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June 6, 2025 • 17 mins

Merab Dvalishvili IS BACK on the Daniel Cormier check-in series, this time ahead of his rematch against former champion Sean O'Malley at UFC 316 in Newark, New Jersey! Merab tells DC he was SHOCKED at how easily he won the fight at the Sphere at UFC 306, and why he thinks O'Malley’s injury WAS NOT the reason he lost that fight. Dvalishvili also goes in on his fight with Umar Nurmagomedov and how that's helped him in the rematch with O'Malley. Plus, don't miss Cormier laughing at the viral video of Merab slapping Ailin Perez in France! #Volume #Herd

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The volume.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 3 (00:20):
Get a victory this week in at UFC three sixteen.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
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comfortable on his back or relaxed on the idea.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
That Morob is going to try to take him down.
It's a very simple fight. It's striker versus grappler.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Rob being the grappler, has to impose himself on charanl mallee.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Morob needs to take him down, and if he can't
take him.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
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Speaker 2 (01:38):
Thank you for checking out, of course, I appreciate you, guys.
I'm with the Machine morob Da Wallace, Reelly Morab another
championship fight. You and Sean O'Malley for the second time
after you beat Lumar. Did you know it will be
Sean O'Malley.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
After Dumar?

Speaker 4 (01:56):
I wanted to be busy, and yeah, Maale was another option,
and maybe after Peterian, and uh yeah, I was thinking
maybe either Peterian or either Mali and you see tell
me to its Shan Mali. Peterian was supposed to fight
somebody else, and uh yeah, I'm happy. I'm happy I

(02:17):
have another another fight coming up, even I already faught him.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
It's a new fight, new challenge for me.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
And uh you know, he of course, he wants to
avenge his loss back, and he will pick his mistake.
He's been working to get better every level, even striking, wrestling, grappling,
and it's gonna be another challenge for us.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Hey, I had a kid going to your gym and
you knock them down. Bro, Why you pushed the guy's stomach?
I watched the video.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
One of my guys, one of my wrestling guys, goes
into your gym.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Nice enough to give you around and you why do
you do this?

Speaker 3 (02:55):
Why do you do this? Toron?

Speaker 1 (02:58):
It was just funing.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Why are you killing me?

Speaker 4 (03:01):
Uh no, Like, my my body shot gets better and
I was testing, So you tested on him? Yeah, I guess, yeah, yeah,
I saw the video man y.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah so yeah, so.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Maybe like you need a answer to me.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
Now, no, no, you Let's talk about.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Your last fight a little bit before we go forward.
First two rounds of Umar is fighting great, right, he's
fighting really good. Seems like he won the first two rounds.
Are you aware that it's not going as well as
you wanted? And what was the thought because in that
third round you kind of you changed completely, right, You're
most successful to takedowns. The pressure was even higher, like

(03:44):
what did you make of that performance?

Speaker 1 (03:48):
For me?

Speaker 4 (03:49):
Even first round was close rounds, yeah, I don't know
which was gonna go, but I was positive and like,
we know, you know, like my coach just now told
me to like after the first rounds, it'll be just
keep doing your thing and we'll be easy.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
And I was just keep doing my thing. And then he.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
Literally slowly, you know, he was slowly, little bit breaking,
and he was himself. And I was even as rounds
goes more on, I'm getting better and better.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Yes, And then I.

Speaker 4 (04:22):
Think I show show everybody this time, and yeah, I
you know, I think one time I got him good body.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Punch too, but I see his face change.

Speaker 4 (04:35):
And then I was gonna go after but he shoot
me and he still even he was tired, he was
still moving and doing okay.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
How much can you apply from how much can you
take from that fight and apply to this fight?

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Right?

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Because you have a more motivated Seana Malley, but Umar
is a high level striker, Sean Mallics, high level striker
Sean Malley doesn't have the wrestling that Umar has. How
much can you take from that fight and apply to
this one to make sure that you not only beat
Arla Maley, But you beat him in a more impressive way.
I thought you want five or four rounds in the

(05:12):
first fight. How do you do it better?

