Yan was on the cusp of title contention after back-to-back wins over Song Yadong and Deiveson Figueiredo, but now has to fight back in the rankings. With Cory Sandhagen touted as the next title ...

Dvalishvili called for a fight with Cory Sandhagen following UFC 316, and that does seem to be the fight most likely to happen. After that, there’s the possibility of more rematches, against Umar ...

Advertisement Sandhagen believes one is bound to lose at some point if they regularly take on elite opponents. Sandhagen considers only himself, Merab Dvalishvili and Petr Yan worthy of that claim ...

UFC champ Merab Dvalishvili was taken aback by Petr Yan’s recent ... event for his next fight 👀 “Maybe, I’m not sure,” Dvalishvili said of a potential fight with Sandhagen.

Yan defeated Sandhagen by unanimous decision at UFC 267 in 2021, reclaiming a piece of the bantamweight title he lost to Aljamain Sterling in the previous fight due to an illegal knee.

I get that he wants to stay busy but the [Cory] Sandhagen rematch would’ve made more sense the winner of that rematch deserves a title shot.” This fight makes no sense whatsoever. Yan just ...

UFC bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili is looking at deserving contenders over a UFC double-championship, for now. 'The Machine' defends his UFC title in a rematch with former champion Sean ...

To speed up his rise back to a title fight, matchups with Henry Cejudo, Cory Sandhagen, or a rematch with Petr Yan make sense for his next bout. O’Malley’s UFC 316 main event was a massive ...

UFC bantamweight champ Merab Dvalishvili stops by "The Ariel Helwani Show" to reflect on his monster win over Sean O'Malley ...

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Reinier de Ridder card against Marcus McGhee, as we look at Yan’s future bouts. Yan is on a two-fight win streak after ... to a rematch with Cory Sandhagen. Yan beat Cory in 2021 at UFC ...