UFC: Sean O’Malley says he’s ‘not humbled’ by first loss to ‘lucky’ Marlon Vera
- ‘I look at him and he’s not that good. And I lost to him,’ says O’Malley – ‘that’s the most frustrating thing’
- ‘Let’s look at his career in five years … I’m going to be a world champion, he’s going to be a journeyman’
Sean O’Malley has broken his silence on his first professional loss, a first-round TKO by Marlon “Chito” Vera at UFC 252. And if you thought he was “humbled”, he was just messing with you.
The 25-year-old American posted an image on Instagram with that particular word as the caption, leading many to think he had perhaps accepted the defeat in Las Vegas. But “Sugar” (12-1) railed at “lucky” Vera (16-6-1) in a rant on “The Timbo Sugar Show” with his coach Tim Welch.
“Dude, I knock out Eddie Wineland, I peace,” O’Malley said. “That was easy. He gets lucky and beats me and jumps up like he just [expletive] won the lottery, that just showed me what kind of a b**** he was.
“The thing is we picked the date. We picked the time. We both walked out and then it doesn’t matter what the [expletive] happens. Whoever wins, however they win, wins. So he won. It sucks.
“I look at him and I’m like, he’s not that good. And I [expletive] lost to him. That’s the most frustrating thing. And that ‘humbled’ post was a [expletive] joke, so everyone commenting stupid s***, I’m not humbled.”
O’Malley suffered a serious ankle injury in the fight and couldn’t stand on his left leg. He fell to the ground late in the first round and “Chito” smelled blood, swarming him with ground and pound and getting the finish.