Pedro Munhoz is not happy with how Sean O’Malley handled their no-contest main card opener on Saturday night. Munhoz had to leave the Octagon due to an eye injury, and speaking on The MMA Hour elaborated on how irritated he is with O’Malley’s comments following the fight.
“A lot of his actions after the fight were things that I don’t think is right, based on my values. Like he came and apologized to me, and then he go and go make a video on TikTok, make fun of my vision there. So you apologize to me for poking me [then do that]?
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Because he realized, he came up to me, like, ‘I didn’t mean to poke you in the eye.’ I say, ‘I know you didn’t mean to poke me in the eye.’ I say, ‘We can run these back anytime,’ and he said, ‘You’re a legend.’
I say thank you, and then I told his coach [Tim Welch] and he was very nice to me, and he says, ‘Let’s run this back.’ I said, ‘Let’s run this back.’ Munhoz continued, blasting the “gangsters on computers” hiding behind their social media.
“But then you go make fun [of it]? That’s kind of like things that I tell my kids not to do it. You say one thing but then you go make fun on the other hand. I came up to a generation, like the one before his generation.
I’m not going to go and make of someone just to get more followers and stuff like that. And besides that, all his friends, all these guy texting me, talking about my wife, talking about my family, saying that they’re going to fight me. And guess what? I told them, I say, ‘You can find me. I’ll be by the pool here Sunday.’
They’re gangsters on computers. So that’s the type stuff that I say I don’t agree with, and that was something that was new for me — fighting some kid from a generation that makes these shows look like a circus.
When I grew up watching B.J. Penn, Frankie Edgar, Jose Aldo, fought of all these guys, Dominick Cruz, and now I just feel that I was in the circus.”
Munhoz was actually ahead on the scorecards when the fight was stopped, a key consideration the trolls and critics seem to have missed. “I was in the fight 100 percent, I was winning on the scorecards, I was super comfortable.
I was able to break him down in the first round, which is the round that he goes the strongest. Second and third, we know that he’s starting going down, and that’s my strongest round. Five-round fight, I would probably eat him alive.”
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