Sean O’Malley’s coach wonders whether or not Daniel Cormier “has one thing in opposition to” ‘Suga’ after UFC 333 snub

Sean O’Malley’s coach, Tim Welch, lately shared his ideas on Daniel Cormier not suggesting his star pupil as the subsequent challenger for the bantamweight title.

Yan went up in opposition to Merab Dvalishvili in a trilogy struggle at UFC 333 final weekend and efficiently defended the bantamweight championship by way of unanimous determination after 5 rounds of motion. After the struggle, Cormier interviewed Yan and requested him a few struggle in opposition to Music Yadong subsequent.

O’Malley is on a two-fight win streak and is coming off a second-round TKO victory over Aiemann Zahabi at UFC Freedom 250 in June. Earlier than that, he beat Yadong by way of unanimous determination at UFC 324 in January. O’Malley additionally beat Yan by way of a controversial cut up determination at UFC 280 in October 2022, with many scoring the struggle in favor of ‘No Mercy’ over the Montana native.

Given his resume and win streak, O’Malley has campaigned for a title rematch in opposition to Yan subsequent. Unsurprisingly, Welch and O’Malley weren’t joyful about Cormier asking Yan a few potential Yadong conflict.

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In an interview with Ariel Helwani, Welch theorized that ‘DC’ could have one thing in opposition to O’Malley and mentioned:

“I’m curious, hopefully I’ve ‘DC’ on my present at the moment or tomorrow and ask him what he considered that… I’m curious if somebody was in Daniel Cormier’s ear as a result of Music Yadong was there, however I don’t suppose that was the case, I feel ‘DC’ was pushing for Music as a result of I feel deep down there’s one thing that rubs him the mistaken approach about ‘Suga.’ Previous little feedback after which simply, I don’t know, we’re gonna get all the way down to the underside of it once I discuss to him so I’m curious.”

He added:

“I may very well be completely mistaken about that however it’s all the time appeared like DC has one thing in opposition to Suga and he doesn’t like seeing him win.” [H/t: Bloody Elbow]

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Petr Yan opens up about potential Sean O’Malley title rematch

Earlier than the UFC 333 occasion, Petr Yan opened up about doubtlessly going through Sean O’Malley once more.

In an interview with MMA Preventing, Yan expressed his willingness to struggle O’Malley once more and mentioned:

“Why not? For actual, we’ve got historical past, so why wouldn’t that be the struggle? … I don’t find out about who’s deserving of the belt. There’s a whole lot of guys within the prime 5 that I already fought in any case. Whoever the UFC places in entrance of me, that’s who I’m going to struggle. Whoever they suppose is the subsequent opponent, I don’t select my opponent. I’ll struggle whoever they put in entrance of me.”