Merab Dvalishvili and Sean O’Malley are primed to sq. off once more.
The rematch is about for UFC 316 and with the June 17 headlining bout just a little over a month away, the UFC has launched the official poster for the occasion that includes Dvalishvili and O’Malley, plus co-main occasion fighters Julianna Peña and Kayla Harrison.
Try the poster beneath.
In the principle occasion, Dvalishvili goes for a second profitable consecutive protection of the lads’s bantamweight title when he takes on O’Malley, the person he took it from. The 2 first fought at UFC 306 this previous September and Dvalishvili received a unanimous determination over O’Malley. Dvalishvili adopted that up with one other determination win over the undefeated Umar Nurmagomedov to increase his present win streak to 12.
O’Malley has not competed because the first Dvalishvili battle as he has taken time without work to get well from hip surgical procedure. Following that loss, O’Malley took time without work to endure surgical procedure for a hip harm whereas incessantly calling for a direct rematch.
Peña enters UFC 316 as girls’s bantamweight champion in her second reign. “The Venezuelan Vixen” returned from a near-800-day layoff to defeat Raquel Pennington through break up determination to say a vacant belt at UFC 307. She now takes on the closely favored Harrison, a two-time Olympic gold medalist in judo and two-time PFL champion who has received 18 of 19 professional fights, together with her first two UFC outings.
UFC 316 takes place at Prudential Middle in Newark, N.J., on June 17 and airs completely on ESPN+ pay-per-view. See the up to date lineup beneath (bout order nonetheless to be decided).
Merab Dvalishvili vs. Sean O’Malley
Julianna Peña vs. Kayla Harrison
Vicente Luque vs. Kevin Holland
Marlon Vera vs. Mario Bautista
Serghei Spivac vs. Waldo Cortes-Acosta
