{"id":197429,"date":"2025-10-08T11:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T11:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/197429\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T11:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T11:53:07","slug":"yan-agrees-to-short-notice-dvalishvili-fight-im-ready-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/197429\/","title":{"rendered":"Yan agrees to short-notice Dvalishvili fight: \u2018I\u2019m ready in December\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If the UFC wants to grant Merab Dvalishvili his wish of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/385621\/merab-dvalishvili-already-knows-who-he-wants-to-fight-next-before-end-of-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fighting a fourth time<\/a> in 2025 on their December UFC 323 card, they\u2019ve got a willing and ready opponent: Petr Yan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Dvalishvili and Yan already fought back in 2023, with \u201cThe Machine\u201d blanking his Russian opponent 50-45 on all three judges scorecards. Since then, Yan has gone 3-0 and also promises a different outcome should he get an opportunity to rematch Merab.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cYes of course, I\u2019ve been waiting for this chance and I\u2019m ready to fight in December,\u201d he said on the Ariel Helwani Show when asked if he\u2019d be ready to fight Dvalishvili in two months. \u201cAnd I believe it\u2019s going to be a great fight that has a history. Last time I was compromised, I was only around 50%. So this time it will be something different and a great and exciting fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Dvalishvili hopes to be the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-320-ankalaev-vs-pereira-rematch-start-time-full-results-espn-mma\/394153\/bantamweight-goat-after-ufc-320-merab-dvalishvili-is-on-the-verge-of-undisputed-greatness\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first UFC champion ever<\/a> to fight four times in a calendar year with this quick turnaround. Yan isn\u2019t doubting his potential opponent\u2019s desire to go through with those plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI think it\u2019s possible if he doesn\u2019t have any injuries,\u201d he said of the date. \u201cHe\u2019s the one pushing for it and if it lines up with UFC plans, it\u2019s possible. \u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI hope that I deserve more than anyone in our division to challenge for the belt next and I\u2019m ready and I\u2019m just waiting for this opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We\u2019ve got the champ, we\u2019ve got the challenger. Now all we need is the UFC agreeing to put Dvalishvili back into action for the final pay-per-view of the ESPN era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If the UFC wants to grant Merab Dvalishvili his wish of fighting a fourth time in 2025 on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82,702],"class_list":{"0":"post-197429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197429","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=197429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}