That\u2019s a pretty good start for McMillen, who trains alongside Sean O\u2019Malley and has been hyped by the former bantamweight champ as a future contender for UFC gold. And as you\u2019d expect from a buddy of \u201cSuga,\u201d McMillen is not humble when speaking about his chances of winning a belt.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m living player one mode in my life and my dream fight is whoever has the f–king belt when I\u2019m there and ready to get it,\u201d he said at the post-fight press conference. \u201cAnd I think that\u2019s going to be a lot quicker than most people realize. We\u2019ll be there soon.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a perfect world, McMillen sees himself holding gold at 145 with O\u2019Malley regaining his title at 135.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know he wanted to fight Petr Yan at the White House,\u201d McMillen said. \u201cHe\u2019s the guy that beat Petr Yan. He has a bad style that I don\u2019t think is really good for Petr Yan. I think he ends up fighting Petr Yan soon, gets his belt back, and I\u2019ll be ready for the belt next year, 100%.\u201d<\/p>\n
For now, though, the next step is upgrading from the Meta Apex to a proper arena.<\/p>\n
\u201cI literally fight to give people pure entertainment,\u201d McMillen declared. \u201cI\u2019m a modern day gladiator and I enjoy this s–t. So, 100% I would love to fight in the T-Mobile Arena. I love Vegas. I\u2019m a gambler. I\u2019m going to go hit the blackjack table tonight, eat some pizza, hit the clubs, pop some bottles. I love Vegas. This is where I\u2019m meant to fight.\u201d<\/p>\n
Based on the response he got during his fight, Vegas loves McMillen right back. And while he\u2019ll need to beat better opposition before we get on his bandwagon, it\u2019s clear Tommy has the same swagger that made \u201cSuga\u201d so popular during his rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That\u2019s a pretty good start for McMillen, who trains alongside Sean O\u2019Malley and has been hyped by the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-587616","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-sports","13":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587616","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=587616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}