cheaterscabaret.com — Merab Dvalishvili put an emphatic finish to “The Suga Show” with a smothering unanimous choice win over Sean O’Malley to claim the UFC bantamweight title Saturday evening generally occasion of Noche UFC at Ball.
Dvalishvili used continuous movement, 6 takedowns and simply over 10 mins of control time to befuddle and prevent O’Malley from uncorking among his fight-ending punches. It was a leading efficiency that did not have the fireworks followers expected after seeing an extremely produced phenomenon of an occasion.
“I know he readied, but I made him appearance normal,” said Dvalishvili (18-4 MMA, 11-2 UFC). “I am the best bantamweight in the UFC.”
O’Malley (18-2 MMA, 10-2 UFC) was production the second protection of his 135-pound title but had a hard time to find any energy throughout the fight beyond a couple of front kicks to the body in the shutting mins. Despite ratings of 49-46, 48-47 and 48-47, Dvalishvili remained in control for nearly every min.
Known for his ruthless takedowns and limitless power, Dvalishvili mosted likely to work almost instantly and secured his first takedown 3 mins right into the fight and evaluated O’Malley’s durability. To his credit, O’Malley functioned his back to his feet but was dragged back to the floor covering soon after and found himself caught in a guillotine.
It was a setting O’Malley, 29, had not remained in throughout his UFC tenure. The rangy competitor from Montana was used to dictating fights and has used his devastating knockout power and identify precision to snipe the resistance. But Dvalishvili was a constantly moving target O’Malley could not get on.
A beautiful duck-under takedown kicked off the second rounded for Dvalishvili and he invested a lot of the rounded functioning over the champ with ground and extra pound. In an unexpected minute, Dvalishvili inexplicably launched a guillotine choke and strolled away with a couple of secs left in the rounded. O’Malley pounced on the opportunity to terminate a couple of punches, but that was all the opportunity he would certainly have.
It was wash and duplicate in Rounds 3 and 4, with O’Malley beginning to get on the timing but not enough to quit the energised Georgian from gathering a couple of more takedowns.
The just real dramatization was available in the last minutes when an O’Malley front kick to the midsection appeared to hurt Dvalishvili. With a mostly pro-O’Malley group advising him on, the colorful combatant looked for a fight-ending series, but it was insufficient, far too late.
O’Malley didn’t show up at the postfight information conference but dealt with his loss in a brief post on his X account, writing, “Over guaranteed, under delivered. Sorry. Love you men.”
After beginning his profession in the UFC with successive losses, Dvalishvili, 33, has torn through the resistance with 11 successive victories and not a solitary judge seeing a battle for his challenger. Not just was the success considerable for Dvalishvili, but it was equally as big for his teammate, previous champ Aljamain Sterling, that was knocked senseless by O’Malley in 2023.
The loss finished O’Malley’s seven-fight unbeaten touch and put a hang on his trip to get to the superstar condition of Conor McGregor. Dvalishvili’s first protection of his title will come versus the UFC’s unbeaten No. 2 placed bantamweight Umar Nurmagomedov.
