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An undated picture of UFC\u00a0 fighter Merab Dvalishvili. \u2014 AFP<\/p>\n
Former UFC bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili has shared his comeback timeline and said that the promotion wants him to rest before a rematch with Petr Yan.<\/p>\n
Dvalishvili was on his way to becoming the first UFC champion to defend his title four times in a calendar year. However, Yan ruined his plans when he brought an A game in their rematch and reclaimed the title after four years.<\/p>\n
Georgian was speaking to MMA Pros Pick and claimed that he would get a chance to win his gold again. <\/p>\n
Dvalishvili added that UFC has told him to rest as long as he wants and then contact them for the trilogy. <\/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 are ready,\u201d Dvalishvili said.<\/p>\n
He added that he wasn\u2019t hurt much in the fight. \u2018The Machine\u2019 also shared a timeline for his return and when the bout with Yan could be possible.<\/p>\n
“They probably want to do the fight in the summer, but I don\u2019t want to wait till the summer. I\u2019ll repeat once again, I didn\u2019t get any serious injuries from this fight. Anyways, I want to schedule the fight early, maybe in the spring, in April would be good or maybe the fight can be scheduled in the summer,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
The head-to-head between Dvalishvili and Yan is 1-1, and the trilogy would decide the dominant one. <\/p>\n
The Georgian won the title from Sean O’Malley at UFC 306. However, Yan was good enough at UFC 323 to come out as champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An undated picture of UFC\u00a0 fighter Merab Dvalishvili. \u2014 AFP Former UFC bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili has shared…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,21676,786,25363,785,20875,85,787,24137],"class_list":["post-339916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dvalishvili","tag-fighting","tag-merab-dvalishvili","tag-mma","tag-petr-yan","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-yan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339916","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=339916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}