UFC bantamweight Sean O’Malley won a razor-thin split decision over former champ Petr Yan at UFC 280 this past weekend. As usual when a fight goes to the judges’ scorecards, there were plenty of fans calling the win a “robbery,” an accusation O’Malley addressed on his YouTube channel.
O’Malley first discussed how the fight went down, explaining why he felt that he won fair and square. “Woke up this morning, ranked No. 1 in the world! S*** ain’t photoshopped.
O’Malley Fires Back at Critics Calling UFC 280 Win A Robbery
It does feel good. It’s crazy. If I would have lost that fight, people would put a lot more respect on my name. ‘Damn, he lost but that motherf*****’s good.’ Now it’s like, ‘He won?! He won?! You’ve got to be s****** me!’ But the people that are made that I won are the one’s that said I was supposed to get whooped. Like, ‘Sean’s lucky it’s not five rounds.’ Well, my best round was my third round…
Round one I thought was a close round. I definitely did more damage. He got a couple takedowns, didn’t really do anything with the takedowns. If you want to talk about getting takedowns, I got a takedown at the end of the round. That was two points, hit his knees, I took him down. So if you guys want to talk about takedowns, why is nobody talking about my takedown? I didn’t do s*** with it but he didn’t do s*** with his either, really. I definitely did more damage…Round one, I definitely can see how people gave me the round. Close round, for sure.
Round two was even pretty close. I cracked him, he cracked me back. I can see how you’d give him the round, for sure though… And then round three was definitely my best round. For sure did way more damage round three.”
O’Malley pointed out that he has plenty of haters in the MMA fanbase, who wanted him to lose in the first place. “You wanted me to lose in the first place.
A robbery? How is it [a robbery]? Third round, I won, second round, he won, first round was close as f*** and I did more damage. It’s not really a robbery, it was a close fight. A really, really close fight… If that was Cory [Sandhagen] vs. Petr or anyone else vs. Petr and they got the nod, I wonder how much the narrative would change.
Like, ‘Yeah, I could see that.’ But since it’s me and people f****** hate me because I’m 6’6”, 220, pure chocolate, and ranked No. 1 bantamweight in the f****** world, b****!”
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