Dvalishvili Lie Test Fuels Umar Talk

Merab Dvalishvili’s appearance on a lie-detector video has added another chapter to the continuing discussion around his relationship with Umar Nurmagomedov. In footage released on the Aviator YouTube channel, Dvalishvili was asked whether there was a fighter he genuinely could not stand. The UFC bantamweight contender answered that there was, calling the unnamed person a “little spoiled baby.” When asked whether there was somebody in the UFC he never wanted to see again, he suggested it might be the same person. According to the report, both answers registered as true.

The important limitation is that Dvalishvili did not say Nurmagomedov’s name in either response. The video therefore supplied no direct identification of the fighter he had in mind. Still, fans quickly connected the comments to Nurmagomedov because the two men already have a competitive and increasingly hostile history described in the report. That distinction matters: the test was presented as support for Dvalishvili’s stated feelings about an unnamed fighter, while the link to Nurmagomedov came from fan interpretation and the wider context of their feud. The clip has consequently renewed attention on a rivalry that has remained active well after their fight.

Why fans linked the answers to Nurmagomedov

Bloody Elbow placed the lie-detector exchange against Dvalishvili and Nurmagomedov’s previous meeting at UFC 311. The pair co-headlined Islam Makhachev’s card at Los Angeles’ Intuit Dome, where Dvalishvili won by unanimous decision. The report said that was the first of his successful title defenses during a historic 2025. It also said Dvalishvili put his belt on the line a record four times during that year. Whatever the precise framing of those defenses, the supplied account makes clear that their UFC meeting is the central competitive reference point behind the current speculation.

Their conflict was not presented as ending with that decision. The report said the animosity between Dvalishvili and Nurmagomedov had grown in the 18 months since their Octagon clash. It also described a confrontation before Dvalishvili’s match against Henry Cejudo at the Real American Freestyle event in Tbilisi. At a press conference, Dvalishvili slapped one of Nurmagomedov’s friends, and the incident led to a large melee in Georgia. That reported sequence gives the fan reaction to the lie-detector video a clear basis in recent events, even though Dvalishvili’s answers themselves stopped short of naming Nurmagomedov.

An unnamed answer, a familiar rivalry

The video’s impact comes from the gap between what Dvalishvili actually said and what viewers believe he meant. He confirmed that he intensely disliked a fighter and indicated that he might never want to see the same person again. The reported test results supported those answers as true. But neither answer settled the fighter’s identity. Fans cited in the source nevertheless reached a shared conclusion that Nurmagomedov was the target, with reactions ranging from criticism of Dvalishvili’s focus on a man he had beaten to defenses of Nurmagomedov’s conduct. The story is therefore less a formal identification than a fresh public signal of how strongly the rivalry is being read by observers.

• Dvalishvili said there was a fighter he genuinely could not stand and described that unnamed person as a “little spoiled baby”; the report said the lie-detector result was true.
• Asked whether there was somebody in the UFC he never wanted to see again, Dvalishvili replied, “Maybe the same guy”; that answer also reportedly registered as true.

For now, the lie-detector clip offers no named confirmation that Umar Nurmagomedov was the fighter Dvalishvili meant. What it does provide is a reported affirmation of Dvalishvili’s hostile answers, arriving after their UFC 311 fight and the later Tbilisi confrontation. With fans already viewing Nurmagomedov as the obvious subject, the video has intensified interest in a feud that the report says has continued to grow. The available material supports the rivalry’s context and the wording of Dvalishvili’s answers, but not a definitive identification from Dvalishvili himself.

Sources: Bloody Elbow