Former Sean O'Malley champion made an 'embarrassing' awareness last weekend.
It is two weeks since O'Malley dropped his title Rematch to Merab Dvalishvili on UFC 316, which brought him to a difficult place in his fighting career.
O'Malley took criticism after criticism after his loss of submission to Dvalishvili.
UFC Interim Heavyweight Champion Tom Aspinall said that O'Malley did not want to be there ', while former Bantam weight champion Cody Garbrandt stated that' Suga 'looked like' s' on UFC 316.
Garbrandt moisture and lost last weekend against Raoni Barcelos in UFC Atlanta, with a new look that was somewhat reminiscent of O'Malley, covered with tattoos and braided his hair.
It turns out that O'Malley was not a fan.
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Sean O'Malley says that people probably look him like a tatted Cody Garbrandt: 'so embarrassing'
Looking at UFC Atlanta on Saturday evening, O'Malley was not so irritated by Garbrandt's critical comments towards him, but instead his new look.
“Do you know what was annoying?” Said O'Malley on the Ariel Helwani show.
“When I saw that his hair was braided and he has those face tattoos, I had something like that, f -. That is how people see me.
“It was just so embarrassing,” O'Malley continued.
“I had something like that, oh god, I have to get a new look.
“I had something like that from Holy's – that was an eye -opener. I had something like that, damn. That is how people probably look at me. It was embarrassing.”
Sean O'Malley crossed paths with Cody Garbrandt during the press conference in the past
Although the former champions may never have fought, Garbrandt and O'Malley came to UFC 269.
After a word war on Twitter and on stage, Garbrandt and O'Malley faced the UFC 269 press conference in December 2021 and had to be separated by security.
O'Malley insulted Garbrandt and said he won one fight since 2017.
Garbrandt responded to the non -frank “Suga” by expressing that he hadn't fought anyone.
“He understands that when he jumps into competition, his hype disappears,” Garbrandt said about O'Malley.
In 2025, both bantam weights saw their shares fall with back-to-back losing.
Time will learn whether they will ever meet in the Octagon, but it is unlikely that with O'Malley it is not the current #1 -administration and Garbrandt in the Bantamweight department.