{"id":162832,"date":"2025-09-23T03:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/162832\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T03:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:10:07","slug":"sean-omalley-eyes-cory-sandhagen-fight-at-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/162832\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean O\u2019Malley eyes Cory Sandhagen fight at White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">One of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/8\/2\/24479284\/sean-omalley-tried-booking-cory-sandhagen-fight-just-one-month-after-ufc-316-loss-merab\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">biggest Bantamweight fights<\/a> Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) has yet to book is Sean O\u2019Malley vs. Cory Sandhagen. If things line up correctly, \u201cSuga\u201d believes it could finally go down on one of the most unique stages in combat sports history \u2014 the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/382119\/video-dana-white-confirms-broadcast-plans-for-ufc-white-house-card-on-july-4-2026-live-on-cbs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC White House<\/a> card next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Well, that\u2019s what O\u2019Malley hopes will happen, anyway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cYeah, the White House card,\u201d O\u2019Malley said recently on his podcast. \u201cIf Cory goes out there and wins \u2014 and I beat whoever is next \u2014 that\u2019s interesting. But regardless, I want to fight in the next four to five months or whatever. So, that I\u2019ll also be ready for that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cUFC said [the White House card] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/latest-news\/387267\/report-ufcs-historic-white-house-card-now-expected-for-june-2026-including-weigh-ins-at-lincoln-memorial-and-fireworks-show\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">could be in June<\/a>, International Fight Week or July,\u201d O\u2019Malley added. \u201cSo if I can get one in early next year or at the end of the year \u2014 one of the two, count me in, I want to be on that card. Dude, being on the Sphere card and the White House card, these are legendary moments that are once in a lifetime f\u2014king moments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">O\u2019Malley is currently without a booked fight, though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/389919\/sean-omalley-hopes-song-yadong-fight-rumors-are-true-if-thats-whats-next-hell-yeah\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rumors continue to swirl<\/a> about a possible matchup versus Song Yadong later this year. If \u201cSuga\u201d were to deliver a highlight-reel finish, it wouldn\u2019t take much for him to angle right back into title contention \u2014 especially because he\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2023\/8\/20\/23838919\/dazzled-ufc-boss-sean-omalley-for-earning-his-spot-theres-no-such-thing-as-dana-white-privilege\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">earned his spot<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Still, if the stars align, a showdown between O\u2019Malley and Sandhagen on the White House lawn would be iconic \u2014 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/8\/2\/24479284\/sean-omalley-tried-booking-cory-sandhagen-fight-just-one-month-after-ufc-316-loss-merab\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">kind of fight that feels destined to happen<\/a>. Although I\u2019d watch them fight two blocks down the road on the basketball court if need be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the biggest Bantamweight fights Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) has yet to book is Sean O\u2019Malley vs.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,702,3194],"class_list":["post-162832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}