UFC bantamweight contender Mario Bautista has praised divisional champion Petr Yan for his victory over Merab Dvalishvili.
In the principle occasion of UFC 323 earlier this month, Petr Yan shocked many by defeating Merab Dvalishvili to as soon as once more change into the UFC bantamweight champion. He got here in with an awesome plan, and he executed it to perfection with what wound up being a fairly dominant victory – particularly while you check out what Merab’s face appeared like following the struggle.
Now, Petr Yan will seemingly tackle Dvalishvili in a trilogy struggle, or, he could face Umar Nurmagomedov or Sean O’Malley if each win their upcoming fights. Umar’s newest win came visiting Mario Bautista, who put ahead a valiant effort, however in the end couldn’t overcome the wrestling of Nurmagomedov.
In a current interview, Bautista gave his ideas on what Petr Yan was in a position to accomplish.
Mario Bautista’s view on Petr Yan’s victory
“I had the identical ideas that everybody else did, I believed Merab was going to go in there and simply deal with him for all 5 rounds like Merab normally does. However [Petr] Yan went in there with an ideal gameplan. Wrestled him up, defended the pictures nicely, damage Merab, and truly went to the physique.”
“I’ve been saying that in a variety of these interviews like, it is advisable go the physique on Merab. That’s precisely what Yan did and you may inform it does damage Merab. So I believed it was nice struggle. It was a great combine up for the division. We’ll see if their rematch is on the way in which nevertheless it was a extremely thrilling struggle.”
Quotes by way of BJPENN.com
Yan has a variety of choices for his subsequent struggle, however both method, this is among the greatest title performances in current reminiscence, and even that could be an understatement.
