{"id":53419,"date":"2025-10-17T11:04:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T15:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/dvalishvili-extreme-sparring-on-fight-day-ufc-strategy-revealed\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T11:04:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T15:04:41","slug":"dvalishvili-extreme-sparring-on-fight-day-ufc-strategy-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mma\/dvalishvili-extreme-sparring-on-fight-day-ufc-strategy-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Dvalishvili: Extreme Sparring on Fight Day! UFC Strategy Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Merab Dvalishvili: A Champion with an Unusual Routine<\/h2>\n\nThe UFC bantamweight champion, Merab Dvalishvili, surprised many by doing five rounds of sparring in the gym last weekend in Las Vegas, approximately nine hours before his title defense against Cory Sandhagen at UFC 320.\n\nDvalishvili (21-4) defeated Sandhagen (18-5) by decision, in what was apparently his second five-round fight that day. During an appearance on the Jaxxon Podcast, UFC light heavyweight Khalil Rountree Jr., Dvalishvili&#8217;s teammate at Syndicate MMA in Las Vegas, revealed this unusual practice.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>This is not new. It&#8217;s funny that Khalil is the one revealing it.<\/p><cite>John Wood, head coach of Syndicate MMA<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nJohn Wood, head coach of Syndicate MMA, confirmed this information. According to Wood, Dvalishvili has maintained this routine since he started training him in 2020. The champion even wanted to do six rounds of sparring, but Wood stopped him.\n\nWood explained that these five rounds are performed at 70% intensity, which is still uncommon in the sport. It is a technical and demanding training.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The way Merab does it, it&#8217;s savage. He&#8217;s a real savage.<\/p><cite>John Wood, head coach of Syndicate MMA<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nIn addition to the five rounds in the gym, Dvalishvili also warms up in the arena before the fight. Generally, he does between three and five rounds with his teammate and former bantamweight champion, Aljamain Sterling, right before entering the octagon.\n\nDvalishvili is known for his relentless endurance. In his fight against Sandhagen, he achieved 20 takedowns, which raised his career total to 117, the most in UFC history. He has already requested the UFC to schedule his next title defense in December.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merab Dvalishvili: A Champion with an Unusual Routine The UFC bantamweight champion, Merab Dvalishvili, surprised many by doing five rounds of sparring in the gym last weekend in Las Vegas, approximately nine hours before his title defense against Cory Sandhagen at UFC 320. Dvalishvili (21-4) defeated Sandhagen (18-5) by decision, in what was apparently his [&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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-53419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-mma"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53419","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=53419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}