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Sean O’Malley’s coach Tim Welch has given his thoughts on his student possibly taking on rising star Payton Talbott.
In recent weeks, there’s been a lot of talk about Payton Talbott potentially going up against Sean O’Malley. That talk intensified following Talbott’s big win over Deiveson Figueiredo, after which he called out Suga for a showdown at some point in the future.
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Sean O’Malley responded to this callout, and it seems as if we will have to wait and see what happens in the title picture before we get any clear indication of what’s next for both men.
In a recent video, O’Malley’s coach Tim Welch had the following to say on the subject.
Could Sean O’Malley vs Payton Talbott happen?
“Henry 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,” Welch said on his YouTube channel. “I guarantee it. He’d be licking his chops for that fight. … I mean, Oct. 24, we’re going to find out. We’re going to find out because if Petr loses, dude, ‘Suga’ vs. Payton Talbott is a sick, sick f*cking fight, dude.
“Because Payton, the way he fakes his uppercuts, the way he stutters into his jab, stutters into his one-two, it’s almost like he fights just like ‘Suga.’ Just a titch slower. Just 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’s life, that fight wasn’t offered to us.”
“You know what I was thinking? I was like, you know what? The UFC could have contacted Payton Talbott, said, ‘Hey, we’re thinking about something, possibility for the White House. We could think about you and Sean,’” Welch said. “And he probably got hyped, but they never came to us with that name, not once. … DC’s like, ‘No, forget that. Forget that, Sean. You’re fighting Payton Talbott next.’
“I think one of the commentators said, I think Sean’s waiting for the title shot. ‘No, that’s not happening. Come on, now. Don’t be waiting for a title shot, you fight Payton Talbott,’ who hasn’t been ranked. And it’s like, DC, do you remember back when you were fighting for the title, the pay difference? How much more you’d get paid fighting for the title, the world championship, compared to fighting a No. 11 ranked guy now? I wonder if he remembers that.”
Quotes via MMA Junkie
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