Belal Muhammad is going for his first protection of the UFC welterweight identify when he faces Jack Della Maddalena in the primary tournament at UFC 315 in Montreal.
Muhammad, who beat Leon Edwards at UFC 304 to say the championship, has now not misplaced a struggle since January 2019. Della Maddalena, who’s undefeated within the Octagon is difficult for the identify for the primary time. He enters the struggle following a third-round TKO win over Gilbert Burns.
In the co-main tournament, Valentina Shevchenko places her girls’s flyweight identify at the line towards Manon Fiorot. Most just lately, Shevchenko ended her trilogy towards Alexa Grasso with a unanimous determination victory over Grasso at UFC 306 in September. Fiorot, a fellow first-time UFC identify challenger, could also be unbeaten within the promotion.
Also at the card, former bantamweight champion José Aldo takes on Aiemann Zahabi and Grasso is going head-to-head with emerging girls’s flyweight contender Natalia Silva.
Brett Okamoto, Andreas Hale and Jeff Wagenheim damage down the entire motion of UFC 315 in Montreal.