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Sean O’Malley believes Pedro Munhoz opportunistically used his eye injury to escape defeat in their bantamweight clash at UFC 267 tonight. It was a very anti-climactic end to the main card curtain jerker, with the bout declared a no contest after…
Sean O’Malley believes Pedro Munhoz opportunistically used his eye injury to escape defeat in their bantamweight clash at UFC 267 tonight. It was a very anti-climactic end to the main card curtain jerker, with the bout declared a no contest after Munhoz sustained an accidental eye poke from O’Malley in round two. Munhoz was given…
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Jon Jones has revealed that he’s looking to face Stipe Miocic, not Francis Ngannou, on his UFC heavyweight debut. The former light heavyweight champ, who hasn’t graced the Octagon since February 2020, revealed the preference when responding…
Jon Jones has revealed that he’s looking to face Stipe Miocic, not Francis Ngannou, on his UFC heavyweight debut. The former light heavyweight champ, who hasn’t graced the Octagon since February 2020, revealed the preference when responding to a fan’s question on Twitter shortly after the end of UFC 276. “At this point I’m looking…
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Full Send reporter Shawny Mack has commented about being slapped by Nate Diaz backstage at UFC 276. A video of the UFC welterweight slapping Mack has quickly gone viral on social media. Mack, who was covering UFC 276 for the Full Send podcast, started …
Full Send reporter Shawny Mack has commented about being slapped by Nate Diaz backstage at UFC 276. A video of the UFC welterweight slapping Mack has quickly gone viral on social media. Mack, who was covering UFC 276 for the Full Send podcast, started interviewing Diaz just before the main card got underway, asking him…
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Israel Adesanya successfully defended his middleweight championship against No. 2 ranked contender Jared Cannonier at UFC 276 on Saturday. Adesanya delivered another methodical performance that secured a unanimous decision Earlier in the evening, Alex Pereira scored a massive first-round knockout over the ever-controversial Sean Strickland. Ranked No. 4 in the division, Strickland put a potential […]
Israel Adesanya successfully defended his middleweight championship against No. 2 ranked contender Jared Cannonier at UFC 276 on Saturday. Adesanya delivered another methodical performance that secured a unanimous decision
Earlier in the evening, Alex Pereira scored a massive first-round knockout over the ever-controversial Sean Strickland. Ranked No. 4 in the division, Strickland put a potential title opportunity on the line against the unranked ‘Poatan’ who was stepping into the Octagon for just the third time.
With the win, Pereira will jump to the front of the line to meet Israel Adesanya in a UFC world title showdown. During the UFC 276 press conference, Adesanya confirmed that a fight with Pereria is “the next fight.”
“That’s the next fight. I saw his fight. It was a good fight, but Sean Strickland should have focused on his job like I told him to. How soon? We’ll find out.
When responding to Alex Pereira’s statement that he is going to ‘make’ Adesanya fight in their inevitable showdown, ‘The Last Stylebender’ said that Pereira should do whatever he feels he needs to do when they square off.
“At the top, it’s nice at the top, so whatever he feels he needs to do, to make me fight. I fought tonight. I fought my a** off tonight. I didn’t feel like I was chilling or waiting. I was pressing the action. I was going for it. I was touching him up.”
Pereira and Adesanya are certainly no strangers. The two met twice under the Glory banner in 2016 and 2017. In their first contest, Periera earned a unanimous decision victory. In their rematch, Pereira scored a massive knockout at Glory of Heroes 15. It was the first and only time that Adesanya has been knocked out in combat sports.
Michael Chandler has a message for Dustin Poirier after their UFC 276 pay-per-view confrontation. A video posted by welterweight Gilbert Burns shows Dustin Poirier being held back from Chandler, as the pair exchange some heated words back-and-forth. Se…
Michael Chandler has a message for Dustin Poirier after their UFC 276 pay-per-view confrontation. A video posted by welterweight Gilbert Burns shows Dustin Poirier being held back from Chandler, as the pair exchange some heated words back-and-forth. Security quickly separated the pair to make sure things didn’t get physical. Check out the clip here: Chandler…
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At UFC 276, the main card opened with a bit of controversy when Sean O’Malley’s bout with Pedro Munhoz was waived off in the second round. At the 3:09 mark of the second round, O’Malley reached in and grazed the eye of Munhoz bringing a pause to the action. After a few moments, the cageside […]
At UFC 276, the main card opened with a bit of controversy when Sean O’Malley’s bout with Pedro Munhoz was waived off in the second round.
At the 3:09 mark of the second round, O’Malley reached in and grazed the eye of Munhoz bringing a pause to the action. After a few moments, the cageside doctor was called in to review Munhoz’s condition. Munhoz could be heard on the broadcast repeatedly saying that he couldn’t see and that all he could see was black. As a result, the fight was called off and ruled a no contest.
During the post-fight press conference, Sean O’Malley discussed the fight and when asked if he felt that Munhoz was “looking for a way out,” O’Malley agreed with that statement emphatically.
“A hundred percent, that’s what going on in my mind. I’ll have to rewatch it. I was piecing him up. I didn’t get hit once. He came in there, he said I was gonna kick his legs and try to take him down. He tried kicking my legs and it damaged him more. He couldn’t get me up against the fence. He couldn’t take me down. I was dominating that fight.
“Initially when it happened, I’m like, okay. Didn’t feel like it was bad. Thought we were going to be fighting in 20 seconds. I didn’t think the fight was gonna be stopped. I was dominating that fight. I checked every one of his leg kicks. I could feel his shins cracking. Every time he would throw a kick, I would check it and I could tell it would hurt him. I didn’t get hit one time. I was dominating that fight. I was piecing him up. I was finding my range. It sucks.”
When O’Malley was informed that two of the judges scored the first round for Munhoz, ‘Sugar’ responded with criticism, saying that the checked leg kicks should count as a strike for himself.
“Have those judges kick me and I’ll check their kick and they’ll be like, ‘oh, okay, that hurts.’ That’s a strike for me. That hurt Pedro every time he would kick me and I’d check it, that hurt him. For those judges to say that’s a score for him, they’re completely stupid.”
Unfortunately for O’Malley, checking a leg kick is considered a defensive maneuver and the ABC’s (Association of Boxing Commission) criteria for MMA judging specifically states that “no scoring is given for defensive maneuvers.”
When asked if he would like to run it back with Munhoz, O’Malley said that he feels like he won the fight, but without the emotional aftereffect of a traditional win inside the Octagon. It’s unclear if the two will meet once again down the line, but O’Malley may want to take a few moments to review the judging criteria for mixed martial arts head of his return to the Octagon.