{"id":429060,"date":"2026-01-25T13:55:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T13:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/429060\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T13:55:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T13:55:06","slug":"fighters-react-to-sean-omalley-beating-song-yadong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/429060\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighters react to Sean O&#8217;Malley beating Song Yadong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC 324: Fighters react to Sean O&#8217;Malley beating Song Yadong<a class=\"gnt_bc\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jan. 24, 2026Updated Jan. 25, 2026, 5:09 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gnt_em_vp_a gnt_em_vp__yt_a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MB899ggV23w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-g-r=\"vp_tg\" aria-label=\"Play YouTube video\" data-v-t=\"Sean O&#039;Malley wants Petr Yan rematch, shuts down Umar Nurmagomedov fight | UFC 324\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"gnt_em_vp_img gnt_em_vp_img__yn\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/MB899ggV23w\/maxresdefault.jpg\" onload=\"if(this.naturalWidth&lt;200){this.setAttribute('onload','this.classList.remove(\\'gnt_em_vp_img__yn\\')');this.src=\" https:=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/sean-omalley\/\" data-autotag=\"7013e4f3-a5d6-42cd-9ef9-a91ed24c89bb\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Sean O&#8217;Malley<\/a> snapped his two-fight losing skid at <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/ufc-324-gaethje-vs-pimblett\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 324<\/a> with a critical rebound win over Song Yadong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Former bantamweight champion O&#8217;Malley (19-3 MMA, 11-3 UFC) earned a unanimous decision victory over Song (22-9-1 MMA, 11-4-1 UFC) in the co-headliner at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, putting himself back in the contender mix for reigning titleholder <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/petr-yan\/\" data-autotag=\"77c99b41-af2c-48e5-8157-cc6aa937f311\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Petr Yan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Check below for the top X (formerly Twitter) reactions to O&#8217;Malley beating Song at UFC 324.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2026 mmajunkie.usatoday.com. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC 324: Fighters react to Sean O&#8217;Malley beating Song Yadong Jan. 24, 2026Updated Jan. 25, 2026, 5:09 a.m.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[182817,99,203814,203815,203819,182822,203820,203818,184128,183418,203817,203816,182820],"class_list":{"0":"post-429060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-sstssportsufc","11":"tag-sstsnufc","12":"tag-tagmartial-arts","13":"tag-tagoverall-positive","14":"tag-tagpetr-yan","15":"tag-tagsean-omalley","16":"tag-tagsports-news","17":"tag-tagtwitter","18":"tag-tagufc","19":"tag-tagufc-324","20":"tag-typestory"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}