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Sean O’Malley: I’m Only One Who Can Beat Merab Dvalishvili
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Despite two losses, Sean O'Malley still believes he can beat Merab Dvalishvili.
Dvalishvili looked to defend his bantamweight title against Cory Sandhagen in the co-main event at UFC 320 last Saturday in Las Vegas. “The Sandman” was expected to pose some threat to Dvalishvili with his intriguing striking. However, Dvalishvili did what he does to everyone else: he put heavy wrestling pressure on Sandhagen for five rounds. Dvalishvili landed 20 takedowns, the highest ever in a UFC title fight, to earn a unanimous decision win. After Sandhagen, there appears to be lack of title contenders for Dvalishvili, who has already walked through tough competition on his way to the title.
However, O’Malley believes he can beat “The Machine.” According to O’Malley, the only way to beat the Georgian champion is to knock him out clean. And “Suga” is confident that he is the only one who can land that knockout blow. While O’Malley doesn’t feel nice making that claim after two losses to Dvalishvili, he doesn’t think anyone else can dethrone the champion anytime soon. However, O’Malley also acknowledged that he needs to get back on the win column in order to make his case for a title shot.
’You Have to Be Able to Snipe Him’
“To beat Merab, you just have to land that shot. You have to be able to f—-ing snipe him,” O’Malley said on YouTube. “He was getting a little bit more reckless. The more confident he gets in his striking, the more gaps he leaves open to be caught… I hate to say it, I’m the only one who can beat him… I got to go out there and get some win. But I don’t see anyone beating Merab anytime soon. He needs to be clipped. He needs to be knocked out, put to sleep.”
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Despite two losses, Sean O'Malley still believes he can beat Merab Dvalishvili.www.sherdog.com
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Fuck off nepo baby
Earn something for the first time in your UFC career
Also, you are never beating Merab
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Corey would likely ass rape him
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I'm not
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My favorite kind of fight, where I'm neutral on either fighter so I can just enjoy the action. Stylistically, they match up well.
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No joke, O'Malley is probably one of his easiest stylistically
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work your way back to getting that fight, presently Jiri, and Max on rewind have been in this situation, gotta make a compelling argument for the 3rd fight to happen, Twitter fingers won’t help.
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I'm sure he believes that he believes it, but people fool themselves about what they believe all the time while revealing what they actually believe through their actions, and if O'Malley really were confident in his ability to beat Merab after losing twice convincingly he would be training to do it and calling out fighters against whom he could earn another title shot. O'Malley wants to believe that he's the one to beat Merab more than he actually wants to be able to beat Merab, and he's psyching himself into believing that he believes it by shit-talking rather than doing something to make progress towards being in a position to fight and beat Merab.
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Well he's not wrong and at least he's honest about his assessment, Merab is leaving more openings. No one is going to beat him by defending TDs and outstriking him for 5 rounds. And there aren't any grapplers at BW that would try to grapple him. So if there is anyone that has that one punch KO power to do it, it's Omalley and I would say Yan too. But of course "can" and "will" or has a good chance are two different things.
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"I got to go out there and get some wins. But I don’t see anyone beating Merab anytime soon. He needs to be clipped. He needs to be knocked out, put to sleep.”
How exactly is he shit talking?? Everything he says is 100% hones and true. And how is he not doing anything about it?
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He's treating Merab like I treated Tiger Vanguard in Wukong. You fight him enough times, you're bound to get him, eventually. May need to level up a bunch of times to do it, though
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Hit the weights, word on TDD, and go to FW
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The easiest matchmaking ever.
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That's a good joke. Merab will be beat by a good wrestler with decent cardio. Sandhagen had a terrible game plan and should have wrestled with him what's the point of not wrestling when you can get up every time. His coach is a dummy.
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Despite usually being irrationally enraged by dudes with colored hair, I like O'Malley. That being said, I don't see him really ever getting to a point where he'll defensively wrestle well enough to avoid the same result.
