John Wood plans to warn referee about Sean O’Malley’s coach at UFC 316 but ‘feel free to talk to Merab Dvalishvili all you want’

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Just moments after the UFC 306 main event started this past September, referee Herb Dean paused the action after Merab Dvalishvili reacted to Sean O’Malley’s head coach Tim Welch shouting instructions to him during the fight.

It was a tactic Welch previously used when O’Malley won the bantamweight title with a second-round knockout of Aljamain Sterling and he did the same thing during the fight with Dvalishvili. Dean admonished the coach for his actions and in the end...