UFC 306: Sean O’Malley-Merab Dvalishvili, Alexa Grasso-Valentina Shevchenko title battles heading Ball card

Sean O'Malley and Merab Dvalishvilli will square off in their bantamweight title fight on Sept. 14.

Sean O’Malley and Merab Dvalishvilli will certainly contest in their bantamweight title battle on Sept. 14. (Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC using Getty Images)

The Ball in Las Las vega currently formally has 2 title battles established for this autumn.

UFC chief executive officer Dana White introduced the complete battle card for Sept. 14 at UFC 306, which will certainly be headlined with a bantamweight title round in between Sean O’Malley and Merab Dvalishvili. UFC females’s flyweight champ Alexa Grasso and Valentina Shevchenko will certainly defend a 3rd time in the co-main occasion. UFC 306 will certainly note the initial battle sporting activities occasion to be held at the brand-new place simply off the Las Las Vega Strip.

O’Malley initially asserted the bantamweight title belt with a TKO success over Aljamain Sterling last autumn. He efficiently safeguarded that title with a consentaneous choice sway Marlon Vera in March, as well. The 29-year-old will certainly enter his battle versus Dvalishvili with an 18-1 document with 12 KOs. He’s won 6 straight battles going back to 2021, as well, with the exemption of a no competition versus Pedro Munhoz.

Dvalishvili, on the various other hand, has actually been trending towards a title defend rather a long time. He gets on an unbelievable 10-fight win touch going back to 2018, and he last defeated Henry Cejudo using consentaneous choice at UFC 298 previously this year. The 33-year-old holds a 17-4 document with 3 KOs in his profession.

The co-main occasion including Grasso safeguarding her females’s flyweight title versus previous champ Shevchenko will certainly note the 3rd straight battle in between both. Grasso defeated Shevchenko to assert the flyweight belt initially in March 2023 with a fourth-round entry, and afterwards she safeguarded that title in a rematch that finished in a draw last autumn. Grasso will certainly go into with a 16-3-1 document. Shevchenko, that held the title for several years prior to her initial loss to Grasso, holds a 23-4-1 document with 8 KOs.

Right here’s a take a look at the battles arranged up until now for UFC 306.

  • Raul Rosas Jr. vs. Aori Qileng

  • Yazmin Jáuregui vs. Kelten Souza

  • Kevin Borjas vs. Edgar Chairez

  • Irene Aldana vs. Norma Dumont

  • Ignacio Bahamondes vs. Manuel Torres

  • Ode Osbourne vs. Ronaldo Rodríguez

  • Esteban Ribovics vs. Daniel Zelluber

  • Brian Ortega vs. Diego Lopez

  • Alexa Grasso vs. Valentina Shevchenko

  • Sean O’Malley vs. Merab Dvalishvili

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