Sean O’Malley has provided an update on his upcoming UFC comeback fight.
The former bantamweight champion has kept a relatively low profile since being tapped out by Merab Dvalishvili at UFC 316 in June.
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Sean O’Malley’s next fight
Earlier this month, it was reported that O’Malley would face a top contender in his UFC return.
Song Yadong was named as the man who would welcome him back to the Octagon.
Their bantamweight matchup was rumored to have been booked for UFC 323 on December 6.
O’Malley has now revealed he’s not agreed to a fight with the heavy-handed Chinese star.
However, the 30-year-old insists that he likes the matchup and would happily face Yadong if the UFC wanted him to.
“Everyone and their grandmother is sending me the screenshots of Song Yadong vs. ‘Suga’, December 6,” O’Malley said on his podcast.
“People are saying, ‘Yo, congrats. When does fight camp start?’ I’m assuming it started when the fights were in China, Song took a picture with Merab, and said he was fighting me next.
To be honest, I don’t know what the plan is. There’s nothing official on my side. I haven’t talked to the UFC specifically on who, when, and where.
“Song seems like a great next opponent, though. It makes sense. I like the matchup. It seems good.
“As far as a date goes, December, January, February, f—ing November, I’m ready to go. I’m ready to go. Call me next week, and I’ll probably say that’s too short notice. But I do like the match, it makes sense.
“I’m healthy. I’m feeling good. I’m training like a motherf—er. Again, I like that matchup. Me vs. Song, if that’s what’s next, hell yeah!”
Sean O’Malley explains his UFC downfall
Sean O’Malley blames ‘wanting to be Conor McGregor too much’ on recent UFC downfall
‘Notorious’ combined fighting skills with bold predictions to become MMA’s biggest star.
O’Malley seemed like he could displace McGregor before it all went wrong against Merab Dvalishvili.
“100% (I used McGregor as a role model), the way he carried himself into fights, the confidence, his confidence to say what he thought was gonna happen, ‘I’m gonna knock this dude out in round two’, I got a lot out of that,” O’Malley told The MMA Lab.
“I was like, ‘Okay, I can be confident like that’. I feel like I got lost almost in a sense where I wanted to be like Conor too much instead of being myself.”
“I would say the first Merab fight, it was my second title defence and I was like, I want this to be big, I didn’t feel like it was big, I didn’t feel like Merab was a big name, I had to force it, it was at the Sphere, I felt like I had to create something and I didn’t like how that made me feel… I made that one too personal… I think that was the only time I’ve ever forced anything.”
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