According to Marlon Vera, Sean O’Malley has turned down a rematch between the two bantamweights. At UFC 252, Marlon “Chito” Vera defeated Sean O’Malley via TKO in the very first round. On paper, it doesn’t get much more decisive and absolute than that,…
According to Marlon Vera, Sean O’Malley has turned down a rematch between the two bantamweights. At UFC 252, Marlon “Chito” Vera defeated Sean O’Malley via TKO in the very first round. On paper, it doesn’t get much more decisive and absolute than that, right? The only problem is that O’Malley along with some others are […]
Rising UFC star, Sean O’Malley has called out former Bantamweight World Champion, Dominick Cruz. O’Malley also took aim at the Bantamweight roster in a video uploaded to his UFC channel. (H/T Youtube: Sean Omalley) O’Malley who beat Thomas Almeida via a third round KO last month at UFC 260 is now looking to make a […]
Rising UFC star, Sean O’Malley has called out former Bantamweight World Champion, Dominick Cruz. O’Malley also took aim at the Bantamweight roster in a video uploaded to his UFC channel. (H/T Youtube: Sean Omalley)
In a 40-second video uploaded to O’Malley’s Youtube channel, ‘Suga’ says: “What’s up Dom, I heard you’re looking for a big fight. Who’s a bigger fight than me right now?”
O’Malley then went on to take a shot other former champions in TJ Dillashaw and Cody Garbrandt.
“Cory’s [Sandhagen] about to beat the EPO out of TJ. Rob [Font] is about to knock out Cody for the seventh time this year.”
O’Malley also took a shot at recently dethroned champion, Petr Yan and current champion, Aljamain Sterling.
“Petr’s disqualified for cheating, Aljo’s still knocked out from the knee.” O’Malley then ends the video with a question to Dominick Cruz.
“Who’s a bigger fight?”
This isn’t the first time Sean O’Malley has called for a fight with Dominick Cruz, the American has called to fight Cruz as the co-main event of the McGregor v Poirier 3 card on July 10.
Cruz has recently responed to rumours of a fight with O’Malley saying he isn’t interested in fighting one specific person and that there’s a lot of match ups for him in the UFC bantamweight division, one name Cruz has mentioned is former pound-for-pound number one, Jose Aldo.
Sean O’Malley currently has a record of 13-1 with his only loss coming to Marlon Vera at UFC 252, however O’Malley disputes this loss and claims he is still undefeated.
Do you think Sean O’Malley will fight Dominick Cruz and if he does, how does the fight play out?
Aljamain Sterling believes Sean O’Malley is the real deal and doesn’t put too much stock in his loss to Marlon Vera. At UFC 252 in August, Vera scored a first-round TKO win over O’Malley due to O’Malley’s ankle giving out….
Aljamain Sterling believes Sean O’Malley is the real deal and doesn’t put too much stock in his loss to Marlon Vera. At UFC 252 in August, Vera scored a first-round TKO win over O’Malley due to O’Malley’s ankle giving out. After Vera kicked him, it hit the nerve and caused “Suga” to have drop foot […]
UFC bantamweight champion, Aljamain Sterling, believes Sean O’Malley is a legit contender at 135lbs. ‘Suga’ is fresh off an impressive return to the win column at UFC 259. The 26-year-old put on a striking clinic against Thomas Almeida before earning a brutal KO in the third and final round. During a recent interview with James […]
UFC bantamweight champion, Aljamain Sterling, believes Sean O’Malley is a legit contender at 135lbs.
‘Suga’ is fresh off an impressive return to the win column at UFC 259.
The 26-year-old put on a striking clinic against Thomas Almeida before earning a brutal KO in the third and final round.
During a recent interview with James Lynch, Sterling gave his thoughts on O’Malley as a potential player at bantamweight.
“O’Malley, I think he’s the real deal,” Sterling said. “We don’t know how good he is off of his back yet. But in terms of his feet, his footwork, he’s a tough out I think for a lot of people because he’s long, he’s rangy, and he knows how to move on the feet.” (Transcribed by BJPENN.com)
‘The Funk Master’ refused to pay much attention to the fact the only time O’Malley has stepped up his level of competition, he was stopped inside one round by Marlon ‘Chito’ Vera.
