Merab Dvalishvili clashes with ‘liar’ Umar Nurmagomedov, returns home with title

Merab Dvalishvili and Umar Nurmagomedov are escalating their verbal duel.

The newest volley within the ongoing rivalry noticed Dvalishvili kick issues off by vowing he’ll “smash” the undefeated Nurmagomedov ought to they meet within the octagon. Dvalishvili lately turned bantamweight champion with a commanding choice win over Sean O’Malley at UFC 306, and Nurmagomedov is in pole place to be his first challenger coming off of an essential win over Cory Sandhagen that improved his professional document to 18-0.

See Dvalishvili’s social media shot beneath, together with Nurmagomedov’s response.

“I smacked Petr Yan’s a** like a b****,” Dvalishvili wrote. “I carried Henry Cejudo like a child, I kissed Sean O’Malley like his daddy BUT I’ll merely SMASH Umar if the UFC places him in entrance of me subsequent.”

Nurmagomedov replied, “There is no such thing as a if. There is just one contender and that’s me. you turned champion solely since you didn’t settle for a struggle with me twice earlier than. For a similar purpose there aren’t any fighters from the highest 10 in my record of fights, you and people such as you didn’t settle for a struggle with me.”

In six UFC appearances, Nurmagomedov has completed three of his opponents and he defeated his first ranked opponent when he gained a five-round choice over Sandhagen this previous August. He’s at the moment No. 2 at bantamweight within the MMA Fighting Global Rankings, behind solely Dvalishvilli.

Dvalishvili didn’t take Nurmagomedov’s phrases mendacity down as he put his Twitter fingers to work to deal with Nurmagomedov’s declare.

“Umar not solely are you disrespectful, you’re a liar,” Dvalishvili wrote. “If UFC supplied you to struggle with me 2 instances – present the followers the contract and the dates. They supplied me to struggle you proper after I beat Petr Yan with a damaged hand in 6 weeks. I accepted the struggle verbally though I used to be no. 1 contender and also you had been no. 13 rank and even with damaged hand.

“Finally the physician stated no to this and I had surgical procedure. So lets see the contract of the second providing??!!! So if the UFC is gifting you the title protection – wtf are you speaking trash and with disrespect? I’m carried out with you now since you maintain mendacity – you misplaced my respect as a person and a martial artist. I’ll wait to listen to from the UFC.”

Unwilling to let Dvalishvili have the final phrase, Nurmagomedov accused Dvalishvili of being prepared to struggle by means of damage to just accept a struggle with Sandhagen, however not him.

“Is that the identical damage you had been able to struggle Cory with?” Nurmagomedov wrote. “I’m simply basing this on the supervisor’s phrases. Since prehistoric instances nobody cares concerning the respect of cowards.”

He additionally shared a picture of himself together with his cousin, UFC legend Khabib Nurmagomedov, writing, “Merab doesn’t have every other choices, his solely alternative is to struggle with me. I’m the following contender to struggle for the UFC bantamweight championship.”

Dvalishvili is but to answer the newest Nurmagomedov assertion, although he probably has his thoughts on different issues as he lately obtained a hero’s welcome in his dwelling nation of Georgia.