{"id":2134,"date":"2023-09-21T19:07:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T18:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=2134"},"modified":"2023-09-22T04:30:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T03:30:32","slug":"sean-omalley-is-confident-he-can-knock-out-alexander-volkanovski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/sean-omalley-is-confident-he-can-knock-out-alexander-volkanovski\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean O\u2019Malley is confident he can knock out Alexander Volkanovski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sean O\u2019Malley is convinced that in the event of a fight against Alexander Volkanovski, he would be able to knock him out!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sean O\u2019Malley has always been confident, this is nothing new. Recently, he made his mark by seizing the bantamweight title held by Aljamain Sterling by beating him by TKO at UFC 292. Right after, he even received praise from a certain Jon Jones!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_40799\"  width=\"696\" height=\"391\"  data-origwidth=\"696\" data-origheight=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LmnQys4ckOo?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now, &#8216;Sugar&#8217; has requested a rematch against Marlon Vera and the latter agreed last month. However, the UFC has not made anything official yet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even if he has not mentioned a move to featherweight to challenge Alexander Volkanovski, O\u2019Malley already imagines that he could beat him. During an interview, he made it clear that he didn&#8217;t want this fight right away, but if it happened, then he could knock out Voklanvski:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI&#8217;m not going to fight Volk, I&#8217;m just being very honest. It\u2019s a very, very, very difficult fight. Do I think I could knock him out? 100%. I believe I can knock out anyone at 135 and 145 lbs. At 155 lbs, it could be more difficult, I might have to gain a few extra kilos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cBut Volk is a very difficult fight. I&#8217;m not saying I&#8217;ll never fight him, but that&#8217;s not what I want going forward. Maybe in a year or two years. \u00bb<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the moment, there is no question of a fight against Volkanovski, but Sean O\u2019Malley is impatiently awaiting his next opponent. And to pass the time, he even has fun exchanging memes with the contenders for the title&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SUGA SEAN TEASES NEXT FIGHT. | UFC 293 Recap | EP 122\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WCjOp2Gh54k?start=1&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean O\u2019Malley is convinced that in the event of a fight against Alexander Volkanovski, he would be able to knock him out! Sean O\u2019Malley has always been confident, this is nothing new. Recently, he made his mark by seizing the bantamweight title held by Aljamain Sterling by beating him by TKO at UFC 292. Right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,47],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ufc-news","8":"category-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2136,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions\/2136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}