Sean O’Malley’s August 2020 loss to Marlon ‘Chito’ Vera has actually been formally scrubbed from the record books, according to the UFC’s bantamweight champ.
O’Malley scored his very first defence of the UFC’s 135-pound champion on Saturday night in Miami, Florida in what was a one-sided five-round choice win versus Vera, avenging his sole profession loss to date while doing so. That defeat close to 4 years earlier, which came after O’Malley sustained a nerve injury to his lower leg which significantly obstructed his motion, has actually now efficiently been ruled as a no-contest– according to O’Malley himself.
“The Sugar State Athletic Commission, they stated if I win this battle, they’ll eliminate that very first battle away, so I’m formally unbeaten once again,” O’Malley informed the media, consisting of The Mac Life, in the Sunshine State late on Saturday. “It feels truly actually excellent, so we’re simply 1-0 today.”
“I understood I was much better than this guy for three-and-a-half years,” he later on included. “I understood the very first battle was a fluke, so it felt great.
“I desired that surface so bad, I believed I might being in the pocket and f * cking trade. He struck me with a great body shot, and I resembled, I currently whooped his ass. I’m going to take a seat and chillax a bit.”
O’Malley was near-flawless at UFC 299, hardly ever positioning himself in Vera’s shooting line, with the Ecuadorian having a hard time to land much of repercussion throughout the 25 minutes. For the champ, the way of his one-sided win was simply a verification of what he currently understood.
“I constantly understood I was much better than him. It never ever troubled me when that battle played out like that. Look where I was at. I beat Thomas Almeida in among the most gorgeous efficiencies I ever had [afterwards]That battle never ever troubled me. I attempt not to care what individuals believe. I understood I was much better than him. It took me three-and-a-half years to show that, and I did.”
You can see O’Malley’s complete remarks in the video above.
