UFC Bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili will decline it with Sean O'Malley in the main event of UFC 316
The leading promotion of MMA returns to Newark for their latest pay-per-view, while Dvalishvili is preparing to fight O'Malley for the second time in nine months.
The couple crashed for the first time in the unique surroundings of the Bol in September 2024, with headliner of the second UFC event in Las Vegas.
Dvalishvili dominated O'Malley to claim the Bantam weight crown after five rounds. And after defending against Umar Nurmagomedov, 'The Machine' will extend the hostilities with 'Sugar'.
When the cage door closes behind them, albeit in 25 minutes or through a finish, the coach of Dvalishvili expects a tough night for O'Malley in one way or another.
Coach John Wood warns Sean O'Malley for permanent damage by Merab Dvalishvili Fight
During a recent interview with MMA fights, coach John Wood looked ahead to the upcoming third defense of Dvalishvili of the Bantamweight title and the second collision with O'Malley.
After deserving decisions in his title profit and first defense, the Georgian champion has an emphatic interruption to give a further mark on his reign.
But if that does not arrive, there will be a night at UFC 316, Wood O'Malley has promised that he will still come “changed” from another five rounds in the cage with 'the machine'.
What he [Dvalishvili] Bring to the table is just different. People don't understand. This fight is quite intriguing because Sean knows that now, Tim now [Welch] Know that.
“But what will happen is that they will have a good round, maybe a round or two, but as soon as things start to change in the same way as they did, it will defeat and empty even more than the first time.
“Sean is a great hunter … but there are better people,” Wood continued. “The motivation is to go outside and finish Sean. If that doesn't happen, it's not because of a lack of trying, it's not because of a lack of – Sean should be a changed man after this fight if he goes five rounds.”
The coach of Sean O'Malley used the atmosphere in the last excuse for Merab Dvalishvili loss
In the aftermath of the main event of Noche UFC in 2024, it was revealed that O'Malley was on his way to the operating table after fighting by a torn Labrum.
The former champion was quickly accused of making apologies for the result, and that Sentiment recently resisted his head again in response to some comments from the O'Malley coach.
“I have the fight so often in slow-mo dish. There were tons and tons that barely missed by centimeters that would have completely changed the fight, and I think a lot of it had to do with the bulb and the lighting,” Welch Espn MMA said.
Welch also repeated his conviction that O'Malley's health problem played a role.
“And not just the injury, I just have the feeling that that should happen in our lives. It really ensured that we really set up a level like people, and looking back it was really good for us.”
Welch will hope that a return to the more conventional environment of the Newark Prudential Center will increase the center of his hunter to demand revenge on Dvalishvili.