Suga Sean O'Malley
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
You better get working on it. I will. We got 10 days, brother. You don't ever notice. Nine days.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
No, I do sometimes. I look around. I see. I see. It's like being in the octagon is such a weird... It's something you can't explain. It's just like...
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
yeah it's you can't there's not really words or at least i don't know the words to be able to explain how it feels you feel i guess vulnerable in a sense you feel naked you have a mouth guard in especially the this tight spandex i wear just tight span it feels like you're in your underwear you have mouth guard gloves you feel naked and it's fucking weird do you like when like big people come to the fights hell yeah does that make you more like when you hear trump's coming is that like make you more nervous or you're like
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
I wanted the rematch, but I didn't know what was going to be next, but I wanted to just get back from surgery to training and book something fast. So I've just been, yeah, training.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
No, I would, I'd prefer, you know, cause in my head, I'm going to go out there and put on an absolute masterful performance. And like Bieber there, the Bieber was another one. When I fought Chris, the green haired guy, Bieber was standing up the last 30 seconds. And I'm piecing this kid up and Bieber standing there. That was fucking cool. That was cool.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
Oh, you saw him while you were piecing him up. No, just re-watching the fight. I was like, damn. But I did see, I remember seeing him in the audience. So when you're in the octagon, are you just cutting everything out besides hearing your coaches? I'm just trying to fucking just be in the moment.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
I usually have that mantra, whatever mantra is going through my head, too sharp, too fast, too focused. Ideally, you're not thinking, but if you are, you're thinking something like that. Is Tim not allowed to chirp Marab this fight? Cause we could step in if we need to. I mean, that's what, that's what we're hearing. No, no, you're not allowed to say his name. Tim's a, what's the ruling on that?
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
Can you, can you, I don't know the rule, I guess just from listening to the commentary, I guess it's illegal to, it's called excessive coaching. If you say the other opponent's name, um, I don't know. Tim does his own thing.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
What do you make of that? I mean, were you at all about him pulling out or something? Yeah, I mean, that would suck. I don't think Merab would pull out. I'm not worried about Marab pulling himself out. Someone else pulling him out would be my thing. But Marab was going to show up. He's going to show up as good as ever. I think Marab, his last performance was his best performance.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
I think this is prime Marab. I think we're going to get the best Marab.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
I go out there, beat Mrab. I mean, trilogy is possible. I think it comes down to what does UFC want? And the UFC is pretty good about what do the fans really want to see? Do they want to see Meevers Peter 2? That's a huge rematch. I think that would be one of the biggest, if not the biggest, fights in the bantamweight history. That was my favorite fight I've ever been to. Oh, yeah, Abu Dhabi.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
You guys were out there. That was sick. That was insane, bro. The Corey fights up there. Mrab trilogy is up there. Yeah, Jan would be way bigger than Sandhagen. It would be bigger. And that's what UFC wants to do is big fights. They're a business. They want to do big fights. So I don't know. It's so hard to overlook Marab. I know how good he is. I know how dangerous he is.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
Yeah, I don't know, Christmas Eve. Yeah, I don't know. That probably was like, all right, I need a... Did you like trip-trip or just like microdose? I did like a gram and a half, I think. And it was like a perfect... I don't like losing myself. Yeah. But I also like... I definitely couldn't have had like a conversation at certain points.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
I know how hard of a fight this is going to be. So right now it's like Marab's on my radar.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
I wanted to see Teporia versus Islam. I know. We all did. Those are the two number one pound for pound guys in the world. In my opinion, Teporia, Islam, both tied at number one. Obviously, Jon Jones up there too, but that was the fight to make, but they both wanted to move up. So, Ilya versus Charles. Hart says...
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
Charles, my brain says Ilya, but you can't count either of those guys out, especially Ilya coming off those two crazy knockouts over Max and Alexander. I'm stoked for that fight. That's International Fight Week. That's the next pay-per-view after ours, so I'm pumped for that. Islam versus Jack is a lot more exciting now that Jack just had that performance over Bilal.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
I mean, it's under the Islam or Ilya fight for me. But I'm still going to be like, Ilya, Charles is going to happen. Then we're going to look forward to that. So it's going to be just as big.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
I heard he's not going to be any... I mean, who knows? I heard he's not going to be any smaller than Jack come fight night, which would make sense if he's 55 to 70. That's a little bit different than 35 to 45, 45 to 55. I mean, it's an extra five pounds, but... When your skill level is that high as Islam's is, I don't think he'll be.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
I mean, it'll be interesting if he goes in there and tries to shoot on Jack. Jack stuffs him and gets in his face. But Islam's striking is so underrated that it's like Islam, you know, put the hands on Jack too.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
Yeah, that's true. And then Ian Gary's there. That kid that just fought Gilbert Burns, Morales. Michael Morales. That dude's a fucking nightmare too. Yeah, the divisions are heating up. That Gene Silva too is making the 45 division a little bit more interesting. And I guess Patty just won at...
