Javier Mendez: Sean O'Malley No Longer a Marketable Star

[Only Here for Attachments]

Industry plants all get exposed in MMA

 

[mkt]

Nah, wokeness is dead. Nobody wants to see that shit anymore.

Yeah, I was joking. I never liked his freaky looks.

 

[Bret 'The Hitman' Hart]

Many fans already knew O'Malley was a UFC hype train / Dana poster boy and called it.

 

[Tweak896]

No one's going to be interested in watching him vs wrestlers for awhile, but striking matchups could co headline anything. He's going to have to beat a wrestler if we're going to pretend he's the best. Probably could move to FW with certain matchups.

He's more marketable than most. I'm waiting for the day when someone truly beats him on the feet. Who knows, maybe he can fill out his frame more and help his wrestling TDD if he commits to FW and revitalize his career. Or he could genuinely get better one day. Door isn't completely shut.

 

[TheMMAnalyst]

When your entire personality is based on smoking weed and crazy hair colors, it's hard to stay relevant if you are no longer winning

And for the rematch he quit smoking weed and didn't dye his hair, so lost his two most marketable gimmicks along with the fight!

 

[rjmbrd]

When your entire personality is based on smoking weed and crazy hair colors, it's hard to stay relevant if you are no longer winning

Sean is generally in super entertaining fights, one after another. He's an action fighter with KO power and won the belt via spectacular KO.

Merab is out wrestling everybody, even Umar. Its just not a thing to be ashamed of, and its absurd to think less fans want to see Sean fight now.

Educated fans know Merab does that to everybody for years now, and non-educated fans don't like watch what Merab does in the first place.

 

[doggo]

You think he beats Umar?

Would he win a rematch with Yan?

I like O'Malley, he gets way too much hate. Im not overly sure where he should be ranked at 135 right now.

Yan should be a bit more careful when fighting him and Yan could/should win.

He got careless twice in the last fight and it cost him.

 

[NoStoneUnturned]

His lifestyle choices aren’t my lifestyle choices, but he can fight and I enjoy watching him. Everyone cannot be the same, each of us needs someone to root against as much as we need someone to root for.

 

[Tapatio]

 

[RockyLockridge]

Javier is off the mark, O'Malley is still an exciting fighter with a fan friendly style.

 

[NicholasJBasile]

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Javier Mendez doesn’t think fans are eager to watch Sean O'Malley fight.

Mendez recently acknowledged Movsar Evloev as the most deserving UFC featherweight title contender. However, the American Kickboxing Academy head coach believes that Evloev has been deprived of a title shot so far because of the lack of his drawing power. Mendez further noted that O’Malley received an immediate rematch against Merab Dvalishvili despite losing his bantamweight strap via a lackluster decision.


However, Mendez doesn’t think O’Malley is getting another title shot anytime soon. According to Mendez, “Suga” has lost some of his stardom after consecutive title losses against Dvalishvili.

‘The Eyeballs Are Not Gonna Be on Him’​

“Movsar, look at him — they are passing him up because not that many people are interested to see him, even though he deserves it,” Mendez told Know Time. “He is No. 1 in my opinion, but is he getting it? How come Sean O’Malley got title shots after a lackluster performance? Now, what would really be a shock is if he got a title shot after this last performance. Now, I would think that he is going back to the drawing board, because again, the eyeballs are not gonna be on him. Because of the last performance, people are gonna go, ‘Nah, we’re not gonna watch him.’... So his marketability is not there anymore. So they are gonna have to figure out somebody else.”

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There;s probably some truth to what Mendez is saying. i've come to really like the new O'Malley though to be honest -- very humble, respectful, and transparent.

 

[xhaydenx]

but he's not good

lol.

18-3. Beat the former champ, then the champ to win a belt. Lost once via injury which he avenged completely, and then only ever lost to one other guy who no one seems to have an answer for.

Yeh, not good at all haha.

If Suga isn't good, then no one in this division is, not even Yan who is fighting for the belt again next. Yan can't possibly be good if he lost to the not good Suga.

 

[MRT]

O'Malley lost to Merab, a champ who seems destined to become the divisional GOAT (many people argue he already is).

Claiming that Sean is neither very popular nor very good is utterly ridiculous. It is not a big surprise that such nonsense is largely coming from people who already didn't like him before the losses.

 

[JBJ was here]

O'Malley lost to Merab, a champ who seems destined to become the divisional GOAT (many people argue he already is).

Claiming that Sean is neither very popular nor very good is utterly ridiculous. It is not a big surprise that such nonsense is largely coming from people who already didn't like him before the losses.

O'Malley is clearly very good, but the evidence that he's very popular in a way that brings in money has always been lacking.

 

[jeskola]

If you remember Sterling came out and was really upset. The PPV flopped badly.

https://www.mmafighting.com/2023/12...se-are-numbers-trying-to-say-hes-big-ppv-star

when was the last time a PPV didn't flop? Its a dead model, that's one reason it is going bye bye.

 

[MRT]

O'Malley is clearly very good, but the evidence that he's very popular in a way that brings in money has always been lacking.

I agree with the "in a way that brings in money" part.

If we compare him to 99% of the roster, then I think by MMA standards, he is very popular. Having said that, while I have no data on which I base the this, I imagine that his fan demographic skews younger than average, is among the most likely to stream events, and is less likely to buy tickets to live shows...so how the UFC monetizes his popularity would be a problem for the UFC to figure out.

 

[Pancake Sprawl]

He was never a big star at all, UFC are just desperately trying to push new people because there is a big lack of stars in UFC these days, his PPVs didn't do well at all. Sean doesn't have charisma, he talks as if he is half asleep, like that stoner kid who is very sleepy. If he could have gone on a crazy long winning streak with so many title defenses for many years then yes he would build that "aura" and he would become big, but he couldn't.

yeah i never believed he was as popular as UFC made it out to be. when he first came i think he had some stardom but not to the level that they portrayed it. he's kind of like Khamzat to me. Khamzat was hot when he first showed up but his popularity fizzled because of his lack of activity and lack of social media presence. Pereira is the closest thing they have to a superstar in today's UFC.

 

[SaltedVinegarfootstomps]

Hot take; Sean seems like a decent, uninteresting dude. I think the exposure he
engineered worked against his brand
In the long run. He's a typical sterotype who games and smokes and parties. He has his podcast, maybe more, I don't know, but between that and his multiple documentaries- there is a fair amount of suga access and it's all beige. Not alot of meat on the bone, i think he was better served the less that was known about him. People would say some wild shit and accuse him of all sorts of deviant behavior.

 

[Guy LeDouche]

His personality has had nothing to do with weed for a couple years now—he doesn’t even smoke.

Tell us more about what you don’t know anything about.

Oh we found Tim and Sean’s Sherdog account

 

[ssBaldy]

He just needs to paint his fingernails and toenails. He's not quite weird enough looking.

I thought Merab wrestled the weird looks out of him and Sean became more normal?