Sean O’Malley’s longtime coach, Tim Welch, busted out a brand new excuse for his fighter’s embarrassing loss against Merab Dvalishvili last year.
Emanating from the Sphere in Las Vegas, UFC 306 was headlined by a bantamweight title tilt between O’Malley, the defending champion, and the top-ranked Dvalishvili. ‘The Machine’ dominated O’Malley for the entire 25-minute affair, leaving ‘Sin City’ as the newly crowned 135-pound king.
Since then, Dvalishvili has further established himself as the best bantamweight in the world, handing Umar Nurmagomedov his first career loss at UFC 311.