{"id":164048,"date":"2025-09-23T15:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T15:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/164048\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T15:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T15:01:07","slug":"merab-dvalishvili-is-ready-to-hit-100-takedown-milestone-against-cory-sandhagen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/164048\/","title":{"rendered":"Merab Dvalishvili is ready to hit 100-takedown milestone against Cory Sandhagen"},"content":{"rendered":"

UFC champion Merab Dvalishvili believes he will hit the 100-takedown milestone against Cory Sandhagen at UFC 320.<\/p>\n

Right now, Merab Dvalishvili is easily one of the best fighters in all of mixed martial arts<\/a>. He is the UFC bantamweight champion and if he beats Cory Sandhagen at UFC 320, he will have successfully defended the strap for the third time.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Merab Dvalishvili explains why he\u2019s rooting for Mario Bautista against Umar Nurmagomedov<\/a><\/p>\n

In addition to that, Dvalishvili is also three takedowns away from becoming the first UFC fighter to ever land 100 takedowns inside the Octagon. He\u2019s already surpassed the previously held record of 90, which Georges St-Pierre was able to accumulate, and he currently sits on 97 with many expecting him to get at least three against Sandhagen.<\/p>\n

In a recent interview, Dvalishvili spoke about potentially breaking that record.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Dvalishvili is ready to hit takedown milestone<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I will have this 100 takedowns after this fight,\u201d Dvalishvili told MMA Junkie. \u201cI\u2019m not going to focus on that because I\u2019m going to focus more on striking, but I think it will come naturally, you know? When I finished Sean O\u2019Malley at the end of the third round, I was missing something. I wanted to do more takedowns, more fighting.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s see how our fight goes. If we fight five rounds, easy: I will get three takedowns \u2013 easy. I will hit the 100 takedowns. No problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

Quotes via MMA Junkie<\/a><\/p>\n

Merab is on fire right now, and the scariest thing of all is that he seems to just keep getting better.<\/p>\n

What do you believe is the ceiling for Merab Dvalishvili in his reign as UFC bantamweight champion? Are you excited to see how long he could hold the belt for? Let us know your thoughts on this and his UFC career as a whole, BJPENN Nation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC champion Merab Dvalishvili believes he will hit the 100-takedown milestone against Cory Sandhagen at UFC 320. Right…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-164048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}