{"id":91929,"date":"2025-08-24T08:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T08:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/91929\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T08:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T08:36:08","slug":"sean-omalley-says-contender-series-is-worlds-2nd-biggest-mma-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/91929\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean O’Malley Says ‘Contender Series’ Is World’s 2nd Biggest MMA Promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"

UFC’s Sean O’Malley
\n Contender Series …
\n World’s 2nd Biggest MMA Promotion!<\/p>\n

\n Published August 24, 2025 12:15 AM PDT\n <\/p>\n

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Dana White<\/a>‘s Contender Series has become such a big deal, “Suga” Sean O’Malley<\/a> says after the UFC, it’s the biggest force in all of Mixed Martial Arts.<\/p>\n

“The Contender Series is the second biggest promotion in the world. UFC and then Contender Series. There’s nothing really that’s competing with it,” the show alum told Babcock this week.<\/p>\n

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\"Sean<\/p>\n

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Not PFL, nor ONE FC.<\/p>\n

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“I watched more Contender Series than I watched PFL. PFL or Bellator, you still don’t even really understand what’s going on there, but yeah, Contender Series is a huge opportunity for these guys to go out there and make a name for themselves.”<\/p>\n

Of course, that’s exactly what O’Malley, now 30, did on the boss’ show in the summer of 2018, when he became an overnight sensation.<\/p>\n

With Snoop Dogg<\/a> on the mic, Suga knocked out his opponent, Alfred Khashakyan, with under a minute left in the first round of the fight.<\/p>\n

“O’Malley!!! O’Malley!!!” the legendary rapper reacted to the epic KO.<\/p>\n

With the win, Sean got a UFC contract … and has since gone on to become one of the biggest stars in the entire promotion.<\/p>\n

He’s also one of two fighters — the other being Jamahal Hill — who became UFC champion after appearing on the ‘CS.’<\/p>\n

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\"Sean<\/p>\n

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A whole new crop of fighters is hoping to follow in O’Malley’s path, and with season 9 of the show kicking off earlier this month, they’ll have an opportunity to win a contract just like Sean did 8 years ago.<\/p>\n

What advice does he have for the prospective UFC fighters? Who does Sean want to fight next?<\/p>\n

Check out the full interview!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC’s Sean O’Malley Contender Series … World’s 2nd Biggest MMA Promotion! Published August 24, 2025 12:15 AM PDT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,44,85,635,26898],"class_list":["post-91929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tmz-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91929","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=91929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}