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The Herd with Colin Cowherd

Daniel Cormier TV - Merab Dvalishvili on FINISHING Petr Yan in rematch, Umar Nurmagomedov, dating life

The Herd with Colin Cowherd

iHeartPodcasts and The Volume

Sports, News, Basketball, Football, Sports News

4.110.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Merab Dvalishvili IS BACK on the Daniel Cormier Check-In series, this time ahead of his HISTORIC fourth championship defense in one calendar year in his rematch with Petr Yan for the title at UFC 323 in Las Vegas. Merab pulls back the curtain for DC and his fans on how he's been able to fight a record number of times in 2025. Dvalishvili and Cormier also discuss his ongoing beef with Umar Nurmagomedov and what happened on social media to start the bad blood between them. And don't miss DC and Merab go in on his viral video smelling food, fighting in sparring without head gear, and even his dating life! #Volume 

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:05.2

The volume.

0:09.7

Daniel!

0:11.4

Oh, so many for me, Marab.

0:17.4

I appreciate you.

0:18.3

Guys, I'm here with the champ.

0:20.3

Marab, the machine, the Wallace Willie. Yo Yo, man, this is, God, this is crazy. Like, four times in one year, like, come on, Marab. This has to be crazy. At least to you, right? A little bit crazy? No, actually, no, this is very normal for me. I love fighting, and this is no problem I I would love to

0:39.0

fight every every week you know but you know what you know what I hate I had

0:44.4

weight cut yeah of course but then but then you do the weight cut four times in a

0:48.8

year and that kind of that kind of sucks I cut weights three times last year uh i fought hairy and then three weeks

0:56.2

after i was back up fighting and then i fought tighter you know and the last year also i cut three times

1:01.1

it's all good yeah hey uh did you really spar five rounds on the day of the fight last time

1:09.1

yes i did uh and I tell you why.

1:12.6

Because usually we all fighters, Saturday morning, we all do shakeout, right?

1:18.6

Shake out, yep, warm up.

1:20.6

But for me, the best training is sparring, real spawning, you know. And then, and then fight was here in Vegas, and I trained at Syndicat.

1:32.3

We have full actigan.

1:33.3

Usually we do this in hotel, like, you know, stupid men.

1:37.3

Yeah, yeah, bad.

1:38.3

It's like not good.

1:39.3

Like, not good.

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