O'Malley - Trolling or Delusion?

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I posted a version of this elsewhere, but thought I'd give my two cents.

At first it seemed as if Sean was taking the loss well, admitting that Merab was stronger and superior, and not using any excuses, or using his surgery to introduce doubt. Just a couple days later, he posts videos of him and his crew rewatching the fight and saying he won. Now this could very well be just really good trolling from Sean and his crew, but if so I'm not sure what's the payoff since it's not exactly the kind of thing that's going to attract significant attention to him, just make people dislike him.

If he actually believes he won now, it is ludicrous. Not a single media outlet gave it to O'Malley, or even a draw. Not a single viewer, not even his fans on this forum, think he won. When only your coach and 'friends' think you won, it's probably safe to say the bias lies on their end. He was looking much better accepting his defeat with no excuses, recognizing Merab's superiority.

I really think O'Malley does himself no favors acting like a teenager on a perpetual bender, surrounded by a bunch of morons and yes-men who leech onto his success. That "Schmitty" guy has the IQ of a lawn mower, and is utterly pathetic, obviously trying to hop along to the partying. Sean is almost 30 and has a family, yet acts like an immature nimrod.

He needs to have a hard look at himself and realize it is not just "minor adjustments" that need to be made. He needs to heavily invest in his wrestling defense, and diversify his offensive gameplan options, since hoping for a perpetual KO highlight reel is simply not realistic. To delude yourself into thinking every strike you landed almost resulted in a KO or hurt your opponent is not a good way to begin to change.
 
Some guys take hard loses with the will to not make the same mistakes again and be better overall, others just persuade themselves that they won.
 
Probably both. It’s hard to tell sometimes. Where he was rewatching with his pals. That didn’t appear to be trolling. But he may have been.

As for his age.. Conor is 6 years older and way more delusional. About pretty much everything. Izzy is 5 years older. And he’s pretty far out there. Whether their personalities are real or manufactured. This sport attracts all kinds. I guess you have to be a little off to be a pro mma fighter to begin with. Delusion, or strong self belief seems pretty common with the really successful fighters.

He clearly needs to get a LOT better at wrestling or he’s done at the top. Especially with Merab, and Umar at BW. And I don’t think it would be any better for him at FW.
 
He's making a point that R1 was close & that Merab was the one bleeding after the round... which is a huge judging point... but Merab did plenty to win the round over even teh bloody nose.

That said... he's CLEARLY TROLLING with this "I won narrative." They literally labelled that episode "Suga Sean has CTE?"... and Sean opened teh show with "We are CTE live!" lol... that doesn't really leave a question of whether or not they're trolling.

 
It's the painful part of the "content creator" side of O'Malley.
Despite it not making sense or even really being interesting, these guys post constantly to stay relevant, so I guess trolling.
 
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