News Islam Makhachev vacates Lightweight title to challenge Jack Della Maddalena for the Welterweight Championship, location TBA

[VinceArch]

When arman was 22 years debutant far from prime? Ok monkey

Islam isn't much older lol. Not the hill to die on.

 

[Rapa]

Islam isn't much older lol. Not the hill to die on.

Islam is 33 now arman is 28 so when
Arman was 22 islam was 26 and had lot more experience

 

[VinceArch]

Islam was 17-1 and Arman was 13-1. 4 more fights isn't 'a lot' more as you are making it out to be. Islam still has more fights so going by your logic, Arman isn't as ready? Not buying that at all. Lyoto was only 2-0 when he fought Rich who was 14-0. Again, not the hill to die on.

 

[Bradillac]

Nah, JDM went tooth and nail with Belal and I just believe Islam is a far superior fighter. Based on Belal's own accounts, he would agree with that assessment.

I dunno, I thought JDM handled Belal pretty easily, and Belal is bigger with better striking and cardio than Islam. Islam maybe has slightly better grappling, but I think overall Belal is a tougher matchup for JDM than Islam.

 

[KO Shotz]

Sure. He can pass Khabib's career accomplishments, but he'll never be as good or as dominant in fighter. Even Islam himself knows this.

Well if Islam is successful at WW an argument can't be made that Khabib is better than Islam because Khabib never beat anyone from a division above him & never held belts in two divisions. Islam potentially being successful in multiple divisions is as dominant as it gets. I mean if Islam surpasses Khabib's accomplishments, then how is there an argument of someone with the better accomplishments not the better fighter of the two?

 

[sdpdude9]

Would have favored Islam but JDM impressed the hell out of my against Belal. I don’t know that Islam can hang on the feet and if Belal couldn’t consistently takedown and keep JDM down, I have a hard time seeing Islam doing it.

 

[fedoriswar37]

And yet Khabib is and always will be the better fighter. Funny how that works.

Only to Khabib homers. Khabib had the potential to be the best ever but left before he could even get into the convsrsation

 

[fedoriswar37]

And yet Khabib is and always will be the better fighter. Funny how that works.

Cool. Lol nobody will ever know cause Khabib fought 12 tomatoe cans then left the sport with a slightly above average resume . Congrats.

 

[cburm]

Gonna be an easy grappling match for islam

 

[Gabe]

Islam will ragdoll him

 

[Paladin]

No word from Islam that this is true. Will be completely unprecedented if they strip Islam of the title.

If he volunteered to vacate his title, then the UFC almost certainly threw big $$$ his way to vacate.

I believe that’s the new policy. No more double champs. You vacate if you want to move to a new division to challenge for the belt.

The last champ champ I believe was Nunez

 

[USA!USA!]

I respect the hell out of Islam - the guy really wants to push himself

JDM will be no easy task.. is Islam really going to be that much better than Belal going up in weight?

Cool fight

 

[AL-Tappo McSnappo]

Jack better learn this

 

[Alpha_T83]

I believe that’s the new policy. No more double champs. You vacate if you want to move to a new division to challenge for the belt.

The last champ champ I believe was Nunez

Sure, but let's see what happens when another UFC star that sells big PPVs wants to become a champ-champ. It's complete bullshit when Dana breaks the rules to give special favor to fighters.