{"id":375617,"date":"2025-12-29T18:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T18:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/375617\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T18:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T18:28:08","slug":"sean-omalley-facing-peak-yadong-song-at-ufc-324","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/375617\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean O\u2019Malley facing \u2018peak\u2019 Yadong Song at UFC 324"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cFor this year, I have been focused on more wrestling,\u201d the 28 year-old Yadong told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufc.com\/news\/song-yadong-peaking-right-time\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC.com<\/a>. \u201cI went to San Diego to train with J-Flo (Justin Flores). He\u2019s a judo guy, so I learned some new stuff. I feel great. I feel like I\u2019m reaching my peak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThis fight is very important for me because a win over Sean is a big accomplishment,\u201d Yadong added. \u201cThis is a big opportunity for me. It makes me so excited and more motivated to win over Sean \u2014 one step away from a title shot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Petr Yan turned the division upside down by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-323-fight-card-start-time-live-results-merab-vs-yan-2-mma\/408780\/close-fight-merab-coach-thought-we-were-winning-ufc-323-teammate-scored-first-three-rounds-ex-champ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">defeating Merab Dvalishvili at UFC 323<\/a> earlier this month in Las Vegas, opening the door for several top contenders (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-mma-rankings\/410294\/red-hot-manel-kape-makes-waves-in-flyweight-contender-pool-following-ufc-vegas-112-rankings-update\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">see them here<\/a>). That said, it\u2019s worth noting that both Yadong (22-8-1, 1 NC) and O\u2019Malley (18-3) have dropped decision losses to Yan in previous fights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cFor this year, I have been focused on more wrestling,\u201d the 28 year-old Yadong told UFC.com. \u201cI went&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,139445,702,4454],"class_list":["post-375617","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-on-paramount","tag-ufc-news","tag-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375617","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=375617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}