Sean O’Malley guarantees a greater efficiency this time round in opposition to Merab Dvalishvili.
On Tuesday, UFC CEO Dana White revealed that O’Malley will problem Dvalishvili for the bantamweight title in the principle occasion of UFC 316 in June, a rematch of their UFC 306 title struggle that noticed Dvalishvili win by dominant resolution. However O’Malley insists issues shall be totally different this time.
“The rematch is official,” O’Malley mentioned on his YouTube channel. “‘Suga’ Sean vs. Merab 2 is occurring, and I don’t assume individuals are going to be too pleased about it. …
“The final time I fought the most effective bantamweight on the planet—the most effective bantamweight on the time [Aljamain Sterling at UFC 292]—I received the job finished. I’m very assured in my abilities. Final camp we had some shit happening. I don’t need to sit right here and make excuses. We had an amazing camp, I confirmed up, I used to be in form, we did what we may with what we have been capable of do. This camp has already been loads totally different and I’m feeling good. I’m excited to go on the market and care for enterprise.”
O’Malley getting one other crack at Dvalishvili was met with backlash from the MMA group. Their first struggle was a transparent win for “The Machine,” who has since defended his title in opposition to Umar Nurmagomedov. O’Malley, in the meantime, has not fought since dropping to Dvalishvili. As a substitute, “Suga” underwent surgical procedure to repair a hip problem and has been recovering. Nevertheless, O’Malley says he’s already in coaching camp for this rematch and intends to show that Dvalishvili solely gained the primary struggle as a result of he wasn’t at his finest.
“Final struggle camp, each single journal entry was like, ‘My groin saved me up at evening’ as a result of I tore my labrum 10 weeks earlier than the struggle,” O’Malley mentioned. “I tore my groin labrum and I used to be having severe groin ache. It was tremendous—it wasn’t excellent. I used to be capable of practice, I used to be capable of robust by it, however clearly it’s not excellent to enter a struggle, particularly in opposition to a f*cking assassin—nicely, not a assassin, however a stud, an absolute machine [like Merab]. …
“If I can simply preserve this tempo up, how we’ve been capable of practice the previous couple of weeks, all the way in which as much as the struggle, I’m going to be 70 % higher than I used to be in that first struggle. I’m going to be considerably extra cellular, agile, higher form. I’m going to struggle at my full potential. Whereas my final struggle, I used to be very pleased with how I used to be capable of carry out contemplating how I felt. It wasn’t excellent, the end result, I didn’t win, however I additionally assume I wasn’t speculated to win. This rematch was speculated to occur. It’s going to make this win that rather more loopy.”
UFC 316 goes down June 7 at Prudential Heart in Newark, N.J.
