{"id":25342,"date":"2026-08-27T19:44:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T19:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=25342"},"modified":"2026-08-27T19:44:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T19:44:47","slug":"bad-news-for-yadong-and-umar-sean-omalley-vs-petr-yan-rematch-makes-most-sense-for-ufc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=25342","title":{"rendered":"Bad news for Yadong (and Umar) \u2014 Sean O\u2019Malley vs. Petr Yan rematch \u2018makes most sense\u2019 for UFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cIf Umar goes out there and gets through Song, it makes the division even more interesting,\u201d O\u2019Malley told UFC on Paramount (transcribed by MMA Junkie). \u201cEven Song getting a big win, it\u2019s interesting. At the end of the day, we should do what fans (want). If they want to see me against Petr rematch, I think that\u2019s the fight that makes most sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cSong Yadong is a very, very dangerous opponent,\u201d O\u2019Malley said. \u201cI actually recently watched my fight back with Song, and I was very happy with how it played out. I was pretty critical right after but looking back on that fight, I showed up. I was very focused, I did what I needed to do against a very dangerous opponent and I\u2019m not counting Song out of the Umar fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/467638\/bad-news-yadong-umar-sean-omalley-vs-petr-yan-rematch-makes-most-sense-ufc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf Umar goes out there and gets through Song, it makes the division even more interesting,\u201d O\u2019Malley told UFC on Paramount (transcribed by MMA Junkie). \u201cEven Song getting a big win, it\u2019s interesting. At the end of the day, we should do what fans (want). If they want to see me against Petr rematch, I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1589,701,54,37,56,53,1763,42,3012,224,38],"class_list":["post-25342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-analysis","tag-bad","tag-news","tag-omalley","tag-petr","tag-rematch","tag-sean","tag-sense","tag-ufc","tag-umar","tag-yadong","tag-yan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}