Sean O’Malley wants UFC White House main event

Sean O'Malley is simply a combatant who intelligibly thinks respective steps ahead. Although his instrumentality to the octagon against Song Yadong awaits him astatine the opening of 2026, the erstwhile bantamweight champion is already talking publically astir what helium wants during the summer. His tendency is clear; to execute astatine a large UFC lawsuit successful beforehand of the White House, successful a rematch against aged rival Petar Yan.

The experienced American returns to UFC 324, wherever helium volition effort to halt his two-game losing streak against Merab Dvalishvili and get person to the precise apical of the part again. However, it seems that the 30-year-old combatant is not lone reasoning astir the adjacent fight, but is looking astatine the bigger representation and is trying to pave the mode for thing bigger.

UFC successful beforehand of the White House

In 1 of the caller episodes of his podcast, helium explained wherefore helium thinks that helium should pb the amusement this summer. O'Malley did not fell his excitement and spoke openly astir the information that has reawakened successful him.

“Man, I person a full caller energy. I’m truthful excited astir this. When Petr bushed Merab, I had a intelligence click, a caller hunger. I’m going to spell retired there, bushed Song, and past I’m going to combat Petr successful beforehand of the White House.”

His reasoning goes a measurement further. He doesn’t deliberation the UFC has galore options for the main lawsuit close now.

“Honestly, I don’t spot immoderate different fights. I could beryllium wrong, but this conscionable makes sense. Who other are they going to enactment connected that show? Alex Pereira isn’t connected that card, Ilia Topuria isn’t either. Conor McGregor? Who knows. Jon Jones is supposedly not going to beryllium determination either. So who is going to?”

O’Malley and Yan person fought before, astatine UFC 280, successful what was past the biggest triumph of the fashionable “Suga”’s career. That combat opened the doorway for him to the elite, and helium sees a rematch connected an adjacent bigger signifier arsenic a logical continuation of the story.

The concern is further analyzable by the information that Petr Yan is again the champion of the class up to 61 kilograms, aft a ascendant triumph implicit Dvalishvili. This opens up the enactment of a caller trilogy, portion Tatsuro Taira is besides mentioned successful the combinations.

In the end, it's each successful Dana White's hands. The last determination is expected successful February, but the connection of the erstwhile champion is clear, large and unreserved.