Sean O’Malley named his prime 4 strikers within the UFC.
UFC bantamweight champion O’Malley (18-1 MMA, 10-1 UFC) “simply” included himself when naming his Mount Rushmore of strikers on BS w/ Jake Paul, and talked about three different names.
One in all them being featherweight champion Ilia Topuria (15-0 MMA, 7-0 UFC), who O’Malley thinks a superfight with is inevitable down the road.
“I’m up there,” O’Malley stated. “Max (Holloway) is actually good – Max is tremendous sick. Ilia Topuria, his putting is actually good. Me, Max, Ilia, (Israel) Adesanya.”
Topuria claimed the featherweight title with a knockout of Alexander Volkanovski at UFC 298. “El Matador” has been linked to a title protection towards former champ Max Holloway, who’s coming off an unimaginable last-second knockout of light-weight contender Justin Gaethje at UFC 300 in April.
O’Malley, who dethroned Aljamain Sterling to say the bantamweight title by knockout, notched his first title protection by placing on a putting clinic vs. Marlon Vera at UFC 299. He’s gearing up for his subsequent title protection towards streaking bantamweight Merab Dvalishvili later within the 12 months.
Boxing stays a part of O’Malley’s objectives, but when he will get previous Dvalishvili, he has the featherweight title in his sights.
“I actually do wish to get a boxing struggle,” O’Malley stated. “I’m not tremendous set on that to the place I’m going to be like f*cking mad if it doesn’t occur. I do suppose it’ll be fascinating – particularly if I knock Merab out, Ryan (Garcia) does his factor, I feel there’s a f*cking candy struggle there.
“If it doesn’t occur, not that frightened about it. I wish to go on the market beat Merab, if Max and Ilia struggle, I wish to transfer as much as ’45 and struggle the winner of that.”
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