Henry Cejudo says he has inside information about Sean O’Malley’s camp
#NocheUFC And then you say you’re “having a hard time” getting up from a lower position.
He also said he plans to drop down to flyweight, but if he loses to Merab he will stay at bantamweight to face Sean O’Malley…
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September 10, 2024
Henry Cejudo claims to have heard about Sean O’Malley’s training camp from multiple sources.
O’Malley will face Merab Dvalishvili for the bantamweight title this Saturday in the main event of UFC 306 at the Sphere in Las Vegas. Just days before fight day, “Sugar” popped into Cejudo’s podcast with Kamaru Usman for about 20 seconds to praise “The Nigerian Nightmare” and slam “Triple C” for getting easily defeated by Aljamain Sterling.
Cejudo is currently planning to face O’Malley if he loses the title to Dvalishvili at UFC 306, and the Olympic gold medalist is confident that will happen. The former flyweight champion is already planning to move down to 125 pounds, but plans to stay at bantamweight for a potential matchup with O’Malley.
“one time [O’Malley] “If I lose to Merab, I think the next fight is me and him,” Cejudo said on the Pound for Pound show. “I know Merab is going to win. I know a little bit about O’Malley’s fight camp and what it’s like… I hope the motherfucker loses because it’s been a showdown between me and him. And the best way to settle it is to fight… And I’m going to move down to flyweight… I’ve started a diet and I’m going to do everything right. But there’s one fight… I think a fight between me and ‘Shawn O’Malley Ronald McDonald’ would make a lot of sense too.”
UFC 306: O’Malley vs. Dvalishvili airs Saturday at 10pm ET on ESPN+. Order now!
Cejudo’s Fight Ready Camp and the MMA Lab, where O’Malley trains, are both in Arizona. Cejudo claims he’s heard from multiple sources that O’Malley was struggling to get up after being on his back on the ground. The former two-fight champion believes Dvalishvili will have the advantage if he can withstand O’Malley’s onslaught in the first two rounds.
“But with that being said, he doesn’t know how to get up from the bottom. I went to the fight with three training buddies and we all said the same thing,” Cejudo said. “When you live in the same city, you all know someone who says the same thing. With that being said, I think it’s a match made in heaven for a guy like Merab. He just needs to be careful in the next two rounds. As the fight goes on, I can see Merab Dvalishvili taking him down.”
Cejudo abruptly retired in 2020 and vacated his bantamweight title. “The Messenger” returned to the bantamweight division last year and suffered consecutive decision losses to Sterling and Dvalishvili.
