UFC bantamweight Sean O’Malley continues to play the heel in the aftermath of his UFC 276 no-contest. He seemed unconvinced by opponent Pedro Munhoz’s eye injury, and even took to his BroMalley podcast to explain how he thinks Munhoz was faking the injury to get out of the fight, despite the fact that Munhoz was ahead on the judges’ scorecards in both rounds.
“Pedro said I poked him in the eye, which I didn’t. Maybe a little bit, but his eye was closed… And then he said I poked him twice. So he thought the first one, in the first round — when I punched him in the eye — was a poke. That’s the one that swole his left eye shut. That’s the one that really hurt him, when I punched him in the eye. My knuckle is actually still sore from that punch, boom, right in the eye socket.
O’Malley on Munhoz Eye Poke: “He didn’t want to be on the highlight reel”
Right after I punched him in the eye I threw a teep kick. It landed on the belt line. I’ve kicked people in the nuts before. I feel the cup. I did not hit him in the nuts. That was a fake foul. I hit him in the gut and instantly he didn’t hold his nuts, he held his eye.
So he was taking that low body shot to take time for his eye that I punched. That was a fake nut shot that did not hit him in the nuts. If it hit him in the nuts he would have held his nuts. It would have hurt him more. It would have been a nut shot and people react different to nut shots. It wasn’t a nut shot. It was a good body shot after a good right hand.”
O’Malley claims that he was “robbed” of a “highlight reel KO” by the referee’s decision to end the fight and declare it no contest.
““You can’t say because obviously we’re not him, but there’s no way that he could not continue that fight. Not a chance. He robbed me of a highlight-reel KO that I trained 12 weeks for because I was getting the better of him. I was checking his leg kicks. His leg kicks were hurting him, 100 percent. I felt his shin and sometimes he was landing with his feet. He was throwing 100 percent power kicks with his feet into my shin.”
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