{"id":2020,"date":"2026-09-28T01:54:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T01:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/2026\/09\/28\/merab-dvalishvili-the-bantamweight-champion-by-the-numbers\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T01:54:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T01:54:38","slug":"merab-dvalishvili-the-bantamweight-champion-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/2026\/09\/28\/merab-dvalishvili-the-bantamweight-champion-by-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Merab Dvalishvili: the bantamweight champion, by the numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/fighter\/merab-dvalishvili\/\">Merab Dvalishvili<\/a>, \u201cThe Machine\u201d, holds the bantamweight title with a record of 21-5-0. Six of those wins have come in title fights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How the wins came: 24% of 21 wins have come inside the distance \u2014 3 by knockout, 2 by submission. The other 16 went to the judges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dvalishvili stands 5&#039;6&quot;, with a 68&quot; reach, fights orthodox, out of Serra-Longo Fight Team, and is 35 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next: <a href=\"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/fighter\/petr-yan\/\">Petr Yan<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/mma_event\/ufc-333-volkanovski-vs-evloev\/\">UFC 333: Volkanovski vs. Evloev<\/a> on October 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who is chasing the belt<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>No. 1: <a href=\"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/fighter\/sean-omalley\/\">Sean O&#8217;Malley<\/a> (20-3-0)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No. 2: <a href=\"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/fighter\/umar-nurmagomedov\/\">Umar Nurmagomedov<\/a> (20-2-0)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No. 3: <a href=\"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/fighter\/petr-yan\/\">Petr Yan<\/a> (20-5-0)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No. 4: <a href=\"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/fighter\/cory-sandhagen\/\">Cory Sandhagen<\/a> (18-7-0)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No. 5: <a href=\"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/fighter\/song-yadong\/\">Song Yadong<\/a> (24-9-1)<\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21-5-0, 24% of 21 wins have come inside the distance \u2014 3 by knockout, 2 by submission. The bantamweight champion\u2019s record, the finish rate and the five contenders closest to the title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-magazine-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}