{"id":926986,"date":"2026-10-09T21:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T21:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/926986\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T21:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T21:30:12","slug":"sean-omalleys-coach-says-suga-to-skip-payton-talbott-and-wait-for-title-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/926986\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean O\u2019Malley\u2019s coach says \u2018Suga\u2019 to skip Payton Talbott and wait for title shot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Payton Talbott has been the talk of the town in the Bantamweight division since shutting off<\/a> Deiveison Figueiredo at UFC 332 last weekend. That was Talbott\u2019s third win in a row, following decisions over Henry Cejudo and Felipe Lima.<\/p>\n

Talbott\u2019s first round stoppage over Figueiredo, a former flyweight champ with a reputation for durability, has excited a lot of folks in the sport. Ex champs Henry Cejudo and Daniel Cormier, independently of each other, have talked him up as future star. And Cormier, who was on the call last night, went as far as to say Talbott vs. Sean O\u2019Malley is a fight that needs to happen as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Malley\u2019s coach Tim Welch didn\u2019t love what he was hearing from DC that night. He expressed that on his YouTube channel (I guess everyone has one of those now).<\/p>\n

\u201cI think one of the commentators said, \u2018I think Sean\u2019s waiting for the title shot. No, that\u2019s not happening. Come on, now. Don\u2019t be waiting for a title shot, you fight Payton Talbott,\u2019 who hasn\u2019t been ranked,\u201d Welch said, referring to the UFC 332 broadcast. \u201cAnd it\u2019s like, DC, do you remember back when you were fighting for the title, the pay difference? How much more you\u2019d get paid fighting for the title, the world championship, compared to fighting a No. 11 ranked guy now? I wonder if he remembers that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Welch also took umbrage at a claim from Cejudo about how dangerous Talbott was in the division right now.<\/p>\n

\u201dHenry Cejudo is saying that no one wants to fight Payton Talbott and I wonder how true that is because I guarantee you Marcus [McGhee] would fight Payton Talbott. I guarantee it. He\u2019d be licking his chops for that fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

McGee also won at UFC 332, defeating short notice opponent Anthony Romero by first round TKO.<\/p>\n

Welch also revealed that he and O\u2019Malley were waiting to see what happens at UFC 333 on October 24, when Petr Yan defends his belt against Merab Dvalishvili \u2014 a rematch from last December. Welch suggested that, if Dvalishvili wins, the chance of O\u2019Malley fighting for the belt next evaporates (since O\u2019Malley has already lost to Dvalishvili twice).<\/p>\n

If Yan wins, though, Welch likes O\u2019Malley\u2019s chances of being on deck for a title shot. O\u2019Malley beat Yan by razor thin split decision back in 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Petr loses, dude, \u2018Suga\u2019 vs. Payton Talbott is a sick, sick f*cking fight, dude,\u201d Welch added.<\/p>\n

And Welch seems pretty confident that his guy would win that fight. Well, what else is he going to say, though?<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause Payton, the way he fakes his uppercuts, the way he stutters into his jab, stutters into his one-two, it\u2019s almost like he fights just like \u2018Suga\u2019, just a titch slower,\u201d Welch said. \u201cJust a titch slower and he comes out and he pressures people and I just want that fight to happen one day. But I swear on my my father\u2019s life, that fight wasn\u2019t offered to us.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the end of this statement, Welch is referring to Talbott\u2019s claim that O\u2019Malley ducked him<\/a> as a potential opponent on the White House card in June. Both camps seem pretty adamant about their claims in this one. The UFC surely wasn\u2019t telling fibs to folks about who was and wasn\u2019t offered a fight, were they?<\/p>\n

Whether the UFC were planning an O\u2019Malley vs. Talbott fight in the past or not, it\u2019s clear now that these two young bantamweights can\u2019t be kept separate forever. I\u2019m team Cormier this one, hoping we see this fight sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Payton Talbott has been the talk of the town in the Bantamweight division since shutting off Deiveison Figueiredo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":926987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,702],"class_list":["post-926986","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926986","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=926986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}