Former UFC bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili hasn’t had a straight nostril in a while, but now, it seems it will be worse than before, until his profession is over.
Dvalishvili (21-5 MMA, 14-3 UFC) shared a couple of selfie-style videos Wednesday on Instagram, displaying off a swollen nostril, initially with packing in his nostrils as he was heading to the physician.
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“What a good day and what a stupid accident,” Dvalishvili said. “Again, 12 years after, my nose is f*cked up even worse. As you see, it’s even more cracked same direction. When I touch, my bones are broken inside, and one side I can’t even breathe. I’m gonna do X-ray now. I’m sure UFC will help me with that, even I don’t have a fight coming up. I’m gonna try to do surgery to fix this nose, and let’s see how it goes. First time when I broke my nose, it was in professional debut. Now, it was just sparring. I got kneed.”
Taking everyone along on his journey, Dvalishvili then confirmed the outcomes of the X-ray, which revealed a number of fractures in his nostril. The physician said it would be a difficult course of to restore all of the harm because he would have to decide which fractures were new and which were older.
“I did my X-ray, and X-ray shows that my nose is broken at two places,” Dvalishvili said in another video. “I just saw doctor, nose surgeon, and he said if he will fix my nose and then make straight, then he has to re-break other bones too, and it will take one more year to heal up. Of course, I don’t want to do that.
“Otherwise, he said keep it that approach, and you can do surgical procedure after you retire, but I said, ‘I’m not going into retirement the next 20 years.’ So, I guess I’m going to keep my nostril even more crooked (than) what it used to be before, and I’m gonna deal with that, and I’m still going to compete at wrestling event against Henry Cejudo at RAF, and that’s it. God bless everyone.”
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