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On the second episode of UFC 299 Embedded, Marlon “Chito” Vera celebrates having the honor of fighting for a world title , Sean O’Malley gets his hair game on point and boards a private jet, Jack Della Maddalena heads to the swamp to see some alligators, and more.

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Slated to make his return to the Octagon this weekend at UFC 299 in Miami, undisputed bantamweight champion, Sean O’Malley will sport a pair of pink and gold trimmed shorts for his title defense rematch against Ecuadorian challenger, Marlon Vera in Florida. 

O’Malley, the current undisputed bantamweight champion, will headline UFC 299 this weekend in his return to the Octagon, attempting to successfully defend his crown at the first time of asking, in a rematch against Chone native, Vera.

Last time out the Montana native headlined UFC 292 last August in his first promotional main event tilt, stopping the record-setting reign of Aljamain Sterling with a blistering second round KO in Boston, Massachusetts.

On that same card, perennial contender, Vera landed a close decision win over common-foe, Pedro Munhoz – earning his first title fight under the promotion’s banner as a result.

Sean O’Malley set to wear pink shorts at UFC 299

And topping a massive pay-per-view card – which has been heralded by fans, O’Malley will sport a pair pink compression shorts for his fight with Vera – trimmed with gold trim, in the words of play-by-play lead, Jon Anik – befitting a champion.

“The Suga Show is going pink,” UFC posted on their official X account. “@SugaSeanMMA will wear pink shorts in his first bantamweight title defense this weekend at #UFC299.” 

Predicting a dominant win over Vera – whom he suffered his sole mixed martial arts loss to back in 2020 in a first round TKO loss, Dana White’s Contender Series product, O’Malley claimed he would finish the former inside just three rounds.

“He’s (Marlon Vera) kinda peaked – I’m better than this due,” Sean O’Malley said. “I’m going to go out there and do what I was about to do to him [back in 2020], and put his lights out. He’s good, he’s tought, he’s very durable, but that doesn’t get the job done against me. You can’t just be tough, you can’t just be durable. I believe I’m more skilled, faster, more accurate, and I’m going to go out there and I just feel confident standing in front of him.”

“Mentally, physically, emotionally, I’m preparing for 25 minutes,” Sean O’Malley explained. “I’m preparing to leave there limping, leave there sore, leave there with my hand hurt from his head. SO – preparing for the worst, but realistically, I’m putting this dude’s lights out within three [rounds].”

Who wins at UFC 299 this weekend: Sean O’Malley or Marlon Vera?

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Vinicius Oliveira wants to be the first to beat Umar Nurmagomedov in MMA.

“Lokdog” and Nurmagomedov both came out victorious at UFC Vegas 87 this past Saturday at the UFC APEX, and the Brazilian took to Instagram to share an alleged direct message exchange with the Russian on the social media platform.

Nurmagomedov, who beat Bekzat Almakhan via decision to improve to 17-0 as a professional fighter, allegedly wrote to the Brazilian, “Any time. Even in street,” in response to a message not included on the post.

Oliveira, who pocketed $ 100,000 in bonuses for his insane flying knee knockout of Bernardo Sopai, replied, “Shut your chicken s*** mouth, on the street with no rules I’ll rip your heart out and feed it to some dogs, you don’t scare me. First you’re short, weak and you only have wrestling. I respect you but you have no chance of beating me, not even in your best dream.”

He then claimed that Nurmagomedov agreed to a fight, but the discussion stalled when Oliveira refused to share his phone number.

“Talk to me during the fight, I’ll talk with my manager, he’ll talk with Dana, and so let’s do that buddy,” Oliveira wrote.

Oliveira added, “This guy [Nurmagomedov] is afraid of me, nobody wants to fight him, but I wanted to and I still want to, but as far as I know he refused this fight, that just shows that he has a nightmare when he hears my name. I’m coming for you!”