Speaker 4 (05:15):
I'm not sure what I can take from the umor's
fight to this fight, but yeah, just I get more
and more comfortable, like just more confidence too. I can
fight any any any style of the fight there again,
and then nobody can do ship and yeah and so.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
But modified it's a new challenge.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
Like I said, you know, he I'm sure he's been
he's been working to stop me, and I believe I'm
a better fighter than him, but I still have to
respect his power. He's reach his speed. And it's a
new fight, new challenge. You know, not every fight goes

(06:03):
same way. You know you had the rematches before. It's
many many, yeah, and they can play out despite different
different and that's why I'm trying to take despite serious
And it's a new challenge for me. It's a new
fight and I'm looking forward to.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
I think I thought fifteen times in the UFC, seven
more against three people. Wow, I want the same guys
over and over and over again. Yeah, fucked up and
every time it's it's different. Yeah, it was like, but
it was always the same guys like rematch, rematch, trilogy match,
like always the SAME's worrisome.

Speaker 3 (06:37):
Though, if you're a fan of Morob D. Wallace.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
Really, I saw a quote the other day that you said,
the motivation is not as easily gained to fight O'Malley again.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
Why is that?

Speaker 2 (06:49):
And how do you make sure that you're motivated to
fight a guy that is motivated to fight you?

Speaker 4 (06:57):
Yeah, So like when I fight first time, new it's
easy to be motivated because.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
You have a new challenge.

Speaker 4 (07:04):
It never fought him and in your eyes, you respect
him so much and you it's a new challenge and
you you more white look his dangerous skills. But when
you already beat him, it's it's it's not easy to
like treat him as a dangerous.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
But see that dangerous in that thought or no more,
that's not dangerous thought, Like I know I can beat him,
but you just said it's a new challenge. So if
you're not motivated to go find a guy that.

Speaker 4 (07:34):
You that's why I'm like, I'm putting extra motivate myself
to know this guy is dangerous, this guy hits hard,
and this guy will change stuff and that's why I
motivate myself all this time. And uh yeah, so yeah,
I s at beginning it was hard to motivate myself.
I already beat him because but I have enough enough

(07:59):
motivation to will be motivated to be pocus and I
realized all the danger. And now I done the training camp,
everything what I was supposed to do. You know, I
prepare very good and uh you know, then this fight,
I'm gonna looking for finish him and I'm looking for
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Speaker 2 (09:52):
Rob Were you surprised at anything in the first fight
with Jehan Ovalley, because, like you said, you make him
into a monster, like this guy hits hall, he's fast,
there's gonna be his reach, and then you beat him
in the way that you did. Like, were you surprised
at anything in there?

Speaker 4 (10:06):
I was surprised, yes, like how easy I was winning
this fight? And I was surprised how this guy beat
my friend algia my standing. And I also I also
watched the fight, and I can hear your comment they too,
like you was also surprised too, like how easy was
I was?

Speaker 2 (10:23):
You were taking him down easier than I thought. Yes,
but he said but he was said he was hurt
in that fight.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
Is it's bullshit?

Speaker 3 (10:30):
But he had surgery after that.

Speaker 4 (10:35):
No, listen, I did two times after after the fight surgery,
But I still win the fight, you know. But you know,
we all have some problems in fight or some old
injury something like that. But if really something serious, we
never we're not We're not fight.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
But if something if you're especially as the champion. Yeah exactly.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
Yeah, you know, if it's if you're able to training,
if you're able to fight, and then it doesn't means
it's serious. But if it's serious, you do surgery and
then if something to you can do surgery later. And
you know, so no, that's why I was surprised. But
like what I say earlier, so you know, he has

(11:14):
a knackle of power and he can he can everybody
can get knocked down and then he roam not I'm
not gonna say crack me, but he let me feel
his uh like the first time I felt his party
kick and then and if he landed me like two
more clean like this, then maybe it can be problem.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
You know.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
That's why I like when he got maybe a party kick,
I'm like, fuck, like I.

Speaker 4 (11:41):
I was just two minutes every I was holding him down,
but because of the the referee told me move do something,
I let him get up. I should I should not
let him go.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
I mean, how do you know I know how he
had Gona Lessen referee do picky.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
The worst he can do is pick you up.

