Merab Dvalishvili's coach doesn't think | MMA News
The bantamweight title modified arms at UFC 306 final September.
Merab Dvalishvili dethroned Sean O’Malley at The Sphere in Las Vegas to seize the 135-pound championship. The two will rematch in the UFC 316 major occasion on June 7 at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.
Following their first battle, O’Malley went into surgical procedure while Dvalishvili defended his title for the first time. O’Malley hasn’t fought since the UFC 306 loss, and Dvalishvili’s coach, John Wood, does not think O’Malley deserves an quick rematch.
“I believe, first and foremost, I’ll say it time and time again, the UFC knows what they’re doing. They are way smarter than any of us when it comes to the business of it, so I never knock the on who deserves, or who should, who should this,” Wood mentioned during an interview with Submission Radio.
“When it comes to making those decisions, they make the best decisions. Sometimes it’s not the decisions we want as fans, or fighters and coaches and teams, but it is what it is,” Wood continued.
“Do I personally think he should have had to fought somebody else? Yes. I do in the realm of the rankings a who’s there. I think it would have been a bigger buildup.”
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While Wood would have preferred for O’Malley to battle his means back to a title bout, he also acknowledges the star energy of the previous titleholder.
“O’Malley has a huge fanbase, though,” Wood mentioned. “He has star power. I don’t know how much that plays into this fight anymore. But I would have liked to have seen him maybe fight [Petr] Yan again and had to fight a true contender or something to get back to the title. But again, that’s not our decision.
“My personal opinion, unless you have defended that belt a number of occasions and you have change into a man like [Valentina] Shevchenko, [Zhang] Weili, or even [Alex] Pereira, or [Israel] Adesanya. These guys that defended those belts, like Jon Jones. If you lose that belt, I consider you have been at the highest for so long that possibly it was an off evening and you’ve gotten the possibility to get that belt back,” Dvalishvili’s coach continued.
“That’s my opinion. Getting those prompt rematches are for any person who has defended a number of, a number of occasions and is mainly a legend in the game. I do not think that’s the case right here.”
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