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File – Belal Muhammad, left, Brazil's Gilbert Burns appears during the first round of a world weight at the UFC 288 Mixed Martial Arts Event, May 6, 2023, in Newark, NJ (AP Photo/Frankrin II, file), kicks.

Montreal (AP) – The verbal gloves are switched off in the construction of UFC 315, with the voltage between the USA and Canada being spilled on the map.

Even the style of the Trash Talk was created in the headline event between Belal Muhammad and challenger Jack Della Maddalena.

After Maddalena said it was time for Muhammad to retire, the champion countered that his Australian opponent was not “really good in the garbage conversation”.

“I can't wait for him to eat his words and eat these fists,” said Muhammad.

Muhammad (24-3-0 with a no-contest) will bring his championship into the line for the first time and is one of two title fight. The Kyrgyz Peruvian Champion Valentina Shevchenko defends her fly weight crown against Manon Fiorot from France in the co-main event.

Muhammad entered the press conference room with his championship belt, carried colors and a black basketball jersey with “Bully” over the chest – an allusion to his nickname “Bully B”.

“I see myself as a bully,” he said. “I'm harassing all these people in the cage.”

The 36-year-old from Chicago strives for his twelfth victory in a row after grabping the crown in the world weight in front of England's Leon Edwards at UFC 304 in July.

In front of the Canadian and mixed martial art legend Georges St-Pierre-a three-time championship in the World Heritage Weight Warge a cherry at the top.

“He is on all Mount Rushmore, a man I looked at,” said Muhammad. “I try to follow that, right?

“My first goal was the gold. Now my next goal is the goat. So I hunt it, and it will be great to hunt it here in Montreal and before him.”

In the meantime, Della Maddalena (17-2-0) has a 17-member winning streak seven in the UFC-since he dropped his first two fights as a professional.

As a +145 outsider at BetmGM Sportsbook, he is faced with his stiffest test in Muhammad, but the 28-year-old from Calm-as-Can-BE does not expect to stop winning in Montreal.

“You learn a lot from losses. I learned a lot from both, in terms of skills and then mentally and since then only in a tear,” he said. “I am happy to have received the losses behind me and all victories in the future.”

Shevchenko (24-4-1) is facing a new opponent after three consecutive titles against Mexico Alexa Grasso after three consecutive titles against the Mexican titles against Mexico titles after he had reclaimed the crown of flying weight in September.

Fiorot (12-1-0) is unbeaten in seven UFC fights and as a light -135 favorite for Depthrone Shevchenko.

“It is because my last three fights were the total dominance compared to her that had closer and harder fights,” said Fiorot.

Shevchenko, 37, said she never felt better.

“If I compared myself a few years ago, I am a better version of myself – faster, stronger, more confident,” she said. “I feel the best form that I was in my entire career.”

It is the eighth event of the UFC in Montreal and the first since 2015. It is also the 35th overall trius in Canada.

The map on Saturday is the first in Canada since Donald Trump was re -elected in November. In the middle of growing political tensions between Canada and the United States, Trump has repeatedly suggested that Canada should become the 51st US state.

“I don't even think about it at all,” said Dana White, President and CEO from UFC. “It has no influence on what we do.”

Similar to the 4 nations, the political tensions between Canada and the USA were able to exceed the arena. The Bell Center was also three hockey fights in nine seconds when the nations met in February attack on the nations in February.

At least the American world weight Charles Radtke sees his struggle with Mike Malott from Ontario, especially in the middle of the widespread expansion of “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Canadian sporting events.

“I don't care about hockey. It's not my appearance,” said Radtke. “But what I love is that with my grandfather, the Sergeant major in the Marine Corps, I grew up on a bison ranch. If you drill all the national anthem, someone has to pay for it.”

In the past few months, Radtke has had Trump's “51st state” rhetoric of many boos during the performances of the American national anthem north of the border and spent a large part of his press conference.

When he was asked about the more than 20,000 Canadian fans, who probably fill the building with Jers, he replied with an expedant.

Mallott said he didn't have to draw any additional motivation of Radtke's “noise”.

“If you want to set your energy there, make yourself for it,” he said before your provisional card fight. “I don't put my energy there. I put my energy in the octagon.

“It seems that we both really focus on me. I think about it. I don't care what this type is doing.”