Sean O’Malley believes Cody Garbrandt is scared to fight him

Sean O’Malley is the most talked about fighter in the bantamweight division and is quickly becoming one of the UFC’s biggest stars.

O’Malley isn’t surprised he got top bantamweight Cody Garbrant’s attention just recently.

Before the Deiveson Figueiredo and Garbrandt fight was finalized, O’Malley took jabs at Cody saying he was running away and didn’t want to fight him. This set off a string of messages exchanged between the two bantamweights.

“I don’t think he wants to fight me,” O’Malley told MMA Fighting when asked about Garbrandt. “I might be a little biased … I don’t think Cody wants to fight me.

“I think he sees that fight, I’m long, I’m tall, I’m accurate, I throw straight punches, he throws hooks. He’s 5’3.” I’m 6’4.” He don’t want that fight.”

Garbrandt had a problem with what O’Mally was saying.

“I think I’ve been in his head,” O’Malley said. “I think he probably watched my fight with Jose Quinonez because we didn’t have any beef back then but I bet he was thinking ‘I’m going to avoid that fight’ back then.

“Then I knock out Eddie [Wineland] and he knocks out [Raphael] Assuncao but like I said, I think I said it on a podcast the other day, I respect Cody a lot. He got knocked out not once, not twice, he got knocked out three times in a row and then he comes back and fights a tough guy like Assuncao and he got the job done.”

As of now, these two will have to wait to fight. Cody is moving down to 125 pounds to challenge the champion, but O’Malley will gladly accept the fight when presented.

“There’s respect there 100 percent but I just think my skillset versus his skillset, I beat him,” O’Malley said. “That’s what it comes down to and obviously not afraid to express how I feel about that fight.

“He’s just getting hot headed, and obviously if someone talks crap, he’s going to talk crap back. It just worked out good.”