{"id":460372,"date":"2022-10-12T08:50:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T15:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=460372"},"modified":"2022-10-12T08:50:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T15:50:03","slug":"tim-welch-says-sean-omalley-could-make-petr-yan-look-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/tim-welch-says-sean-omalley-could-make-petr-yan-look-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Welch says Sean O’Malley could make Petr Yan look ‘Stupid’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sean O’Malley is a near impossible puzzle to solve according to his coach Tim Welch.<\/p>\n

‘Suga Sean’ will head into the biggest fight of his career at UFC 280 against Petr Yan. #12-ranked O’Malley sits 10 places behind the Russian at bantamweight<\/a> and has never beaten anyone inside the top-10.<\/p>\n

‘No Mercy’ is a former champion and widely-credited with having some of the slickest hands in the UFC. O’Malley is an elite striker in his own right. The 27-year-old has racked up six performance bonuses during his tenure inside the Octagon as well as a string of viral knockouts.<\/p>\n

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Coach Tim Welch has seen the LFA veteran make a fool of many shorter, high-level opponents in the gym, and he believes that Yan could face a similar fate.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe train with super elite people,\u201d said Welch in an interview with Submission Radio.<\/a> \u201cWe train with very good strikers too. And all the people that he spars that are that size, he makes them look stupid. And Petr\u2019s probably a little bit on another level than a lot of them, and he\u2019s gonna be really tough. But a big cage and the size difference and the speed difference and the accuracy of Sean and how good he is at punching at range, I think it\u2019s gonna be the closer we get, I feel like Sean (O’Malley) could make Petr look stupid.\u201d<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/SubmissionRadio\/status\/1579603660354781184<\/p>\n

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O’Malley stands at 5’11 while Yan is four inches shorter. Welch believes the range and size factor of his student is going to be significant and added,<\/div>\n
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\u201cWhen I really think about it, and I really think of the size difference, and I really think of how Petr really lunges in on his punches, and I feel like he\u2019s gonna get kind of frustrated and really have to take a risk, and I think Sean might KO him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Yan was riding a 10-fight winning streak before dropping a DQ loss to Aljamain Sterling in 2021.<\/a> He then beat a very game Cory Sandhagen before losing a unanimous decision to ‘Funk Master’ in their rematch in April. Despite those losses, the Russian remains one of the best 135-ers in the world, and if O’Malley overcomes him he will likely be the next in line to challenge for the title.<\/p>\n

It’s a monster of a match-up, and the American believes that a win here will even take him to Conor McGregor levels of superstardom.<\/a><\/p>\n

Will Sugar get it done at UFC 280?<\/p>\n

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Sean O’Malley is a near impossible puzzle to solve according to his coach Tim Welch. ‘Suga Sean’ will head into the biggest fight of his career at UFC 280 against Petr Yan. #12-ranked O’Malley sits 10 places behind the Russian at bantamweight and has never beaten anyone inside the top-10. ‘No Mercy’ is a former […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54481,"featured_media":460381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[32290,39610],"tags":[50476,83438,83418],"yoast_head":"\nTim Welch says Sean O'Malley could make Petr Yan look 'Stupid' | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sean O'Malley coach Tim Welch says 'Sugar' regularly makes shorter opponents look stupid and Petr Yan could face similar fate at UFC 280\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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