The UFC 315 has seen a title change hands, another residence permit and a legendary career may have ended. It is a lot of life for a combat card that seemed to be one of the least hectic remuneration offers of the year.
Now that dust has moved to Montreal, here are the main points to remember from the event on Saturday:
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1. Here is a sentence that could get used to: UFC Jack Della Maddalena’s Welter weight champion. It is not that the concept itself is so foreign or absurd. It is that I did not think that we would never arrive so early. This is what is happening when you seize the opportunities and fight your creepy heart, however.
JDM had answers for everything Belal Muhammad made. Against a guy who specializes in the realization of each combat of his genre, Della Maddalena systematically removed each perceived advantage that we thought that Muhammad could have and simply beat him in the process. Respect for the new champion. From 0-2 at the start of his career to the UFC champion less than a decade later. Now it’s an arc.
2. But oh wait, have two different UFC divisions become a total mess? We were led to believe that a defeat for Muhammad would bring Islam champion of the UFC Islam Makhachev to challenge the belt of Welters weights. This means that we will not have Makhachev against Ilia Topuria, who has the potential to be the second fight of the year (yes, I look at you for first place, Jon Jones and Tom Aspinall). This would also mean that the main competitor of Welterweight, Shavkat Rakhmonov, will have to wait a little longer to get his well -deserved shot.
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It’s chaos, fundamentally. Which can sometimes be fun in this spectacle of a sport, but also makes the ground under our suddenly unstable feet.
3. Now that Valentina Shevchenko has diverted another fly weight competitor, can we go ahead and make the fight of Zhang Weili now? A champion against the champion is almost the only interesting thing anywhere on the horizon for Shevchenko now. The divisions of UFC women really need a spark at the moment, and Shevchenko gradually exceeding the little -known challengers will certainly not be that.
Jose Aldo retired on Saturday evening following a loss of decision in Aiemann Zahabi. (Chris Unger / Zuffa LLC)
(Chris Unger via Getty Images)
4. Monday, Jose Aldo was a hell of the rooster weights to add to his inheritance. He will wake up on Sunday as a featherweight heads for retirement. What week, huh?
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It is always difficult to know whether to believe a fighter who stands there in the cage after having done a blow and tells us that he has enough. Sometimes, after the depressive mist of the loss has dissipated, he will decide that he has more in him and does not want to end on this note. In the case of teenagers, stopping here would be very good. He proved his greatness in his first featherweight. He even dropped to Bantamweight at the end of his career seems to be a good idea for a while.
But after having decided at the last minute that he finished making 135 pounds, then barely surviving to hear the last horn after a strong departure against Aiemann Zahabi, it is clear that there are probably only decreasing yields for Aldo. It was quite a walk, right?
5. What will Muhammad become now? Let’s go back to the former Welters weight champion, let’s use a moment to note the irony of his most exciting fight is also the one who costs him the title. Let us also admit that it could have a lot of trouble persuading the UFC to give it another crack.
Remember how long a climb was for “remember the name?” He finally won the belt, then turned to the right and lost it during his first defense, and to a guy who came to fifth in the division. So it’s not great. It also did not seem exactly that anyone who is the favorite as champion in his short time with the belt, which does not increase to have another title of shooting anytime soon.
He really gave everything in this fight, however. He seemed to know that he was on the dashboards and did everything he could go up, even when it meant entering damage just to increase his own production. It cost him a useful amount of blood, but it was still not enough. All this hard trip and he can only end as a transitional champion in the history of the division. It doesn’t seem fair. But that seems to be the most likely reality.
