Morning Report | Merab Dvalishvili defends Sean O’Malley rematch: ‘It’s going to be a totally different fight’

Merab Dvalishvili and Sean O’Malley | Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC

Merab Dvalishvili took everything Sean O’Malley worked for.

Last September, Dvalishvili finally won the UFC bantamweight title, taking it with a unanimous decision win over O’Malley in the main event of UFC 306. The bout had a heated build-up, but now the two are set to run things back as the main event of UFC 316 on June 7 in Newark, NJ, and things are much friendlier this time around. Perhaps that’s because Dvalishvili...