“I’m not humble”- Sean O’Malley gives Marlon Vera no credit following loss at UFC 252
Despite the loss this past Saturday, Sean O’Malley refuses to humble himself after losing for the very first time in his career against Marlon Vera at UFC 252.
O’Malley doesn’t feel Vera’s win was legitimate. O’Malley came into the fight with a lot of hype and an unbeaten record rarely seen in MMA.
“Warming up in the back, everything was perfect,” O’Malley said on “The Timbo and Sugar Show” podcast. “I’m in (expletive) good shape. I’m breaking this mother(expletive) 100 percent in my mind. I get back there, doing our warm-up, everything is going perfect. About five minutes before we’re set to walk I’m like, ‘Do you think you could (expletive) loosen up my ankle brace? It’s (expletive) tight.’ So he’s sitting back loosening up my ankle braces because they were tight. That’s about it.
“Walked out, everything felt good, got in there. I was in front of him, and I’m like, in my mind, I’m like, ‘This is easy. He’s slow. He can’t hit me.’ You can’t hit me, and you can’t take me down. I didn’t think he was going to be able to take me down because he was so slow. … God, just standing there knowing I had one leg and like, ‘He still sucks.’”
O’Malley gave Vera zero credit for the win. He said he felt in “complete control” until the injury to his ankle occurred.
“We picked the date, we picked the time, and we both walked out. It doesn’t matter what the (expletive) happens,” O’Malley said. “Whoever wins, how it happens, however they win, wins. He won. It sucks for me, because I lost to someone who I look at as not very good. I look at him, and I’m like, ‘He’s not that good.’ And I (expletive) lost to him.
That’s what’s the most frustrating thing. Losing to someone I’m better than. That ‘humble’ post was a (expletive) joke. So for everyone commenting stupid (expletive), I’m not humble.
“Let’s look at his career in five years, and let’s look at mine. I’m going to be (expletive) world champ, and he’s going to be a (expletive) journeyman. That’s just what his style is. He wins some; he loses some. He’s slow, but he’s gritty, so he’s going to be able to finish some people after they beat him up for a while. … He gets lucky and beats me and jumps up like he won the (expletive) lottery. That just shows what kind of a (expletive) he was.”
O’Malley is awaiting an MRI this week to receive medical clearance and get back inside the octagon.
“Literally the only thing that bugs me is I lost in a way where I feel like I didn’t lose, and I lost to a guy I feel like is not that good,” O’Malley said. “I had the same pain, but all around my ankle, and I remember dragging my foot up against the cage like, ‘(Expletive).’ Even still, didn’t feel in danger.
I’m like, ‘OK, I’m not very mobile, but I don’t feel in danger. I don’t feel like he’s a threat.’ I was hoping he would shoot in on me so I could try to guillotine him. (Expletive) cracked him with a good shot, then that last little flurry I had. I don’t think he punched me once on my feet, even after my foot was (expletive) up.”
