Former interim bantamweight title challenger, Cory Sandhagen has referred to as for a title eliminator in opposition to former champion, Sean O’Malley subsequent — claiming the Montana striker has “no business” combating for gold in his return to the Octagon.
Sandhagen, the present quantity 4 ranked bantamweight contender, has been sidelined because the summer time, most not too long ago taking over most up-to-date title challenger and UFC 311 co-headliner, Umar Nurmagomedov.
And struggling defeat within the pair’s title eliminator, Sandhagen was dispatched over the course of 5 rounds in a one-sided unanimous resolution loss to the Russian — seeing his spectacular run of three straight wins halted as well.
Cory Sandhagen requires title eliminator with Sean O’Malley
But to e-book his return to motion within the time since, Sandhagen has made his case for a title eliminator with Contender Sequence alum, O’Malley in his comeback to energetic competitors — questioning how he may very well be booked to rematch present champion, Merab Dvalishvili subsequent.
“Let’s be real, (Sean) O’Malley has no business fighting Merab (Dvalishvili) for an immediate rematch.” Cory Sandhagen mentioned in a video posted on his official social media. “He got beat up in the first fight. He’s gonna get beat up in the second fight. No one wants to see that fight.”
“I’m not not booked yet, I wanna fight,” Cory Sandhagen defined. “I am so damn bored. I’ll even give this fool [O’Malley] as much time as he wants — the way Aljamain (Sterling) gave him as much time as he wanted. UFC, make the fight the fans wanna see; which is me and O’Malley. Make it happen soon. I’m so f*cking bored.”
Linked with a title re-run in opposition to Georgian fan-favorite, Dvalishvili post-UFC 311, O’Malley could be welcomed to a title rematch by the previous — who admitted he was open to battle him once more subsequent.
Yeah, I don’t know [who I will fight next],” Merab Dvalishvili instructed Ariel Helwani for Uncrowned. “But it looks like, I guess, yes, it looks like maybe he is my next opponent, but who knows? I want to fight for the best option, whoever is the best next, and I just want to be busy.”
“Yes, sir. I will fight Sean again if UFC asks me to do it,” Merab Dvalishvili defined.
