LAS VEGAS – According to Dana White, there’s no way he or the UFC could have known about Sean O'Malley’s injury prior to UFC 306.
O’Malley (18-2 MMA, 10-2 UFC) lost his bantamweight title to Merab Dvalishvili (18-4 MMA, 11-2 UFC) by unanimous decision in Saturday’s Noche UFC main event at Sphere. O’Malley was taken down six times and controlled for more than 10 minutes of the fight.
O’Malley later revealed that he tore his left labrum in his hip 10 weeks out from the fight, and he is scheduled to undergo surgery on Oct. 3. White was asked how the UFC could prevent fighters from competing injured moving forward.
