Ilia Topuria. It’s the struggle all of us need. It’s the struggle we’d like. It’s the struggle that ought to occur at light-weight.
The following choice is Shavkat Rakhmonov. The undefeated Kazakh had a title shot lined up towards the then-champion, Muhammad. It wasn’t Nomad who needed to pull out of that one, it was Muhammad. So, logically, he deserves the following shot on the belt. It might present each champion and challenger a puzzle that they haven’t seen earlier than and will present fireworks within the squared circle.
Belal Muhammad
Nobody can accuse Muhammad of being boring anymore. In a possible struggle of the yr, Muhammad pieced up Maddalena greater than we’ve ever seen. He proved as soon as once more that he has a granite chin and followers will definitely tune in to look at him struggle once more.
What’s subsequent for Muhammad, although? Ian Garry makes plenty of sense. The Irishman was the backup at UFC 315, so he’s very near a title shot. He wants ‘that’ signature win, and Muhammad would mark that assertion for Garry… if he can get his hand raised.
If the champ doesn’t face Rakhmonov and does face Makhachev, a #1 contender struggle is sensible. Re-make the UFC 310 most important occasion, with out the belt on the road, after all.
Valentina Shevchenko/Natalia Silva
This one kinds itself out, doesn’t it? Shevchenko made the primary defence of her second reign as flyweight queen and has all however cleared out the division. There is just one logical contender, Natalia Silva.
The Brazilian is having fun with a 13 struggle successful run, together with wins over former champions Alexa Grasso and Jessica Andrade in her final two bouts. It’s time she obtained her shot.
If not, ebook an excellent struggle between Shevchenko and Weili Zhang. It’s a struggle that is sensible at this level in every girl’s profession and with Shevchenko 37 and Zhang 35, we don’t need to be asking ‘what if’.
Zahabi vs Rob Font
Zahabi continued his good run of type with a win over the previous featherweight king, Jose Aldo. It was an especially shut struggle nevertheless it was the Canadian who obtained his hand raised. Rob Font is an effective subsequent struggle for Zahabi. Each veterans of the sport, each coming to the top of their careers and each keen to place all of it on the market to get the win every time they step in there.
Benoit St Denis
BSD returned to successful methods after dropping two straight with a complete victory at UFC 315. Granted, it was towards a short-notice opponent and together with his former opponent, Joel Alvarez, asserting a transfer up in weight, that one received’t be re-booked.
He referred to as out Gamer, Mateusz Gamrot after the struggle, nevertheless, he’s booked. A assured battle towards Dan Hooker might be on the playing cards, one thing no fan would flip down.
There are many enjoyable fights to make after UFC 315 and we’ll be fortunate to get simply a few those talked about above.
