Cory Sandhagen has some harsh phrases for Marlon Vera.
This previous weekend, efficiently defended his UFC bantamweight title, dominating “Chito” Vera for 25 minutes at UFC 299. Provided that it was broadly believed that Vera bought the title shot attributable to his rivalry with O’Malley and never as a result of he was probably the most deserving challenger, the one-sided nature of the combat was a troublesome look, and Sandhagen didn’t pull any punches when breaking down the combat on his YouTube channel.
“Chito clearly had no enterprise being within the cage with O’Malley,” Sandhagen mentioned. “Actually powerful displaying by Chito. Superior efficiency by O’Malley. You’ve bought to provide the man all of the credit score on the earth despite the fact that he was combating like a homeless-looking Chito. …
“I’m going to attempt to spend this complete breakdown not s******* on Chito the entire time, nevertheless it’s most likely going to show into me s******* on Chito the entire time. That combat actually annoyed me as a result of it was one, unbelievably uncompetitive. Two, I really feel like a dummy for considering Chito was going to do higher as a result of that’s nearly actually what all of his fights appear like except he will get some sort of knockout. And three, I simply assume it’s not that cool that Chito even bought that chance to start with, as a result of like I mentioned, that’s what all of us ought to have seen coming. I don’t know why I purchased into the Chito hype. That was actually silly of me.”
Sandhagen additionally has his personal historical past with Vera, dominating the Ecuadorian over 5 rounds only a 12 months in the past. And in his breakdown of the combat, Sandhagen likens what O’Malley did with what he did to stymie Vera’s offense.
“O’Malley received nearly the identical type of manner I beat Chito, besides he hit Chito lots more durable and he hit Chito much more,” Sandhagen mentioned. “So good on him for doing that. As a substitute of overwhelming Chito with [wrestling] pictures and stuff like that, he began overwhelming Chito with a ton of feints. Didn’t give him the identical look each single time. … O’Malley saved it tremendous dynamic the complete time, didn’t give him the identical look too many instances in a row, and that’s why he received.”
Sandhagen went into additional element about among the particular issues O’Malley did properly within the combat, earlier than ending his video addressing the bantamweight title image and the truth that following UFC 299, O’Malley known as for a champ vs. champ combat towards featherweight champion Ilia Topuria.
“Good on O’Malley,” Sandhagen mentioned. “Congrats to the champ. I don’t know who he’s going to combat subsequent. Hopefully he doesn’t depart the division after which begin going for double-champ standing. I feel that’s type of whack proper now. However we’ll see what the UFC decides.”
Whoever O’Malley fights subsequent, it appears unlikely that it will likely be Sandhagen, who as an alternative seems to be focusing on a combat with rising contender Umar Nurmagomedov.
