Merab Dvalishvili says he avoids fake drama

Merab Dvalishvili presently holds the UFC bantamweight title, but helium continues to importune that unnecessary play is wholly alien to him. The Georgian believes that inexpensive play is unnecessary astatine the highest level due to the fact that everyone volition ticker their fights anyway. He says helium lone retaliates erstwhile helium feels genuine disrespect, and arsenic a rule, helium avoids immoderate artificial conflict.

The ambiance earlier his rematch with Peter Jan astatine UFC 323 is wholly different. Unlike their archetypal combat – which was tense owed to Jan’s clash with Aljamain Sterling – this clip determination is not a shred of idiosyncratic conflict. Dvalishvili claims to person enactment the past down him, though helium does not hide the incidental astatine the authoritative weigh-in erstwhile Jan pushed his enarthrosis with his strength, and the unit had to intervene.

The alteration is besides disposable successful Jan. Instead of provocations, helium publically praises Dvalishvili, calls him the top bantamweight combatant of each clip and claims that each champion should springiness him a rematch immediately. The champion respects specified a tone:

"The archetypal clip it was idiosyncratic for me. Now it's purely a competition. We fought, I bushed him and aft that I adjacent cheered for him successful the adjacent fights. I saw that helium was a bully father, arsenic a combatant helium was ever of bully quality. The lone occupation was that helium behaved similar a bully and insulted me, Aljamain and our team. Today, each that is down us. I volition springiness him a manus and privation him each the best," Dvalishvili said arsenic portion of the UFC's interior media obligations.

Umar Nurmagomedov

He aboriginal addressed his erstwhile disputes with Umar Nurmagomedov, without mentioning his name, making it wide that helium was bothered by the information that the combat was artificially created:

"I don't similar erstwhile play is staged. People volition ticker our fights anyway. One spoiled feline called maine aft the combat and said: 'Don't station my picture, we were conscionable gathering the fight.' "Then wherefore are you doing this? If it's not natural, wherefore would we beryllium insulting each other? I tin joke, but trash talking for nary crushed has ne'er been my style. I don't similar it erstwhile idiosyncratic disrespects maine for nary reason."

The anticipation of a caller gathering with Nurmagomedov exists, particularly if the second defeats Deiveson Figueiredo astatine UFC 324 successful January. However, the champion is not reasoning excessively overmuch astir it:

"I volition combat whoever the UFC puts successful beforehand of me. I similar opponents who are coming disconnected a winning streak, who look bully and who marque maine enactment adjacent harder. Right now, Petr Jan is motivating me. He bushed Figueiredo, Song Yadong and Mark McGhee precise convincingly. He is the antheral now."