Merab Dvalishvili thinks Sean O’Malley’s coach Tim Welch is NOT a real man.
During a recent face-off between Merab Dvalishvili and Sean O’Malley at a photoshoot in the Sphere, Las Vegas, things got heated between the two men featuring in the UFC 306 main event, where ‘Suga’ will put his bantamweight title on the line.
The war of words didn’t just end there as it also dragged in O’Malley’s head coach, Welch, who had already been in the spotlight after he got into an online spat with Merab’s teammate and former UFC bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling before his title defense against ‘Suga’ at UFC 292.
With growing tensions between the two camps, Dvalishvili has directed some of his frustrations towards Welch.
“I have a problem with his coach, Tim,” Dvalishvili said during a recent interview with MMA Fighting. “He was very disrespectful to me and he was doing stupid [stuff] and not respectful [things]. Any real coach should never do that, whatever he was doing. Try do the same thing in basketball or let’s try to do the same thing in a football game. They will give you a disqualification. Only the UFC can you get out of this. Coach your guy, coach your fighter. Don’t be disrespectful to the opponent. What kind of people does this? Only a snake person does this.
“Even now he’s talking on his podcast, like making fun of my height, making fun of my nose, even now he some fans said some stupid things. Nothing is real. He’s making up some stories about me, which is not true. He deserves [me] to smack his face. That’s what I told Sean O’Malley. ‘Hey Sean, tell your coach to shut his mouth,’ because I was so pissed when I saw all these videos, how he does stupid things, how he talks stupid. I told him to shut his mouth.”
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