Not long now.

On Saturday night in Newark, New Jersey, Sean O’Malley will have a 25-minute window to regain the UFC’s bantamweight championship. The problem for him — and the entire 135-pound division — is that the title is currently held my cardio-king Merab Dvalishvili, a fighter that no one has been able to hang with in his past 12 fights.

That run authored by the Georgian champion shows 11 decision wins along the way, but perhaps no fighter in the division possesses the same type of one punch knockout power at O’Malley, who can count 12 knockouts in his 18 career wins.

This time around, Dvalishvili comes into the contest as the bookies’ favourite to extend his unbeaten streak but even at Thursday night’s press conference in New Jersey,  he comes into the UFC 316 headliner in quietly confident form.

Check out the full press conference in the video below.

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