Matt Serra helped coach Merab Dvalishvili to his bantamweight title victory over Sean O’Malley at UFC 306 on Saturday night and has now put their opponent’s coach Tim Welch on blast.
“This fight exposed him as a coach because when your guy is winning and knocking people out, sure, you look like a f*cking hero,” Serra said on ‘UFC Unfiltered.’ “When your fighter is obviously losing the fight and he starts losing rounds, Tim Welch was, like, not wanting to hurt his feelings.
“‘OK, good round.’ No, you’re losing f*cking three rounds! You’ve got to get in his ass. You’ve got to say – he was afraid that he did not know how to handle his guy on that many rounds. And I thought his f*cking cornerwork was sh*t. So, he exposed himself. You (Dvalishvili) took care of business, and Tim Welch had no answers for his fighter.”
Serra’s outspoken views may stem from prior bad blood between the two camps due to the fact that Welch previously tried to influence the outcome of a prior fight with another Serra-Longo star Aljamain Sterling in his fight with O’Malley by shouting instructions at him from cage-side.
That infuriated Sterling’s camp at the time, including Dvalishvili, and was a tactic that Welch again tried to employ during the fight on Saturday night, before being quietened down by a warning from referee Herb Dean.
