Former bantamweight champion Sean O’Malley looks to settle the score with current titleholder Merab Dvalishvili at UFC 316 on June 7. Dvalishvili (19-4) earned the UFC 135-pound championship by defeating O’Malley at UFC 306 last September. Following the fight, O’Malley headed into surgery . “I got surgery. It was weird scheduling surgery for after a fight and still making the walk. To be honest, in the fight, I didn’t feel like it was much of a big deal as it was the preparation leading up to the fight,” O’Malley told Kevin Iole . “I wasn’t able to do what needs to be done to fight someone like Merab Dvalishvili, and that’s wrestle. Wrestle, grapple, wrestle, grapple wrestle, grapple every day for 12 weeks
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Sean O’Malley ‘more confident than ever’ heading into Merab Dvalishvili rematch – MMA Weekly