Cory Sandhagen remains to be awaiting phrase on his subsequent struggle and he’s hoping to get Sean O’Malley’s consideration along with his newest callout.
The veteran bantamweight contender hasn’t fought since this previous August when he misplaced a call to Umar Nurmagomedov in a back-and-forth battle in Abu Dhabi. Previous to that loss, Sandhagen had rattled off three wins in a row together with a stoppage victory of Song Yadong and he’s anxious to get again to work with O’Malley as his supreme opponent.
Add to that, Sandhagen doesn’t purchase that anybody would get enthusiastic about O’Malley operating it again with reigning UFC bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili, which is the struggle the at all times colourful O’Malley has been calling for ever since shedding the title at UFC 306.
“Let’s be actual, O’Malley has no enterprise combating Merab for an instantaneous rematch,” Sandhagen stated on Instagram. “He bought beat up within the first struggle. He’s going to get beat up within the second struggle. Nobody desires to see that struggle.
“I’m not booked but. I need to struggle. I’m so rattling bored. I’ll even give this idiot as a lot time as he desires the way in which that Aljamain [Sterling] gave him as a lot time as he desires. Simply UFC, make the struggle that the followers need to see, which is me and O’Malley. Make it occur quickly. I’m so f*cking bored.”
Sandhagen has lengthy thought-about O’Malley as one in every of his supreme opponents since each include a putting pedigree that ought to make for an thrilling struggle.
Following the loss to Dvalishvili final 12 months, O’Malley revealed that he suffered a torn labrum in his hip in preparation for the title struggle and he later underwent surgical procedure to restore the harm executed. That stated, O’Malley doesn’t anticipate to be sidelined for too lengthy and he already called for the chance to face the winner of Dvalishvili and Nurmagomedov previous to their struggle at UFC 311.
Dvalishvili got here out on prime with a unanimous choice win in opposition to Nurmagomedov, however doesn’t have a transparent reduce No. 1 contender to face subsequent.
Whereas O’Malley stays an enormous identify within the sport, Sandhagen clearly believes he must earn his approach again to a title shot so he’s proposing that they conflict sooner reasonably than later to get the bantamweight division transferring once more.
