LAS VEGAS – Jack Della Maddalena knows his split decision win over Kevin Holland won’t be jostling for position of the 2023 Fight of the Year, but that’s OK. He did what he needed to do to win and for that, he’s happy. For three rounds Saturday at T-Mobile Arena, Della Maddalena (16-2 MMA, 6-0 UFC) and Holland (25-10 MMA, 12-7 UFC) partook in an unorthodox technical striking match in the Noche UFC co-main event. Della Maddalena tacks up the strategic approach to Holland’s unpredictability. “He’s hard to read and I didn’t know what to expect going in there, so I just wanted to be defensively sound in landing shots,” Della Maddalena told MMA Junkie and other reporters after the fight. “I wanted to try to take him out into the last round, but yeah, he was hard to read.” “… I was trying (to get a finish)
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