Sean O\u2019Malley is not a happy man after being snubbed for a performance bonus at the UFC White House event.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Malley vowed he\u2019d get a knockout against Aiemann Zahabi and followed through, catching his opponent with a big one two that dropped him to the canvas. The moment Zahabi crumbled, O\u2019Malley stood up straight and fired off a number of salutes to the crowd (watch the highlights here).<\/a> Pretty cool, we\u2019d say.<\/p>\n But instead of awarding O\u2019Malley for the viral finish, the UFC piled the bonus money on the main and co-main event fighters. Justin Gaethje vs. Ilia Topuria rightfully got Fight of the Night, while Justin Gaethje and Ciryl Gane got the two Performance bonuses, which seems kind of whack when you think about it. Gane has been taking a lot of heat for finishing Alex Pereira with a number of pretty blatant back-of-the-head<\/a> strikes. And Gaethje\u2019s fight finished when Topuria\u2019s corner waved the match off<\/a> leading into the fifth. Gaethje technically didn\u2019t even finish him.<\/p>\n Bonuses for the UFC White House event were pumped up<\/a> to wild levels too. O\u2019Malley missed out on $425,000 worth of money, $100,000 in U.S. dollars and $325,000 in various crypto. That left him sounding pretty salty in a new video on his YouTube channel.<\/p>\n \u201cThen we did a f–king pointless press conference where I didn\u2019t get a bonus and it was f–king ridiculous,\u201d he complained. \u201cI was just telling Tim, like these wins feel good, like it feels good but if I would have lost, those are just so much worse than wins. It\u2019s like, why even do this s–t.\u201d<\/p>\n Rather than do the standard post-event presser, the UFC had all the winners from the card come out on stage<\/a> with Dana White following the event. That meant a lot of waiting around for the conference and then a lot of sitting there while other people answered questions. If you go back and watch O\u2019Malley, he\u2019s clearly not a happy camper as the nearly half-million dollar snub sinks in.<\/p>\n \u201cDude, Gaethje getting a double bonus? I thought for sure I was getting a bonus,\u201d O\u2019Malley said on his YouTube channel. \u201cI was so confident.\u201d<\/p>\n