Regardless of receiving backlash for first publicizing how he suffered a nasty laceration forward of Noche UFC from Dana White — after which after eradicating his stitches with backyard shears, Merab Dvalishvili claims it’s prefer it or lump it relating to him.
Dvalishvili, the present primary ranked bantamweight contender, is slated to headline Noche UFC later this month on the Las Vegas Sphere, difficult for Octagon gold for the primary time in a showdown towards incumbent divisional champion, Sean O’Malley.
Driving a formidable 10-fight successful run, Georgian contender, Dvalishvili most lately turned in a spectacular unanimous choice win over former two-weight champion, Henry Cejudo on the primary card of UFC 298 again in February to lastly ear his premiere title cost within the group.
Nevertheless, forward of the long-anticipated cost with O’Malley, Dvalishvili has come beneath hearth from White who questioned why he would first showcase a lower suffered in coaching on social media, earlier than turning physician and eradicating his personal stitches with a backyard sheers.
Merab Dvalishvili unfazed by fear from UFC CEO, Dana White
And so far as Tbilisi grappler, Dvalishvili is worried, critics ought to simply settle for him for who he’s.
“I by no means remorse what I did,” Merab Dvalishvili instructed MMA Junkie. “I put up this as a result of I put up all the pieces in my social media. It wasn’t an enormous deal as a result of I had greater than three weeks after I bought lower, and I do know that my lower will take 5 days to heal up, after which this lower didn’t have an effect on my coaching, my sparring — nothing. As you see, I’m healed up. Every part is sweet.”
“After I noticed Dana (White) was upset, after all, I don’t wish to upset Dana White and the UFC or do one thing like that,” Merab Dvalishvili defined. “However I used to be very calm and relaxed as a result of it wasn’t an enormous deal. I don’t remorse nothing. That is who I’m, that is what I do, and that is my life. That’s why I’m a fighter, and that is my life and what I do.”
