Dana White no shows UFC 315 presser to duck questions about 2025 International Fight Week

Duck meet duck?

After Jack Della Maddalena surprised Belal Muhammad to say the Final Combating Championship (UFC) Welterweight title at UFC 315 final evening (Sat., Could 10, 2025), followers and media eagerly awaited UFC CEO Dana White’s look on the post-fight press convention.

Sadly, the pinnacle honcho didn’t present up.

As a substitute, Senior VP of Worldwide Operations David Shaw took the stage, a lot to the group’s disappointment, as Shaw supplied no readability on the excessive stakes tied to UFC 315.

On Thursday, through the UFC 315 pre-fight press convention (watch right here), White principally confirmed that UFC 317, the large annual Worldwide Battle Week card, will function Ilia Topuria preventing for the Light-weight title. He added that the end result of final evening’s foremost occasion would decide Topuria’s opponent.

With Maddalena now holding the Welterweight crown, hypothesis factors to Islam Makhachev transferring as much as problem for “double-champion” standing. However the place does this go away Topuria? Will he face Charles Oliveira for an interim Light-weight title or a vacant one? Absolutely, Topuria wouldn’t have vacated his personal belt if Makhachev doesn’t do the identical, proper?

These burning questions wanted solutions from the UFC CEO, who was nowhere to be discovered.

Powerful.

For full UFC 315 outcomes, protection, and highlights click on HERE.