Sean O’Malley mocks Aiemann Zahabi callout at UFC Vancouver, Zahabi responds

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Sean O’Malley heard Aiemann Zahabi say his title. Is there an opportunity the dominoes are falling for a matchup to be made?

Zahabi defeated Marlon Vera at UFC Vancouver to document his seventh straight win after which used his post-fight microphone time to name out the previous bantamweight champion. O’Malley was fast to submit a clip together with his response on social media:

Within the transient response, O’Malley is proven watching Zahabi’s post-fight interview and reacting with a glance of bewilderment. It’s unclear whether or not this implies O’Malley is intrigued by the potential matchup or if he thinks Zahabi is gunning for a chance he’s unlikely to get.

Throughout a media scrum backstage at Rogers Enviornment, Zahabi was proven O’Malley’s response and he took the clip in stride.

“That’s good,” Zahabi mentioned. “It looks like we’re setting it up. If he didn’t need it, he wouldn’t have made a video.”

Zahabi is at present knocking on the door of a title shot, with current wins over veterans Vera, Jose Aldo, and Pedro Munhoz bolstering his case. Since a sluggish 1-2 begin to his UFC profession, Zahabi hasn’t regarded again, and his seven-fight win streak solely trails Mario Bautista (8) and division champion Merab Dvalishvili (13) amongst UFC bantamweights.

Ought to his bout with O’Malley materialize, Zahabi expects his success to proceed.

“I’m assured in any matchup,” Zahabi mentioned. “I’m within the prime 10 now. If I’m not keen to battle anyone within the prime 10, what am I doing right here? I wish to battle all of them and [O’Malley] is No. 1. I really feel like the way in which issues are going with Merab, he’s clearing out the division and no sound destructive, Sean O’Malley’s an ideal fighter and all that, however he fought Merab twice. So I don’t assume he’s up subsequent for the belt. There’s going to be perhaps Umar [Nurmagomedov] or Bautista, [Petr] Yan, there’s some guys who’re going to get the title battle earlier than Sean O’Malley as a result of he misplaced to Merab two occasions and I don’t imply that in a disrespectful means.

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“So I really feel like I’ve the chance to battle someone like No. 1, so I wish to take it.”

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