{"id":374260,"date":"2025-12-27T03:30:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T03:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/374260\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T03:30:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T03:30:04","slug":"georgian-power-topuria-merab-smash-punching-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/374260\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgian Power! Topuria, Merab Smash Punching Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC lightweight champion Ilia Topuria and former UFC bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili recently tested their power on the always-telling punching machine and both Georgians passed with flying colors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Topuria, who is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/406027\/ilia-topuria-announces-break-from-fighting-i-dont-want-to-hold-up-the-division\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">currently taking a hiatus from fighting<\/a> to handle some personal issues, joined forces with Dvalishvili this week for a little Christmas Bro Down. The two enjoyed a laundry list of activities, which included a session with the punching machine to see how their power stacks up against some of the best fighters in the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As you may have guessed, both Topuria and Dvalishvili delivered huge strikes to the punching machine. Topuria, who is one of the most vicious knockout finishers in the sport today, registered a whopping score of 2,801. Dvalishvili, on the other hand, topped the machine at 2,507, which is still very respectable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check out the footage below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Topuria, 28, is coming off a massive knockout finish over Charles Oliveira at UFC 317 to claim the 155-pound title and make himself a two-division champion. The victory pushed Topuria\u2019s current UFC win streak to nine, but fans want him back sooner rather than later. Dvalishvili, 34, is coming off a title fight loss to Petr Yan at UFC 323 earlier this month, which snapped a 14-fight win streak for the Georgian star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC lightweight champion Ilia Topuria and former UFC bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili recently tested their power on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396],"class_list":["post-374260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374260","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=374260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}