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
now patty's a legit contender would be patty versus toporia is that's a super super super fight yeah if patty goes out there or if islam or elia goes out there and beats charles i think that's a does patty need one more though you got to get patty one more
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
Yeah. Armin Saruki ends up there, too. That dude's a nightmare for anybody. The UFC's hot right now. I like it. Do you think it is hot? I think it's hot. I mean, I think it is.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
Max versus Dustin Poirier. That's kind of... I think that's Dustin's last fight. Yeah. Max still fucking kicking. Like, we still got... Yeah, and I think UFC is hotter than it ever has been. It's... They're never going to run out of talent. Like there's so many up and coming people right now that it's just, it's never going to run out. It's just going to continue to grow.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
Like these, my buddies walked... Because I was supposed to go to Tim's that night. They were having a Christmas Eve party. All the boys were over there and I was going through some personal stuff, you know, I'm like, I just felt it. Like sometimes you just feel like, I'm like, tonight's a perfect night.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
I think he's probably... You know, I don't know Connor personally. I think he's probably... From battling demons, he probably wants to fight. Got a lot of shit going on. I don't know.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
Like, is that like close to a hundred million dollar bag? Dude, I have no, I would assume so. I feel like that would probably be the biggest fight ever. I mean, Jake versus Mike is going to be hard to fight to like pop as far as numbers, but Logan versus Connor.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
I'm going to take some mushrooms, took some mushrooms, went and I have a bunch of trees on my property, went and sat outside, went and like hugged a tree, sat there barefoot in the ground or on the ground. The craziest sunset. Even if you weren't, Tim was tripping about the sunset and he wasn't even tripping. And I was looking at the sunset at my house because we're neighbors.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
I forgot about that. Dude. I got a little selfie vid. At the prize picks event, Mike Malak and Vandy almost got into a little fucking scuffle. Oh, yeah. See, I was sitting right there. I was kind of trying to break it up. So what's your version? As a witness. I watched the whole thing. Vandy's claiming there was no looking, no touching. Vandy was overly drunk. So it's like his... And...
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
Mike and his girl and I were sitting in the very back, Vandy was sitting right in front, and I think everyone was just a little on edge, it was late, you know, and I think Mike said Vandy kind of touched her leg, maybe on accident, maybe, I didn't see anything happen, but they both got carried away a little bit, were yelling at each other, but nothing ended up happening.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
Okay, well, who are you taking in that fight? I don't know. I've never seen either of them scrap. Freezer's a big scrapper.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
yeah yeah he'd probably i mean it'll be you've always stayed away from all these public like altercations i don't i don't yeah i never get i don't like those i don't like being in altercations or anything like that i never have been really it seems like a lot of people like to pick fights with a lot of these fighters but we've been out with you no one ever no one ever fucks with me like everyone seems to you know be cool and chill and it's been good yeah i think there's a petition for jones to vacate the title it got like 130 000 signatures did you see that jesus christ
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
I mean, it is getting kind of crazy. I mean, it's like, it's on one hand, it's John Jones. On the other hand, it's like Tom Aspinall has been winning all these fights. And, you know, didn't he defend his interim belt? Like, I'm pretty sure that's insane. Like, defending your interim belt. I don't know. I mean, I think something has to happen this year, right? Maybe MSG.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
I think, doesn't he always fight in November? That would make sense. I feel like that would be huge. Yeah. But yeah, if I had to guess, that's what I would guess.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
Habib just doesn't seem like he gives a fuck about money. No, he didn't. Which is badass. Like, that's cool.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
But I could hear all the boys talking and laughing and I was supposed to be there. And I was sitting in my chair looking at the clouds and the boys come over. Warren Sona came over.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
Yeah, that happens. Does that happen? Kinda unsanitary though, right? I mean, you gotta mop the mats after and shit, but yeah, that happens. I mean, mop the mats after every session anyway. I love their Russian basketball. I would love to play a little bit of that. What's different about the Russian basketball?
