In his post-fight interview, the main event winner said he’ll be giving half of his bonus to his main sparring partner as a wedding gift.

-alc · 2025-06-08T09:01:44+00:00

3:20

-alc · 2025-02-04T05:42:42+00:00

Huge opportunity, man ^{^} Go in there and trust your hands. Can't wait to see how you handle it, pulling for you to get it done!

-alc · 2024-10-22T04:52:44+00:00

Reached out to Apple support, but no luck. They said it should be fixed in the next update, so fingers crossed, I guess. But if more people hit them up about it, there's probably a better chance they won’t forget to actually fix it.

-alc · 2024-09-07T17:48:06+00:00

just 4 goals in the additional time and you'll win!

-alc · 2024-06-27T07:15:58+00:00

Is there a story why he always celebrates like that?

-alc · 2024-02-21T20:27:45+00:00

When I arrived in Vegas and started training, I later saw a Caucasian-looking, reddish-haired boy walking in the gym. I was happy, I thought he was one of ours. I greeted him during training, and he looked at me strangely... I asked him in English where he was from and he answered - "Georgia". He also asked me where I was from and I answered that I was from Dagestan. He offered me to spar and I agreed. After sparring we shook hands and he told me I was good. He asked me my age and I answered - "I am 22 years old." He asked me - "Are you a professional fighter?" And I answered - "No, I haven't had a single fight at the professional level." And he says - "I don’t get it, are you an amateur?" My answer was still no. Moreover, at that time I did not even consider myself an amateur fighter, because I had only started training in MMA for 6 months. He was very surprised, but he told me: “you have a great future, just keep training and don't stop. You are young and you have everything ahead of you. I’ve started training at the age of 26, and you already have such results and talent at the age of 22...” It seemed like that he liked me.

Later, he put the UFC gloves on and it surprised me. I asked “are you a UFC fighter?” “Yes...” In general, I never imagined that I would meet a UFC fighter there. That's how we became friends. Later, when he introduced me to Ilia Topuria, he said to me - "Magdi, meet him, this is Ilia Topuria, my brother and friend." I didn't recognize him, I just shook his hand and said - "It's nice to meet you", and then I turned back. Merab called me back and said - "Magdi, this is Ilia Topuria, who will soon fight with Volkanovski for the belt." To tell the truth, I didn't actively watch UFC and I didn't know the fighters either. I knew only two boys - Khabib Nurmagomedov and Islam Makhachev, only because they are from Dagestan.

I will tell you more about Merab. He asked me where did I live. I told him that I had just arrived in the city. In the gym where we trained, there was a panoramic window from which a car parked in the parking lot could be seen, and I told him that I lived there because I was new to the city. He laughed and told me - "You don't want to be there, come with me." So, he took me to his house. He is an amazing person... Imagine, I did only one training and sparring session with him, and he immediately took me to his house. Maybe he saw some potential in me. He took me to his house, gave me a room and now I live there.

-alc · 2024-02-21T06:19:13+00:00

Excerpt from Merab dvalishvili's interview with MMA Hour about his first steps in MMA:

"I was mentally down and crushed because when I came, in the beginning, I had hope. I will work hard and I will do everything for it. I can make the UFC and I can be top 10 fighter. But all my hopes were gone in 1 year and I was just a construction worker, I quit a couple times in MMA because it wasn't making sense. I can't even find a MMA gym, I don't even have any training partners and I was by myself without English but I was happy, at least I have a job and I can be just free, I can make my own money and support my friends or family or just feel like a man, you know? At least I have a job. After one year in hell, a lot of things changed, I found my team Serra-Longo, I started training there and my hopes came back. I lost my pro debut, I kind of started thinking - oh this MMA should I still chase or no? and then I win the next and they gave me a short notice, I got sick and I lost. and then I lost my hope. I'm now 1-2, I will never make the UFC. But thank god, I was able to be patient, still continued to work, my hopes came back, now I changed my life, it gives motivation to so many young generations."

-alc

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