UFC bantamweight Sean O’Malley has lately talked about moving up to the featherweight division, and he’s hinted at taking a boxing match. However don’t suppose for a second that the 29-year-old famous person is wanting previous his UFC 306 matchup with Merab Dvalishvili.
“Merab’s a giant downside,” said O’Malley’s coach, Tim Welch, on the newest iteration of “UFC 306 Embedded.” “So we educated actually, actually onerous, and [O’Malley] was very disciplined for this struggle as a result of it’s an enormous problem.”
O’Malley himself then hinted that The Machine has a shot towards him. A reporter at a UFC press convention forward of the Saturday occasion asked the champion about Dvalishvili’s predictable takedown strategy. O’Malley replied, “Him having that fashion is both going to work for him, or it’s going to get him knocked out.”
In the meantime, Dvalishvili said he’s “comfortable, wholesome and prepared” forward of his title shot towards the No. 6 pound-for-pound UFC fighter. Dvalishvili, The No. 1 bantamweight contender, additionally directed a risk at Welch.
“O’Malley, you higher present up,” the Georgian grappler postured. “Should you don’t present up, I’m going to struggle your coach, Tim.”
Dvalishvili, 33, is using a 10-fight successful streak into the Las Vegas Sphere. He hasn’t misplaced in over six years, and his final three victories have come towards the likes of Jose Aldo, Petr Yan and Henry Cejudo.
Notably, each O’Malley and Dvalishvili have fought Yan inside the final two years. Dvalishvili beat Yan by unanimous determination in March 2023, whereas O’Malley gained through cut up determination in October 2022.
Hypothesis apart, Saturday’s foremost occasion is nearly assured to be a wild affair. O’Malley must be on the lookout for a knockout early. But when he can’t make that occur, his personal phrases describing Dvalishvili’s probabilities may come again to hang-out him.
