The Sean O’Malley vs. Merab Dvalishvili UFC 306 essential occasion started as most fights do, after which seconds in, Dvalishvili started screaming at O’Malley’s head coach Tim Welch which prompted a short cease to the motion.
“That actually caught me off guard,” Welch mentioned on O’Malley’s YouTube channel. “Actually, we sat down, I used to be actually calm, I mentioned, ‘You bought to be affected person, Merab. You bought to be affected person, Merab.’ Then he begins bucking round, virtually having a seizure.”
Dvalishvili would go on to defeat O’Malley by way of unanimous resolution to seize the UFC bantamweight title at Sphere this previous Saturday.
Welch was actually thrown off by Dvalishvili’s early response. Referee Herb Dean, who has taken flack from the MMA group for his efficiency within the struggle, apparently advised Welch that the opposing coach will not be allowed to yell out the opponent’s title through the fights.
“So I didn’t notice there was a rule that you probably have a callout, it may’t be the opposite man’s title,” Welch defined. “I advised Herb that a few of our callouts have Merab’s title in it, and he’s like, ‘Nope, nope, nope.’ Didn’t know that. Would like to see that f*cking rule.”
That wasn’t the one bizarre second within the struggle. On the finish of Spherical 2, Dvalishvili grabbed a entrance face lock, and commenced kissing the higher again of O’Malley. Dean started yelling at Dvalishvili, which led the then-challenger to interrupt the maintain, rise up, and head again to his nook.
Properly, O’Malley stood up and punched Dvalishvili earlier than the horn sounded, which confused the commentary staff, and even Aljamain Sterling — who was within the nook of Dvalishvili.
O’Malley, who plans to take an prolonged break after the loss, reacted to the 2 very unusual moments within the first 10 minutes of the struggle.
“I don’t know why the ref stopped the struggle,” O’Malley mentioned. “Then he was kissing me. I don’t know, there was like two to a few seconds left on the time, wanting again on it I’m shocked that I even knew that, after which the ref was like, ‘Hey, give up kissing him on the again,’ so he acquired up pondering the time was up, after which I juiced him as soon as. I hoped I’d put him out.
“However Aljo acquired up like he was about to f*cking storm the cage, like I f*cking hit him illegally. I don’t assume he even realized there was time on the clock. The ref didn’t stand you up, he mentioned to give up f*cking doing that.”
