Morning Report: Sean O’Malley’s coach believes ‘Suga’ presents large issues for Ilia Topuria

Sean O’Malley’s coach Tim Welch believes his fighter is a troublesome matchup for Ilia Topuria.

This previous Saturday, Topuria solidified his reign atop the featherweight division, knocking out Max Holloway in the principle occasion of UFC 308. Subsequent up for Topuria seems to be a rematch with former champion Alexander Volkanovski, with Diego Lopes additionally ready within the wings. However whereas these matchup appear destined to happen, Welch believes Topuria’s largest problem might come from his bantamweight cost.

“I do suppose stylistically there may be Sean might give Ilia issues,” Welch instructed Submission Radio. “He actually might. However Ilia topuria is a really, very scary struggle… You make one mistake with Ilia Topuria and also you’re going to be lights out, trying up on the ceiling or no matter. That’s a scary, scary struggle, however I do imagine that Sean, together with his vary and together with his pace and together with his general ability set, he might give Ilia issues. I do imagine that.”

This isn’t the primary time O’Malley’s camp has thrown out a potential matchup with Topuria. After efficiently defending his bantamweight title towards Chito Vera, “Suga” teased a potential champ vs. champ matchup, however was finally made to struggle Merab Dvalishvili as a substitute. Dvalishvili received a dominant determination to take the title and, at the very least for now, take a matchup with Topuria off the desk.

One matchup which may be on the desk for O’Malley is a rematch with Dvalishvili. Although UFC CEO Dana White has stated Umar Nurmagomedov needs to be first up for Dvalishvili, each O’Malley and his rival have campaigned for the rematch. And if by some means the celebrities align and provides O’Malley one other crack at Dvalishvili, Welch is assured issues will go otherwise this time, and put the Topuria matchup again on the desk.

“A wholesome Sean, I do imagine we go on the market and find yourself KOing Merab in between some kind of scramble or one thing,” Welch stated. “On the in-betweens, I feel Sean will have the ability to catch his chin and put him down.

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FINAL THOUGHTS

I’m positive Topuria is shedding sleep over Sean O’Malley shifting up. I imply, what would he do? Positive, he might take Sean down simply and submit him, however he might additionally knock Sean into the subsequent dimension. The plethora of selections for the best way to win would merely be an excessive amount of for Topuria, breaking his mind and resulting in a TKO (brief circuit) victory for O’Malley.

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