“I think people kind of wrote him off too soon,” Sterling said. “The Chito fight was a very fluke-ish kinda scenario, not saying it was a fluke kick cause he threw the kick. But it was just one of those things like what are the odds that it actually happens.”
“The fight was just getting going, and if his foot was okay and the fight was going from there, when he was on the ground,” Sterling continued. “I don’t know, it makes it tough to take that away from Chito, but that kind of fight-ending could really put a damper on O’Malley’s performance what he was able to do one, two minutes before that. It was just such a short fight you can’t put too much stock into that.” (Transcribed by Essentially Sports)
Do you agree with Aljamain Sterling? Is Sean O’Malley the real deal? Should fans look past his loss to Marlon Vera?
Dominick Cruz isn’t particularly interested in fighting Sean O’Malley. After O’Malley returned to the win column with an emphatic third-round knockout over Thomas Almeida this past weekend, Chael Sonnen revealed he received a text from Cruz stating his interest to fight “Sugar” next. O’Malley would reciprocate that interest by calling for a fight with Cruz […]
Dominick Cruz isn’t particularly interested in fighting Sean O’Malley.
After O’Malley returned to the win column with an emphatic third-round knockout over Thomas Almeida this past weekend, Chael Sonnen revealed he received a text from Cruz stating his interest to fight “Sugar” next.
O’Malley would reciprocate that interest by calling for a fight with Cruz to be the co-main event of UFC 264 which is set to be headlined by a trilogy between Dustin Poirier and Conor McGregor.
That’s all well and good — until you realize Cruz never texted Sonnen that in the first place.
Speaking to ESPN’s Ariel Helwani (via Middle Easy), Cruz revealed he didn’t even text Sonnen at all and had no reason to call anyone other than the champion out given his status as a former champion and arguably the greatest bantamweight of all time.
That said, Cruz is not opposed to a fight with O’Malley.
“Am I interested in a fighting again? Yes,” Cruz said. “Do I need to call out one specific person? No. Am I saying no to one specific person? No.
“I could also see how that would be a matchup that people are talking about. You know, he feints a lot. He uses his range. He’s tall, he’s long, I’m tall. I’m long. I use feints, we have a lot of similarities. He’s an up and coming athlete, I’m sure he’s watched a ton of my fights and saw how successful I am. I see that he uses a lot of stuff, so no, I’m not opposed to it.”
There’s also talk of a fight with Jose Aldo, but as far as Cruz is concerned, he’s open to any matchup in the top 10 as he feels it’s guaranteed to be amazing to watch.
“Look at all the match-ups.” Cruz said. “I’m a fun fight to watch and I’m a tough matchup for anybody in the division. Everybody knows that. So you can match me up with anybody in the top 10 and it’ll be amazing to watch. That’s why there’s no specific reason to call out one person because I’ve got my hands full with anybody in the top 10.
“That’s a fact, anybody in the top 10, I have my hands full. They’re all world title holders. Casey Kenney was a multiple time world champion in [LFA]. So, all of these guys in the top 12, top 15, are world title holders in other organizations. Maybe not in the UFC, but they’re still champions. So I got my hands full with everybody there and whoever I get lined up with, I’m gonna definitely have to put in my work like I’m doing right now.”
Cruz is coming off a unanimous decision win over Kenney at UFC 259 earlier this month.
Dominick Cruz is setting the record straight about recent reports that he called out “Suga” Sean O’Malley following UFC 260. In the immediate aftermath of Sean O’Malley’s impressive victory over Thomas Almeida at UFC 260 that ended with a literal airba…
Dominick Cruz is setting the record straight about recent reports that he called out “Suga” Sean O’Malley following UFC 260. In the immediate aftermath of Sean O’Malley’s impressive victory over Thomas Almeida at UFC 260 that ended with a literal airball jumper, it was reported that Dominick Cruz had called next. The initial report came […]