{"id":338256,"date":"2025-12-10T00:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T00:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/338256\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T00:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T00:14:07","slug":"dana-white-promises-dvalishvili-yan-trilogy-rematch-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/338256\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White promises Dvalishvili-Yan trilogy rematch next"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili lost his title in the main event of UFC 323<\/a> this past weekend (Sat., Dec. 6, 2025), dropping a dominant unanimous decision to rival Petr Yan inside T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas (watch highlights<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe UFC contacted me and said, \u2018Please rest as long as you want, your next fight is a rematch with Petr Yan for the belt. Rest as long as you want and call us when you\u2019re ready,\u2019\u201d Dvalishvili said via MMA Pros Pick. \u201cThey probably want to do this fight in the summer but I don\u2019t want to wait until the summer. I\u2019ll repeat this once again, I didn\u2019t get any serious injuries from this fight. Anyway, I want to schedule this fight early \u2014 maybe in the spring. April would be good, or summer if needed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, while Dvalishvili wants to jump right back in (because of course he does<\/a>), he\u2019s ultimately on Yan\u2019s timeline \u2014 and who knows how long the new champion wants to parade around with that belt. He\u2019ll need recovery time as well<\/a>, and a trilogy of this magnitude isn\u2019t something UFC slaps together overnight.<\/p>\n

April might be a bit ambitious for the rubber match, but May or June seems like the realistic landing spot.<\/p>\n

Regardless, the stakes are massive: the pair are 1-1, with Dvalishvili dominating the first fight<\/a> and Yan returning the favor in the second with a decisive victory of his own. The trilogy bout is not only deserved \u2014 it\u2019s inevitable.<\/p>\n

For more UFC 323 results and highlights click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili lost his title in the main event of UFC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,174978,1396,6656,14855],"class_list":{"0":"post-338256","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-fighting","11":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc-323","15":"tag-ufc-news","16":"tag-ufc-results","17":"tag-videos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338256","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=338256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}