On Saturday, November 15, the UFC go back to Madison Square Garden in New York City City for the UFC 322 pay-per-view battle card, which includes 2 title battles at the top of the marquee.
In the primary occasion, UFC welterweight champ Jack Della Maddalena wants to make the very first defense of his 170-pound title, while avoiding previous UFC featherweight champ Islam Makhachev from ending up being a two-division UFC champ.
The UFC 322 co-main occasion functions comparable stakes. Because match, UFC females’s flyweight champ, Valentina Shevchenko, tries to make the 2nd defense of her 2nd run with the UFC 125 belt. Shevchenko’s challenger is previous UFC strawweight champ Zhang Weili.
Likewise on the pay-per-view card, extremely ranked UFC welterweight Sean Brady wants to make a case for a title shot when he satisfies the unbeaten Michael Morales in 170-pound action.
The primary card for UFC 322 streams on ESPN+ pay-per-view.
UFC 322 Pay Television Card
Jack Della Maddalena vs. Islam Makhachev
Valentina Shevchenko vs. Zhang Weili
Sean Brady vs. Michael Morales
Leon Edwards vs. Carlos Prates
Beneil Dariush vs. Benoit Saint-Denis
UFC 322 Initial Card
Bo Nickal vs. Rodolfo Vieira
Roman Kopylov vs. Gregory Rodrigues
Erin Blanchfield vs. Tracy Cortez
Malcolm Wellmaker vs. Cody Haddon
UFC 322 Early Prelims
Kyle Daukaus vs. Gerald Meerschaert
Pat Sabatini vs. Chepe Mariscal
Angela Hill vs. Fatima Kline
Susurkaev vs. Eric McConico
* Card goes through alter
UFC 322 Centerpiece: Jack Della Maddalena
Jack Della Maddalena (18-2) signed with the UFC in September 2021 following a choice win over Ange Loosa on a Dana White’s Competitor Series card. Before the bout, UFC matchmaker Sean Shelby stated of Della Maddalena, “I thinkDella Maddalena is most likely the very best possibility out of New Zealand or Australia at welterweight. He’s a huge guy. He tosses a lots of offense, and he’s truly great in the clinch. The win over Loosa marked the very first time Della Maddalena had actually won a battle through choice. He entered into the bout on a run of 9 blockages (8 knockouts, one submission) after opening his expert profession at 0-2 with 2 blockage problems. Della Maddalena was the ruling and safeguarding Everlasting mixed martial arts welterweight titleholder heading into the DWCS card.
The Australian scrapper opened his main UFC run with 4 first-round blockage wins and 3 “Efficiency of the Night” benefits. He ended up Pete Rodriguez, Ramazan Emeev, and Danny Roberts by knockout before stopping Randy Brown through submission.
In his very first battle to go the range under the UFC banner, Della Maddalena remained in a “Battle of the Night” bonus-winning affair with Bassil Hafez, which Della Maddalena won through split choice. He followed that with another split choice, topping Kevin Holland in September 2023.
Della Maddalena followed his triumph over Holland with a third-round knockout accomplishment over previous UFC welterweight title opposition Gilbert Burns in March 2024.
Della Maddalena declared the UFC welterweight title in Might 2025, beating then-champion Belal Muhammad by consentaneous choice at UFC 315.
Throughout his eight-fight UFC profession, Della Maddalena has actually gotten 6 fight-night bonus offer awards.
UFC 322 Centerpiece: Islam Makhachev
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY – JUNE 01: Islam Makhachev of Russia prepares to deal with Dustin Poirier in the UFC light-weight champion battle throughout the UFC 302 occasion at Prudential Center on June 01, 2024 in Newark, New Jersey. (Image by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC through Getty Images)
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Islam Makhachev (27-1) was 11-0 when he signed up with the UFC in 2015. He won his advertising launching, sending Leo Kuntz in the 2nd round. In his 2nd scrap under the UFC banner, Adriano Martins knocked out Makhachev in the preliminary. That loss stays the only acne on the record of the now 32-year-old Makhachev.
After the loss to Martins, Makhachev ran 10 straight wins. That run made him the No. 4 area in the UFC light-weight rankings and set him as much as deal with ex-champ Charles Oliveira in a fight for the uninhabited light-weight crown. Makhachev declared the belt with a second-round submission win in 2022.
In his very first 2 title defenses, Makhachev dealt with then-UFC featherweight champ Alexander Volkanovski. He won the very first bout at UFC 284 by choice and followed that with a knockout win over Volkanovski at UFC 294.