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
They don't dribble. They just run. They're just a ref. So it's like rugby basketball. Pretty much. It looks intense. It looks intense. They got their fucking interesting characters over there. Who's your favorites of all time? Like, when it just comes to who, if I had to pick one, it'd be Connor.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
Connor, like, to me, was not necessarily the, he was, obviously, his skill set isn't really high, but when it just comes to all around, like, entertainment, it's Connor. Um, right now, who do I enjoy watching the most? Definitely, Ilya's up there, Islam's up there, um... I feel like I just kind of watch the top dogs and the top fights, but Ilya's been one of my favorites.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
to check on me because I was supposed to be over there and like they came over and I could not talk I was just like I just felt like my tongue was fat like I'm tripping like so I was gone a little bit but yeah that I was like I felt like I just need to make some changes in my life just get rid of some distractions what all did you give up I haven't jerked the old turkey.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
I think Patty's up there right now. Patty's definitely up there. I think Ilya's... Ilya's definitely a massive star.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
I think both. I think he's probably got some shit off rip.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
He's the best. I mean, Chael Sonnen was before Connor was Chael. Chael was the best. Connor. I don't know if we're ever going to, I always kind of put myself, I want to be as big as Connor. I want to do that. It's like,
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
yeah i mean people don't look at that look but everyone looks pretty happy well there's some sad buzz drunks but i'm sure he's probably buzzed up but what i'm saying is like i feel like he's accomplished everything he said he was going to do yeah and people don't really look at that side they're just like we want more connor but i know we'll put people be more an alcohol company fucking sold it
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
yeah we'll be more grateful for connor i feel like as the times pass and we're like it's the whole generation's over we're all older being like damn remember connor like i even still were like connor's a legend but 10 years 15 years when he's done fighting for sure there's no question we'll be like holy we gotta witness that yeah he's the mike tyson he's the the he's that guy and we gotta witness it which is really cool
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
I think for now it's a lot more like you're chasing bags coming up, trying to get sponsors, trying to get how much can I make a year? How much can they pay me a month? Now it's more so equity, like trying to get equity in businesses. Me and Uncle Emron are creating our own business. And we're going through the process of that right now, literally starting a business from the ground up.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
I haven't been on social media. I haven't smoked. I haven't drank. No gaming? I haven't been gaming for a long time. What's the hardest to give up? None of it was. It was easy? It was all easy. I don't crave any of it. I'll probably smoke again, especially if I take a little puff, enjoy, celebrate, crack a happy dad. I was never addicted to weed or alcohol by any means, so that wasn't hard to quit.
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Me and him are the owners and we are going through the whole process, getting samples, creating stuff right now. So we're working on that. And that's going to be, I'm super excited about that. So- I always find the business interesting.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
I love getting on calls with all the partners, and I love doing all that stuff, so that definitely still is something I do pretty much on a daily basis and look forward to. I was talking to Tim.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
That's all Tim. Tim, this Tim's gym. I fucking, you know, obviously I'm a part of it in a huge way, but Tim runs this show. He's fucking, it's Tim's gym. Is there any part of you that wants to like find that next big fighter? Like you would look for that? No, they're here. They're, they're show up. Like it's the thing about that is like,
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
When I came down to the lab 10 years ago, no one in the gym pointed and said, oh, that's the next guy. That's going to be the next champ. No one thought that of me. I always believed that I had the self-belief that I was going to be it, but no one in the gym was like, that's the guy. There's guys here that are still amateurs that they just got to put in the work. It's not like...
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
One stud comes in and they're like, all right, we're getting him in the UFC. There's guys that have been training for four or five years who are amateur, turn pro, 3-0, 4-0 right now. You grappled with one of them, Ezra, today. He's a stud. He's going to be on the contender series soon. He's going to be in the UFC soon. It takes so much to really become that next guy.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
People can get in the UFC, have great careers, and just never make it to that point to where you're the fucking man. God. Getting to that point is so hard. Fuck.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
I think the Eddie Wineland knockout. I got in the UFC, fought Terry Unwear December 2017. I fought three, four months later. I fought Andre Sukumta. It was my first pay-per-view. I wasn't headlining it. I was opening up the pay-per-view. Broke my foot. And, like, I got a lot of fans from that. Broke my foot. Three minutes left in the fight. Hopping on one foot. Still fighting.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
Like, my fan base shot up. Had a two-year layoff. Came back. Fought Jose Quinones. Knocked him out in the first round. It was a big deal, but not that big of a deal. Next fight, that was in March. Next fight was June 5th. No, June 6th, which is 2020 June 6th, which is going to be five years damn near to the day I fight Rob in the rematch, June 7th, 2025.
