Sean O’Malley’s campaign to only fight to his current UFC pay grade continues. The MMA Lab talent competing out of Glendale, Arizona made major headlines recently when he revealed that he’d rather avoid fighting ranked opponents in the UFC, considering he gets “paid the same” either way.
If fans expected O’Malley to potentially change his tune – perhaps following a hard conversation or two with UFC matchmakers & Dana White – it doesn’t appear the 26-year-old is about to back down. In a recent interview on the MMA Hour, O’Malley spoke about his philosophy on the business of fighting, adding PPV main-events and title shots to the list of things that he didn’t yet feel like he was getting paid to take on (transcript via MMA Fighting).