Sean O'Malley
Sean O’Malley clarified recently during an interaction with Tony Ferguson at UFC 276 about the comments he made involving Khabib Nurmagomedov
Although Sean O’Malley’s fight against Pedro Munhoz at UFC 276 did not have the desired outcome that the fighter must have preferred. But his star power cannot be denied, as his stocks continue to soar high. The same was evident in a vlog that he posted on his YouTube channel that recapped UFC 276 fight week. The video which has been viewed by over 30k people by now, had a fun interaction between octagon legend Tony Ferguson and ‘Suga’ Sean.
Leading up to UFC 276, during media interaction, Sean O’Malley said that people will continue to doubt him, no matter how tough competition he faces. He even went out of limb to say that even if he submitted Khabib, people would still doubt him. This statement was taken out of context, recycled, and published by media houses everywhere.
Tony Ferguson’s rivalry with Khabib is one of the greatest in UFC history, even though the fighters have never fought each other. They were scheduled to fight each other five times, but the fight fell apart each time.
Tony Freguson met Sean ahead of UFC 276, and while greeting him raised the question, “So you were talkin’ sh*t about Khabib, huh?”
Sean O’Malley reacted to it and clarified his statement by saying, “Well, I said that even if I subbed Khabib, the fans would still say ‘what if?’ They took it out of context like I was saying I could sub him.”
Every UFC fan is familiar with the brawling adventures of the Diaz brothers. The Stockton natives do not take kindly to any shade or insult hurled at them, and are not afraid to scrap at any given circumstance. Even though neither Nate Diaz, nor any of his teammates were part of the UFC 276 fight card, the Stockton slugger still made headlines when he slapped a Full Send MMA reporter for past mockery memes aimed at his teammate. UFC bantamweight superstar Sean O’Malley recently on his podcast detailed a slight run-in he had with a member of the Diaz crew at the UFC 276 after-party.
Nate Diaz was in attendance for the UFC 276 fights, accompanied by his longtime teammates, and MMA legends, Gilbert Melendez, and Jake Shields. Diaz, who is more often than not chaperoned by a huge entourage, came into this fight week with a smaller crew. In a vlog posted on his YouTube channel, the younger Diaz brother can be seen partying with basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal, middleweight champion Israel Adesanya who successfully defended his belt at UFC 276, and the Nelk Boys.
Detailing the altercation on his YouTube channel, O’Malley said that although every other member of the Diaz crew were respectful of him, one teammate, in particular, wanted a crack at the UFC bantamweight star. He said, “Remember that little Nate’s friend at the club? I don’t even know who he is but he’s one of Nate’s crew. But I saw Gilbert Melendez, Gilbert was faded and like ‘Nah, we’re good bro,’ then Jake Shields comes up to me and is like ‘We’re good, bro.’ Their whole crew was being so cool. Nate didn’t really want anything to do with me because I think that was his boy and Nate’s Nate.”
He further added, “One of Nate’s buddies comes up and says he was trying to do this to Figueiredo, he’s just trying to create something, which I get. But that was weird, when I’m drunk I’m never in a ‘F*** you’ kind of mood, and it put me in there right quick. I had to snap out of it … I liked seeing Gilbert and Jake Shields there and they were givin’ me skin and we’re mutually ‘Wassup motherfer, we’re boys.’ Wish we could have had shots with them, but that little fing weasel….”
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