Petr Yan wants Sean O’Malley, Merab Dvalishvili to begin ‘rematch season’

MIAMI – Petr Yan is again on the successful observe, and desires to run it again towards the final two fighters to place losses on his document.

The previous UFC bantamweight champion picked up a much-needed unanimous determination win over Yadong Track at UFC 299, snapping a three-fight skid. After successful the interim title towards Cory Sandhagen at UFC 267, Yan ended up on the unsuitable aspect of a pair of cut up selections towards then-champion Aljamain Sterling and now-current champ Sean O’Malley, adopted by a unanimous determination loss to Merab Dvalishvili.

Now, again within the win column, Yan desires to avenge these losses.

“Rematch season, open. Let’s go!” Yan exclaimed in English throughout his in-cage post-fight interview with Joe Rogan.

Whereas Sterling is out of the image as he’s transferring as much as featherweight for his subsequent struggle, rematches towards Dvalishvili and O’Malley are doable, it simply comes all the way down to how the promotion desires to proceed with matching up the highest fighters at 135 kilos.

“Whoever UFC will give me, I wish to beat these guys, and put together this time extra professionally than I did earlier than,” Yan mentioned by way of an interpreter throughout a post-fight information convention. “… Searching season, open.”

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