Sean O'Malley has quickly become one of the most polarising fighters on the UFC roster with his antics outside of the cage - and this time he has taken a cheeky dig at Conor McGregor.
O'Malley is currently preparing for his crucial fight with Peter Yan at UFC 280 in October and could earn a bantamweight title shot with victory over the Russian. But he took time out of his training schedule to film a sketch with YouTube pranksters the Nelk Boys as they partied in Miami.
At one point, O'Malley donned a crown, opened his shirt and posed with a designer bag, clearly impersonating McGregor who has spent considerable time on his expensive yacht of late. "Welcome to my boat, I just bought it," O' Malley says. "The Lamborghini boat, first one ever, no one has ever done this, no one ever had the idea to do this. Lamborghini yacht. The one, the only, Seanor O'Maglor."
O'Malley faces a considerable step up against former champion Yan who was beaten by Aljamain Sterling in April. But the 27-year-old is confident he can edge himself closer to a shot at the belt, despite UFC president Dana White having doubts over the fight with Yan.
"I’m not really looking at it either way," O'Malley told The MMA Hour. "Once I faceplant Petr into the canvas, Dana will be like, ‘OK, that was a good fight.’ Regardless, me vs. Petr is an epic fight, a sweet, sweet kickboxing fight if I had to guess – two very high-level strikers, two very high-level MMA fighters, and it’s gonna be a very interesting fight. I believe I have what it takes to put Petr’s lights out.
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"I think Dana really likes me. I f***ing love Dana. So I think with him saying that, it was no disrespect or anything. It’s just his opinion, and anybody could have their own opinion. I don’t really care. I think that fight gets Dana excited. Dana’s been doing this for a long time.
"He could be getting burnt out of it, (watching) fights every weekend. What fight is going to make Dana go, ‘I need to watch that fight, I have to watch that, I have to know what happened’? There are very few fights (coming up)."
