O’Malley has been pushing for a rematch against Marlon “Chito” Vera. While many agree that Vera hasn’t exactly amassed a streak worthy of a title opportunity, money talks and the UFC is quite high on the “Sugar” show. If O’Malley wants to get a chance to avenge his lone career defeat, there seems to be very little doubt that he’ll get his wish.
With that said, Sean O’Malley also has big goals down the line. He recently told ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith that he might move up to the featherweight division to obtain “champ-champ” status, or even take the Conor McGregor route and have a pro boxing match. The ideal boxing opponent for O’Malley is Gervonta “Tank” Davis (via MMAJunkie).
“I think there’s a couple ways of (reaching McGregor status),” O’Malley said. “Defending the belt obviously is one way. Putting a beautiful knockout on for my first title defense would do that. Moving up a weight class, but I’m not trying to fight (featherweight champ) Alexander Volkanovski. Hopefully he’s fighting Ilia Topuria. If Ilia goes out there and beats Volk, I would love to move up to 145 and fight Ilia. If Gervonta Davis – you know he’s (5-foot-3), that’s a fight that interests me.”
Yeah, easy for Vitor to talk, he married top of the line breeding stock while Sean smoked his first joint and woke up husband to the fry girl at Piggly Wiggly.
I want that fight next but it’s funny he’s calling for it now after Chito has a couple losses and Sean is the champ rather than calling for him before.
Well as the champ you wanna welcome the guy who beat you before. As Adesanya did, fighting the guy who beat him in kickboxing, and always taking the hardest fights.
Perreira was undefeated in the UFC and had just broke Strickland’s win streak in like 2 minutes. Chito is on a 1 fight win streak and hasn’t looked like a future champ in a single UFC fight. They’re totally different scenarios.