Were you impressed with Jack Della Maddalena's performance? (2024)

Won a split decision against #13 Welterweight Kevin Holland

Was it an impressive performance? Where does Jack go from here? What is his ceiling?

Yes. Made Holland look really bad on the feet. Holland was looking fire against WB in the first round before breaking his hand.

If his grappling is up to his strking level, he's future top 5 guy imo.

I wanna see Brady vs JDM. If he dominates Brady, I say he can beat anybody at WW, though could also lose.

Holland is a tricky guy to face if you aren’t a grappler. To me this was a survive-and-advance situation for JDM. And he survived/advanced.

That being said, I think don’t see a convincing path to victory for him against the elite guys. Someone like Neal or Luque would be the most fun right now. Someone like Brady might be better for finding out where he’s at.

Shouldn't have been a split. Giacomo pretty clearly won the first and third and probably won the second too.

It wasn't the firefight that we were hoping for but he shut down the bigger, more experienced, very dangerous opponent. Kevin Holland is a huge test, and he passed.

JustOnce said:

Holland was looking fire against WB in the first round before breaking his hand.

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Yeah he was indeed, and outside of Wonderboy almost everybody else has basically grappled f*cked him, JDM handled him standing with ease and his boxing was looking very crisp along with his top tier defense.

I thought he looked good.

(edit - I also thought it was funny (as per press conference) that during the fight Holland was talking to JDM but not smack talk, Jack said he was being a nice guy and saying they should train together, JDM was confused and was like dude we are fighting right now LOL)

No.

Its never a good sign when a fighter consistently finishing opponents at the bottom of the division becomes consistently unable to finish opponents at the higher end of the division. Its usually a sign there is a hard ceiling on how far their current skillset will take them.

Look at Shavkat in contrast. He finished his opponents when he fought at the bottom of the division and continued to finish his opponents once he reached the top. The last opponent Jack knocked out was Danny Roberts, three fights ago, who proceeded to be knocked out in his next fight by a blown up featherweight.

He is a fun action fighter like Holland but nothing more.

HolmeZy55 said:

Yeah he was indeed, and outside of Wonderboy almost everybody else has basically grappled f*cked him, JDM handled him standing with ease and his boxing was looking very crisp along with his top tier defense.

I thought he looked good.

(edit - I also thought it was funny (as per press conference) that during the fight Holland was talking to JDM but not smack talk, Jack said he was being a nice guy and saying they should train together, JDM was confused and was like dude we are fighting right now LOL)

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4th dimensional sh*t talk during fight lmao.