“The new victim was found,” Oliveira continued. [Nurmagomedov] gonna sleep and have nightmares with my name. Let’s do it [Dana White]. Don’t be p**** little chicken and accept this fight, I’ll show you the really war.”

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Merab Dvalishvili hopes to get his title shot sooner rather than later but until then he’ll take on the backup role for the main event at UFC 299.

The top-ranked bantamweight contender, who secured his own opportunity to become champion with a win over Henry Cejudo at UFC 298, will fly to Miami on Wednesday and hit the scale on Friday as the backup for the title fight between Sean O’Malley and Marlon “Chito” Vera.

Dvalishvili’s manager Oren Hodak of KO Reps confirmed his status as the backup on Tuesday when speaking to MMA Fighting.

It’s become standard practice for the UFC to maintain a backup for fights like this one just in case disaster strikes in the days or hours leading up to an event. While Dvalishvili is already expected to face the winner sometime later this year, the Georgian native will get a good look at his potential opposition during UFC 299 fight week.

Currently riding a 10-fight win streak in the division, many believe Dvalishvili should actually already be fighting in the main event but O’Malley will get the chance to avenge his only loss in the UFC instead. Vera beat O’Malley back in 2020 and he’ll look to duplicate that success in the title fight on Saturday.

As part of his duties, Dvalishvili will weigh in on Friday alongside both main event fighters where he’s expected to make championship weight at 135 pounds in case his services are needed.

O’Malley and Vera are scheduled to meet in the five-round main event on Saturday with the bantamweight title bout headlining UFC 299 from the Kaseya Center in Miami.

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Influencer-turned boxer Jake Paul picked up his ninth career win on Saturday defeating former Golden Glove champion Ryan Bourland by knockout in the first round.  Former UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping said it was a ‘hand picked’ opponent.  

Heading into the fight, Bourland had only fought twice in the last six years. He last fought in September 2022 defeating Santario Martin by TKO. The previous bout was in 2018.

“Jake “The Fake” Paul does it again.  He pulls the wool over everybody’s eyes, goes out there and knocks out his opponent in Puerto Rico.  Did it in round one.  Looked impressive.  Fair enough, but the man is a fake,” said Bisping on his YouTube channel.  

“Do no buy the wolf tickets.  Do not accept the bullish*t.  This was a hand-picked, cherry-picked opponent for Jake Paul to beat to one again continue the charade,” continued Bisping.  “He looked decent.  Of course.  He’s training.  He’s applying himself, but he did it against an opponent that isn’t applying himself, that isn’t trying to become a professional boxer.  A man that gave up on those dreams a long time ago in Ryan Bourland.”  

“The man was an Uber driver working at Taco Bell.  A laborer.  I don’t know what he does.  Fair play to that guy.  I am not here to rip on that guy.  He was outmatched.  He was undersized, and in terms of just skill, technical ability, this wasn’t a fight.  Jake Paul was always destined to win this fight, and you are the suckers if you paid for this fight.”

Bourland reportedly made $ 2 million for the boxing match.  Bisping refrained from attacking Bourland too much, but continued to rip into Paul.  

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“This man is a conman.  He’s a fake,” said Bisping.  “He’s calling out Canelo because he knows damn well that fight isn’t going to happen.  Canelo Alvarez would not wipe his a** with a Jake Paul payday.  He’s not interested in that.  The man is a real warrior.  He’s one of the best boxers of his generation.  He wants real tests.  He doesn’t want circus, sideshow, freak show fights.  That’s what Jake Paul’s doing.”

“The reason I said he’s a fake is because if you’re charging pay-per-view you have to give the people a real fight not hand-picked, cherry-picked opponents,” Bisping added.  “Cherry-picking these has-beens that are undersized and not motivated and are just there for the payday, that doesn’t get my respect.  It doesn’t get anybody’s respect from the fight community.  Anybody that bought a ticket to that event, they were disappointed.  Simple as that.”

“He’s disrespecting the sport of boxing.  He’s disrespecting all the people that worked their way up, but more importantly he’s conning the fans.”

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