Following surgery to repair a torn labrum, O'Malley runs things back with Dvalishvili June 7 in the UFC 316 headliner at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. While Cejudo isn't surprised with the direction that the UFC decided to go,

Dvalishvili and O'Malley first met at UFC 306 in September 2024, as the featured attraction atop the famous "one-and-only" UFC event in the Las Vegas Sphere. Dvalishvili won the fight and seized the 135-pound belt, utilizing his strong grappling game to stifle O'Malley en route to a unanimous decision win that ended O'Malley's short title reign.

Merab Dvalishvili and Sean O'Malley will headline UFC 316 in a bantamweight rematch on June 7, per ESPN's Brett Okamoto. Dvalishvili and O'Malley last fought at UFC 306 in September, where Dvalishvili claimed the UFC Championship via unanimous decision.