Ray Longo has a pretty good handle on what type of skills Merab Dvalishvili brings to the table.
Before Dvalishvili moved his training to Las Vegas, he worked with the Serra-Longo Fight Team in New York. As Dvalishvili prepares to challenge Sean O'Malley for the bantamweight crown in the UFC 306 main event on Saturday at The Sphere in Las Vegas, Longo offered some insight into what “The Machine” will have to do in order to leave with a title belt in his possession.
“He’s going to have to eat some punches to win this fight – period,” Longo said on “The Anik & Florian Podcast.