{"id":31028,"date":"2025-09-03T05:29:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T09:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/makhachev-vs-della-maddalena-and-weili-vs-shevchenko-headline-ufc-322-3\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T05:29:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T09:29:43","slug":"makhachev-vs-della-maddalena-and-weili-vs-shevchenko-headline-ufc-322-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mma\/makhachev-vs-della-maddalena-and-weili-vs-shevchenko-headline-ufc-322-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Makhachev vs Della Maddalena and Weili vs Shevchenko headline UFC 322"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">UFC Star Card in New York: Makhachev and Della Maddalena Headline the Event<\/h2>\n\n\nNew York City is preparing to be the epicenter of mixed martial arts action, as the UFC announces a pay-per-view event with high-caliber fights.\n\nFormer lightweight champion Islam Makhachev will seek a second title against current welterweight champion Jack Della Maddalena at UFC 322. The event will take place on November 15 at Madison Square Garden.\n\nIn the co-main event, former strawweight champion Zhang Weili will move up to the flyweight division to face Valentina Shevchenko.\n\nMakhachev, with a record of 27-1, vacated his 155-pound title earlier this year to move up to welterweight. For his part, Zhang, with a record of 26-3, also vacated her 115-pound championship to compete at 125 pounds.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Makhachev will try to achieve something that his mentor, Khabib Nurmagomedov, never could: become a two-division champion.<\/p><cite>Dana White, UFC CEO<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nDella Maddalena, from Perth, Australia, with a record of 18-2, hasn&#8217;t known defeat since the start of his professional career in 2016. He won the UFC title after defeating Belal Muhammad by unanimous decision in May.\n\nZhang is coming off a title defense against Tatiana Suarez in February. Shevchenko, 37, is a dominant figure in the UFC flyweight division, with two titles and eight successful defenses.\n\nFurthermore, a welterweight bout was announced on the main card between former champion Leon Edwards (22-5) and the promising Brazilian contender Carlos Prates (22-7).","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC Star Card in New York: Makhachev and Della Maddalena Headline the Event New York City is preparing to be the epicenter of mixed martial arts action, as the UFC announces a pay-per-view event with high-caliber fights. Former lightweight champion Islam Makhachev will seek a second title against current welterweight champion Jack Della Maddalena at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2129,1948,8006,228],"class_list":{"0":"post-31028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-makhachev","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-shevchenko","11":"tag-ufc"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}