Sean O‘Malley reacts to Song Yadong rumors

Former UFC bantamweight champion Sean O’Malley is presently going done a pugnacious clip aft 2 consecutive losses. O’Malley is simply a combatant who UFC executives had precocious hopes for due to the fact that of his warring style, charisma and microphone skills. His tendency for self-promotion and the vigor helium shows made him a imaginable “new Conor McGregor”. 

O’Malley himself has often emphasized that Conor is 1 of his relation models and that helium tries to larn from him successful each imaginable way.

However, contempt his bully results successful the cage, thing was missing to go a planetary star. Excessive imitation of McGregor and deficiency of originality did not bring the expected success. He lacked existent charisma and the quality to interruption into wider popularity, and his “hype” successful the past 2 fights has astir disappeared.

Merab Dvalishvili inflicted 2 dense defeats connected Sean. Merab won the archetypal combat by unanimous determination of the judges, and the rematch successful June of this twelvemonth showed his awesome aggression. 

"Incredibly determined and aggressive, Merab entered that match, toyed with maine and yet won with a submission successful the 3rd round," admitted Sean. 

The UFC leaders astir apt realized that O'Malley is not the 1 who tin transportation the rubric close present and that determination is simply a amended campaigner successful Topuria.

O'Malley vs Yadong

O'Malley has a batch of hard enactment up of him to get backmost into loop contention and large fights. Lately determination person been rumors astir a lucifer against Song Yadong. Sean commented:

“Everyone, adjacent my grandma, is sending maine screenshots of posts saying that Song Yadong and I are warring connected December 6th. A batch of radical are congratulating maine and asking erstwhile I’m starting camp. I deliberation it each started erstwhile Song took a representation with Merab astatine an lawsuit successful China and said that helium would combat maine next. I honestly don’t cognize what the program is. Nothing has been officially agreed connected from my broadside yet. I haven’t talked to the UFC astir the adjacent fight, but to beryllium honest, Song seems similar a large opponent. It makes consciousness for america to combat and I similar the pairing.”

For UFC matchmakers, things are simpler now. Song wants the fight, Sean wants the fight, and there’s nary crushed wherefore they shouldn’t beryllium paired. Yadong, 27, is presently the fifth-ranked bantamweight contender and past fought against Henry Cejudo. A combat against Sean could beryllium different measurement towards a rubric shot.