Jack Della Maddalena absorbed one of the great motivation speeches in the history of the UFC before the fifth round of his enormous victory of the UFC 315.
The Australian defeated Belal Muhammad in an exhausting and brutal battle in Montreal to win the Welter weight title.
With four laps in the bank and the two men sucking oxygen before the last push, Perth’s man sat on his stool and listened to coach Ben Vickers to deliver a last moving message.
Vickers said, “Okay, listen. You are five minutes from the world champion. Stay concentrated, on the cage, just disengage, do not get involved. Stay at the time, busy instantly, move your feet, never static.
“He is so tired,” makes him hunt a little, make him miss and have him scathing. You are not tired, okay.
“Five minutes to realize all your F *** dreams!” Let’s go. Security first, stay focused and continue in Pinging the ****! ‘
Jack Della Maddalena beat Belal Muhammad on five laps to win a UFC title
Jack Della Maddalena kisses his coach, Ben Vickers, who delivered the brilliant speech
Della Maddalena produced its best performance to defeat Belal Muhammad
Della Maddalena took the message, which has become viral online, on board and did exactly that in a superb last minute of Rubbersamp its domination.
His smooth boxing turned out to be the distance and it was Muhammad’s credit that he did not collapse.
The chin of the champion resolutely resisted, but it was Maddalena who clearly won on the dashboards to enter a new era, ending Muhammad’s mandate as champion during the first defense.
Then he said, “Coming there against someone like him, I had to be intelligent. I couldn’t spend too much time on my back.
“When I did it, I waited for I could recover my energy and take a step.
“I wanted to get him out of there. I was reaching a late finish. But it is difficult to store. The match plan was to stay outside the fence. Like, he does his best on the fence.
“So I was trying to stay out of the fence but he went down, pushing me against the fence.
“I felt like every time he arrived, I was able to hit him and then get off the fence.
The Australian produced a sublime striking performance to dethrone Muhammad
“I guess you never know when you leave it to the judges. When I finished the fight, I asked the corner several times and they said: “Yes, you really won that.”
Then, it seems that Maddalena will face Islam Makhachev, who would jump light weight to become a double champion.
He says that he will refuse to abandon his crown of 155 pounds, so he will be fascinating to see how the UFC manages the two divisions in the near future.