Merab Dvalishvili
UFC 14-3Pro 21-5Ranked #1 · Bantamweight#9 Men's Pound-for-Poundtale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read
vs Petr Yan · Volkanovski vs Evloev · 24 Oct 2026. FightIQ’s early read: Petr Yan (52%).
Petr Yan vs Merab Dvalishvili prediction →Built from Merab Dvalishvili’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Wrestle-grinder
5' 6" orthodox wrestle-grinder campaigning at Bantamweight. 14 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 12 decision. Top 4% of Bantamweights: averages 5.97 takedowns per 15 minutes and lands 4.42 significant strikes a minute.
The facts, plainly — vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. The social accounts are the ones linked from the fighter’s own official athlete page — we don’t match handles by name. The UFC record is counted from the official results themselves, and is dated by the first and last bout it counts.
| Nickname | The Machine |
| Nationality | Georgia |
| Born in | Vani, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union Wikipedia |
| Fights out of | Long Island, New York, United States Wikipedia |
| Camp | Serra-Longo Fight Team |
| Height | 5' 6" |
| Reach | 68" |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Age | 35 |
| Date of birth | Jan 10, 1991 |
| Weight | 135 lbs. |
| Pro record | 21-5 |
| UFC record | UFC 14-3 first fight 2017-12-09 · last fight 2025-12-06 |
| Finish split | 14 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 12 decision |
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Every week Merab Dvalishvili has stood in the official UFC rankings, one row per table, 2 of them, each band running from the table that set it to the table that changed it.
Official UFC.com official rankings, 2013–present · rankings of 6 October 2026
A published rank holds until the next table changes it, so a band runs from the table that set it to the table that ended it — that is how a ranking works, and it is why an unbroken reign is drawn unbroken. Nothing is interpolated: the band is the last published STATUS, never a rank in between, and the hatched stretches are weeks the archive holds no table for at all. The champion band sits above #1 because a belt is not a rank. The three pound-for-pound tables — the combined one to January 2020, then the Men's and Women's ones — share a row, because they are one standing under three names.
Career averages over Merab Dvalishvili’s UFC bouts, straight from public UFC statistics — the same eight numbers on his official record. These are the source’s figures, not our read: what we make of them is the card below.
Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Bantamweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.
We have not called one of Merab Dvalishvili’s fights in the live 2026 season. What we do have is back-tested, and it is labelled as such.
Across our full back-tested history we called 7 of Merab Dvalishvili’s fights, 3 correct. Back-tested, not part of the public timestamped record: these were computed after the fact, so they show the model working on old cards — they were never published ahead of those fights.
Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.
Significant strikes only, as recorded by UFCStats, across the fighter's whole UFC career. Shares are raw counts — nothing here is modelled or smoothed. Accuracy is landed ÷ attempted and comes from the per-round tape, which covers slightly fewer fights than the totals do. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.
The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.
Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.50 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.
Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.
Pro record: 21-5. In the UFC: 14-3. Merab Dvalishvili’s last 8 UFC bouts, most recent first — the result in the cage, not our pick.
Straight off the official UFC fight record. Card names are left off on purpose: the only event labels in our data are derived, and we’d rather print nothing than print one that’s wrong.
5 post-fight bonuses since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 3 Fight of the Night, 2 Performance of the Night.
| Date | Award | Opponent | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-06 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Petr Yan | UFC 323: Dvalishvili vs. Yan 2 |
| 2025-06-07 | POTN | Performance of the Night | Sean O'Malley | UFC 316: Dvalishvili vs. O'Malley 2 |
| 2025-01-18 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Umar Nurmagomedov | UFC 311: Makhachev vs. Moicano |
| 2021-09-25 | POTN | Performance of the Night | Marlon Moraes | UFC 266: Volkanovski vs. Ortega |
| 2018-04-21 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Ricky Simon | UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Lee |
The UFC's post-fight bonus programme began in 2006, so every total here is a career total since 2006. A fighter who fought only before then has no bonuses because the award did not exist yet. Fight of the Night is a shared award and is credited to both fighters. Performance, Knockout and Submission of the Night are individual awards, credited to the fighter the official record names.
Awards whose recipient the official list does not name are credited to nobody, so these counts are a floor: 245 of 1,339 Performance of the Night and 1 of 180 Submission of the Night awards are unassigned as of 11 October 2026.
| Date | Opponent | Method | Rd | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-06 | L | Petr Yan | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC 323: Dvalishvili vs. Yan 2 |
| 2025-10-04 | W | Cory Sandhagen | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC 320: Ankalaev vs. Pereira 2 |
| 2025-06-07 | W | Sean O'Malley | Submission | R3 | UFC 316: Dvalishvili vs. O'Malley 2 |
| 2025-01-18 | W | Umar Nurmagomedov | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC 311: Makhachev vs. Moicano |
| 2024-09-14 | W | Sean O'Malley | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC 306: Riyadh Season Noche UFC |
| 2024-02-17 | W | Henry Cejudo | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 298: Volkanovski vs. Topuria |
| 2023-03-11 | W | Petr Yan | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC Fight Night: Yan vs. Dvalishvili |
| 2022-08-20 | W | Jose Aldo | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 278: Usman vs. Edwards |
| 2021-09-25 | W | Marlon Moraes | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC 266: Volkanovski vs. Ortega |
| 2021-05-01 | W | Cody Stamann | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Reyes vs. Prochazka |
| 2020-08-15 | W | John Dodson | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 252: Miocic vs. Cormier 3 |
| 2020-06-13 | W | Gustavo Lopez | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Eye vs. Calvillo |
| 2020-02-15 | W | Casey Kenney | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Anderson vs. Blachowicz |
| 2019-05-04 | W | Brad Katona | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Iaquinta vs. Cowboy |
| 2018-09-15 | W | Terrion Ware | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Hunt vs. Oleinik |
| 2018-04-21 | L | Ricky Simon | Submission | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Lee |
| 2017-12-09 | L | Frankie Saenz | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Ortega |
Every date links to that bout’s own page. Card names come from the official event record; where the UFC ran two cards on one date, or that record has no row for it, the Event column is left empty rather than filled with a guess.
The 10 cities Merab Dvalishvili has fought a UFC bout in and the camp on the record. Every pin was looked up by name in OpenStreetMap’s gazetteer and stored with the answer it gave; nothing here is estimated.
Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.
Fights that have never been made, between fighters who are ranked right now. Our read on each one is on its own page, with no betting market behind it — because there is no market on a fight nobody has booked. None of it is a pick, and none of it is graded.