After several jabs from McGregor over a past drug test failure, O’Malley is angling for a fight against the former UFC double champ.
“Suga” Sean O’Malley has often said he plans on being as big as Conor McGregor. Maybe that happens by beating Conor McGregor in the cage.
O’Malley has always shown a good amount of respect for McGregor and his accomplishments, but relations between the two started to sour after “The Notorious” attacked boxer Ryan Garcia for failing a drug test for Ostarine while throwing strays at “Suga” for similar violations.
Sean tested positive for Ostarine in 2018, and while he believed it was tainted supplements at the time he now has a different theory. New research published on Ostarine show that athletes can test positive if they’re exposed to the sweat of someone taking the performance enhancing drug. When O’Malley shared that paper, McGregor needled him once again.
And now “Suga” wants a fight.
“I went on a little rant, I was excited about my rant on Ostarine, cuz I was like ‘Haha, finally, it’s been four years, this is how it happened,’” O’Malley said on the TimboSugaShow (via MMA Fighting). “And Conor does his little f—ing bump and puts a laugh face [emoji]. Oh, that one drove me a little crazy. I’m like, ‘Really, mother f—er? This is science. I posted the scientific page, it was on print, the science about it was good. People were like, ‘Damn, that’s legit.’”
It is legit. A growing body of work confirms all sorts of wild ways for Ostarine to ‘leak’ from one person to another. Just kissing and sleeping in the same bed with someone using Ostarine is enough to make you test positive. O’Malley is going with the ‘sweat during training’ paper, but we’re just saying.
“I think Conor deleted the tweet, but I went on a little rampage. I was just sitting in my — it was that Monday that [my cow] Tammy died. I was in Vegas at my hotel room waiting to go to my face-offs [for UFC Noche], had a little extra free time, grabbed my Twitter phone, and Twitter fingers turned to Twitter fingers, tweeting it out. He’s a jealous bitch, that’s what it is. On drugs.”
?Ostarine can come from anywhere…even sweat. 1 of the easiest substances to detect. Lights up like a Christmas Tree on lab analysis. Stays in system for a long time. This is why thresholds are so important in anti-doping. Trace amounts mean nothing. https://t.co/lbu04ET9AI
— Jeff Novitzky (@JeffNovitzkyUFC) July 23, 2024
Despite McGregor competing at 170 pounds and O’Malley being the 135 pound champion, “Suga” is convinced he can take Mac in a fight.
“Conor probably weighs 190, right? 185?” he asked. “In the UFC, I look at that, I’m like, okay, I’m realistic. I weigh 155, 160. There’s weight classes for a reason, but I’m not gonna trip those guys. I will trip Conor because I do believe I could beat Conor in a fight. I’m not just saying that. I think stylistically, I could beat Conor in a fight.”
“Not an easy fight. But I wouldn’t call out somebody if I didn’t think I could beat him in a fight. I think I beat Conor in a fight. At this point right now. He’s thick, but he’s short.”
McGregor did start out in the UFC as a featherweight and his next ‘welterweight’ fight is against longtime lightweight Michael Chandler. So it remains to be seen if he’s really a functional welterweight and not just too lazy to cut weight these days.
With the UFC 306 Sphere show set to push O’Malley into superstardom (if he can beat Merab Dvalishvili), we don’t think the UFC would let a couple of pounds keep them from making a fight between two of its biggest draws. They just have to win their respective next fights first.