Merab Dvalishvili and Kayla Harrison clinch bantamweight titles at UFC 316

[p]With President Donald Trump sitting cage-side at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/dvalishvili-merab/vBdg2uPA/"]Dvalishvili[/a] set about defending the title he won from [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/o-malley-sean/0zE37awO/"]O'Malley[/a] in September by putting his opponent under tremendous early pressure, stalking him around the cage and mixing up his striking with takedown attempts.[/p][p]O'Malley defended well against his opponent's aggressive offensive wrestling but was eventually taken down in both rounds, and Dvalishvili ended the fight by using his crushing top pressure to secure a choke at the 4:42 mark of the second round.[/p][embed guid="0c51e1d1-73e1-4cde-97e8-a2409e98002b" url="https://x.com/espn/status/1931576721582575760" social-type="twitter" /][p]"[b]I'm on top of the world. I'm a world champion. I come from nothing. I'm so grateful to inspire so many young generations to show my example[/b]," the 34-year-old Dvalishvili said in a post-fight interview.[/p][p]Asked about his incredible stamina and pressure, he said he was nothing special and that it all came down to training.[/p][p]"[b]It's just work - every day, repeat, training. You know, number one for me is just wake up, training and after I can hang out, enjoy with my friends, go to church, looking for wife or whatever you want to do[/b]," he explained.[/p][p]In the co-main event, two-time Olympic judo champion [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/harrison-kayla/vRAxh7xi/"]Harrison[/a] used her superb grappling to dominate [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/pena-julianna/n3l7h7Oc/"]Pena[/a], locking in a kimura submission with five seconds to go in the second round.[/p][embed guid="70aadd30-50da-4e44-bf71-4a82e6214614" url="https://x.com/espn/status/1931565261280215428" social-type="twitter" /][p]In her victory speech, Harrison called out retired Brazilian former two-weight champ [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/nunes-amanda/Wdg90zuh/"]Amanda Nunes[/a], summoning her into the cage where the two agreed that they would face off in a future fight. Nunes has not fought since beating [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/aldana-irene/APXEsO0o/"]Irene Aldana[/a] in June 2023.[/p]