Speaker 4 (12:02):
You don't let him go, thank you, So let's get
She still tell me this before.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
So what happened once? Yeah, I take him down in
the futre round.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
I was punching and told me, fighter's mooth do something
and I changed the position. I let him come a
little bit up and I was punching and he tell
me something and I was like, oh, what should I do?

Speaker 3 (12:21):
You let him go? Why? Like you let him go?

Speaker 1 (12:29):
Yeah, you helped me to take him down, right, Yeah,
exactly so.

Speaker 4 (12:35):
And after I was chasing to take him down and
he was defending your like he was pulling up legs
and it was hard to take.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
Him down if you stu round after like after let.

Speaker 4 (12:46):
Me go and uh and then and then the body
kick comes and then I'm like, I should try to
finish him earlier, like why, oh I played with him?
I was mad about myself and yeah, that's how played
and so yeah, I said, he let me fout the
body kick and after I was so it's just I

(13:09):
was like, read about myself, Well, why I should I
should finish it?

Speaker 2 (13:13):
Rob Two questions before we're done.

Speaker 3 (13:17):
One is about Sean O male. He's made some changes, right.
One of the biggest things.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
That I took. I went to your house after that
fight and you were running on Monday. And now that
to me was like, Wow, this guy thinks different. Most
of us go on a victory tour. We rest, we
drink the alcohol, you know, we hang out. You were
running getting ready. He said that because he knows now
he's preparing for a different person.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
Now he doesn't smoke, he.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
Doesn't travel, he's eliminated so many things in his life.
How much can he change and how much do you
expect him to be different inside the octagon? Right, because
now he's eliminated a lot of the things that can
be seen as distractions, right, party and going out doing
all this stuff. Now he's not doing that because of you,

(14:09):
because he knows he has to be better to beat you.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
Yes, this old stuff will help him for sure, And.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
But does it make much of a difference when it's
a change opposed to it being just your life? It's
what you live every day.

Speaker 3 (14:26):
You've never straight from.

Speaker 4 (14:27):
Yeah, yeah, you're right, you know you have to balance
your life in a little bit. Cannot be like, I
don't know, let's see. I mean, I mean if he
enjoys now this different lifestyle, and maybe that shows how
much he wants.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
To just win. And maybe it was distraction. Who knows.
I'm sure it's gonna.

Speaker 4 (14:47):
Affect him like good ways, and it's gonna help like
focus and be mentally more ready.

Speaker 1 (14:53):
I think, uh and uh.

Speaker 4 (14:57):
And uh. I think even if he lost again, he
will tell him himself, Hey, I tried my best, you know,
I think that's how I look. And but my job
is to expect him in the best ways.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
You know.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yeah, you spent twenty five minutes with this man. Can
this man present a problem for you inside in Octadona?
Do you feel like you just can beat on them out?

Speaker 4 (15:21):
I think I can beat him, but now I give
him too much respect, like I'm fighting first time, and
that's my job to don't look him easy. And but yeah,
of course he has a knuckle of power, He's very smart,
his speed. I cannot relax or make any mistake with him.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
You know, because you've been living life, having fun, became
the champ travel, You've had some great moments.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
Can I tell you my favorite Morabo?

Speaker 1 (15:53):
Yes, for sure.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
Parish mentioned something this interview.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
I said, I said, doesn't Rob.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
Why you why you didn't I touch this?

Speaker 1 (16:14):
I said, you know, you know it's it's I don't know.
So yeah, shell all the time to work. Yeah, talk
and yees. So I just said I guess I was
about to slept head as it's the greatest thing.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
It's all men think this right.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
I know you're married, but if you're not married, get touch.
Come on, man, I'm god.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
This guy is the man and he defends the UFC
bandaweight Championship this weekend against.

Speaker 3 (16:49):
Sugar Sean O'Malley UFC three sixteen.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
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Speaker 3 (17:03):
Make sure you tap in Until next time, Morob, thanks
for checking in with me.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
I appreciate it, like subscribeing to you friends of our
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