{"id":2912,"date":"2024-02-18T08:43:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T07:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=2912"},"modified":"2024-02-18T17:58:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T16:58:52","slug":"merab-dvalishvili-crushes-cejudo-unanimously-and-awaits-the-title-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/merab-dvalishvili-crushes-cejudo-unanimously-and-awaits-the-title-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Merab Dvalishvili crushes Cejudo unanimously and awaits the title fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Merab Dvalishvili added another serious accomplishment on his ever-growing resume with a unanimous decision win over former champion Henry Cejudo on the main card of UFC 298 from the Honda Center in Anaheim, California.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cejudo struck first with a nice left hook that landed flush to Dvalishvili&#8217;s chin in the first round. He recovered and made some headway with his wrestling, but Moreno wound up in top position and found himself down early in the fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The tables turned in the second round. Dvalishvili was the one who landed a notable punch, landing an impressive right hand as part of a combination before taking down Cejudo. To cap it off he ended the round with a guillotine choke attempt that appeared to be deep.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.frba3-2.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t39.30808-6\/428146939_955470392609754_7461660941902010726_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&amp;ccb=1-7&amp;_nc_sid=3635dc&amp;_nc_ohc=f_CjcHI82hEAX8jFhni&amp;_nc_ht=scontent.frba3-2.fna&amp;oh=00_AfBPPCUDBw4CGVRCOctPHvMbp9OfKzSUf8cpFltHgS5k8g&amp;oe=65D71082\" alt=\"Peut \u00eatre une image de 4 personnes et texte\" \/>The win is the latest in a 10-fight win streak for the 33-year-old that&#8217;s making it harder and harder to deny him a title shot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In lead-up to his fight with the former flyweight star, Dvalisvhili was vocal about putting up with anymore matchups that don&#8217;t involve him competing for gold.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;After this, that&#8217;s it,&#8221; Dvalishvili said, per Damon Martin of MMA Fighting. &#8220;Title fight is next. I&#8217;m not going to look at any other bulls\u2014 fights. I&#8217;m just going to take what is mine. I deserve it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CONFIRMED: Zuck is a BIG UFC guy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC298?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFC298<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rFRHR5bxA2\">pic.twitter.com\/rFRHR5bxA2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UFC (@ufc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ufc\/status\/1759067261862916522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s hard to deny that he&#8217;s earned the right to be that selective with his next fight. Dvalishvili ha put together an impressive resume for a fighter who has yet to fight for a title. His win streak now includes Cejudo, Jose Aldo, Marlon Moraes and Petr Yan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While Dvalishvili took a huge step toward his goal, this might mark the end of the road for Henry Cejudo.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TEN \ud83d\udc4f IN  \ud83d\udc4f A \ud83d\udc4f ROW \ud83d\udc4f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MerabDvalishvil?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MerabDvalishvil<\/a> notches another UD win! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC298?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFC298<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eqISVxZ5YK\">pic.twitter.com\/eqISVxZ5YK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UFC (@ufc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ufc\/status\/1759069154685141001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"intersectionObserverRefElement\">\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dvalishvili even took the time to talk to Mark Zuckerberg as he closed out the round with the choke.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Zuck \ud83e\udd1d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MerabDvalishvil?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MerabDvalishvil<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC298?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFC298<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TRmRUPrY5H\">pic.twitter.com\/TRmRUPrY5H<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UFC (@ufc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ufc\/status\/1759067897832612297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"intersectionObserverRefElement\">\n<div class=\"atom twitterEmbed\">\n<div class=\"twitterEmbed__container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merab Dvalishvili added another serious accomplishment on his ever-growing resume with a unanimous decision win over former champion Henry Cejudo on the main card of UFC 298 from the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. Cejudo struck first with a nice left hook that landed flush to Dvalishvili&#8217;s chin in the first round. He recovered and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,47],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ufc-news","8":"category-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2914,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912\/revisions\/2914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}