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Irene Aldana spent three rounds in the octagon with Norma Dumont at UFC 306 but it looked like she was tangling with Jason Voorhees just one day after Friday the 13th.

A clash of heads opened a horrific cut on Aldana’s head that had blood running down into her eyes as she kept wiping at her face while trying to mount a comeback against Dumont. Despite a valiant effort, Aldana just couldn’t get the job done with Dumont ultimately winning a unanimous decision.

While the loss probably stung enough, Aldana then had to go backstage to get treatment on her cut with UFC CEO Dana White showing off a photo of the gruesome gash before she got medical attention.

Dr. Greg Hsu — the UFC’s on-staff physician and surgeon — then took it one step further by posting a video that showed him moving the cut around Aldana’s head before eventually stitching her up.

The video definitely isn’t for the faint of heart as Hsu shows just how deep the cut went on Aldana’s head.

The next slide over shows the aftermath with Hsu literally sewing Aldana’s forehead back together again following the damage done from the fight.

It’s safe to assume that Aldana is going to need some plastic surgery in the not too distant future to ensure that machete-like wound doesn’t leave her with a permanent scar across her forehead.

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Georgia has another champion.

Merab Dvalishvili scored the biggest win of his career at UFC 306 last night (Sat., Sept. 14, 2024), when he dominated Sean O’Malley for five rounds to capture the UFC Bantamweight championship via unanimous decision from inside the Sphere in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Before his title fight, Giorgi Kokiashvil of Setanta Sports posted a video of Georgian people taking to the streets at 7 a.m. in Tbilisi, Georgia, to watch him compete.

And by the end of the fight, more than 10,000 fans had shown up to watch Dvalishvili win the title.

Check out the epic video below:

It is always awesome to see a country get behind a fighter, and it’s even more incredible to see them lose their minds when that fighter wins—and, in this case, a title.

Georgia now has two champions, both of which captured UFC gold in 2024. Ilia Topuira won the Featherweight championship in February when he slept Alexander Volkanovski at UFC 298.
Are Roman Dolidze and Guram Kutateladze next? (Probably not)

Dvalishvili, 33, is riding an 11-fight win streak with wins over four former UFC champions.

For complete UFC 306 results, coverage, and highlights, click HERE.

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Sean O’Malley has a lot to reflect on after a lackluster outing cost him the bantamweight title at UFC 306.

Despite promises of a first-round knockout and going into the fight as the incumbent champion, O’Malley struggled to deal with Merab Dvalishvili’s pace and pressure, which led to six takedowns and over 10 minutes of control time from the Georgian bantamweight.

In the end, O’Malley lost a unanimous decision on the scorecards with Dvalishvili crowned as the new champion.

“He looked flat,” UFC CEO Dana White said about O’Malley’s performance at the UFC 306 post-fight press conference. “He didn’t look sharp.”

As much as O’Malley struggled throughout the fight, he almost made a stunning comeback after snapping off a front kick to the body that hurt Dvalishvili badly in the final round. Realizing his opponent was hurt, O’Malley rushed forward to try and inflict more damage but Dvalishvili was able to circle away and stay out of trouble until the final horn sounded.

Outside of that moment, O’Malley never had Dvalishvili in any real trouble during the entire fire.

In fact, White believes O’Malley’s inactivity is really what cost him after he looked at the statistics from the fight and realized that the always colorful bantamweight just wasn’t throwing many punches during the five-round fight.

“He didn’t look crisp until the last round,” White said. “He hurt him with that body shot and he knew he hurt him with the body shot, and he kept going in trying to finish. But I looked at the punch stats, it was like six in a couple of the rounds.”

According to the official UFC stats, O’Malley landed just 5 out 10 significant strikes in round two and then 6 out of 9 significant strikes in round four. For the entire fight, O’Malley connected with 47 significant strikes compared to 82 for Dvalishvili.

Obviously nobody was more upset about the loss than O’Malley but White didn’t have any easy answers about why he performed the way he did on Saturday.

Perhaps the most credit goes to Dvalishvili, who just never allowed O’Malley to settle into any kind of rhythm during the fight. With Dvalishvili in constant pursuit, O’Malley was forced to react off his backfoot and he just couldn’t find the timing for his punches before he was stuck fending off takedowns round after round.

Ultimately, O’Malley lost the decision and his UFC title so now he’ll have to get back to the drawing board to see if he can earn another shot at the belt in the future.

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Esteban Ribovics and Daniel Zellhuber were handsomely rewarded for their Fight of the Year contender.

On Saturday night, Ribovics and Zellhuber met in a lightweight contest on the main card of UFC 306 at Sphere in Las Vegas, and for 15 minutes the two prospects went to war in one of the very best fights of the year. The third round was particularly thrilling as both men got badly hurt at points, and nonetheless battled through in a wild brawl until the final bell. Ultimately, Ribovics took home a split decision victory but both men were well-compensated, earning $ 50,000 Fight of the Night bonuses.

Ignacio Bahamondes and Ketlen Souza also walk away from UFC 306 $ 50,000 richer, picking up Performance of the Night bonuses for their stoppage wins on the prelims, the only two finishes of the evening. Bahamondes scored a nasty first-round knockout of Manuel Torres in their lightweight bout, and Souza pulled off a technical rear-naked choke over Yazmin Jauregui.

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