Sean O’Malley is feeling the love from Eminem and Lil Wayne and hopes the vibes keep on into his future fights.
The previous UFC bantamweight champion noticed his title dropped in not one, however two latest tracks from the hip-hop legends, with Lil Wayne mentioning O’Malley on the track Rari from his album Tha Carter VI, which got here out this previous June.
“Shirt off, weapons showin’ like O’Malley,” Wayne rapped.
Then Eminem also referenced O’Malley this past week in a collaboration with rapper JID on the track Animals (Pt. 1), rapping, “needed to throw in that towel regroup, like Sean O’Malley, nonetheless that mouthy youth.”
On Tuesday, O’Malley shared his response to listening to his title within the songs on social media.
O’Malley was visibly excited at listening to his title, then recalled how he walked out for his first kickboxing match to the track Drop the World, a collaboration between Wayne and Eminem.
“Random,” O’Malley stated. “It’s an indication. It’s an indication I’m going to beat Merab.”
O’Malley then appeared instantly on the digicam, suggesting that he won’t be taking the premonition fully critically. He’s at the moment 0-2 in opposition to Merab Dvalishvili, the present UFC bantamweight champion,
Dvalishvili gained a lopsided determination over O’Malley at UFC 306 to say the title, then gained in much more spectacular trend of their rematch 9 months later at UFC 316, the place Dvalishvili submitted O’Malley within the third spherical.
In different phrases, O’Malley didn’t efficiently “throw in that towel” and “regroup.”