Sean O\u2019Malley is tired of having to wait for his weight division to get moving again.<\/p>\n
\u201cSuga\u201d has legitimate reasons to be annoyed. He just won a big fight<\/a> at the UFC White House event that put him back within striking distance of a bantamweight title shot. But before that can happen, former champ Merab Dvalishvili has to get his rematch against current champ Petr Yan, who took the belt off Merab<\/a> in December at UFC 323.<\/p>\n O\u2019Malley has a win over Yan<\/a> from 2022 that he believes puts him in the batter\u2019s box after Yan vs. Dvalishvili 3. But waiting leaves O\u2019Malley twiddling his thumbs until 2027.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat the f–k, is Petr the champ, is he active, I don\u2019t know,\u201d O\u2019Malley ranted in a new YouTube video. \u201cMerab was active AF, Petr\u2019s been out for a while. They fought in December. It\u2019s been January, February, March, April, May, June, July. It\u2019s been seven months. That\u2019s not terrible for a champion, but the division is on fire right now. We need our champion back and he\u2019s not. He\u2019s out there getting hair transplants and hanging out with ladyboys. It\u2019s pissing me off!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cGod, Petr. If they don\u2019t fight by October, I might just claim to be champion and defend my belt in December.\u201d<\/p>\n Fighters love to make fun of Petr Yan for living in Thailand, acting like he\u2019s just on permanent vacation out there doing God knows what. But a quick look at his Instagram account shows just how hard \u201cNo Mercy\u201d is working to get back into the cage. Video after video has Yan rehabbing his body.<\/p>\n \u201cContinue to recover after 2 surgeries in 5 months,\u201d Yan wrote on one clip. \u201cWe are working and not giving up!\u201d<\/p>\n Yan underwent a nine hour back surgery in January<\/a> and a second surgery sometime after that. Previous reports had him expecting to return by late summer, but no announcements have been made yet. Merab Dvalishvili has been just as antsy<\/a> as Sean O\u2019Malley, and he recently competed at an RAF event in Georgia.<\/a> That wouldn\u2019t have happened if there was a chance the UFC might announce Yan vs. Dvalishvili 3 for August, and we haven\u2019t heard any whispers that the fight could end up on UFC 331 in September.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s hoping we get an update soon on Yan\u2019s return and the bantamweight title picture starts moving again. Going from Merab Dvalishvili putting his title on the line four times in 2025 to zero bantamweight title defenses in 2026 sucks. But as they say in this sport, it is what it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sean O\u2019Malley is tired of having to wait for his weight division to get moving again. \u201cSuga\u201d has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85,1396],"class_list":["post-799783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799783","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=799783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}