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First time I colored my hair, had the rainbow hair, and slept him. One of the most beautiful walk-off knockouts, in my opinion, of all time. Just beautiful. Slept him in the apex. It was completely quiet. You could literally hear him snoring. That was when I was like, okay. I'm going to become a star.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
But that was how long ago? That was that same year. Or no, that was the next year. I think it was 2021. That was the, yeah, it was 2021 because I fought Eddie Wineland and I fought Cheeto. That Cheeto fight was a co-main event. Which was a huge spot for me. UFC 252, I think. I fought co-main event and it was DC versus Stipe. Massive opportunity for me. And the first fight with Chido happened.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
Boom. Got finished. And the next fight back was Thomas Almeida. That was that knockout.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
oh yeah that one's legendary that's a one of them well i knocked him out a few times like in that fight like that fight could have been stopped a few times i got a lot of especially from the commentators like oh he needs to get ideas you know needs to fit get on top finish him and then i land that punch like ah maybe he didn't need to do that so but yeah that one's that was legendary you got a good highlight tape bro
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
Dude, before I got in the UFC, I would do interviews and I was like, I just want, at the end of my career, I just want like a 20 minute long insane highlight reel. I want just an insane, I want to have the most insane highlight reel. And we're working on it. I still got, I'm 30 right now. I feel like I still got minimum six, seven years left, possibly more.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
The way I'm taking care of my body, the way I'm feeling, staying healthy. And I would like to fight And just until I fucking wheels a long time to think about is like, damn, say you only fight two times a year in the next eight years. Like that's 16 more fights. Like that could be crazy, but who knows? You get, you get to a certain point where you're so fucking massive, like Connor.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
Social media was probably like, I guess I wouldn't say it's hard.
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And then it's like, some fights just don't make sense. You don't want to give that next guy an opportunity. It's like things there, those games be played and stuff. But ideally I just, you know, stay active and, uh, you know, keep ripping off wins.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
I feel like over the next three, two, three, four years staying at Bantamweight, you know, there's going to be a point probably where I'm going to get too big and I can't make, make a Bantamweight anymore. Um, but right now I just feel like, uh, the division is so hot. I feel like it's, it's a more popular, exciting, more, it's better than the featherweight division right now.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
So I'd like to stay there. It's so hard to, like, we talk about Corey, Peter, Rob, Patchy Mix is now in the UFC.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
Yeah, there's still, the band weight division is so stacked right now. For me to be able to actually clean that out would be so legendary. And that would be, that's the goal, is just fucking not have it, just not be questioned, be like, damn, okay.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
For me to take the belt from Aljo, who at the time was the greatest bantamweight of all time, and the only reason he's not considered that anymore is because of what Marab's done in the last few years. Marab, now, in my opinion and a lot of people's opinions, is the greatest bantamweight of all time, what he's done.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
For me to take the belt off Aljo and then go take it off Marab, I'm just building that legacy, building that legendary status.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
gonna head out uh next week early next week we're gonna fly in and uh i'm pumped for this fight week like vegas i always i always enjoy vegas vegas is cool i just feel like i've been there so many times to vegas like it almost just like it doesn't feel new so like when we fought in miami that was so sick that was completely different fighting in boston boston was all time most legendary moment like the arena in there
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
I was thinking about this yesterday. I went on a bike ride last night and I just felt super grateful for, I sent a bunch of the guys in my corner just a message, like an audio message. I just felt super grateful for the team helping me get to where I've been.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
was so electric you can't even explain how crazy that place was but i'm excited for new jersey it's gonna be different he's gonna be rowdy it's gonna be it's gonna it's it's right there new york's right there it's basically a new york fight it's like right across the street so jersey fuckers are probably more rowdy too right like it's gonna be it's gonna be sick so i got a cool we got a couple little airbnbs we're gonna be
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I'm pumped getting on the jet with the fellas. Like there's, that's some of the, my, like the best memories is, you know, all of us meeting up, getting on the jet, flying to another place to go to war with, with the fellas is like, especially putting in the work we've put in this camp. It's like, it's fucking, it's, it's going to be, uh, it's legendary.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
No, you, I still used to chat a little bit, not much, but dude, I, yeah, I've been just, You gotta let Sugar Lock in. Of course. I only sent one text. I've been ripping some poker with the fellas, though. I picked up a little poker and I enjoy that. Poker's a fun game. It's crazy how much skill there is involved in poker, but there's also still a high level of luck.
