UFC 318 sees one title and another title, and the legendary profession may be close. It's a battle card life, which seems to be one of the fewer products paid per year in the year.

Now that the dust has settled in Montreal, this is the key takeaway from Saturday’s UFC 315:

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1. Here is a phrase that may require some habit: UFC middleweight champion Jack Della Maddalena. This is not to say that the concept itself is so strange or ridiculous. This is what I just think we will be here soon. This happens, though, when you take the opportunity and fight your heart.

"JDM" has answers to everything Belal Muhammad does. Against a man who specializes in fighting, Della Maddalena systematically takes every perceived edge we think Mohammed might have, and in the process just defeats him. Respect the championship again. From the beginning of his career, he went from 0-2 to the UFC champion less than a decade later. Now it's an arc.

2. But, oh wait, are the two different UFC departments totally confused? We are believed that Mohammed's losses will allow UFC lightweight champion Islam Makhachev to challenge the secondary belts every time. This means we won't get Makhachev vs. Ilia Topuria, which has the potential to be the second biggest fight of the year (yes, I'm looking for your top spot, Jon Jones and Tom Aspinall). This also means that Shavkat Rakhmonov, the top contender in the middleweight division, will have to wait longer to win a good championship.

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Basically chaos. In this wonder of the sport, it can be fun at times, but it also makes the ground under our feet suddenly unstable.

3. Now that Valentina Shevchenko has rejected another light contender, can we continue the Zhang Weili battle? Champions vs. Champions are almost the only fun thing about Shevchenko right now. Now, the women's sector in the UFC is in desperate need of sparks, and Shevchenko is gradually surpassing the little-known challenger, absolutely not.

4. Jose Aldo was a lightweight hell on Monday, adding to his legacy. With lightweight retirement, he will wake up on Sunday. One week, is it?

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It's always hard to know if it's enough to believe a fighter standing in a cage after beating and tell us he's enough. Sometimes, after the loss of depression atomizes, he will decide that he has more and does not want to end the explanation. As far as Aldo is concerned, just stop here. He proved his greatness in lightweight prime numbers. It seems like a good idea to even fall to the blistering class late in his career.

But, at the last minute, he finished 135 pounds and then barely survived after a strong start against Aiemann Zahabi, and it was clear that Aldo's return was reduced. Although it was a big trip, wasn't it?

5. What is Mohammed going to become now? Back to the previous welterweight champion, let’s relax and record the irony of his most exciting battle, and the battle that made him win the championship. We also admit that it may be difficult for him to convince the UFC to give him another crack.

Remember how long does it take to climb “Remember this name”? He finally won the belt and turned around and lost to one person in his first defense, the fifth in the division. So that's not very good. In his brief belt, he also never seemed to be a champion favorite like anyone else, which did not bode well for a title soon.

However, he did go all out in this battle. He seemed to know he was frustrated on his scorecard and did everything he could to re-enter, even if it meant doing damage just to increase his output. This made him give useful blood, but that wasn't enough. With all the hard travels, he may only be the transition champion in the department's history. This seems unfair. But this seems to be the most likely reality.