Merab Dvalishvili🇬🇪 (21-4) pressures from orthodox staying safe with feints, movement, and his wrestling threat gauging distance with fast jabs and throws straights to the body, hooks to the head and body, uppercuts, spinning backfists, and calf kicks at a high volume to slow opponents and create openings for takedowns. He is relentless with his variety of clinch entries and takedowns whether it be collar tie to underhook to inside trip or body lock to outside trip he will always until it works kill underhooks with grips, and attack the legs, get you to the cage, stop level changes, constantly change angles, and even throw ground & pound in between. Once down he has good wrist control which can keep certain fighters down but he more so relies on cage control in volume. Petr Yan🇷🇺 (19-5) is a elite fighter as we know but he lost the first 50-45 so I am going to switch up the breakdown portion and give thoughts on what I think he'll do in the rematch. Early instead of bulldozing for a finish like he's hinted he'll feint, keep a high guard when he can, throw little shots, and circle out to create angles negating pressure then patiently look to target the lead leg with calf kicks to keep him off the center line making potential fight changing check hooks or pull counters more avaliable all so later in the fight he doesn't slow down allowing the champs cardio to take over. Then in the later rounds he should switch from the reactive but accurate striking to a more powerful approach applying heavier jabs with low kicks, dropping levels with shots to the body when Merab looks for a single forcing him to go for doubles where Yans sprawls and overall defense are much better. Trying to make the fight a 25 minute chess match retaining energy is better than trying to match Merabs pressure. My pick is Dvalishvili by (DEC), Yan will look better than the first assuming he isn't going in hurt but will have his striking neutralized by the pressure.