Fans remove Sean O’Malley’s ‘star’ status after he got 0 UFC White House press conference questions
Sean O’Malley was in New Jersey to seem at a UFC press conference on Friday — however he might not have been.
The UFC has had their work reduce out in Newark this week, largely to maintain Saturday’s headliners Khamzat Chimaev and Sean Strickland separate.
But earlier than they battle within the UFC 328 important occasion, safety had been busy holding different fighters aside at Friday’s UFC White House presser.
Most notably, Josh Hokit went at it with Alex Pereira and Ilia Topuria. Between them sat O’Malley, who was simply as a lot of a spectator because the followers in attendance.
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Sean O’Malley was not requested a single query on the UFC White House presser
While Kyle Daukaus, Bo Nickal, and Michael Chandler had been among the many UFC White House fighters requested questions by reporters, none had been fielded to both O’Malley or Diego Lopes.
The press conference was apparently reduce barely brief after Hokit was dragged off stage by safety following his conflict with Topuria.
That might have contributed to the dearth of questions for ‘Suga’, a former champ who has lengthy been touted by Dana White and others as a legit star.
With his distinguished status in thoughts, O’Malley’s silence on the UFC White House press conference was a giant matter amongst followers on-line.
“The O’Malley stardom has died. Lasted like 1 year.”
“Kyle Daukaus got asked more questions than the ‘superstar’ Sean O’Malley.”
“O’Malley lost too much aura from the Merab fights.”
“Sean O’Malley not being asked a single question is WILD.”
“How did Chandler get a question and not these two (O’Malley and Lopes)?”
“He could have stayed home.”
“O’Malley lost all of his aura a long time ago.”
O’Malley’s win over Song Yadong at UFC 324 This previous January marked his first victory contained in the Octagon in virtually two years.
The Montana native misplaced two outings in opposition to Merab Dvalishvili, first to lose the bantamweight title after which to fail to regain it.
O’Malley will next fight Aiemann Zahabi on the White House on June 14. With a victory in Washington DC, ‘Suga’ is hoping to safe a rematch for newly topped champ Petr Yan.
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