Sean O'Malley spent most of this year assuring us that a rematch with Merab Dvalishvili would go differently. It did, but not in the way he probably would have liked.
In the main event of of UFC 316 on Saturday in Newark, New Jersey, “The Machine” defended his bantamweight title against the man from whom he took it last fall, O’Malley. Much of the promotional lead-up to the fight consisted of O’Malley discussing the changes he had made in his life and how those would lead to a different result in the cage, but once the two men went to work, he looked somewhat tentative.