{"id":295725,"date":"2023-11-07T09:24:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T09:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/?p=295725"},"modified":"2023-11-07T09:24:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T09:24:42","slug":"omalley-claims-he-will-smoke-chito-vera-in-huge-rematch-at-ufc-299","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/mma\/omalley-claims-he-will-smoke-chito-vera-in-huge-rematch-at-ufc-299\/","title":{"rendered":"O&apos;Malley claims he will &apos;SMOKE&apos; Chito Vera in huge rematch at UFC 299"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Sean O&#8217;Malley claims he will &#8216;SMOKE&#8217; Chito Vera in huge rematch and claims challenger is &#8216;genuinely scared&#8217; after Dana White announced bantamweight title clash for UFC 299<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>UFC president Dana White revealed three major fights for next year<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Sean O&#8217;Malley is to take on Marlon &#8216;Chito&#8217; Vera at UFC 299 bantamweight clash\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><strong>Listen to Mail Sport&#8217;s new boxing podcast THE HOOK &#8211; with exclusive interviews\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sean O&#8217;Malley is licking his lips at the prospect of exacting revenge over Chito Vera at UFC 299.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>UFC president Dana White announced a spate of massive contests to take place in the new year, among them a bantamweight showdown in March, with the exact date and location still undetermined.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Malley lost against the Ecuadorian three years ago but has since gone unbeaten and spectacularly claimed the title from Aljamain Sterling in August by TKO.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Sugar&#8217; is desperate to put right his perceived wrong of the Vera defeat, in which he was hobbled by a kick to a nerve in his leg.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I feel like it&#8217;s perfect timing,&#8217; he told the MMA Hour after the rematch was announced.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/07\/07\/77478497-0-Sean_O_Malley_is_set_to_defend_his_UFC_bantamweight_title_after_-m-2_1699343900232.jpg\" height=\"382\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Sean O&#8217;Malley is set to defend his UFC bantamweight title after winning it back in August<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;After that first fight, everyone was like, &#8216;You gotta get that rematch, you gotta get that rematch.&#8217; And I said, &#8216;I&#8217;ll get that rematch when I want that, when it&#8217;s time. When it&#8217;s time for that rematch, I&#8217;m going to call for it and I&#8217;ll get it.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I could&#8217;ve gotten that rematch whenever I wanted. I was like, it&#8217;s not the right time yet. Now is the right time, so I&#8217;m just very excited about that fight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I don&#8217;t want to talk him down too much, because I&#8217;ve got to build a fight,&#8217; the UFC bantamweight champion added. &#8216;But I&#8217;m going to smoke this dude.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Malley is reluctant to put Vera&#8217;s victory over him down to anything other than fluke.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s just, why isn&#8217;t that happening [more]?&#8217; O&#8217;Malley said of the nerve damage. &#8216;I mean, I guess it happens every once a while \u2014 that nerve, right? But how many times?<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If he kicks me in the nerve again, if it happens again, I&#8217;ll say, &#8216;Alright, he&#8217;s doing some s***. He knows what he&#8217;s doing.&#8217; But I feel like it was so lucky, and he knows it. He truly, deep down knows it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;That was so lucky. He&#8217;s genuinely scared of me. I know you&#8217;re watching &#8216;Chito,&#8217; you know I&#8217;m way too fast for you and you ain&#8217;t going to be able to do s*** to me, bud. He knows it. I think he&#8217;s very nervous for this fight, 100 percent. He&#8217;s too slow. What are you going to do? I&#8217;m going to piece him up.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/07\/07\/77478579-0-O_Malley_will_have_his_first_tdefense_against_No_6_Marlon_Chito_-a-3_1699343912542.jpg\" height=\"446\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Malley will have his first tdefense against No 6 Marlon &#8216;Chito&#8217; Vera, whom he lost to in 2020<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether he&#8217;d be keen for the fight to take place in enemy territory, he added: &#8216;Oh yeah, I would love that. Ecuador, I don&#8217;t even know where that is. Somewhere over there. Why wouldn&#8217;t I [accept those terms]?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Knocking him out in Ecuador would be even better. I want to knock him out, so it doesn&#8217;t really matter where we fight. I would be loved there.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Malley insists he is fully capable of finding the knockout, even though Vera has never been separated from consciousness in any of his 30 professional contests.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Chito&#8217; is very tough. He will be hard to knock out,&#8217; O&#8217;Malley added. &#8216;I know that. I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s going to go out there, [fall after] a couple shots. But Aljo is hard to knock out too. I found his chin. So I know what I&#8217;m capable of. I&#8217;m very excited, very excited about that fight.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/mma\/article-12719533\/Sean-OMalley-claims-SMOKE-Chito-Vera-huge-rematch-claims-challenger-genuinely-scared-Dana-White-announced-bantamweight-title-clash-UFC-299.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean O&#8217;Malley claims he will &#8216;SMOKE&#8217; Chito Vera in huge rematch and claims challenger is &#8216;genuinely scared&#8217; after Dana White announced bantamweight title clash for UFC 299 UFC president Dana White revealed three major fights for next year Sean O&#8217;Malley is to take on Marlon &#8216;Chito&#8217; Vera at UFC 299 bantamweight clash\u00a0 Listen to Mail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>O&amp;apos;Malley claims he will &amp;apos;SMOKE&amp;apos; 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