A third Devon Larratt shot at Levan Saginashvili would have a weird taste to it. The score history looks ugly. Levan has handled him twice. Most fans can still picture those starts where Devon gets a nibble on the hand, the room twitches, then Levan drags the whole idea into bad weather.

The reason is simple. Devon fights Levan like a man collecting lab results. He loses, then comes back with a new arm, a new grip plan, a new way to spend the first ten seconds without getting erased.

The First Ten Seconds Tell the Whole Story

Against Levan, Devon has shown flashes that matter. He has made Levan’s wrist show stress early. He has touched the riser question. And he has made the giant adjust before the steamroller part begins.

That small window is why a third match has juice. Nobody sane writes Devon as the favorite. The interesting part is whether his latest version can stretch that window from a flash into a position.

Devon would need the hand high enough to keep Levan from swallowing his fingers. He would need back pressure that does more than hang on. He would need a press answer after Levan lengthens the arm and starts coming forward. That press is the nasty bit. Levan can look like a toproller until he decides he has enough and walks through the shoulder.

Devon Has Become A Test Builder

The old Devon wanted time. The current Devon still wants time, but he builds it differently. He looks more obsessed with peak strength now, especially after the first Levan loss forced that whole rethink. Less romance about endless endurance. More ugly one-arm work. More specific stress.

That’s important because Levan gives no charity. You do not get to warm into a round against him. You arrive ready, or you become a highlight.

A third match would ask one clean question. Did Devon build anything that survives Levan’s second gear?

Second gear is where most fantasy breaks. A stop in round one means something, but Levan’s best trait is the way he turns a tiny panic into a pin. The hand bends a little, the elbow angle shifts, and suddenly Levan has found the lane that makes every round after that feel smaller.

The Value Lives In The Attempt

Devon versus Levan again would annoy some fans. Fair. The sport has other monsters waiting. Vitaly Laletin still gives people that 2019 first-round memory. Ermes Gasparini forced Levan into the most uncomfortable late-match optics of his reign. Kamil Jablonski brings the kind of press that makes defensive pulling feel less smug.

Still, Devon keeps earning the conversation because he keeps returning with a different problem set. He is ranked #2 for right-arm, and #5 for left-arm. He just beat Vitaly on the right, and he remains the one challenger who can turn even a losing Levan round into a week of table theory.