The People's Champ undisputed UFC Bantamweight Champion Merab Dvalishvili returns back to Georgia.
The prime minister of Georgia has awarded Merab Dvalishvili and Ilia Topuria with a one million monetary prize.Topuria, meanwhile, was the first from Georgia to become a champion in Dana White ’s promotion, when he knocked out Australia’s
Subsequently, both fighters will receive a reward of one million Georgian Lari from Irakli Kobakhidze, their country’s prime minister.the two fighters’ ‘unprecedented’ success in the UFC, highlighting that two out of the current eight UFC champions are Georgians.It was only the seventh time ‘El Matador’ had appeared in the UFC’s Octagon, but the victory also marked the same number of successive fight wins for the Georgian.
UFC 306, branded Noche UFC for promotional reasons, was White’s most successful event to date, as it drew a record $22 million gate. The main event had O’Malley defending his bantamweight title for the second time against Dvalishvili, who went into the fight as an underdog in the eyes of numerous fans and pundits., at the beginning of his UFC career to make ends meet, was awarded the victory via unanimous decision after an unusually comfortable fight.Dvalishvili’s first bantamweight title defence is likely to come against the unbeaten Umar Nurmagomedov before O’Malley gets a shot in a rematch.
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