Merab Dvalishvili has been parading round on social media with a Sean O’Malley lookalike for months, but it surely looks like Sean, not Merab, who has the sting on psychological warfare going into their UFC 306 struggle on the Sphere on September 14th.
As annoying as O’Malley will be, it’s the bantamweight champion’s coach Tim Welch that has Dvalishvili’s consideration. Their feud kicked off after video surfaced of Welsh pretending to be Aljamain Sterling’s nook throughout his struggle with O’Malley. Moments after Welch yelled ‘Aljo, you gotta go,’ “Funkmaster” took an ungainly lunge that bought him countered and knocked out.
“I’ve an issue together with his coach Tim,” Dvalishvili instructed MMA Combating’s Damon Martin. “He was very disrespectful to me and he was doing silly and never respectful issues. Any actual coach ought to by no means do this, no matter he was doing. Attempt do the identical factor in basketball or let’s attempt to do the identical factor in a soccer recreation. They gives you a disqualification.”
“Solely the UFC are you able to get out of this. Coach your man, coach your fighter. Don’t be disrespectful to the opponent. What sort of folks does this? Solely a snake individual does this.”
“Even now he’s speaking on his podcast, like making enjoyable of my peak, making enjoyable of my nostril,” Dvalishvili continued. “He’s making up some tales about me which isn’t true. He deserves to smack his face. That’s what I instructed Sean O’Malley. ‘Hey Sean, inform your coach to close his mouth,’ as a result of I used to be so pissed after I noticed all these movies, how he does silly issues, how he talks silly. I instructed him to close his mouth.”
Merab has mentioned there’ll be hassle if he sees O’Malley’s coach on struggle week.
“I’m not going to speak to Tim as a result of he don’t should have a dialog,” he mentioned. “He deserves solely a smack in his face. He already talks an excessive amount of. He already disrespected me, he already disrespected my crew, he already disrespected MMA. He deserves to get [smacked].”
Welch addressed Dvalishvili’s threats in an interview with Submission Radio earlier this week.
“It’s most likely not sensible for Merab to do this struggle week. Possibly after the struggle,” he urged. “You bought the most important struggle of your life and the chance to get a world championship. So struggle week, moving into my face might be not sensible. You bought a struggle forward of you that you simply’re going to receives a commission for. So taking over me shouldn’t be very sensible.”
“However we’ll see what occurs. In the event that they assume our crew goes to cower right down to their crew like Cejudo’s crew did, then they’re going to be improper. They’re improper about that.”
Dana White might wish to rent a bit of additional safety on struggle week as a result of the very last thing he wants is a major event-canceling brawl between Group Suga and Group Merab.
