Dana White warns Merab Dvalishvili about ‘really bad idea’

UFC light-weight contender Merab Dvalishvili picked up the largest win over his profession on Saturday, defeating former champion Petr Yan by a one-sided unanimous choice.

With the win, Dvalishvili is driving a nine-fight profitable streak. He’ll be ranked within the high 2 when the brand new rankings come out. He may struggle for the title tomorrow, however he refuses to struggle his Serra-Longo teammate, champion Aljamain Sterling.

“I don’t know who the hell I used to be speaking to the opposite day about this. I used to be like, we don’t. need to take care of that bulls*t anymore,” stated White about teammates refusing to struggle one another.

“Again within the early days that camps had been so small. You didn’t have loads of totally different choices. We had loads of these guys going, ‘he’s my good friend. He’s my good friend.’ You may nonetheless be associates and need what your good friend has,” continued White.

When then issued a warned to Dvalishvili and any fighter that doesn’t wish to struggle a teammate.

“I might be a very dangerous thought for Merab to go down that path,” White stated. “Does Merab desire a shot on the title, or would Merab somewhat have folks beneath him bounce over him and him need to tackle all these totally different, robust guys when he’s not even getting the title shot when he’s subsequent in line for it?

“That’s a private choice that he must make. If that’s wha the needs to do, I can inform you how that story ends. It’s not an excellent ending to that story, however he’s an enormous boy. He can determine that out on his personal.”

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