Jake Paul was enraged when UFC bantamweight Sean O'Malley's fight with Pedro Munhoz was called off due to an eye poke and ruled a no-contest.
Paul was so angry he took to Instagram to send Munhoz a private message, branding the No.9-ranked UFC bantamweight a "p****" and declaring that the stoppage was due to a "fake a**" injury. He then revealed the message while speaking to his pal O'Malley on the first episode of his show BS with Jake Paul .
O'Malley has ultimately decided to treat the bout as a victory, and it appears the UFC have done the same by offering him the No.1 contender Petr Yan as his next opponent. The pair will square off in Abu Dhabi on October 22 at UFC 280, with serious title implications for the winner.
"I just have to say, bro, Pedro Munhoz pulled the biggest b**** move in all of UFC history," said Paul while chatting with O'Malley. "Pedro, if you're watching this, you are f***ing b****-made. I went out of my way to DM him, and I don't DM people. I found his little s***** Instagram profile and I said 'yo, you are the biggest b**** in the world'. How do you feel after that, bro?"
It was then shown on screen that Paul had messaged Munhoz on July 2, slamming the fighter for accepting the no contest instead of fighting on. "You are a p**** with all these fake a** injuries you're trying to take during this fight," Paul wrote. "You're an embarrassment."
O'Malley admitted the result made him emotional, having put in a lengthy and gruelling fight camp in order to get a big stoppage. Munoz was a major step up in competition for O'Malley, who has lost just once in his career to this point against Marlon Vera, who is now the No.5 bantamweight in the world.
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"Right after, I was pretty emotional," O'Malley admitted. "Obviously, I wanted to go in there and put on a performance. I had 12 weeks of training to go in there and deliver a spectacular finish and I had so many people out there, I could see so many people wearing merch, and for it to end like that?
"In my eyes that was a boring fight, nothing really happened. I was starting to get his rhythm, I was starting to dot him up and I was looking for that finish, and he just robbed me of that moment.
"I didn't believe that I poked him in the eye, my hands were up and if anything I may have tapped his eye a little bit but not enough to stop a fight. Michael Bisping fought with one eye, but at the end of the day I'm fighting the No.1 contender now. I'm fighting Petr Yan so the UFC looked at it as a win, I looked at it as a win and I was just robbed of that moment."
