{"id":502069,"date":"2026-02-25T00:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/502069\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T00:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:59:08","slug":"sean-omalley-has-a-simple-strategy-for-avoiding-cauliflower-ear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/502069\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean O&#8217;Malley Has a Simple Strategy for Avoiding Cauliflower Ear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/sean-omalley\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sean O&#8217;Malley<\/a> has become one of the UFC&#8217;s most popular fighters, and his unconventional approach to keeping his ears looking good is a prime example of why he&#8217;s gained such a following.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Malley recently invited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@N3on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">streamer N3on<\/a> to his gym for a training session. As they were getting lunch together, N3on asked O&#8217;Malley how he was able to avoid getting cauliflower ear after a lengthy career that includes 16 UFC fights. The former Bantamweight joked that he avoids wrestling entirely in his fights. <\/p>\n<p>Do I look like I know how to wrestle? You get that from wrestling. I don\u2019t wrestle. Not me. I never wrestled a day in my life.<\/p>\n<p>When an opponent gets on top of him, instead of fighting back, he just absorbs the damage until the end of the round. <\/p>\n<p>I lay there and get beat up until the end of the round. You don\u2019t watch my fights?<\/p>\n<p>Sean O&#8217;Malley has faced several elite grapplers throughout his UFC career, most notably in back-to-back fights with Merab Dvalishvili that spanned a combined eight rounds. O&#8217;Malley dropped both bouts \u2014 a unanimous decision loss at UFC 306 in September 2024 when Dvalishvili stripped him of the bantamweight title, and a third-round submission defeat in the rematch at UFC 316 in June 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sean O&#8217;Malley has become one of the UFC&#8217;s most popular fighters, and his unconventional approach to keeping his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,13421,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-502069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sean-omalley","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}