Merab Dvalishvili has arranged his heaviest UFC challenges in order and the list can surprise you.
In April for seven years, Merab Dvalishvili in Georgia will be undefeated. The UFC Bantamweight Champion conquered the adversity early in his UFC career, bounced back from two-right losses to the amazing profit treak of 12-Vecht that he has today.
Dvalishvili almost lost the title against the unbeaten Umar Nurmagomedov on UFC 311 in January, but 'The Machine' finally passed through in the later rounds and brought three rounds to two in a well -driven fight.
Nurmagomedov's there with Marlon Moraes as one of the most difficult battles of the career of Dvalishvili, but Dvalishvili does not see it exactly.
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Merab Dvalishvili ranks his last 5 opponents
In a recent video, Dvalishvili in Georgian was asked to rank his last 5 opponents on difficulty.
To the surprise of many, Dvalishvili said that Nurmagomedov was his easiest opponent of former champions Sean O'Malley, Henry Cejudo, Petr Yan and Jose Aldo, Aldo the most challenging in his eyes.
How the last 5 fights of Merab Dvalishvili went
Two-time champion Vederweight Aldo defended all 16 of Dvalishvili's Takedown attempts from their fight on UFC 278 in 2022. Despite his inability to get the fight to the floor, Dvalishvili picked up 5 minutes of control time and had the amount of Aldo's Strikes.
Petr Yan was the second most difficult fight in the ranking of Dvalishvili, although the Georgian dropped him down 11 times for a shutout of 50-45 on the score cards. Dvalishvili brought down the former Olympian Henry Cejudo six times and Sean O'Malley five times, eventually the harder fight as Cejudo.
Umar Nurmagomedov had a strong start in his title meeting with Dvalishvili, win around 1 and 2 before Dvalishvili really started to pick up the pace in round 3 and succeeded in bringing him down 7 times for his legendary cousin Khabib Nurmagomedov, the former UFC Lighweighttightt.
A few months away from his first title defense, not everyone seems to agree with the ranking of Merab Dvalishvili …
“Putting Umar in the first place, this man knows what he is doing,” wrote a fan about the list of Dvalishvili.
“He almost did it,” said another fan on Instagram.
“He ranked them through how he respects every hunter,” remarked another fan.
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