Key Highlights
- Instead, Dvalishvili returned for a fourth title bout against Petr Yan and dropped a clear-cut loss, with the Russian appearing to control almost every minute of every round. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementSpeaking to Uncrowned’s "The Ariel Helwani Show" on Monday, one of Dvalishvili’s coaches, John Wood, said that while “hindsight is 20-20,” Dvalishvili’s overall "insane" schedule, workload, and cumulative hours of preparation, training and sparring were undeniably “a lot.”That burden, he said, is part of what separates champions from contenders, though.
- “When you’re chasing greatness and legendary things, these are the risks you have to take,” Wood said.“There’s a lot that goes into fighting four title fights in one year,” added the founder of Syndicate MMA.
- “There’s bumps and bruises.
- Everybody goes into a fight of this magnitude banged-up. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement“More than anything, it’s just a lot of stress on the body."Prior to the Yan loss, Dvalishvili had stormed to the No.3 spot in Uncrowned’s pound-for-pound rankings because of the quality of the opponents he beat, the dominant nature of those performances and the distinctive style he brings to the Octagon.
- He overwhelms elite fighters with a hyper-pressured, suffocating pace built on elite cardio.