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
It's such an interesting professional game because there's not a lot of luck involved. There is luck involved in fighting, but it's a lot less. Same with other sports, but poker is like...
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
if you're running hot and you're hitting everything best feeling in the world it's just it's fucking but you gotta you have to have patience and you can't tilt because if you tilt you'll lose everything oh i know yeah that is true now i've been there i've felt oh that rage you get when that river fucks you and you lose your money and you start playing every hand good hand yeah oh no i've been yeah i've been ripping a lot of poker watching poker been uh it's been good it's been good but
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Other than that, fuck, just, yeah, Tim moved out, I think, might have been last year, late last year. Yeah, it was last year. Tim moved over, so we're neighbors now, which is fucking, again, that was one of the, like, things, because Tim and I lived at a shitty apartment when I first moved down here, so shitty. And like the goal was to like buy land and be neighbors.
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And we found the craziest spot out here in Arizona that has trees. It looks like, kind of looks like from where we're from, Montana. Like there's big trees out there, super green. How far is the walk to his house?
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probably about three minutes do you guys ever hit a sleepover or no no probably not yeah okay yeah it's weird but i'm building a house right now which is my my house right now is close to it but my the house i'm building is even a little bit closer and it's like from my back patio to his back patio it's just you could see each other from the house you say what up it's so sick it's not
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
And I was thinking about how, like when you take something, drugs, alcohol, whatever side of like short-term side effects, long-term side effects. I feel, I feel like I have, I'm getting long-term benefits from the social media detox. Now I'm really like short-term. I felt like I got the, I was like, Whoa, I feel really good. But now long-term I'm feeling like,
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Suga Sean O'Malley | Ep. 157
Me and Timbo, we haven't been doing our pod. That's another thing I took a little hiatus from. Didn't you just post a vlog with Izzy, I thought? Yeah, we did a vlog. Izzy came out. I was training with Izzy, yeah. Izzy came out. It was cool. He had to come out here and do some business stuff. He hit me up. I was like, you know, come up. He came and checked out the house, came and trained with us.
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That was cool as hell. Demetrius Johnson came by last week. Shot a pod with him. Trained with him. Dude's fucking fast, bro. It's just like a little energy ball. That was cool. But yeah, Tim and I, we're going to shoot a pod. We did one pod, I think like eight weeks ago, nine weeks ago to announce like the fight. And then, uh, haven't done, haven't been doing pods lately, which has been nice too.
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Cause I felt like I was just, sometimes when you don't have anything to say, you just say stupid shit. And I would just say shit. I just was like, fuck. I just felt over giving my opinion on every single week, trying to just make shit up to say. So it was nice taking a break. We're going to do one Sunday, uh,
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The real reason I lost, I haven't told anyone. It's just so I could get my belt to get a second belt. Not even, I don't know how that works. I guess we'll find out. But when you win the belt, You keep it. You keep the belt. So it's always a new belt. You get two belts. I got one belt that said Aljamain Sterling. Did we see Aljamain Sterling? That's the one I gave Steve. That's a one of one.
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That'll never be recreated. I gave that one to Steve. And then I kept the...
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the other belt and the other belt that i kept and then i beat cheeto i get another belt that's the one sitting up there that says cheeto on it but on my belt i get another ruby so on the main belt i get a ruby so now that i lost the belt and i'm gonna win the belt i don't know if they give me another like i'll get another belt that says marab on it and then i don't know if i get a second belt or if they put another ruby on the on the og belt yeah i was gonna ask why do they give you two when you beat eljo
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it's just different like it just says the it's different it says who you be the date of it like it's crazy when i walked into steve's apartment and i was like what the fuck is this i started looking i was like holy shit that's a real fucking belt i'm wearing this watch steve gave me the first time we all hung out oh my god is it yeah
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Yeah, that trip was fucking insane. That was nuts, bro. Playing baseball 6-9. Yeah, that was wild. I'll never forget. That was a weekend. That was Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Balls to the wall.
