Top bantamweight contender Merab Dvalishvili is scheduled to fight champion Sean O’Malley in the UFC 306 main event at the Sphere on Sept. 14. On Tuesday, Dvalishvili posted a video revealing a small cut over his left eye the required stitches.
“Calm down – its all good- just a little training injury. Never pulled out of a fight – and Never will! I’m coming for you O’Malley – stronger than ever,” Dvalishvili captioned the social media post.
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UFC CEO Dana White was not happy that Dvalishvili revealed to the world, and his opponent, that he suffered a laceration in training. White went so calling Dvalishvilli’s decision to make the cut public ‘next-level stupid.’
“The whole world knows about Merab’s cut, he posted it,” White following Tuesday’s Dana White’s Contender Series event in Las Vegas. “Our guys are so dumb it’s next-level unbelievable. All the stuff I talk about boxing, what I will give boxing, is when something happens in a camp, let me tell you what, it does not leak. Our guys can’t f**king wait to throw it up on social media. It’s a small cut. It’s no big deal, but obviously needed to be posted.”
“And why the f**k would you want [O’Malley] to know that?! It is next level stupid. Some of these guys are so stupid it’s mind-boggling. It’s unbelievable,” White continued.
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