{"id":52565,"date":"2025-10-16T10:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/dvalishvili-vs-yan-ufc-title-fight-in-december-historic\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T10:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:59:13","slug":"dvalishvili-vs-yan-ufc-title-fight-in-december-historic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mma\/dvalishvili-vs-yan-ufc-title-fight-in-december-historic\/","title":{"rendered":"Dvalishvili vs Yan: UFC title fight in December, Historic!"},"content":{"rendered":"Less than ten days away from defending his title at UFC 322, UFC bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili already has his next fight scheduled.\n\nDvalishvili (21-4) will seek to defend his title for the fourth time this year in the main event of UFC 323, facing Petr Yan (19-5) on December 6 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, according to UFC CEO Dana White.\n\nIf Dvalishvili achieves victory, he will become the first champion in UFC history to defend a championship four times in a single year.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;You have to respect Merab for wanting to break the record,&#8221; White commented. &#8220;I love this s***.&#8221;<\/p><cite>Dana White, CEO of UFC<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nIn addition to the main event, the flyweight champion, Alexandre Pantoja (30-5), will defend his title against the promising Joshua Van (15-2). Henry Cejudo (16-5), a former two-division champion, will also participate on the card, facing Payton Talbott (10-1).\n\nThis fight will represent a rematch of the five-round fight that took place in March 2023, when Dvalishvili was ascending to obtain the title. Dvalishvili dominated Yan in that matchup, outstriking him in total strikes by 147-75 and winning each round according to the judges&#8217; scorecards. Dvalishvili also landed 11 takedowns against Yan, who is a former champion.\n\nDvalishvili, from Georgia, is ranked number 3 in the pound-for-pound rankings worldwide.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than ten days away from defending his title at UFC 322, UFC bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili already has his next fight scheduled. Dvalishvili (21-4) will seek to defend his title for the fourth time this year in the main event of UFC 323, facing Petr Yan (19-5) on December 6 at the T-Mobile Arena [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[3585,478,6406,228],"class_list":{"0":"post-52565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-mma","7":"tag-merab-dvalishvili","8":"tag-mma","9":"tag-petr-yan","10":"tag-ufc"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}