Together with his welterweight title rivalry hanging within the stability in Spherical 3, Jack Della Maddalena took his future out of the judges’ fingers by seizing the momentum and violently stopping veteran Gilbert Burns.
The second bout of the UFC 299 pay-per-view foremost card proved to be an thrilling one because the 37-year-old Burns, broadly forward on two of three scorecards and in full management resulting from his dominant grappling within the closing spherical, noticed a sure-fire victory get snatched when his Australian opponent reversed place on the bottom earlier than catching with a flush knee to the face as he stood up.
Della Maddalena (17-2) improved his unbeaten UFC document to 7-0 as he jumped throughout a wounded Burns (22-7) to complete him through vicious ground-and-pound, which compelled referee Dan Miragliotta to avoid wasting the bloody native of Brazil at 3:43 of Spherical 3.
The largest win of Della Maddalena’s two-plus years within the UFC was additionally his seventeenth straight general after shedding each of his first two professional fights in 2016. Given Burns’ rating of No. 4 heading in at 170 kilos, the No. 11 Della Maddalena introduced himself in a giant manner as, doubtlessly, the most important future risk to Leon Edwards’ title.
To verify there was little doubt about his true intentions, Della Maddalena, 27, used his post-fight interview contained in the Octagon to name out the division’s uncrowned champion in ready, 18-0 Shavkat Rakhmonov.
“It feels good. My plan was to return right here and seize and sprint the money,” Della Maddalena mentioned. “There are some scary folks on this division however I am f—ing scary. Shavkat Rakhmonov, I believe you and I’d make a hell of a title eliminator. He is probably the greatest within the enterprise. Let’s go.”
The combat in opposition to Burns was aggressive all through, regardless of the lead Burns had constructed on the scorecards. Each of the opening rounds may’ve been scored both manner as Burns blended looping proper fingers with well timed takedowns reverse the regular mixture boxing and stance switches of the defensively sound Della Maddalena.
Burns went on to regulate Spherical 3 with chain wrestling till Della Maddalena created the late opening.
“[Burns] stayed in there a very long time,” Della Maddalena mentioned. “He is the person.”
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