Sean O’Malley concedes to fan pushback, publicizes Merab Dvalishvili next after UFC 299
Sean O’Malley has heard the teach of the of us, and that teach says ‘Merab Dvalishvili.’
This past Saturday, Dvalishvili prolonged his fresh carry trudge to 10 in a row with a dominant unanimous choice carry over Henry Cejudo at UFC 298 in Anaheim, Calif. Following his carry, Dvalishvili known as out O’Malley, who used to be sitting cageside for the match, but the UFC bantamweight champion did now not leap on the postulate, with O’Malley later announcing that after he beats Marlon “Chito” Vera at UFC 299, he needs a fight against newly topped featherweight champion Ilia Topuria.
But now, O’Malley is altering direction after receiving overwhelming feedback from followers.
“Let me open with this: first and foremost I used to be calling for Ilia,” O’Malley acknowledged in a video posted to his YouTube Channel. “I wished the Ilia fight. I wished that fight. It excites me, but I furthermore conception the followers would open smitten by it. But I obtained moderately a pair of pushback announcing, ‘You’re ducking Merab! Merab is next!’ So Merab’s next. Let’s enact Merab.”
There would possibly be already moderately a pair of backstory to a capacity O’Malley-Dvalishvili fight.
O’Malley claimed the 135-pound title by ending Dvalishvili’s perfect friend and training companion Aljamain Sterling at UFC 292. But ahead of that match, the 2 almost obtained into it when Dvalishvili stole O’Malley’s jacket sometime of a faceoff between O’Malley and Sterling.
O’Malley ended up getting the last snicker when he gained the belt by knocking out Sterling and he is confident the identical thing will happen to Dvalishvili.
“I’m telling you guys, I knock Merab out,” O’Malley acknowledged. “I rewatched Henry vs. Aljo after I used to be there and I commended you guys, I’m knocking Aljo out. All you guys acknowledged, ‘No way. You’re now not knocking Aljo out! He’s going to carry you down and abolish you!’ Right here we lag all another time. Clearly, I’ve obtained to gain thru Chito, but I’m telling you guys, when I fight Merab, I’m knocking that dude out. He’s sloppy. I’m honest. I’m too rapid. I’m too nice looking. I’m telling you boys. I place Merab’s lights out, worse than Aljo. Aljo, microscopic TKO. Merab, I’m placing to sleep. Turning his nostril straight.”
Proper because he’s altering direction, O’Malley isn’t giving up on the Topuria fight fully. That fight is completely getting pushed help as Dvalishvili has earned his different, now not honest thru his fights, but thru his actions.
“The Ilia fight can happen some day,” O’Malley acknowledged. “He keeps doing his thing, I take doing my thing, that’s a mountainous fight some day. I honest would love to fight for the of us. I’d love to make the biggest fights that you just’ll be ready to mediate. And I’ll give credit to Merab, Merab’s fimproved, now not honest fighting, but on social. He’s doing an extraordinarily appropriate job building himself up, being himself, being a goofy, grotesque ass, and he’s doing a appropriate job. In yelp that’s fight’s next.
“Merab, I am hoping you’re at weigh-ins because the backup fighter in case Chito doesn’t point out, fancy he didn’t point out up to Anaheim because he’s afraid. I’m taking Chito out, I’m taking Merab out, if Ilia’s silent champ, I’ll carry him out too.”
O’Malley defends his bantamweight title against Vera on March 9 on the Kaseya Center in Miami.
