They do not name Las Vegas the ‘Battle Capital of the World’ for nothin.
Subsequent Saturday, Las Vegas will host UFC 306 on the Sphere whereas Canelo Alvarez and Edgar Berlanga combat for the tremendous middleweight WBC, WBO and WBA boxing titles three miles away at T-Cell Area. Each occasions happen on Mexican Independence Day weekend.
Bantamweight champion Sean O’Malley headlines the UFC 306 combat card within the historic occasion on the high-tech venue towards prime contender Merab Dvalishvili. The combat promotion is placing lots of inventory in O’Malley’s capacity to generate curiosity. In an interview with Kevin Iole, O’Malley spoke about going head-to-head in Las Vegas towards the boxing legend.
“Each combat will get me to that subsequent stage, clearly. Going on the market and knocking out Aljo [Aljamain Sterling] actually type of put me as much as the place I wished to be. Going on the market placing on a masterclass towards Chito [Marlon Vera] in Miami, headlining it, greatest bantamweight combat in historical past. Now headlining the Sphere. It is only a step nearer to the place I wish to be,” O’Malley stated.
“We’re competing wit boxing. We’re competing with Canelo Alvarez, the most important Mexican boxer, the very best boxer alive proper now. We’re competing head-to-head with them,” O’Malley continued. “Slightly pleasant competitors. I believe this combat, main as much as it, it is going to an enormous combat. Come Sunday, come Monday, who’re they speaking about? That is going to be what’s essential. That is the place I wish to steal the present.”
O’Malley gained the bantamweight title by defeating Sterling at UFC 292 through technical knockout early within the second spherical. He avenged his solely profession loss in his first title protection, defeating Vera in a one-sided choice. Dvalishvili, a coaching companion and teammate of Sterling’s, can even be trying to steal the present on Sept. 14.