{"id":54513,"date":"2025-10-18T19:59:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T23:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/dvalishvili-vs-yan-at-ufc-323-champion-seeks-historic-record-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T19:59:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T23:59:34","slug":"dvalishvili-vs-yan-at-ufc-323-champion-seeks-historic-record-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mma\/dvalishvili-vs-yan-at-ufc-323-champion-seeks-historic-record-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dvalishvili vs. Yan at UFC 323: Champion seeks historic record!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Merab Dvalishvili Eyes New Octagon Milestone<\/h2>\n\n\nLess than ten days away from defending his bantamweight title at UFC 322, champion Merab Dvalishvili already has his next challenge.\n\nDvalishvili (21-4) will seek to defend his championship 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 his title four times in a single year.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>You have to respect Merab for wanting to break the record. I love this s***.<\/p><cite>Dana White, CEO of UFC<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nIn addition to the main event, flyweight champion Alexandre Pantoja (30-5) will defend his title against the promising Joshua Van (15-2). Henry Cejudo (16-5), former two-division champion, will also be part of 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 climbing the rankings towards the title. In that match, Dvalishvili dominated Yan, outstriking him in total strikes by 147-75 and winning each round according to the judges&#8217; scorecards. Dvalishvili also managed to take down Yan, former champion, on 11 occasions.\n\nDvalishvili, from Georgia, is positioned as one of the best pound-for-pound fighters.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merab Dvalishvili Eyes New Octagon Milestone Less than ten days away from defending his bantamweight title at UFC 322, champion Merab Dvalishvili already has his next challenge. Dvalishvili (21-4) will seek to defend his championship for the fourth time this year in the main event of UFC 323, facing Petr Yan (19-5) on December 6 [&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-54513","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\/54513","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=54513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}