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Events · UFC 306: Riyadh Season Noche UFC · Sean O'Malley vs Merab Dvalishvili
From the tape · 14 Sep 2024

Sean O'Malley vs Merab Dvalishvili

UFC 306: Riyadh Season Noche UFC · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Merab Dvalishvili beat Sean O'Malley

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Bantamweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · Herb Dean

We published no prediction for this bout. Everything on this page is the official record and the tape it was fought on — the result, the round-by-round counts, the judges’ cards where they exist and the sportsbook line where one was published. Our graded calls start in 2026 and live on the public record.

Red corner SeanO'Malley“Suga”Red Hawk Academy · Helena, Montana
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MerabDvalishvili“The Machine”Serra-Longo Fight Team · Tbilisi
Bantamweight Title5 rounds14 Sep 2024
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 10-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 6 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Averages 5.7 more takedowns per 15 minutes than O'Malley.
20-3
Record
21-5
−4 yr29
Age
33
+5″5' 11"
Height
5' 6"
+4″72″
Reach
68″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
12
UFC bouts
12
+50%6/1060% of wins
Finishes
1/1010% of wins
Red Hawk Academy
Gym
Serra-Longo Fight Team
Helena, Montana
From
Tbilisi
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Sean O'Malley14 sig landed
HEAD43%6 of 16BODY43%6 of 10LEGS14%2 of 2
Merab Dvalishvili16 sig landed
HEAD81%13 of 25BODY6%1 of 2LEGS12%2 of 3
14 of 28
Sig.
strikes
16 of 30
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:00
Control
1:20
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 3Ground 6
Judges · this round · O'Malley firstMichael Bell9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Sean O'Malley5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 5BODY40%2 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Merab Dvalishvili18 sig landed
HEAD78%14 of 33BODY6%1 of 2LEGS17%3 of 3
5 of 10
Sig.
strikes
18 of 38
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
3:12
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 18
Judges · this round · O'Malley firstMichael Bell9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 35:00 of action
Sean O'Malley11 sig landed
HEAD64%7 of 13BODY36%4 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
Merab Dvalishvili17 sig landed
HEAD35%6 of 24BODY12%2 of 2LEGS53%9 of 12
11 of 21
Sig.
strikes
17 of 38
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 5
0:00
Control
0:52
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 5Ground 1
Judges · this round · O'Malley firstMichael Bell9–10Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Sean O'Malley6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 6BODY33%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Merab Dvalishvili21 sig landed
HEAD95%20 of 31BODY0%0 landedLEGS5%1 of 1
6 of 9
Sig.
strikes
21 of 32
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
3:37
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 15
Judges · this round · O'Malley firstMichael Bell9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Sean O'Malley11 sig landed
HEAD18%2 of 8BODY82%9 of 13LEGS0%0 landed
Merab Dvalishvili10 sig landed
HEAD20%2 of 17BODY0%0 landedLEGS80%8 of 9
11 of 21
Sig.
strikes
10 of 26
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 5
0:00
Control
1:02
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 5
Judges · this round · O'Malley firstMichael Bell10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9

Significant strikes, takedowns, control time, knockdowns and submission attempts exactly as UFCStats recorded them for this bout, round by round. Zone percentages are that round’s landed head, body and leg counts over their own total — raw arithmetic, nothing modelled or smoothed. A round in which a fighter landed nothing shades empty and reads zero; it is never filled in from the round before.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Sean O'MalleyMerab Dvalishvili
Official totals — Sean O'Malley first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell46–49
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide47–48
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide47–48

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Media cards — 22 scored, Sean O'Malley first · unofficial

Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News45–50
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com45–50
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com45–49
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection46–49
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com46–49
Scott Fontana New York Post46–49
Combat Press.com46–49
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com46–49
Jake Noecker Cageside Press46–49
Nick Baldwin theScore46–49
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com46–49
John Pollock POST Wrestling46–49
Steve Duncan mma.uno46–49
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com46–49
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com46–49
Chris De Santiago Sports Illustrated46–48
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com47–48
Sheehan SevereMMA.com47–48
Nolan King MMAJunkie.com47–48
Phil Murphy ESPN47–48
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com47–48
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com47–48

Fan vote · unofficial

49-46 Dvalishvili · 43%48-47 Dvalishvili · 21%50-45 Dvalishvili · 15%48-47 O'Malley · 12%49-45 Dvalishvili · 2%

1,260 fan cards submitted to MMA Decisions.

Official cards come from the UFCStats fight record and MMA Decisions. Media cards and the fan vote are MMA Decisions’ own collection and are not official. Judge tendency figures are that judge’s whole recorded history, not this bout — they are context for how a card was scored, never a claim that it was scored wrongly.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Sean O'Malley

0.24takedowns / 15 min
0.24 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
5.97 / 15m
0.57 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
17.06 / 15m
42%
ACCURACY
35%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Merab Dvalishvili

5.97takedowns / 15 min

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average. Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

The market story

Where the price started and where it finished — the sportsbook consensus, with the vig removed. We captured no price series for this bout, so there is no chart to draw.

Sean O'Malley↑ +14.2pp
open 36.3%close 50.5%
Merab Dvalishvili↓ −14.2pp
open 63.7%close 49.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Sean O'Malley opened at 36.3% and closed at 50.5% (+14.2pp), with Merab Dvalishvili moving the other way by the same amount — the two are one de-vigged pair, so they always sum to 100%. There is no line between those two points because nobody recorded one: we hold the open and the close for this bout, not the days in between.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Sean O'Malley164-11236.3%50.5%+14.2pp
Merab Dvalishvili-198-10763.7%49.5%−14.2pp
Opening and closing moneylines from BestFightOdds (data/refs/bfo_fighter_moneylines.csv), one row per fighter per bout, de-vigged pairwise so the two corners sum to 100% · dated 2024-09-15 on the odds record (1d from the card date; the nearest day inside a two-day window is used, never a guess) · scraped 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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