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\nSean O’Malley, UFC 324 media day Credit: Gabriel Gonzalez\/Cageside Press<\/p>\n
Payton Talbott called his shot after UFC 332, and unfortunately for Sean O\u2019Malley, the internet immediately grabbed it and ran.<\/p>\n
\u2018Suga\u2019 says he never ducked Talbott, was never offered the fight in the first place, and while he\u2019s been impressed with the rising bantamweight for years, he\u2019s also not exactly jumping out of his chair to fight a tall, lanky killer when names like UFC champion Petr Yan are sitting right there.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll address the ducking allegations first of all. I don\u2019t like bringing family into this, but I swear on my family I did not get offered Payton Talbott at the White House,\u201d O\u2019Malley said on The SuGuru Show.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cHere\u2019s the thing, if he can also swear that he did, then there was miscommunication somewhere on the line. I feel like he made it up. I don\u2019t think he ever got offered me. I can\u2019t imagine them offering someone a fight without asking \u2018Suga,\u2019 the A-Side, they asked this guy. They would ask me. I never got offered Payton Talbott at the White House, so that\u2019s that. He called me out and that sounds good.\u201d<\/p>\n O\u2019Malley clearly likes what he sees from Talbott, but liking someone\u2019s style and volunteering to fight the dude are two completely different things. Especially when O\u2019Malley looks at the matchup and basically wonders why the hell he should fight a tall, dangerous striker when there are bigger names on the table.<\/p>\n \u201cWhy would I fight this f*cking tall, lanky, good striker, when I can fight Petr Yan? Should I go down to \u201825 and then bounce back up? I mean, he\u2019s fighting the guys they\u2019re offering him and they just happen to be under 5\u20195\u201d and coming up from 125,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cTough motherf*ckers. Deiveson Figueiredo, former world champion. Legend. Henry Cejudo, did a pretty good job when he used to fight. These are the guys he\u2019s getting offered, it\u2019s not his fault.\u201d<\/p>\n The callout after his latest win certainly got the former bantamweight champion\u2019s attention. O\u2019Malley revealed that Talbott has actually been on his radar since before the rising contender even officially joined the UFC.<\/p>\n \u201cI remember watching Payton Talbott on the Contender Series and I was like, that motherf*cker was sick and I knew I\u2019d probably fight him someday. I like his style inside the octagon and outside the octagon. He\u2019s got swag,\u201d said O\u2019Malley.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is f*cking great. I wasn\u2019t on the fight card, I haven\u2019t been in the media for a while, a guy comes out, calls me out. Every headline: \u2018Payton calls out Suga.\u2019 This is good.\u201d<\/p>\n