In June 2024, the UFC matched Makhachev versus previous interim UFC light-weight titleholder Dustin Poirier. Makhachev sent Poirier in the 5th round of that contest, which headlined UFC 302.
In his newest getaway, Makhachev protected his crown with a fast submission win over late replacement Renato Moicano, who actioned in to change Arman Tsarukyan on weigh-in day. The triumph provided Makhachev the record for a lot of successive UFC light-weight title defenses at 4.
In his previous 5 battles, Makhachev has actually made 5 fight-night bonus offer awards.
UFC 322 Co-Main Occasion: Valentina Shevchenko
MONTREAL, QUEBEC – MIGHT 10: Valentina Shevchenko of Kyrgyzstan commemorates after beating Manon Fiorot of France to maintain the females’s flyweight title throughout UFC 315 at Bell Centre on Might 10, 2025 in Montreal, Quebec. (Image by Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images)
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Valentina Shevchenko (25-4-1) has actually been with the UFC because December 2015, when the promo signed her as a short-notice replacement for Germaine de Randamie versus Sarah Kaufman on a UFC on FOX card. Shevchenko won that bantamweight battle by split choice.
Shevchenko remained at 135 for her next 4 battles, going 2-2. Her wins came versus previous UFC champ Holly Holm and future titleholder Julianna Pena. Her losses, both by choice, came versus Amanda Nunes, consisting of a September 2017 split choice problem versus then-champ Nunes.
Following her loss to Nunes, Shevchenko dropped to 125 pounds and went on among the most remarkable runs in the history of the UFC females’s departments.
She put an outright whipping on Priscila Cachoeira in her UFC 125-pound launching. In her next battle, Shevchenko dealt with ex-women’s strawweight champ Joanna Jedrzejczyk for the uninhabited flyweight title. Shevchenko won that scrap through choice.
She then protected her title 7 times before being up to Grasso at UFC 285. The 2 then battled to a split attract a September 2023 scrap. The trilogy battle in between the 2 saw Shevchenko ignore UFC 306 with the title back in her hands.
In her newest getaway, which functioned as the co-main occasion of UFC 315 in Might of this year, Shevchenko effectively protected her title for the very first time in her 2nd reign with a consentaneous choice win over Manon Fiorot.
Shevchenko holds the following records in the UFC females’s flyweight department:
The Majority Of WIns: 11
The majority of KO/TKO wins: 4
Longest winning streak: 9
The majority of title battle wins: 10
The majority of battle time: 4:07:47
The majority of control time: 1:27:25
The majority of leading position time: 1:15:53
Least strikes soaked up per minute: 1.86
Overall strikes landed: 1,963
Takedowns landed: 49
UFC 322 Co-Main Occasion: Zhang Weili
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – FEBRUARY 09: Zhang Weili of China responds after a triumph versus Tatiana Suarez in the UFC strawweight champion battle throughout the UFC 312 occasion at Qudos Bank Arena on February 09, 2025 in Sydney, Australia. (Image by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC)
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Zhang Weili (26-3) remained in her 2nd stint with the UFC’s 115-pound title when she chose to go up to 125 pounds and pursue the UFC flyweight champion.
The 36-year-old very first recorded the 115-pound belt in August 2019 in her 4th battle with the UFC. Zhang beat Jessica Andrade through TKO at the 0:42 mark of the preliminary of their UFC Battle Night bout in China to catch the belt. Zhang’s very first defense of her crown was available in March 2020, when she scored a split choice over previous champ Joanna Jedrzejczyk.
Zhang’s title reign ended in April 2021 when Rose Namajunas scored a highlight-reel head kick knockout win over the champ 78 seconds into their UFC 261 scrap. Namajunas kept the belt in the rematch in November 2021, beating Zhang through split choice.
Zhang recovered from those back-to-back beats in June 2022 when she when again beat Jedrzejczyk, this time scoring a knockout triumph.
In November 2022, Zhang discovered herself when again defending the belt. She recovered UFC gold with a submission win over Carla Esparza.
Zhang leaves the title having protected the crown 3 times in her 2nd champion run. She beat Amanda Lemos through choice in August 2023, following that by beating Yan Xiaonan through choice at UFC 300. In her newest getaway, Zhang made a choice over Tatiana Suarez in the co-main occasion of UFC 312 in February of 2025.
We will have more on UFC 322 as battle night nears.
Source: Forbes.
