T.J. Dillashaw didn’t expect Merab Dvalishvili to look that dominant in his first UFC championship fight. Dillashaw, a former UFC bantamweight champion, was taken away by how Dvalishvili (18-4 MMA, 11-2 UFC) looked against Sean O’Malley in the main event of UFC 306 earlier this month in Las Vegas. Dvalishvili took the 135-pound title from O’Malley (18-1 MMA, 10-1 UFC), outpointing him in a unanimous decision . “It’s not that I didn’t expect it,” Dillashaw said on the Jaxxon Podcast . “I knew that it was very close on the betting odds and when I had to go and pick this fight, I knew that Merab had a chance to just pressure the f*ck out of him.
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T.J. Dillashaw: Merab Dvalishvili made Sean O’Malley look very weak at UFC 306 – MMA Junkie