{"id":326217,"date":"2025-12-05T03:39:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T03:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/326217\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T03:39:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T03:39:14","slug":"ufc-323-video-merab-dvalishvili-vs-petr-yan-press-conference-faceoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/326217\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 323 video: Merab Dvalishvili vs. Petr Yan press conference faceoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS \u2013 Merab Dvalishvili and Petr Yan got a first chance to size each other up ahead of their <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/ufc-323\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC 323;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC 323<\/a> rematch at Thursday&#8217;s pre-fight press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Dvalishvili (21-4 MMA, 14-2 UFC) looks to further solidify his 2025 Fighter of the Year case when he attempts to make a record-setting fourth title defense of the calendar year when he puts bantamweight gold up for grabs against former champion Yan (19-5 MMA, 11-4 UFC), whom he beat <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2023\/03\/11\/ufc-fight-night-221-results-merab-dvalishvili-vs-petr-yan-cardio-display\/80928259007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:by unanimous decision;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">by unanimous decision<\/a> in their first encounter at UFC Fight Night 221 in March 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>They will run it back in Saturday&#8217;s headliner at T-Mobile Arena (ESPN+ pay-per-view, ESPN2\/ESPN+\/Disney+\/FX), but first had to sit in front of fans and media to answer questions before a staredown.<\/p>\n<p>Things got physical when Dvalishvili and Yan faced off for the first time ahead of their initial meeting, but both men were more restrained this time around.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video above to see the Dvalishvili vs Yan faceoff from the UFC 323 pre-fight press conference.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/12\/04\/ufc-323-video-merab-dvalishvili-vs-petr-yan-2-first-faceoff-press-conference\/87605988007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC 323 video: Merab Dvalishvili vs. Petr Yan 2 first faceoff;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC 323 video: Merab Dvalishvili vs. Petr Yan 2 first faceoff<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2013 Merab Dvalishvili and Petr Yan got a first chance to size each other up ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,21903,638,18235,10151,82,640,1160],"class_list":{"0":"post-326217","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-merab-dvalishvili","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-petr-yan","14":"tag-press-conference","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ufc","17":"tag-unanimous-decision"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326217","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=326217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}