LAS VEGAS – Merab Dvalishvili is letting go of his personal animosity toward Sean O’Malley and locking in with tunnel vision as the days wind down to the UFC 306 headliner.
Dvalishvili (17-4 MMA, 10-2 UFC) has been trying to fight O’Malley (18-1 MMA, 10-1 UFC) since he started his octagon tenure with consecutive losses in 2017. He finally gets his wish on the biggest stage when he challenges for the bantamweight title in Saturday’s Noche UFC main event at Sphere (ESPN+ pay-per-view, ESPNews, ESPN+).
The road to a UFC title shot hasn’t been easy for Dvalishvili. He needed a 10-fight UFC winning streak to get his crack at UFC gold, and he intends to make the most of it. That requires extreme focus, and part of that goes back to letting go on the origins of his beef with the champion.
