The Ultimate Fighting Championship returns to us tonight, February 11, 2023, for UFC 284, going down live from the RAC Arena in Perth, Australia. Just before our back-to-back title fights in the main and co-main events, Perth’s own Jack Della Maddalena faced Randy Brown in the feature fight of the evening. Jack Della Maddalena (13-2) […]
The Ultimate Fighting Championship returns to us tonight, February 11, 2023, for UFC 284, going down live from the RAC Arena in Perth, Australia. Just before our back-to-back title fights in the main and co-main events, Perth’s own Jack Della Maddalena faced Randy Brown in the feature fight of the evening.
Jack Della Maddalena (13-2) has been in the UFC just 13 months, and in that time he’d gone 3-0 with three first round knockouts. The latter two victories came over former M-1 Challenge middleweight champion Ramazan Emeev and former professional boxer Danny Roberts.
Randy Brown (16-4) on the other hand first fought in the UFC back in January of 2016 with a record of 6-0. Though he’s stumbled a few times along the way, he’s given us some truly brilliant performances, and came into tonight’s bout on a four-fight win streak.
Brown was doing a good job keeping the distance with his straight punches and front kicks early on.
Della Maddalena lands his leg kicks in attempt to gauge the range, and he also did a good job of blocking most of Brown’s punches.
Brown allows Della Maddalena to get him up against the cage for just a moment, and a moment is all it took, as the Perth native lands a vicious right hook that stuns and drops Brown. Della Maddalena then proceeds to absolutely unload on Brown, before deciding to take his back and sink in the rear naked choke for his fourth-straight first round finish.
Jack Della Maddalena is now 14-2 as a professional, having secured the 13th finish of his career tonight at UFC 284.
What’s more, Della Maddalena opened up his career with a record of 0-2 after suffering back-to-back losses in his first and second pro fights, meaning he’s now on a 14-fight win streak.
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2022 has been nothing short of an entertaining year in the UFC. Titles from various divisions changed hands, rivalries were settled, new rivalries were born, and many new fighters rose to stardom. Over the course of the year, we saw veterans of the game leave their gloves in the center of the octagon such as […]
2022 has been nothing short of an entertaining year in the UFC. Titles from various divisions changed hands, rivalries were settled, new rivalries were born, and many new fighters rose to stardom.
Over the course of the year, we saw veterans of the game leave their gloves in the center of the octagon such as Luke Rockhold, Frankie Edgar, Joanna Jedrzejczyk, and many others. As this past generation of fighters have left MMA, new faces have arrived, ready to take the game by storm.
This year was an incredible year for newcomers to the UFC promotion, but one rookie was far and above the LowKick MMA UFC Newcomer of the Year.
UFC Newcomer of the Year: Jack Della Maddalena (8 votes)
Della-Maddalena began his year at UFC 270: Ngannou vs. Gane in January. The young Aussie took on Pete Rodriguez and wasted no time obtaining the quick round 1 finish via knockout.
Coming off this scintillating finish, Della-Maddalena returned to the UFC octagon next in June at UFC 275: Teixeira vs. Prochazka. What many thought would be a more demanding opponent, Ramazan Emeev joined Jack in the octagon and once again, Jack secured a Round 1 finish. This time, Della-Maddalena won via TKO due to a devastating liver strike.
2022 was nothing short of spectacular for the Perth, Australia native and three 1st round knockouts clearly show why. Prolific striker Jack Della-Maddalena is certainly a fighter to look out for in 2023 as he looks to continue his momentum.
Muhammad Mokaev (4 votes)
LowKick MMA’s runner-up for this award is none other than the young Flyweight contender, Muhammad “The Punisher” Mokaev. The young England native began his career at just 21 years old when he stepped into the UFC Octagon against Cody Durden this March.
Mokaev was unable to get a finish in this fight but earned a dominant Unanimous Decision victory in front of his home fans. By this point, Mokaev promised to become the youngest UFC Champion in history and still has another two years to do so.
Mokaev looks to make good on his promise of becoming champion, and the path he is on means that 2023 will be a pivotal year for the young fighter.
Honarable Mention
Jailton Almeida
Just barely not making the cut, another fighter deserving of recognition is heavyweight/light heavyweight newcomer Jailton Almeida. While Almeida only had two fights in 2022, the quality certainly outweighed the quantity.
We first saw Almeida in the UFC octagon in May for UFC Fight Night: Holm vs. Vieira when he took on Parker Porter. In this fight, Almeida wasted no time whatsoever and earned a submission victory via Rear Naked Choke only 25 seconds into the fight.
Subsequently, Almeida was matched up with Anton Turkalj during UFC 279: Diaz vs. Ferguson. In almost identical fashion to his first UFC fight, Almeida once again secured a RNC submission, this time just 32 seconds into the fight.
Jailton Almeida brings a breath of fresh air to the Heavyweight division, and it will be interesting to see what the submission artist can accomplish in 2023. Look for Almeida to continue his quick finishing ways when he takes on Shamil Abdurakhimov at UFC 283: Teixeira vs. Hill in his home country of Brazil.
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2022 has been nothing short of an entertaining year in the UFC. Titles from various divisions changed hands, rivalries were settled, new rivalries were born, and many new fighters rose to stardom. Over the course of the year, we saw veterans of the game leave their gloves in the center of the octagon such as […]