{"id":321963,"date":"2025-12-02T04:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T04:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/321963\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T04:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T04:09:13","slug":"ufc-323-merab-dvalishvili-petr-yan-full-fight-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/321963\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 323: Merab Dvalishvili, Petr Yan full fight marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UFC closes out its ESPN pay-per-view era with a pair of title fights in Las Vegas this week.<\/p>\n<p>UFC 323 (pay-per-view, ESPN2\/FX\/Disney+, ESPN+) takes place Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The bantamweight title is on the line at the top of the card, and the flyweight belt is up for grabs right before that.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Bantamweight champ Merab Dvalishvili (21-4 MMA, 14-2 UFC) goes after history and his fourth title defense of 2025 when he rematches Petr Yan (19-5 MMA, 11-4 UFC). Dvalishvili, just two months removed from a dominant title win over Cory Sandhagen, is a heavy 5-1 betting favorite. He also holds a 2023 win over Yan in a five-round main event before he became champion.<\/p>\n<p>With fight week officially underway, take a look back at the UFC careers of Dvalishvili, quickly growing his reputation as a pound-for-pound great, and Yan, the underdog challenger, in a full fight marathon.<\/p>\n<p>Check out four full wins each from Dvalishvili (his first one over Yan, Sandhagen, Usman Nurmagomedov and <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/sean-omalley\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sean O&#039;Malley;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sean O&#8217;Malley<\/a>) and Yan (Deiveson Figueiredo, Jose Aldo, Urijah Faber and Marcus McGhee) above.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/12\/01\/ufc-323-merab-dvalishvili-vs-petr-yan-full-fight-video-marathon\/87550276007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC 323: Merab Dvalishvili, Petr Yan full fight marathon;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC 323: Merab Dvalishvili, Petr Yan full fight marathon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UFC closes out its ESPN pay-per-view era with a pair of title fights in Las Vegas this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,25362,794,786,25363,785,20875,85,787],"class_list":{"0":"post-321963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cory-sandhagen","11":"tag-espn","12":"tag-fighting","13":"tag-merab-dvalishvili","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-petr-yan","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}