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Oh yeah, my 20s. That was before you gave everything up. That was my 20s. I had to live in my 20s, learned a lot in my 20s. Completely just settled in, family man, dad. You got to get the shit out of your system too. You really do.
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It's one of those things you can't... You could have a mentor that says, hey, don't do any of that. It's not worth it. It's just something you got to go. You got to experience it. There's certain things.
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What else you guys got going on? You guys going to? Egypt. Damn. The pyramids?
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We got some pranks planned outside the pyramids, too. Are you nervous about that? No. Dude, the pyramid. That's one thing. There's not really. There's a couple things I want to do in this lifetime. One is be around monkeys that can actually hang on you and jump on you. We did that. That's badass. I want to do that bad. Like I want to be a Bali rip.
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And then, and then the pyramids, I would love to see that. That's that I love hearing, like listening to Rogan, bring people on talking about it. It's just like, I love hearing that shit.
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I don't know if I, maybe I just had a baby the other day too. So it's like, yeah, you're probably living in the moment way more. I got another baby. Yeah. Yeah. No, it was six day old. So that probably played a role in it. You know, get going through an intense training camp that at 12 weeks, you know, dot just absolutely giving my entire soul to this training camp. Yeah.
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Yeah. No one knows. And we can't replicate it now to this day, which is fucking insane. Yeah.
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I was listening to Rogan last night. He was talking about there's some nicotine pouches that are like 50 milligrams called the Poblos. Have you ever ripped one of those? Where do you get those? I don't know.
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yeah i'm pretty soft with that shit i just recently started ripping little nickies i have one in right now and they definitely fire up your brain a little bit and get you get you going get you going a little bit it's nice just having it in your lip too it does feel good just sitting there putting it in there as fucking best time to have it's when you're gaming is it yeah yeah gaming that's another thing in the past yeah i bet that would have been bad for me gaming on those just that would have been
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Yeah, we busted out a little five fives. We're nine days out from the fight. So we're like the intensity is still pretty high. Coming down a little bit. Main thing right now is just no injuries. You don't want to get injured. You're this close to the fight. Don't get injured. So the workout we did was still really, really hard.
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We did five fives, did like a circuit, grappling, airdyne versus a climber, the ropes, the fucking, you know, the weight stuff. But, uh, I didn't, I was focused on my own shit, so I didn't get locked. But, uh, You were walked in, bro. I was noticing that. Dude, you gotta be.
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Like, get it as low as possible. So, it's like... Like that's that's what you do.
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I I agree I like uh, I sparred this frankie c kid the other day. I don't know if you guys seen that video. I played him in poker I won and then he had to spar me. We did three threes, but even doing something like that He came in he stayed tough.
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He did a good job But he sparred like I hit him with some good body shots was in front of him Hit him in the head a couple times super super light but uh doing that is even the next level from that. But doing that, I feel like it's important for people to just like, okay, that makes a little bit more sense. Like you were saying about getting up, like how exhausting it is.
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Yeah. So I was like, fuck. No, that was good. I love when people experience stuff like that. It gives them a whole nother,
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appreciation for actually what people do inside the octagon uh most people 98 of people probably don't experience that ever and i think it's a did that guy have any fight experience who the frankie dude no he trained for three weeks he said he just got in there and took body shots from you i mean we sparred three threes um damn do you see when they're punching our abs
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you know being towards the end of it and uh having a baby being off socials just i just felt so fucking grateful i was like feeling like that was the long term i'm getting long-term benefits of this detox and uh feels really good think about how much info to like on social media like you're scrolling it's pointless you're just downloading downloading downloading down you're like taking in shit that you don't even remember yeah right but then if someone asked you like
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Damn it, we could do it after. We have a flight right after this. I mean, we have 45 to go. Okay, you wanna fucking punch my abs a few times, bro? Uh, no, but. Other than that, I ain't got shit. June 7th, pay-per-view. June 7th, New Jersey. Let's fucking go. Let's go. It's gonna be electric. It's gonna be. Alright, let's check it out. We'll go.
