Bantamweight champion Sean O’Malley places his title on the road for the primary time in opposition to Marlon “Chito” Vera within the UFC 299 foremost occasion on March 9. If O’Malley wins, and he predicts that he’ll, he desires to face featherweight titleholder Ilia Topuria on the Sphere on Mexican Independence Day.
Each males are newly topped champions with contenders awaiting of their divisions. Former two-division champion Daniel Cormier would not need to see them struggle, or not less than not but.
“I can inform you what I do not need to see. I do not need to see him (Topuria) struggle Sean O’Malley. I need not see these guys struggle simply but as a result of neither of them have defended their championship,” Cormier stated on his YouTube channel.
“I do not know that we should always proceed to permit for these guys to get a belt and instantly depart the division,” Cormier continued. “That is what occurred with Islam [Makhachev] and [Alexander] Volkanovski… Islam hadn’t cleared out (the division). He has two title defenses, each in opposition to Volk. He is a forty five pounder. He is by no means defended the belt in opposition to a light-weight. However once more, that struggle with Volk was a credit score to Volk for what he had achieved as a result of he had type of cleared out his division.
“I get it in that occasion but when we’re speaking to Topuria and O’Malley, these are two guys that have not fought anybody in that division. So, I do not suppose these guys ought to struggle one another proper now. They have work to do.”
