As a substitute of sitting around and waiting for his eventual title fight against Sean O’Malley to finally be booked, Merab Dvalishvili is keeping himself energetic, and even winning gold medals at Combat Sambo tournaments.
Following Sean O’Malley‘s successful title defense against Marlon ‘Chito’ Vera this past March, Merab Dvalishvili has been all but confirmed as his next challenger.
Despite that, the UFC’s schedule for the yr continues to refill, and the bantamweight title fight continues to elude fans who’re wondering when it can happen.
‘Suga’ has constantly asked for the fight to happen at UFC 306 on September 14, nonetheless, the promotion is yet to announce a predominant event for that blockbuster event.
Merab Dvalishvili steps in on short notice to compete in Combat Sambo tournament
Merab ‘The Machine’ has change into extremely popular amongst fans as of late, utilizing his social media tremendously well to realize more fans.
The Georgian has constantly attempted to remain as energetic as possible throughout his UFC tenure, nonetheless, after rising up the 135lb rankings, activity has change into harder to come back by.
With that, as a substitute of the 33-year-old sitting around and waiting to be given a date for his eventual title fight against O’Malley, he has continued to remain energetic, and this past weekend, even stepped in on short notice to compete on the US National Combat Sambo tournament.
The competition took place in Denton, Texas, and ‘The Machine’ went on to dominate and pick up the gold medal within the tournament.
Dvalishvili is probably going used to gold medals, as his last UFC outing got here against Olympic gold medalist, Henry Cejudo at UFC 298 this past February, with the Georgian dominating the previous double champion.
“Hungry for competition. Took a short-notice opportunity and competed in Texas. Took home GOLD for the U.S. National Combat Sambo Tournament,” Dvalishvili said in a post on X.
Sean O’Malley proclaims business partnership with Jake Paul
While Merab is off doing side quests of his own, ‘Suga’ Sean can also be leveling up in his own right, and he has recently announced that he and web sensation, Jake Paul, have gone into business together, launching the product, ‘W’.
‘W’ is a set of men’s care products, starting from body wash to body spray, and ‘The Problem Child’ will undoubtedly be hoping that it’s even half as successful as his brother, Logan Paul‘s product, ‘PRIME’.
In a recent rant on his podcast, the bantamweight champion took a couple of jabs at his likely next challenger, saying: “He’s just short, ugly, tough, I mean that’s just about it.”
With the promotion having yet to announce a predominant event for UFC 306, which is scheduled to happen on the Sphere, a bantamweight title fight between these two rivals could headline the event, due to 29-year-old’s star power.
UFC CEO, Dana White, recently revealed that he has already spent greater than $16m to placed on UFC 306, with it being a one-off event on the incredibly unique Sphere.
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