Episode 690: Can JDM recapture … whatever he had?

The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast

Chad Dundas

Leisure, Sports

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

A little less than a year ago, Jack Della Maddalena was riding high, fresh off scoring the UFC welterweight title from Belal Muhammad at UFC 315. Unfortunately, like they used to say in VH1’s Behind the Music: it was all about to come crashing down. After getting summarily handled by Islam Makhachev in his first title defense at UFC 322, Della Maddalena heads home to the Land of Oz this weekend for a Fight Night main event in what promises to be a good-ass scrap with Carlos Prates. If you’re Jackie Flat Nose here, this seems like one you want to win in order to preserve … your status as an elite welterweight? Your good name? Any chance of ever working your way back into a title fight? Something or other. Plus, Aljamain Sterling refuses to give the UFC what it wants. And Tai Tuivasa is *rubs eyes in disbelief* a FAVORITE this weekend?!?! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Co-Main Event Podcast,
0:10.9	and now your hosts, Ben Folks and Chad Dundas.
0:17.9	That's right.
0:19.2	You're listening to another episode of the co-main event mixed martial arts podcast.
0:24.2	I'm Chad Dundas. That's Ben Fulks. We're both longtime MMA journalists and for nearly the last 14 years.
0:32.2	We've been meeting here every week to break down all the action in the wild, weird, and
0:37.3	occasionally wonderful world
0:39.0	of mixed martial arts.
0:41.3	Ben, the UFC is going over to Perth this weekend, going to the rack arena, granddaddy
0:48.0	of them all, to put on a welterweight bout between Jack Delamadellana and Carlos Prattis.
0:55.0	Jack Delamadalina in perhaps the most unenviable position that a fighter can be in here against
1:05.4	Carlos Prattes, having won the title in a fashion where he beat a guy that we already didn't necessarily
1:14.5	trust as champion, then became a guy that we didn't necessarily trust as champion, then
1:21.3	got his ass whipped in his first title defense, and now heads into this contender fight with Carlos
1:29.3	Proctez. I don't know, trying to tread water, trying to keep himself from totally
1:34.7	falling off, trying to keep himself, I guess, up near the top of the Welterweight division
1:40.4	in that elite class. So we're going to talk about that a little bit today.
1:46.3	All Jermaine Sterling refused to go softly into that good night last weekend, going out there
1:52.8	and getting yet another win in a fight that the old guy was obviously supposed to lose in the
1:59.3	UFC. Old dogs being a little stubborn these days in the
2:03.7	UFC. We got some listener mail. We got lots of stuff to talk about first though Ben, pledge month
2:10.0	is nearly upon us. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Just a few more days. May marks the co-main event podcast 14th anniversary our 14th birthday we've
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