Built from Merab Dvalishvili’s own numbers — style, standout rate and current form. Not reported prose.
5'6" orthodox wrestle-grinder with a 14-2 record, age 34. Standout metric: defends 83% of takedowns; averages 383s of control time per fight. Form: last 5: WWWWW · on a 5-fight win streak · 63 days off · Elo 1642.
The facts, plainly — vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality, hometown and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value.
| Nickname | The Machine |
| Nationality | Georgia |
| Hometown | Tbilisi |
| Fighting out of | Serra-Longo Fight Team |
| Height | 5' 6" |
| Reach | 68.0" |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Age | 35 |
| Date of birth | Jan 10, 1991 |
| Weight | 135 lbs. |
| Pro record | 21-5 |
| Finish split | pending |
Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against every fighter on record. Tap any i for what a score measures.
The moat — every call we've made on this fighter, timestamped and graded in public. Nobody else can copy this.
FightIQ has picked Merab Dvalishvili 4×, 3 correct (3-1 — 75% right). The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.
| Date | Opponent | Card | We said | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-06 | Petr Yan | UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs Turner | 75% | Missed |
| 2025-10-04 | Cory Sandhagen | UFC Fight Night: Santos vs Yoo | 73.8% | Correct |
| 2025-06-07 | Sean O'Malley | UFC: Pena vs Harrison | 59.6% | Correct |
| 2024-02-17 | Henry Cejudo | UFC Fight Night: Lemos vs Dern | 76.7% | Correct |
Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.
Significant strikes only, as recorded by UFCStats, across the fighter's whole UFC career. Shares are raw counts — nothing here is modelled or smoothed. Accuracy is landed ÷ attempted and comes from the per-round tape, which covers slightly fewer fights than the totals do.
Pro record: 21-5. Timeline below is the bouts FightIQ has tracked (most recent first).