Former
Ultimate Fighting Championship bantamweight champ Merab
Dvalishvili will meet Marlon
Moraes in a wrestling match at Real American Freestyle’s Abu
Dhabi event on Nov. 14 at Etihad Arena. The promotion announced the
matchup Wednesday for its first event in the Middle East.

The two first met at
UFC 266 in September 2021, when Dvalishvili recovered from an
early scare to stop Moraes by second-round TKO.

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Merab Dvalishvili and Marlon Moraes revisit their UFC 266
matchup under wrestling rules on Nov. 14

This will be Dvalishvili’s fourth RAF appearance. He defeated
Frankie
Edgar and came from behind to beat Henry
Cejudo in their first wrestling match before losing the rematch
in August.

Dvalishvili, 35, most recently fought at
UFC 333 on Oct. 24, losing a unanimous decision to Petr Yan in
their third meeting. He won the UFC bantamweight title in 2024 and
defended it three times.

Moraes will make his RAF debut. The former
World Series of Fighting bantamweight champion and UFC title
challenger stepped away from MMA in 2023. He returned to
competition in August with a unanimous decision victory over
Maximiliano
Perez.

Khamzat
Chimaev and Colby
Covington are set to headline RAF Abu Dhabi. Arman
Tsarukyan is also scheduled to face Neiman
Gracie on the card.

IMAK ADMIN

By IMAK ADMIN

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