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yo like what did uh this person do like last week where were they you'd probably be able to tell me yeah you know what i mean you're like downloading all this info that you don't even know you're storing i feel like the brain wasn't meant to take in that much info yeah and i still watch youtube i'm not like i feel like that's still like my guilty con like guilty pleasure it's like i still watch youtube and i still enjoy making content like if we got to make a reel for like we did a happy dad one the other day with the boys at the house i'm building it was fun like i enjoy that
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But just not actually being on the social, looking at comments, not doing any of that, it's been life-changing.
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Another thing, I just feel like the second Cheeto rematch, there was animosity. I really, truly wanted to beat the fuck out of him. I felt like I really didn't like him at that time. And I had such a good performance. It felt so good. I was like, I'm going to carry that into the Marab. I almost forced myself to not like Marab, but it wasn't genuine. It was just like...
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So I felt like I forced that a little bit. And this camp, it's like, I have nothing against Marab. I want to go out there and compete because I love to compete. I'm an athlete. I'm a high level performer. I want to go out there and put on a beautiful performance because I love this sport. Not necessarily because I don't like Marab.
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No, not necessarily. I kind of, I was like, oh, maybe that's why I had such a good performance because I didn't like him a little bit because I wanted to hurt him. That wasn't the case. That's not why I performed good. I think I just performed good because I was in, you know, good shape and it was a, at the end of the day, it was a 25-minute kickboxing match. Right. I could do that all day.
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Mirage is a different style. Yeah. It's a completely different animal and, yeah, I'm going to go in there with just a clear, Just as clear of a mind as I've ever had.
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Not really. So I tore my hip before the fight, 10 weeks before the fight. The whole training camp I was dealing with that. It wasn't ideal. I didn't have the training camp I needed to have to beat a guy like Marab. Murab's not someone you could have a half-assed training camp with. I was very disciplined. I was dialed. I was not slacking anywhere that camp.
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That camp was good for what I was able to do. I wasn't able to grapple. I wasn't able to wrestle. So that threw me off. But I was still dialed, still focused, still ate, still did everything right. And you just can't do that with Murab. You have to be healthy. You got to go in there with 12 weeks of the right preparation. That's what we did this camp.
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It was a tough fight, obviously. It wasn't like a brutal, I limped out of there and couldn't see. He's good at getting people in positions and kind of holding them there, punching, holding, punching, holding. And that's why he was considered such a boring fighter for so long. The last fight he had with Umar was fucking incredible. It was a beautiful performance. I enjoyed watching it.
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But that was kind of the hate Marab had gotten coming up the ladder was that he just wasn't a fun fighter. He's definitely turning that around. He's showboating. He's doing his thing. But yeah, feeling like I felt, I mean, I almost finished him in the fifth round, landed a good body shot, a couple of good body shots, had him running around in circles in the end of the fifth round.
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So I'm confident that I'm going to be able to, you know, keep up with Marab if not push the pace.
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It wasn't even extra noise. You know what was weird about that fight? There was less noise. It was less of a UFC environment. Yeah. Because I think 50% of the tickets sold were to first-time UFC fans. Yeah. So they were there to see the spectacle of the sphere, and it was a different environment for them. I don't think that played a role in my performance. I'm just saying it felt different.
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It was different in a sense. It was weird. I didn't feel like I was supposed to win that fight in a weird way. I said this on another podcast a long time ago. It was so weird. I randomly got this owl tattoo on my chest. I had a shitty tattoo right here, and I didn't like it. I told the tattoo, I'm like, cover it up. He's like, what do you want? I was like, I don't know. What would be there?
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He's like, some kind of bird. He's like, you fucking tell me. He put an owl here. And now it's like, ever since I, uh, the last, it was the Peter Jan for the first Peter Jan fight. I'd sit outside, watch the sunset. And like this owl came and flew and laid on this, uh, or was sitting on this, um, wood thing by me. And I was like, what the fuck? I was so scared to look up what that meant.
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Cause I thought it was bad. Like, I'm like, what if that's bad luck? I don't think I've ever seen an owl in my life. Yeah. Well, I looked it up. Except for Harry Potter. It's really, it was good luck.
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But owls have been coming in and out of my life in a weird way, like a weird way. And, you know, I moved out to this other house, and I have a bunch of owls that live in these trees around me. So I see them quite often. Ten days before the mob fight, there was a dead owl in my driveway. And I was like, that can't be good. And I was like, I don't know. I didn't want to think about that. But I...
