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Petr Yan owned the UFC men's flyweight title belt as far back as 2020, but he never looked more like a champion than he did Saturday night, as he dethroned Merab Dvalishvili by unanimous decision in an all-action main event of UFC 323 in Las Vegas.
All three judges scored the fight for Yan, two of them turning in 49-46 scorecards and one seeing it as a 48-47 fight.
Yan (20-5) was the aggressor throughout, which in itself was a turnaround from past Dvalishvili fights, including his first meeting with Yan. When Yan and Dvalishvili fought in 2023, after Yan's first reign with the belt had ended and before Dvalishvili's began, Dvalishvili made an astounding 49 takedown attempts. Although Yan fended off 38 of them, he was on the defensive all night and never mounted an offensive threat.
The rematch played out much differently. Although Dvalishvili (21-5) entered the bout with 117 UFC takedowns, the most in the promotion's history, he did not add to his total in the first two rounds, going 0-for-13. The fight's first takedown, in fact, came from Yan, who took the champion to the canvas midway through the second round.
In all, Dvalishvili was 2-of-24 on takedown attempts. Yan was 3-of-5, but it was his pinpoint striking that made the difference. He landed 60% of his significant strikes, bloodying Dvalishvili's face with a stead diet of sharp jabs and visibly hurting him with kicks to the body.
