Midnight Mania! Sean O’Malley and Alexandra Pantoja beef over unreleased training footage, alleged knockout

Welcome to Midnight Mania!

The 2 most just lately topped UFC champions have already got beef.

Alexandre Pantoja scored gold from Brandon Moreno in a slender split-decision win at UFC 290 final month, whereas Sean O’Malley knocked out Aljamain Sterling simply final weekend within the headlining struggle of UFC 292 (watch it). Pantoja is a profession Flyweight, and “Suga” has by no means expressed any curiosity in dropping weight, so most wouldn’t anticipate any subject between the 2 males.

Nonetheless, Pantoja replied to an Instagram query, explaining that he wish to struggle O’Malley due to a previous coaching session, alleging that “Suga” talks an excessive amount of and owes him the footage. It didn’t take O’Malley lengthy to reply on-line, claiming that he knocked out the Brazilian — one thing no one has managed to perform in his 30-fight professional profession.

It’s def not cool to name out ppl under you in weight so I def received’t even point out that I’d knock Alex Pantoja out…. Once more

— Sean O’Malley (@SugaSeanMMA) August 24, 2023

Now, O’Malley has elaborated additional on their sparring session. Based on “Suga,” the 2 threw down in 2015 at his dwelling fitness center of The MMA Lab, when a visiting Henry Cejudo and Alexandre Pantoja confirmed up in quest of coaching companions. A mildly hungover O’Malley whopped on Pantoja and completed him within the first spherical, then acquired drained and was submitted within the third.

“Does he need me to put up it? I completed him within the first spherical. I can put up that, I wasn’t gonna deliver it up, if that’s what he desires. That’s humorous,” Sean O’Malley defined on his podcast (through BJPenn.com). “I imply, does he overlook the way it performed out? I’ll say within the third spherical he choked me. However, dude I used to be like 1-0 or 2-0 as a professional. He was coming off ‘The Final Fighter’ making his UFC debut, two weeks out from his UFC debut. I used to be f—king smoking joints the night time earlier than identical to not anticipating Henry Cejudo and him to roll into the fitness center, write my identify down for 2 rounds.

“So I’m having to sparring this dude two rounds in a row. Not in camp, not in form. End him within the first spherical. They’re f—king pissed. Spar him once more within the second spherical. I’m 100% gassed out from already whooping his ass,” O’Malley continued. “Henry’s yelling, we wish him for 3, we wish him for 3! Within the video, I’m undecided should you can hear it, however perhaps you’ll be able to. Henry was saying, maintain off on the punches. Like he stated, I used to be punching him too laborious. Benson’s (Henderson) within the nook for the second to the third spherical, yelling they don’t come into this fitness center and we don’t get f—king drained! And I’m gassed the f—okay out. So, he does choke me within the third spherical. This has gotta be 2015, like this can be a very long time in the past.”

In the intervening time, this appears extremely unlikely to guide something. Each males are very new champions with loads of contender choices at their very own weight courses. Extra importantly, O’Malley has extra high-profile foes like Marlon Vera pounding at his door, a grudge match that may transfer much more pay-per-view (PPV) buys than a Flyweight double champ struggle.

Insomnia

THE MFING DAMAGE RETURNS!

Boxing continues to frustrate in reserving the matches folks actually wish to see.

Tank Davis will face Isaac ‘Pitbull’ Cruz in a rematch in his subsequent struggle. Workforce Davis didn’t wish to struggle Devin Haney or Shakur Stevenson. As a result of they believed the cash is best within the Mexican challenger. pic.twitter.com/i7JhpRIciH

— SAY CHEESE! (@SaycheeseDGTL) August 25, 2023

Unbelievable momentum and drive on this throw:

Excellent fundamentals are so good to observe. Then, a little bit of aptitude on the finish as a bonus!

There’s been some confusion about whether or not or not Merab Dvalishvili wants time to get better or desires Aljamain Sterling to get an immediate rematch first, however “The Machine” says he can struggle for the belt in December.

“I don’t wish to play with you anymore.”

The UFC anti-trust lawsuit might lead to some huge supervisor drama in October … Does he know?!?

I wager this man and the inject-myself-with-green-goop man might be buddies.