Episode 671: Islam Makhachev left JDM with no plan B

The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast

Chad Dundas

Sports, Leisure

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Yeah, so, Islam Makhachev is your new UFC welterweight champion. Not a huge surprise, considering the former lightweight titlist was a solid favorite to dethrone Jack Della Maddalena at UFC 322 over the weekend. What we maybe didn’t expect was just how dominant Makhachev would be. Della Maddalena had no answers — and, from the looks of it, no plan B. By the end he appeared absolutely miserable out there, getting taken down at will, while his corner seemed fresh out of ideas beyond, “Try to punch him in the face!” You know who else is still really good? Valentina Shevchenko. She convincingly turned back the challenge of former strawweight champ Zhang Weili to retain her women’s flyweight gold. Plus, just like Conor McGregor before him, Dillon Danis found out that some people don’t play. And Jake Paul is on a suicide mission. But does he know that? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.5	You're listening to the co-main event podcast.
1:11.0	And now your hosts, Ben Folks and Chad Dundas.
1:17.9	That's right.
1:19.4	You're listening to another episode of the co-main event mixed martial arts podcast.
1:24.8	I'm Chad Dundas.
1:26.4	That's Ben Fulks. We're both longtime MMA journalists and for the last
1:31.6	13 years. We've been meeting here every week to break down all the action in the wild, weird, and
1:38.7	occasionally wonderful world of mixed martial arts. Ben UFC 322 went down over the weekend.
1:47.9	The Big Banana.
1:50.2	God damn it.
1:52.1	Not a lot of surprises in the main event and co-main event, at least.
1:58.0	According to the odds makers, you had both favorites emerge with incredibly lopsided
2:05.0	decision victories here. Islam Mahachev takes the welterweight title off Jack Delamadellana
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