The number one UFC bantamweight division, Merab Dvalishvili, confirmed the information that he was offered to fight with Umar Nurmagomedov, who occupies the eleventh position in the ranking.
“Yes, they really offered me a fight with Umar, and I agreed, even though he doesn’t deserve it,” Setanta Sports quotes the Georgian fighter. “Then I consulted with the doctors about the injury, and they said that for now I can’t fight”
Earlier, Merab Dvalishvili’s manager, Oren Khodak, in an interview with reporter Aaron Bronsteter, said that his ward was injured, and that they would decide on the next fight after the title fight between Aljamain Sterling and Henry Cejudo, scheduled for May 6, took place.
According to the Russian side, the UFC does not abandon the idea of organizing this fight and plans to hold it in July.
Merab Dvalishvili, 32, won his ninth straight win two weeks ago with a dominant unanimous decision over former division champion Petr Yan, while Umar Nurmagomedov, 27, is on a four-fight streak in the UFC, knocking out in the last round in the first round. Raoni Barcelos.
Source: https://fighttime.ru/news/item/31153-dvalishvili-sdelal-zayavlenie-o-boe-protiv-nurmagomedova.html?rand=19907
