Merab Dvalishvili has been parading round on social media with a Sean O’Malley lookalike for months, however it looks like Sean, not Merab, who has the sting on psychological warfare going into their UFC 306 battle on the Sphere on September 14th.
As annoying as O’Malley might 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 battle 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 informed 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 try 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 provides you with 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 top, 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 informed 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 informed him to close his mouth.”
Merab has mentioned there’ll be hassle if he sees O’Malley’s coach on battle 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 workforce, 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 in all probability not sensible for Merab to do this battle week. Perhaps after the battle,” he steered. “You bought the largest battle of your life and the chance to get a world championship. So battle week, getting into my face might be not sensible. You bought a battle forward of you that you simply’re going to receives a commission for. So taking over me isn’t very sensible.”
“However we’ll see what occurs. In the event that they assume our workforce goes to cower right down to their workforce like Cejudo’s workforce did, then they’re going to be unsuitable. They’re unsuitable about that.”
Dana White might need to rent a bit of additional safety on battle week as a result of the very last thing he wants is a essential event-canceling brawl between Staff Suga and Staff Merab.
