Henry Cejudo desires Sean O’Malley subsequent.
This previous weekend, O’Malley misplaced his bantamweight title to Merab Dvalishvili, dropping a unanimous resolution in the principle occasion of UFC 306. Cejudo has a long-standing rivalry with O’Malley and likewise predicted Dvalishvili to win, so “Triple C” was fairly please with how issues turned out at UFC 306.
“What can I say? I predicted this stuff,” Cejudo mentioned on his Pound 4 Pound podcast. “Sean isn’t accustomed to going 5 rounds, and he’s not accustomed to individuals on his legs. I simply felt like – I nonetheless return and say, hey, that battle with Aljamain Sterling, that was a fluke too.
“Aljamain was nonetheless in that battle, and folks thought I used to be simply hating. No, I’ve been in there with Merab. I did a complete lot higher than Sean did after I fought Merab. I imply, I took down Merab. Merab is fortunate that I had that groin harm… And I nonetheless plan on working it again.
“Both method, Sean O’Meth-ly received his ass kicked for 5 rounds and I can’t wait to get him subsequent!”
Cejudo and O’Malley have exchanged social media insults for some time now, with O’Malley even trolling Cejudo’s podcast forward of UFC 306. And now that O’Malley is now not champion, a battle between the 2 is considerably extra potential. However Cejudo has his doubts it’s going to occur.
“I personally would like to battle him,” Cejudo mentioned. “I feel with all of the trolling that we’ve accomplished to one another — we each stay in the identical rattling metropolis — however I simply don’t assume that he’s going to need to battle me. Significantly proper after this efficiency that Merab did to him.
“Like I mentioned, Merab was fortunate that I used to be harm in that battle. I had no conditioning resulting from not having the ability to wrestle due to a torn groin. However I took my probabilities as a result of I wished to battle him, I wished to battle on the Sphere, I wished to beat him up in entrance of all people. However that’s not the case.
“So I feel transferring ahead, if Sean O’Malley is prepared and desires to battle this troll who’s the true king of Arizona, nicely then right here I’m. But when not, I’m making my method again right down to 125 kilos, as a result of I’m not going to waste my time.”
But when Cejudo actually desires to battle O’Malley, he’ll have to attend fairly some time. Following his loss, “Sugar” revealed he intends to take an prolonged break from preventing to restore a torn labrum in his hip he suffered forward of UFC 306.
