Former UFC champ Matt Serra was not impressed with Sean O’Malley’s coach Tim Welch at UFC 306.
Merab Dvalishvili defeated O’Malley to seize the bantamweight title in the principle occasion of the promotion’s debut card at Sphere in Las Vegas. Serra, who cornered Dvalishvili on many events prior to now, reacted to the battle — and extra particularly, Welch’s cornering efforts on his UFC Unfiltered podcast with comic Jim Norton.
“This battle uncovered him as a coach as a result of when your man is successful and knocking folks out, certain, you seem like a f*cking superhero,” Serra stated. “When your fighter is clearly dropping the battle — and begins dropping rounds — Tim Welch was, like, not wanting to harm [O’Malley’s] emotions. ‘OK, good spherical,’ no, you’re dropping f*cking three rounds. You bought to get in his ass. … He was afraid that he didn’t know learn how to deal with his man [with] that many rounds, and I assumed his f*cking nook work was shit.
“So he uncovered himself. [Dvalishvili] took care of enterprise and Tim Welch had no solutions for his fighter.”
O’Malley said he had “zero excuses” for his performance within the aftermath, and stated he would take an prolonged time frame off following the second lack of his professional profession. “Sugar” then revealed that he suffered a torn labrum, and will probably be heading for surgical procedure on Oct. 3.
