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Merab won't unpack the Umar tension on Mighty

Demetrious Johnson asks the blunt question, but Dvalishvili turns his answer toward the risks every fighter takes.

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 263,924 views a day, 6.5 times a normal first day on this channel (40,721).

‘Why You Hate Umar?!’ Merab vs Umar Beef‘Why You Hate Umar?!’ Merab vs Umar Beef

"Why you guys always beefing with each other?" Demetrious Johnson asks Merab Dvalishvili. The answer stops short of the origin story the question invites.

In Mighty's Short, titled "'Why You Hate Umar?!' Merab vs Umar Beef", Dvalishvili acknowledges the friction with Umar Nurmagomedov but says it isn't the right time to explain how it began. "We are people, this happens sometimes, you know," he tells Johnson.

The excerpt cuts through archive fight and backstage confrontation footage, then returns to a broader point from Dvalishvili: stepping into the Octagon against a trained opponent means accepting that anyone can lose or get knocked down. Rather than detailing a personal grievance, he talks about the vulnerability that comes with the job.

That restrained answer has drawn an unusually fast audience: roughly 113,000 views in seven hours, already almost three times Mighty's usual full-day views for a Short. The comments are particularly busy, too, several times above the channel's usual first-day total.

Viewers are questioning the timing of the upload and asking Johnson for more of his own thoughts. In this excerpt, though, Johnson supplies the pointed question and leaves Dvalishvili room to answer.

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  • Mighty, I’d really like to hear more of your thoughts on what happened
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  • Interesting choice to drop this video at this time.....

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The facts
Channel
Mighty
Subscribers
1,870,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days
5,471,721
Channel views, pace per day
366,335 (on a normal day: 687,173)
Video published
November 11, 2026
Video views so far
112,594 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day
263,924

The numbers

The Merab excerpt has already passed Mighty's usual full-day views and comments for a Short.

the video's first day
usual first day here
40,721
this video
263,924
subscribers
1,870,000
▲ 10,000 in the last 7 days
total views
767,524,726
views per day
366,335
typical day: 687,173
the video
views
112,594
likes
4,487
comments
467
days online
1
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
ESPN MMA
2,520,000
Mighty
1,870,000
WWE Music
1,790,000
As of November 12, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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