Merab Dvalishvili looks unbeatable in recent years while he is tearing a path into the greatness of Bantamweight, but it was not always the case.
In April 2018, he was on a two-fight loss in April 2018 and stood for the heel of the UFC before launching one of the greatest runs of the sport. His last defeat came against Ricky Simon, who won through a technical entry in a bizarre fight in Atlantic City.
Now Dvalishhvili has claimed that he has actually eliminated himself to lose that fight. In fact, he claims that the only major damage he has undergone was caused during his career himself.
Merab Dvalishvili claims that he has eliminated himself in a defeat against Ricky Simon
Merab Dvalishvili is now one of the most frightening champions in the UFC, but there was a time when he was ever in major problems and the risk of losing his contract. After dropping a controversial decision to Frankie Saenz, he was beaten in a bizarre way by Ricky Simon.
While the Georgian lap for a Takedown, he eventually hit his head on the canvas and was for the count when Simon locked a guillotine. However, he managed to wake up and kick his legs, until finally the bell sounded and he seemed to have survived.
But when he came out and looked out, referee Liam Kerrigan decided to call the fight a TKO, which was later changed to a technical entry. But speaking on UFC 316 Media Day, the current Bantam weight champion claimed that he chose himself.
“I will never be injured in every fight,” he told the press including bloody elbow. “I hurt myself. Like my second fight when I fought against Ricky Simon and I pulled him down and I landed on my head and hit myself.
“That was the only fight that I was damaged, every other fight that I am usually fresh with just a few scratches. After the fighting I am always healthy and injury -free.”
Merab Dvalishvili is notorious for self -inflicted injuries
However, this series itself has cost Dvalishvili over the years, with a number of well -documented injuries outside the cage. He was notorious directly on a frozen ice lake and suffered a horrible cut that placed his UFC 311 defense against Umar Nurmagomedov in Jeopardy.
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“I do a lot of crazy things outside the cage,” he went on. “Especially when I am in nature, something can happen where an animal wakes me up. But most of my injuries come from training.”
He is currently cutting the weight for the main event of UFC 316 against Sean O'Malley, and has had to overcome a broken toe that suffered only a few weeks after the fight. However, he states that the weight saving is more difficult to make with the two struggles.