Henry Cejudo says he has inside information
on Sean O’Malley’s camp for
#NocheUFC and says “he’s having trouble” getting up from a
bottom position 😳He also says he’s planning on moving down to flyweight, but will
stay at bantamweight to fight Sean O’Malley if he loses to Merab…
pic.twitter.com/HtbdvYwZs1— Championship Rounds (@ChampRDS)
September 10, 2024
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Henry
Cejudo claims to have heard about Sean
O’Malley’s training camp from multiple sources.
O’Malley puts his bantamweight title on the line against Merab
Dvalishvili in the main event of UFC
306 at the Sphere in Las Vegas this Saturday. Just days out
from fight night, “Sugar” crashed Cejudo’s podcast with Kamaru
Usman for about 20 seconds to praise “The Nigerian Nightmare”
and roast “Triple C” for being easily taken down by Aljamain
Sterling.
Cejudo is now plotting a matchup against O’Malley if the latter
gets dethroned by Dvalishvili at UFC 306, which the Olympic gold
medalist has reason to believe will happen. While the former
flyweight champ is already planning a move back down to 125 pounds,
he’ll stick around at bantamweight for the potential O’Malley
fight.
“Once [O’Malley] loses to Merab, I think the next fight that’s up
is me and him,” Cejudo said on the Pound 4 Pound show. “I know that
Merab is going to get this win. I know a little bit of O’Malley’s
fight camp and how it’s been going… I hoping this motherf—-er
loses. Because now there’s a showdown between me and him. And we
could settle it the best way, and that’s fighting… And I am
planning on going to flyweight… I started my diet, I’m gonna do
everything right. But there’s one fight… I think the fight between
me and ‘Sean O’Smelly Ronald McDonald’ makes a lot of sense
too.”
O’Malley vs. Dvalishvili Saturday at 10 ET on ESPN+. Order
Now!
Cejudo’s
Fight Ready camp and the
MMA Lab, where O’Malley trains, are both located i Arizona.
Cejudo claims to have heard from multiple sources that O’Malley is
having trouble getting off his back on the ground. The former
double champ expects Dvalishvili to take over if he can endure
O’Malley’s onslaught for the first two rounds.
“But that being said, he doesn’t know how to get off of bottom.
I’ve had three training partners that have gone out there, that
have all told me the same s—t,” Cejudo said. “That’s what happens
when you live in the same city, is people know other people that
will say s—t. But that that being said I think it’s a match made in
heaven for a guy like Merab. He just needs to be careful in those
two rounds. As the fight goes on I can see Merab Dvalishvili f—-ing
taking him out.”
Cejudo abruptly retired in 2020, vacating his bantamweight title.
“The Messenger” returned to action at bantamweight last year, where
he has suffered consecutive decision losses against Sterling and
Dvalishvili.