Kakha Kaladze: Such behavior toward Merab Dvalishvili is completely unacceptable—it violates both the principles of sportsmanship and basic human decency. It is a truly disgraceful act!

Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze has expressed his support for Merab Dvalishvili via social media.

Writing on Instagram, Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze stated that the behavior directed at Merab Dvalishvili is "completely unacceptable."

"Such behavior toward Merab is completely unacceptable—it violates both the principles of sportsmanship and basic human decency. It is a truly disgraceful act!

Merab, we stand with you!" writes Kakha Kaladze, accompanying the post with a photograph taken with Merab Dvalishvili.

As a reminder, while an interview was being recorded in Abu Dhabi, Russian MMA fighter Usman Nurmagomedov—accompanied by several associates—attacked Merab Dvalishvili and Saba Lazishvili. Merab Dvalishvili himself shared the news, and footage of the incident was later spread on social media.