Riding A 10 fight Win Streak, Merab Dvalishvili Challenges Bantamweight Champion Sean O’Malley In The Main Event At UFC 306: O’Malley vs Dvalishvili At Sphere In Las Vegas, Nevada
By Kevin Schuster • Sep. 9, 2024
Merab Dvalishvili has been calling out bantamweight champion Sean O’Malley ever since the Georgian’s first win inside the Octagon in September of 2018.
After defeating Terrion Ware in Moscow, Dvalishvili took to the mic to call out the current champion, who at the time was just two fights into his UFC career. Their paths have run parallel for the last few years, but there was always one thing standing in the way of Dvalishvili fighting for a title: his good friend and training partner Aljamain Sterling was the one holding the belt.