Cory Sandhagen continues to be awaiting phrase on his subsequent struggle and he’s hoping to get Sean O’Malley’s consideration together with his newest callout.
The veteran bantamweight contender hasn’t fought since this previous August when he misplaced a choice to Umar Nurmagomedov in a back-and-forth battle in Abu Dhabi. Previous to that loss, Sandhagen had rattled off three wins in a row together with a stoppage victory of Track Yadong and he’s anxious to get again to work with O’Malley as his best opponent.
Add to that, Sandhagen doesn’t purchase that anybody would get enthusiastic about O’Malley operating it again with reigning UFC bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili, which is the struggle the all the time colourful O’Malley has been calling for ever since dropping the title at UFC 306.
“Let’s be actual, O’Malley has no enterprise preventing Merab for a right away rematch,” Sandhagen mentioned on Instagram. “He bought beat up within the first struggle. He’s going to get beat up within the second struggle. Nobody needs to see that struggle.
“I’m not booked but. I need to struggle. I’m so rattling bored. I’ll even give this idiot as a lot time as he needs the best way that Aljamain [Sterling] gave him as a lot time as he needs. Simply UFC, make the struggle that the followers need to see, which is me and O’Malley. Make it occur quickly. I’m so f*cking bored.”
Sandhagen has lengthy thought-about O’Malley as certainly one of his best opponents since each include a hanging pedigree that ought to make for an thrilling struggle.
Following the loss to Dvalishvili final yr, O’Malley revealed that he suffered a torn labrum in his hip in preparation for the title struggle and he later underwent surgical procedure to restore the harm achieved. That mentioned, O’Malley doesn’t count on to be sidelined for too lengthy and he already known as for the prospect to face the winner of Dvalishvili and Nurmagomedov previous to their struggle at UFC 311.
Dvalishvili got here out on high with a unanimous determination win towards Nurmagomedov, however doesn’t have a transparent reduce No. 1 contender to face subsequent.
Whereas O’Malley stays an enormous identify within the sport, Sandhagen clearly believes he must earn his means again to a title shot so he’s proposing that they conflict sooner moderately than later to get the bantamweight division shifting once more.
