🚨 Full footage of the scuffle between Usman
Nurmagomedov and Merab Dvalishvili https://t.co/SGJzkQdFif
— Red Corner MMA (@RedCorner_MMA)
November 11, 2026
Merab
Dvalishvili says Usman
Nurmagomedov, Umar
Nurmagomedov and several of their associates attacked him and a
friend in a hotel lobby in Abu Dhabi ahead of his scheduled
wrestling match at RAF Abu Dhabi.
The former
Ultimate Fighting Championship bantamweight champion said in an
Instagram post that a group of about 20 people approached him and
his friend from behind during an interview for the event.
Dvalishvili appeared with blood on his face in the video, and his
friend appeared to be injured.
Merab Dvalishvili alleges he and a friend were attacked in Abu
Dhabi ahead of RAF
“Was doing an interview for RAF in hotel lobby and Usman and his
buddies came up from behind and started punching me and my young
friend,” Dvalishvili wrote in the caption accompanying his video.
“Security was holding me — they kept kicking us when we were down
like losers.”
“What a sneaky way, just two of us, me and my friend came here in
Abu Dhabi, and Usman Nurmagomedov and his friends came like snakes
from behind,” Dvalishvili said in the video. “What kind of fighters
you guys are? What kind of man does this? If you want to talk and
fight, let’s do it the real way.”
Dvalishvili also accused Umar Nurmagomedov of taking part.
“I just came here in Abu Dhabi and then Usman, Umar, and his
friends came in a sneaky way and tried to beat us. So many guys,”
he continued.
Dvalishvili defeated Umar Nurmagomedov by unanimous decision in
their bantamweight title fight at
UFC 311 in January 2025.
“I’m fine,” Dvalishvili said. “All my friends and family, I’m
f***ing fine, I’m a fighter. This is nothing for me. Again, it
shows what kind of people you guys are.”
Dvalishvili is scheduled to face Marlon
Moraes in a wrestling match at RAF Abu Dhabi on Nov. 14 at
Etihad Arena.
Merab and usman fight at RAF in Abu Dhabi
https://t.co/ZoNU7pTGuY
— j (@JaLFC98)
November 11, 2026