INGLEWOOD, Calif. – The bickering and back-and-forth between Merab Dvalishvili and Umar Nurmagomedov continues.
The 2 UFC bantamweights, who meet within the co-main event of Saturday’s UFC 311, got into it once more at Thursday’s pre-fight press conference. This time around, Dvalishvili, who enters the bout because the defending champion, began the arguing by questioning Nurmagomedov on his nationality, which got here in response to Nurmagomedov, saying he was more Georgian than him earlier within the week.
“That’s one other bullsh*t from him,” Dvalishvili said. “In fact, he’s not Georgian. He can’t even represent Dagestan; he represents Russia. Umar, on Saturday night, you’re going to seek out out.
“Umar, I even have a matter: Where are you from?”
Nurmagomedov replied, “From Russia and Dagestan,” which caused amusing for Dvalishvili.
Nurmagomedov went on to query Dvalishvili on why he’s living within the U.S. and never Georgia. The 2 argued, and eventually transitioned to other topics of debate more fight related.
Russia and Georgia have a protracted and sophisticated history. Since Georgia’s independence from Russia in 1918, there’s been many conflicts and invasions from Russia. Essentially the most recent, big escalation between the 2 countries led to a war, often called the Russo-Georgian War of 2008.
You possibly can watch their full back-and-forth within the video above.
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