“Just remember, any car is bound to break at some point. Any machine” – Petr Yan’s words at the UFC 323 presser before his rematch against Merab Dvalishvili seem to be plaguing the former champ even in the off-season. Merab had a tremendous 2025, marking three successful title defenses and being the most active UFC champion. However, those exploits came at a price.

Dvalishvili dropped the belt in his final match of the year in a rematch against Petr Yan. While he could have taken some time to regroup and rest, ‘The Machine’ appears to have continued his training regimen, and that exposed an issue he has been having with his nose.

Merab Dvalishvili has a nose problem

Merab Dvalishvili is known for going hard in training, much like he does in an actual fight. After his fourth fight of the year, the former bantamweight champion revealed that he will be taking a break to hang out with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his Georgian comrade, Ilia Topuria, but even then, he claims he’ll still be training.

Well, training too hard constantly appears to have damaged Merab Dvalishvili’s nose. In a video he posted on social media, the Georgian star revealed that his nose starts bleeding whenever he’s on the mat training with his teammates in the gym. ‘The Machine’ already has a crooked nose, and for years, he has been putting off fixing it. But after realizing that it gets cut every time he trains, Merab is asking for help from his fans to ‘protect’ his nose.

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“For years – my scar on my crazy nose opens when I spar … maybe I need a nose protector – anyone make one ?? Lol,” Merab Dvalishvili wrote in a post on social media.

Merab Dvalishvili’s nose took a lot of hits during the fight against Petr Yan at UFC 323. His face was visibly battered, so this might be the right time for ‘The Machine’ to take care of the nose and take some time off after one of the busiest years of his career. Moreover, Dvalishvili is also nursing an injury he suffered before his fight against Yan, which fans believe he’s not taking too seriously.

Dvalishvili broke his toe before UFC 323

Before Merab Dvalishvili locked horns with Petr Yan for a second time in his UFC career, it was reported that just 11 days before the fight, the Georgian star suffered a toe injury. However, he decided to go ahead and fight his Russian counterpart, anyway. After all, Dvalishvili took a similar approach when he fought Sean O’Malley at UFC 316.

Many people thought that the injury might have happened during the UFC 323 fight. However, Merab Dvalishvili dismissed that notion, saying, “I don’t got any [injuries] in this fight. I was injured before, but not in this fight,” in a social media post. Also, after the fight, where he took significant damage, ‘The Machine’ had to get some stitches on his nose.

Instead of going and seeking help from a medical professional when the time came to get rid of the stitches, Merab Dvalishvili shared a video showing that he knew how to take care of the stitches and removed them himself. This could have caused infection, but from the looks of it, that didn’t happen. Nevertheless, this stunt amused his fans on social media.