Merab Dvalishvili has broken his nose yet again.<\/p>\n
The former UFC bantamweight champion shared the news on his Instagram page. Not only was his nose at the usual crooked angle, it now has an indent mixed in.<\/p>\n
Despite the injury, Dvalishvili says he\u2019s refusing surgery \u2014 which could keep him out of action for over a year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe X-Ray shows my nose is broken in two places,\u201d Dvalishvili said. \u201cI just saw doctor, nose surgeon and he said he will fix my nose again and make it straight. He has to break other bones too, and it will take one more year to heal up.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course, I don\u2019t want to do that, otherwise, he says, \u2018Keep it that way and you can do surgery after your retirement.\u2019 I said, \u2018I\u2019m not going to retirement for the next 20 years, so I guess I\u2019m going to keep my nose even more cracked than it used to be before and I\u2019m going to deal with it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dvalishvili is hopeful the UFC gives him an opportunity to become a two-time bantamweight champ. After three successful title defenses to start off 2025, Dvalishvili attempted to become the first fighter in UFC history with four championship defenses in a year when he faced Petr Yan in a rematch at UFC 323 this past December. Yan dominated Dvalishvili over five rounds in one of the greatest performances in championship fight history to regain the 135-pound title.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Machine\u201d also says the injury won\u2019t keep him off of the wrestling mats on April 18, as he\u2019s set to face an old foe.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I\u2019m still going to compete [in] wrestling [match] with Henry Cejudo at RAF [8],\u201d Dvalishvili said. \u201cThat\u2019s it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Merab Dvalishvili has broken his nose yet again. The former UFC bantamweight champion shared the news on his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396,14855],"class_list":{"0":"post-581203","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-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-news","16":"tag-videos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581203","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=581203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}