This past Saturday night in the main event of UFC 323, we saw a rematch for the bantamweight title. Merab Dvalishvili (21-5) was looking to pick up his second win over Petr Yan (20-5) while also defending his title for the fourth time in 2025.

Dvalishvili has completely lived up to his nickname over the last fifteen months. He defeated Sean O’Malley as last year’s Noche UFC event to become champion. Then he defended the title against Umar Nurmagomedov, O’Malley, and Cory Sandhagen all in 2024.

The Sandhagen title fight was just back in October and immediately after that fight, Dvalishvili went to the UFC and said he wanted to fight again in December. He wanted to become the first champion to defend his title four times inside a calendar year.

Well, Dvalishvili might’ve bitten off more t

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