“They know it’s a tough fight,” Sean O’Malley believes ranked fighters purposely avoid calling him out
Sean O'Malley
Sean O’Malley might be a bit frustrated, but he is still going with the flow in terms of whatever fights the UFC offers him, rather than getting a callout worth reciprocating to. At a point in time, O’Malley called out various names to fight even when he was unranked, which included the likes of Petr Yan and Dominick Cruz. But despite not being in the rankings, O’Malley was still a more well-known name than most fighters on the roster today.
And even today as he is ranked, O’Malley’s magnitude of fame continues to grow, but his competition has elevated over the course of time as well. O’Malley is facing a top 10 fighter this weekend at UFC 276 when he will face Pedro Munhoz. O’Malley entered the UFC in 2017 and eventually became a viral sensation in 2017 with his knockout in the first season of Dana White’s Contender Series. Since then, O’Malley is 8-1 in the UFC with 6 knockouts.
Adrian Yanez- the only person to call out Sean O’Malley
In a pre-fight media scrum, O’Malley answers some questions for ESPN MMA and lands up on why he is being devoided of opportunities in competition other than the one the UFC traditionally arranges for him. O’Malley had an answer, but rather simple but straightforward enough to alert the rest of the division and question their own will to fight.
“No one really above me calls me out,” says O’Malley “It’s always, like now Adrian Yanez is calling me out which he should be, that’s what you should do, you call out the most popular guy in the division… no one above me calls me out. I don’t know why I don’t know if it’s a waste of time, they don’t want to make an easy paycheck. They can say whatever they want but I look at it as they know it’s a tough fight,“ he concludes.
What do you make of the bantamweight division’s reluctance to call out Sean O’Malley? Do you think that’s induced by fear or the fact that O’Malley being number 13 in the rankings is rather too low to gain anything from? What do you make of Yanez being the only fighter to call out O’Malley? Who do you think will win if that fight’s supposed to happen sometime in the future?
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