‘We knock individuals out within the first spherical’: Rising UFC star Sean O’Malley says he can emulate Conor McGregor’s impression in UFC (VIDEO)

Sean O’Malley, the rising UFC star with the Irish-sounding title, says that he has every thing it takes to emulate the achievements of one of many struggle sport’s most transformative figures, Conor McGregor.

O’Malley, who is an ideal Four-Zero since becoming a member of the UFC ranks in late 2017 after impressing Dana White on the “Contender Collection” present, has signposted himself as a fighter to look at following a sequence of scintillating performances within the cage.

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His most up-to-date outing noticed him declare a one-shot KO of struggle veteran Eddie Wineland in June. However, as his status grows so does the caliber of his opposition and forward of this weekend’s UFC 252 showdown with the highly-regarded Marlon “Chito” Vera, O’Malley says he’s anticipating to supply the kind of efficiency of which fighters like McGregor, and even middleweight champion Israel Adesanya, could be pleased with. 

“I feel clearly Conor’s profession went nicely,” O’Malley informed the media in Las Vegas on Wednesday.

“Israel Adesanya’s profession went nicely, and I really feel like I need a related profession like that.

“(McGregor and I are) fairly related in preventing kinds. We knock individuals out within the first spherical. We’re not afraid to say how the struggle will play out.”

McGregor, the Irish former two-division UFC champion, started his profession within the group with an inconceivable sequence of predictions, a lot of which got here true. 

Chad Mendes, he stated, could be knocked out within the second spherical of their struggle at UFC 189. He then predicted that Jose Aldo would fall after their first change at UFC 194. He additionally stated he would sooner or later maintain each the UFC’s featherweight and light-weight world titles. 

All of those predictions got here true. Others, in fact, did not however O’Malley says that he respects the Dubliner’s willingness to name his personal photographs after which work to realize them, and is aiming for the kind of definitive performances McGregor displayed en path to UFC gold.

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“I feel it completely relies upon how I am going on the market and end ‘Chito,'” O’Malley stated.

“If I win a choice I don’t get that large, large subsequent struggle title. I might, as a result of if I win a choice will probably be a really spectacular choice. But when I starch him I feel I’ll get whoever I would like.

“He’s within the UFC, he’s robust, he’s beat individuals within the UFC, he’s completed individuals within the UFC and he’s by no means been completed.

“Throughout it’s a tricky struggle. He’s my hardest opponent to this point and, with that stated, I’ll in all probability nonetheless drop him within the first spherical.”