BREAKING NEWS: Dana White Announces Jack Della Maddalena vs. Islam Makhachev, Shevchenko vs. Zhang, More

MMA Fighting

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Sports News, Sports, News

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🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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UFC CEO Dana White announced a number of big fights, including Jack Della Maddalena vs. Islam Makhachev for the welterweight title as the main event for UFC 322 at Madison Square Garden, along with Valentina Shevchenko defending her flyweight title against Zhang Weili in the co-main event, as Zhang officially is vacating the strawweight title. Following the major news, MMA Fighting's Mike Heck and E. Casey Leydon react to those massive fights, along with Leon Edwards vs. Carlos Prates on the MSG card. Additionally, they discuss Virna Jandiroba vs. Mackenzie Dern for the vacant strawweight title at UFC 321 and other additions to the promotion's return to Abu Dhabi, White saying the White House card is a go for next July, and much more! Follow Mike Heck: ⁠⁠@m_heckjr⁠⁠ Follow E. Casey Leydon: ⁠⁠@ekc⁠ Subscribe:⁠⁠ http://goo.gl/dYpsgH⁠⁠ Check out our full video catalog: ⁠⁠http://goo.gl/u8VvLi⁠⁠ Visit our playlists:⁠⁠ http://goo.gl/eFhsvM⁠⁠ Like MMAF on Facebook: ⁠⁠http://goo.gl/uhdg7Z⁠⁠ Follow on Twitter: ⁠⁠http://goo.gl/nOATUI⁠⁠ Read More: ⁠⁠http://www.mmafighting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:26.1	Mike Keck here from M.Afighting.com, reacting to some massive news from UFC CEO Dana White. The UFC teased that the big boss was going to be hopping on social
1:30.6	media sometime today to make some big announcements and so many hours went by. I saw
1:38.6	somebody tweet out, now I know how Tom Aspinall felt waiting for John Jones. And that's kind of how it felt
1:46.2	for all of us. We're waiting. What is Dana White going to announce? We had ideas. We weren't really sure
1:51.2	what was going to go down. And then Dana, while on an airplane, goes live on Instagram and announces a
1:58.5	whole bunch of news, a whole bunch of title fights, and some other stuff as well.
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