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And it sounds crazy, but I was like, fuck, I just didn't feel like I was supposed to win that fucking fight. But I almost kind of felt like a similar feeling in the first Cheeto fight. It was a weird fight week feel. It felt weird. But that first Cheeto fight led up to me getting my title defense against Cheeto, the rematch. But yeah, I feel good. I feel good going into this one.
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When will this air? This will probably air. I think we're going to flip it tomorrow. Tomorrow, okay. So yeah, we head out to New Jersey soon. Pumped to fight in New Jersey. It's where the whole I hand and maraud my coat happened. Like Aljo and Henry fought at the Prudential Center. I was there to see who I was going to fight. So it's kind of full circle.
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I feel very mentally, I'm supposed to win this fucking fight. Does the clip of Merab diving into the pond ever fuck with your head? I've probably fucked with his head and landed on it. Rob's... Yeah, he's one of the smartest guys I've fought. I'd say that. So you feel like it was kind of supposed to happen like this? Sometimes you just... It depends. That's where faith comes in.
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I'm not necessarily a religious person, but if you could... I felt like it was supposed to happen. Everything's supposed to happen for a reason. It's a weird thing to say out loud. It's a spiritual thing.
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There's a lot of opportunity for growth and struggle. And... There's opportunity for growth, but that doesn't mean you're just going to struggle and then you grow. You have to be able to turn that struggle into growth and do the right things. And I feel like I've been doing the right things and all my relationships, all my, you know, taking away the distractions.
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And I feel like I'm just doing everything right. And again, I can go out there, say I lose that fight. It's like my happiness, happiness is a skill. And I'm not, I go out there, say I lose this next fight. Happiness is a skill. So it's not like that Monday comes around. It's like, all right, I have to be sad.
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It's like, dude, my life is so fucking, I've been able to, I just have so much good people around me. Such a good, we've built such a good community around us. I'm like, life's good regardless. Yeah. I feel like going into a fight with that mindset, being like, okay, whatever happens, I'm okay with, is important for an athlete or any kind of entertainer to accept that.
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Whatever happens is going to happen. I put in the work and... I feel like I've had that mindset kind of throughout my career. Like whatever happens allows me to be free in my performance.
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surgeries suck going through surgery sucks because just not being able to train like i had surgery a couple couple weeks after the fight and just like going through surgery sucks like just not not being able to do what i do every day and train and release that kind of energy and coming off a loss and it's it was just like it was it was frustrating i definitely but i was able to grow a lot from that so it was it benefited me for sure what do you think would be the toughest thing for you to give up alcohol alcohol you don't really smoke what about pussy
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I got my boo. I got my queen. So it's not like I'm not busted. I'm still happier.
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Okay, I'm not a big jerker. I don't know what defines that.
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Yeah, I would say what defines a big jerker. I'm stressed out. If you're booze at home and you're hiding in the bathroom hitting one off, you've done that. I have never done that. It's fine.
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I think it was November. Yeah, it's been a minute. Fuck, we've just been locked away. Peoria, I haven't fucking traveled. I haven't done much. Just been here training. Getting ready. Because I had surgery right after the fight. Recovered from that. And then basically I knew... Like... I wanted to get back. I didn't know I was going to get a rematch right away.
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So, yeah, no, giving that up, that was another thing. It's like that chi, your energy. It's like just fucking watching porn, jerking off. It's like you never feel better. You never leave going, I'm the man. It's always like, Pressure than that. It's like a temporary stress relief.
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Trump loves seeing that, too. Oh, he probably loves it. He loves seeing that. Dude, one of my favorite moments is, I have a bunch of different vivid moments that I remember from rewatching fights. One of them was after the Aljo, or during the Aljo fight, I threw the teep, fell on my butt. He got in on a shot.
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I had good defense, circled off the cage, and you could see you stand up, give a fist bump.
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seconds before i fucking drop him i love seeing that the last the other one's uh trump after the cheeto fight he goes it was fucking i was like that was i think trump's gonna be there right i don't know that's what i heard damn that'd be sweet you would know you would know better than anyone else i'll give you that you gotta bring another chick though hey so yeah maybe i'll let you slide with the plus one dude because i have a plus one to every ufc steinies