“F**k, what a masterclass. When you’re going to fight a guy like merab, that is the masterclass. He put on a clinic... His training camp must’ve been hell, had to be hell, and he looked like it. I saw some videos of it. Some wild strength and conditioning, and plyometrics. He knew what he was in for. That’s the thing, if you’re going to fight a guy like merab, you know what the mountain is. Are you ready to climb it?”

– via JRE MMA Show, praising Petr Yan's performance against Merab Dvalishvili as a "masterclass" and a "clinic.