Merab Dvalishvili is ready to defend his bantamweight title in opposition to Sean O’Malley in a rematch booked for UFC 316. In a current interview with The Schmo, the Georgian star shared his ideas on going through O’Malley for a second time. Regardless of his regular boisterous nature, Dvalishvili was comparatively soft-spoken.
The truth is, he did not even declare he would beat O’Malley. As an alternative, he merely remarked on his opponent’s complaints of being injured of their first bout. He did, nevertheless, promise to work as onerous as he all the time does to make sure that he performs properly and meets the expectations many have of him.
“He is hungry now. He is completely different man, like he is saying he is gonna be 70% higher. He was complaining he was injured. Let’s have a look at, let’s discover out. I gotta make sure that I sustain identical onerous work, and I do know he needs to get it again, belt, and he hits onerous. It is gonna be robust problem. I do not take a look at this combat as straightforward, and let’s examine. All of us gonna see on June 7.”
Try Merab Dvalishvili’s ideas on his rematch with Sean O’Malley (1:37):
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O’Malley has all the time struggled to just accept the losses he has suffered, which was noticeable by his full refusal to acknowledge the legitimacy of his loss to Marlon ‘Chito’ Vera at UFC 252, the place he was TKO’d by the Ecuadorian. He had an analogous, although much less intense, response to dropping to Dvalishvili.
After UFC 306, which noticed Dvalishvili writer a reasonably dominant unanimous resolution win, O’Malley was initially somber, even accepting the defeat. Nonetheless, he shortly reversed course after rewatching the combat, expressing his perception that he had, the truth is, gained. He could have the possibility to show it come UFC 316.
Merab Dvalishvili has not tasted defeat since 2018
It has been seven years since Merab Dvalishvili final misplaced an MMA combat. After struggling a technical submission loss to Ricky Simón at UFC Battle Evening 128, he went on a tear, embarking on a jaw-dropping 12-fight win streak, with 11 of his wins going down at bantamweight, and one at catchweight.
Alongside the way in which, he has overwhelmed former bantamweight title challenger Marlon Moraes, ex-featherweight champion and all-time nice José Aldo, former bantamweight champion Petr Yan, ex-double champion Henry Cejudo, ex-bantamweight champion Sean O’Malley, and the beforehand unbeaten Umar Nurmagomedov.
