Jack Della Maddalena’s coach discusses possible Islam Makhachev rematch

Jack Della Maddalena’s coach Ben Vickers has given his thoughts on a potential rematch against Islam Makhachev.

In his next fight, Jack Della Maddalena will face an incredibly dangerous opponent when he collides with Carlos Prates. He will, of course, be attempting to battle his way back into championship contention in the wake of his one-sided loss to Islam Makhachev in his most recent outing.

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Della Maddalena was the champion prior to that encounter but lost the strap to Makhachev, and now, he will likely need to take on some of the toughest opponents that the welterweight division has to offer just to earn his way back.

In a recent interview, the aforementioned Ben Vickers had an interesting take on Della Maddalena possibly facing Makhachev again in the future.

Della Maddalena’s coach on his future

“I hope Islam keeps the belt,” Vickers told Submission Radio. “One of the first things Jack said to me was that he wanted to rematch Islam for the belt. He wasn’t there hoping someone else would do his job for him and beat Islam so that he could fight them. He was very adamant in the fact that he wants to do that fight again. So for us, we would like Islam to keep winning and defending his title so that we get another crack at him.”

“I know people will think I’m an idiot for saying it, but given the way the Islam fight went, I don’t really feel like we need to change a lot, but we need to execute the game plan better,” Vickers said. “And for whatever reason, it didn’t work out that night.

“But I still believe we had a decent game plan in place, we just weren’t able to set it in motion for whatever reason. Whether it was just Islam being too good on the night or Jack being slow to react to certain positions that we’d worked on. Whatever it might have been, I don’t believe there’s a great deal of work we need to do to change the outcome of the Islam fight.”

Quotes via MMA Junkie

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