Merab Dvalishvili
Umar Nurmagomedov
Conversation History
“He called me fake champion. What kind of man are you? When you have somebody tweeting for you.”
– via Pound 4 Pound, revealing his reason for disliking Umar Nurmagomedov, which stems from being called a "fake champion" through a proxy tweet.
“Of course, I want revenge with Merab. I want to finish. Want to hurt him. I really want to hurt him. I don't want to take him down I want to punch his face all five rounds”
– callout via UFC
“Believe me, I will be ready, [a] 100 times better than today. I will do it, and I will come to take this belt. Doesn't matter who is going to be Petr Yan, Mirab [Dvalishvili] whoever else? Doesn't matter, guys, I will become champion”
– reacted after his win over Mario Bautista at UFC 321
“Merab deserves to be 2025 Fighter of the Year even if he loses to Petr Yan: “4 times in 1 year. Nobody with belt does this. He deserves this. Its amazing, he’s very active, he will be in history”
– via Brian Campbell
“When I saw this, I felt nice. You have to be in this mood because I hope you're gonna take the fight again. He had a chance to hurt me, but why didn't it happen? We'll see, but I like his mood, and if he'll try to do this, I'm gonna show him who's gonna be hurt.”
– reacts to Merab's "I’ll break him in the first 1.5 minutes" comment
“From [the] last fight with Petr Yan, Merab [Dvalishvili] became much better. And his last fight with Cory Sandhagen, [he showed] he's gonna wrestle all night, and it's a very big trouble for Petr Yan. He don't have good defense, but he have good arms. He can like do TKO, but if it's not going to be TKO, I think Merab [is] going to maul him”
– via Weighing In podcast
“If I will choose [between a title fight and rematch with Dvalishvili], maybe revenge I want more,We’ll see. Maybe he’s going to take some rest after this fight. It’s his fourth fight of the year. It’s not easy. We’ll see what happens after our fights.”
– via mmajunkie
“He's [a] little spoiled baby. He's spoiled by the UFC... Yeah, exactly, he's crying [for a rematch]”
“Yeah, I hope Bautista whoops Umar's a** and I will fight Bautista next, because Bautista is a good fighter, you know. He has got a good winning streak, beat a lot of good guys, and he is a more deserving guy too. Bautista's cousin's name is not Khabib. That's why he needs a nine fight win streak to maybe fight for the belt. Some people can get the belt after a six fight win streak [by] fighting nobodies, you know, without ranked opponents. So Bautista could be next”
“If I have to fight Umar Nurmagomedov next, I'm confident I'll break him this time and beat him clean. Our last fight wasn't like that. I was controlling things and won without taking unnecessary risks or headaches, but I won't let him off so easily in the octagon next time... I'll break him in the first 1.5 minutes and then drag him around the octagon for the remaining 23.5 minutes like a sack... Even after losing, he didn't learn his lesson.”