Reno’s 26-year-old bantamweight phenom is far from your ordinary MMA fighter. But can he be as extraordinary as many believe?

Dvalishvili’s shorts don the white and red of the Georgian flag, with faint imagery of presumably a Georgian warrior on horseback and a block of text on the rear-right thigh. The text looks to ...

UFC bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili entered the Octagon on Saturday night fresh off a horrific leg injury suffered ahead of UFC 311. Merab Dvalishvili battled more than the previously ...

Merab Dvalishvili of Georgia punches Umar Nurmagomedov of Russia in a bantamweight title fight during UFC 311 at Intuit Dome on January 18, 2025 in Inglewood, California. Credit: Getty Images ...

Merab Dvalishvili showed the world why his nickname is "The Machine" this past Saturday at UFC 311. Despite owning the longest win streak in UFC bantamweight history ahead of the event ...

In doing so, Dvalishvili, who has won 12 fights in a row after beginning his UFC career 0-2, surpassed former two-division champion Georges St-Pierre with 92 successful takedown attempts.

Merab Dvalishvili wasn't lying. The UFC bantamweight champion went to great lengths to hide injuries that could've derailed his UFC 311 title defense against Umar Nurmagomedov. Speaking Monday on ...

Merab Dvalishvili proved the doubters wrong and successfully defended his UFC bantamweight championship with a unanimous decision win over Umar Nurmagomedov in the co-main event of UFC 311 from ...

UFC 311 has come and gone, and bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili once again put on a dominant performance, this time against formerly undefeated challenger Umar Nurmagomedov. Though ...

Umar Nurmagomedov was the perfect fighter in the early rounds against UFC bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili. While fatigue did not make a coward of Nurmagomedov, it certainly caused his ...