In what is shaping up to be one of the greatest cards in the promotion’s history, UFC 322 presents a duo of blockbuster championship fights featuring some of the most decorated title-holders in the entire sport. In the UFC 322 main event, newly-minted welterweight king Jack Della Maddalena seeks to defend his strap for the first time against lightweight legend Islam Makhachev. In the second to last fight of the night at UFC 322, women’s flyweight phenom Valentina Shevchenko pits herself opposite former strawweight queen Zhang Weili, who recently vacated her throne in an effort to chase further greatness up a division.
UFC 322 Main Event
Winning the belt in glorious fashion after a five-round war with Belal Muhammad at UFC 315, Della Maddalena takes to the cage at Madison Square Garden as a bonafide star in mixed martial arts. Enlisting the services of other great combat sports icons like Alexander Volkanovski and Craig Jones, “JDM” is looking to record a fantastic upset in UFC 322 over the man many pundits are calling the best fighter on the planet.
During his reign as lightweight kingpin, Makhachev solidified his place as the top competitor the division has ever produced, compiling four superb title defenses, the most of any 155-lb champion in the history of the UFC. Traveling to 170-lb for the first time in his career, the Russian is ready to tackle a whole new challenge in his goal to conquer another weight class during UFC 322’s main event.
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UFC 322 Co-Main Event
Last seen in action earlier this year at UFC 315, Shevchenko toppled the immensely-talented Manon Fiorot, handing the Frenchwoman her first loss in both the promotion, as well as her professional tenure. Now competing in the first real women’s mixed martial arts superfight we’ve seen in quite some time, “Bullet” can add even more to her sterling legacy as the most distinguished flyweight champion ever by taking down the hard-punching Weili in UFC 322.
Asserting her dominance over the 115-lb class over the past three years, Weili has proven to be a nearly-unstoppable force in female MMA, dusting all challengers who have tried to take away her strap like Amanda Lemos, Yan Xiaonan and Tatiana Suarez. Taking the most important contest of her life against the otherworldly Shevchenko, “Magnum” will now attempt to become only the second woman to win a championship in two different weight categories other than Amanda Nunes.
Here’s How to Watch UFC 322
Online Streaming: You can catch the entire card on ESPN+, but you will need to subscribe in order to do so. Right now, the company is offering a monthly or yearly subscription of $11.99 and $119.99 respectively. For those who want to get more bang out of their buck, there is also the monthly Disney Bundle Deal, which offers ESPN+, Hulu, and Disney+ for $16.99 with included commercials, or $26.99 for no commercials at all.
Start Time and Date: The early preliminaries will begin at 6pm ET, followed by the preliminaries at 8pm ET, followed by the main card at 10pm ET on November 15th.
Bout Order For UFC 322
Main Card:
(Welterweight) Jack Della Maddalena (c) vs. Islam Makhachev
(Women’s Flyweight) Valentina Shevchenko (c) vs. Zhang Weili
(Welterweight) Sean Brady vs. Michael Morales
(Welterweight) Leon Edwards vs. Carlos Prates
(Lightweight) Beneil Dariush vs. Benoît Saint Denis
Preliminaries:
(Middleweight) Bo Nickal vs. Rodolfo Vieira
(Middleweight) Roman Kopylov vs. Gregory Rodrigues
(Women’s Flyweight) Erin Blanchfield vs. Tracy Cortez
(Bantamweight) Malcolm Wellmaker vs. Cody Haddon
Early Preliminaries:
(Middleweight) Kyle Daukaus vs. Gerald Meerschaert
(Featherweight) Pat Sabatini vs. Chepe Mariscal
(Women’s Strawweight) Angela Hill vs. Fatima Kline
(Middleweight) Baisangur Susurkaev vs. Eric McConico
(Lightweight Viacheslav Borshchev vs. Matheus Camilo
