December 18, 2024 1:50 pm ET
Daniel Cormier sees star potential in a prime UFC welterweight contender.
When assessing the panorama at 170 kilos, Cormier believes Jack Della Maddalena (17-2 MMA, 7-0 UFC) might be an enormous draw if he turns into champion. Unbeaten within the octagon, Della Maddalena hasn’t competed since rallying to knock out Gilbert Burns at UFC 299 in March. He has been recovering from complications due to arm surgery.
“I believe Jack Della Maddalena is one combat away from changing into a man preventing for the belt,” Cormier stated on “Good Guy/Bad Guy” with Chael Sonnen. “If that combat is in opposition to Kamaru Usman, he can be rushed into that title combat. Let me inform you one thing concerning the UFC: Vince McMahon famously stated, ‘I don’t just like the UFC as a result of I can’t management the result.’ What the UFC will do, they do know learn how to observe a recreation plan they usually do know star-building.
“So if you get a man like Jack Della Maddalena who has a whole nation behind him, that everyone is happy about, they’ll discover a method to get him into the place if he earns it. So, if he beats a Kamaru Usman, there can be no different impediment as a result of, if I’m being trustworthy with you, proper now at 170, essentially the most marketable man as a champion proper now could be Jack Della Maddalena due to the place he’s from, due to the whole nation behind him, and due to the best way they’re enthusiastic about him.”
Cormier used Leon Edwards for instance to level out how the Brit was capable of emerge as a pay-per-view headliner as soon as he turned champion. After knocking out Kamaru Usman to assert the welterweight title within the UFC 278 essential occasion, Edwards defeated Usman once more at UFC 286, adopted by a title protection over Colby Covington at UFC 296. He would go on to lose his title to Belal Muhammad at UFC 304 in July – his fourth-straight headliner.
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