Merab Dvalishvili has been parading round on social media with a Sean O’Malley lookalike for months, however it looks as if Sean, not Merab, who has the sting on psychological warfare going into their UFC 306 combat on the Sphere on September 14th.
As annoying as O’Malley may 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 combat with O’Malley. Moments after Welch yelled ‘Aljo, you gotta go,’ “Funkmaster” took an ungainly lunge that obtained him countered and knocked out.
“I’ve an issue along 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. Strive 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 individuals 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 once 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 bother if he sees O’Malley’s coach on combat week.
“I’m not going to speak to Tim as a result of he don’t need to 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 group, 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 good for Merab to try this combat week. Possibly after the combat,” he prompt. “You bought the most important combat of your life and the chance to get a world championship. So combat week, moving into my face might be not good. You bought a combat forward of you that you simply’re going to receives a commission for. So taking over me shouldn’t be very good.”
“However we’ll see what occurs. In the event that they suppose our group goes to cower right down to their group like Cejudo’s group did, then they’re going to be fallacious. They’re fallacious about that.”
Dana White could need to rent a bit of additional safety on combat week as a result of the very last thing he wants is a fundamental event-canceling brawl between Staff Suga and Staff Merab.
