Merab Dvalishvili doesn’t want to fight ‘greatest’ Alexander Volkanovski

[PaddyO'malley]

Mad respect tuh Merab him an' Volk in mi Top 8

 

[Cooliox]

My phone autocorrects Merab into Metal.

And yes, Merab is bloody Metal.

Dude can fight 10 rounds

 

[Harlekin]

Or maybe because Volk is hard to take down and nullified a lot of Islam's grappling.
Combined with him being the way better stand up fighter.

QUACK

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

 

[FreedomCricket]

Would it matter? Volkswagen isn't making 135lbs.

 

[TriangleMonkey]

Tree stump Volk neutralizes everything Merab has ever worked for

 

[dominion]

Merab needs to stop all this respect shit and fight like he's a prize fighter. This isn't the boy scouts, this is a me vs you sport. And the funny thing is, he knows that.

I think he uses respect as a way of backing out of fights that are unfavorable to him like Umar and also respect to fight someone favorable like figgy. Now with volk, who absolutely has the style to beat him, because he has the TDD and cardio to match merabs typical way of winning, as well as the offense to piece up merab.

Volk is the bigger fighter so I don't expect merab to move up, but if volk moves down to challenge him, don't use hespect to back out.