{"id":403447,"date":"2022-01-12T20:42:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T04:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=403447"},"modified":"2022-01-12T20:42:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T04:42:26","slug":"sean-omalley-explains-why-he-is-reluctant-to-fight-cody-garbrandt-i-go-out-there-and-lose-to-cody-that-does-a-lot-of-negative-damage-towards-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/sean-omalley-explains-why-he-is-reluctant-to-fight-cody-garbrandt-i-go-out-there-and-lose-to-cody-that-does-a-lot-of-negative-damage-towards-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean O’Malley explains why he is reluctant to fight Cody Garbrandt: “I go out there and lose to Cody, that does a lot of negative damage towards me”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bantamweight standout Sean O\u2019Malley has explained why he is reluctant to fight former champion Cody Garbrandt next time out.<\/p>\n

O’Malley (15-1 MMA) and Garbrandt (12-5 MMA) have been trash talking one another for some time now and even squared off with each other prior to last month’s UFC 269 event in Las Vegas<\/p>\n

‘Suga’ went on to score a first-round TKO victory over Raulian Paiva on December 11, while ‘No Love’ wound up suffering a knockout loss<\/a> at the hands of Kai Kara-France.<\/p>\n

Had both men emerged victorious at UFC 269, there is no doubt that a fight between Sean O’Malley and Cody Garbrandt would have made a lot of sense. However, with Cody losing, again by way of knockout, ‘Suga’ says the fight no longer does much for him.<\/p>\n

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O’Malley shared the following words on Michael Bisping’s ‘Believe You Me<\/a>‘ podcast:<\/p>\n

“After Cody got knocked out, I got asked at the press conference: \u2018What do you wanna say?\u2019. And I just said, ‘I feel bad for him’. He\u2019s lost a lot of fights in a row, and I don\u2019t really have anything negative to say about him.”<\/em> Sean O’Malley said of Cody Garbrandt. “It\u2019s just tough. If I go out there and beat him… I do not see it doing much for me right now. He\u2019s 1-6 or something in his last seven. I think he\u2019s won one fight since 2017. I go out there and beat him, it doesn\u2019t really do what it would\u2019ve (done) three or four fights ago. I go out there and lose to Cody, who\u2019s 1-7 and just got knocked out, that does a lot of negative damage towards me. I just don\u2019t think that\u2019s realistically the next fight.”<\/em><\/p>\n