Sean O’Malley is set to square off with Merab Dvalishvili on September 14th at UFC 306: Riyadh Season Noche UFC, but it seems he will be competing for viewers as Canelo Alvarez will meet Edgar Berlanga in the boxing ring on the same night.
O’Malley is currently riding a 7 fight unbeaten streak, with his first bantamweight championship title defense coming back in March over Marlon Vera. Meanwhile, Dvalishvili has been making his name among the organization’s rankings, and with his most recent victory over former two division champion Henry Cejudo, it certainly seems he is ready for his shot at the belt.
In a post to his YouTube channel, O’Malley took the time to comment on his upcoming bout with Dvalishvili, and plans to achieve a highlight reel knockout to make sure his is the talk of the town come fight night, not Canelo.
💥🥊Sean O’Malley eager to see if he can steal the spotlight from Canelo Alvarez who both fight on a stacked weekend of Combat Sports
“When it comes to Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, who are they talking about. Are they talking about Canelo, are they talking about the… pic.twitter.com/pADPqjED09
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“I’m so excited for this fight. I wasn’t actually very excited for the Aljo (Aljamain Sterling) fight. I was like, stressed about that fight. Just because my rib (injury), my training camp wasn’t the best. It was good for what we had. And then it’s like, this is hard.”
“This fight, I’m feeling good as f*ck. I love this match up. He’s got a ten-fight win streak. It’s a big fight. It’s at the Sphere. It’s in competition with boxing, which is just kinda an extra little layer.”
“When it comes to Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, who are they talking about? Are they talking about Canelo? Are they talking about the boxing fight? Or are they talking about the absolute dominating, beautiful, masterful, masterclass performance that I put on Merab and the viral knockout that came with it? Or are they talking about a 36-minute Canelo boxing fight that was kinda fire?”
“That’s what excites me. It’s the competition of who are they talking about Sunday, Monday, Tuesday? Who who stole the headlines? Me!”