A Fox News report on the Abu Dhabi lobby brawl said video captured Usman Nurmagomedov slapping Merab Dvalishvili in a hotel lobby in Abu Dhabi, an exchange that set off a brawl among mixed martial arts fighters. According to the report, the brawl left a former UFC champion bloodied.
The headline of the article describes the episode as a "wild melee" at an Abu Dhabi hotel lobby and says it involved MMA fighters, including a former UFC champ. The summary of the report does not say which of the fighters is the former champion, so the account does not establish which man was bloodied.
The article carries no byline in the material available for this story. The summary says the footage shows the slap but does not describe what happened before it, how many people joined the brawl, or how it ended. It also gives no location detail beyond the hotel lobby and Abu Dhabi, and no time for the events themselves.
Fox News published the article on November 11, 2026, according to the publication timestamp in the material. That date marks when the report appeared, not when the lobby incident took place, which the summary does not date.
The summary contains no comment from either fighter, from the hotel, or from any other party involved. No second outlet's account of the episode was available for this story, so the details reported here rest on a single brief summary from Fox News.
Any further account of the incident, including confirmation of the sequence of events or the identities of others present, would need to come from additional reporting. The material reviewed for this story does not supply those details.
Sources: Fox News: MMA fighters, including former UFC champ, get into wild melee at Abu Dhabi hotel lobby.