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Henry Cejudo wants Sean O’Malley next.

This past weekend, O’Malley lost his bantamweight title to Merab Dvalishvili, losing a unanimous decision in the main event of UFC 306. Cejudo has a long-standing rivalry with O’Malley and also predicted Dvalishvili to win, so “Triple C” was quite please with how things turned out at UFC 306.

“What can I say? I predicted these things,” Cejudo said on his Pound 4 Pound podcast. “Sean is not accustomed to going five rounds, and he is not accustomed to people on his legs. I just felt like – I still go back and say, hey, that fight with Aljamain Sterling, that was a fluke too.

“Aljamain was still in that fight, and people thought I was just hating. No, I’ve been in there with Merab. I did a whole lot better than Sean did when I fought Merab. I mean, I took down Merab. Merab is lucky that I had that groin injury… And I still plan on running it back.

“Either way, Sean O’Meth-ly got his ass kicked for five rounds and I can’t wait to get him next!”

Cejudo and O’Malley have exchanged social media insults for a while now, with O’Malley even trolling Cejudo’s podcast ahead of UFC 306. And now that O’Malley is no longer champion, a fight between the two is substantially more possible. But Cejudo has his doubts it will happen.

“I personally would love to fight him,” Cejudo said. “I think with all the trolling that we have done to each other — we both live in the same damn city — but I just don’t think that he’s going to want to fight me. Particularly right after this performance that Merab did to him.

“Like I said, Merab was lucky that I was hurt in that fight. I had no conditioning due to not being able to wrestle because of a torn groin. But I took my chances because I wanted to fight him, I wanted to fight at the Sphere, I wanted to beat him up in front of everybody. But that’s not the case.

“So I think moving forward, if Sean O’Malley is willing and wants to fight this troll who’s the true king of Arizona, well then here I am. But if not, I’m making my way back down to 125 pounds, because I’m not going to waste my time.”

But if Cejudo really wants to fight O’Malley, he’ll have to wait quite a while. Following his loss, “Sugar” revealed he intends to take an extended break from fighting to repair a torn labrum in his hip he suffered ahead of UFC 306.

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Jon Anik got a sneak peek of Sphere before UFC 306, and knew that his broadcast partners were going in cold — which made it all that more special for the longtime lead commentator.

“So all week, I was sort of marinating in the fact that Joe Rogan and Daniel Cormier, and my twin brother [Jason], and all of these people weren’t going to have seen any of this until they walked in there on Saturday night,” Anik said on Between the Links. “And given all that my Saturday holds, I’m thankful that I was privy to some of this because spectacular doesn’t even begin to describe it. A broadcasting experience of a lifetime for me.

“And it sounds ungrateful to say, ‘Please give us another shot in there,’ but that’s all, I think, a lot of us kept feeling. It was just so amazing. I mean, Diego Lopes putting his hands in the air — my brother captured it — if there’s a coliseum behind him. Bro, it was absolutely unbelievable, start to finish, and I do think 10 fights is the right way to do it. I’d be fascinated to see how the UFC, and how our live production team would approach a second chance in there when it comes to fight card, and thematically what you would do, whether it was a celebration of the UFC, or as Daniel Cormier would like, the Stars and Stripes, but just incredible. Just incredible.

“I think a lot of people are suggestive with this sort of merging of sports, art, and entertainment, that with venues in the future, there’s a lot of things that could happen from here in terms of venue construction and everything. But to be a part of it, very special, and just give us another shot. Just one more shot.”

Rogan returned for his first event since June’s UFC 303 card for the Noche UFC themed event, capped off by Merab Dvalishvili’s bantamweight title win against Sean O’Malley. Anik says his good friend, color commentator, and host of one of the biggest podcasts on the planet — like everyone else — was absolutely stunned by what he saw at Sphere.

“So he’s seen it all, he’s a renaissance man, far more that than me,” Anik said about Rogan. “I still felt convicted in the fact that he would be effectively blown away, and yeah, just jaw-dropped, and ‘Oh my gosh,’ and sort of one visual upstages the one that came before it.

“We went all the way up to the 400 section — as high as you can go — which [are] some of the best seats to do our pay-per-view open, and I actually didn’t quite get down in time. So we had a little bit of lead navigation in terms of our throw to the next piece, but it was insane to see [Rogan and Cormier’s] reactions for the first time and you think you know what you’re walking into, but you really don’t.”

UFC 306 came with several interesting fights and storylines, but there were naysayers having issues with the overall card quality for an event that was hyped up as much as this was.

While everything was unforgettable and a landmark telecast for the history of sports, Anik wants one more chance at being the lead voice for another event, something resembling the depth of the upcoming October pay-per-view cards.

“When you look at the fight cards for UFC 307 and UFC 308 on paper, Jose Aldo’s fighting on the prelims in Salt Lake City, UFC 308 — I don’t say this hyperbolically — maybe the best fight card I’ve ever been assigned,” Anik explained. “Go to Wikipedia and look up UFC 308. So just imagine, for a second, UFC 307 or UFC 308, on paper, Khamzat Chimaev vs. Robert Whittaker, at Sphere f*cking Vegas, and tell me we couldn’t effectively change the game forever.

“This was an amazing experience, I just think we need one more shot.”

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The fight world witnessed Daniel Dubois faceplant knockout Anthony Joshua earlier tonight (Sat., Sept. 21, 2024) LIVE on DAZN pay-per-view (PPV) from inside Wembley Arena in London, England. This included former UFC champion Conor McGregor and former heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury, you were watching the huge main event ringside.

Despite Fury or Oleksandr Usyk not being part of this weekend’s festivities, the matchup between Joshua and Dubois still packed out Wembley Arena with a record-breaking 96,000 fight fans. The hype surrounding this battle of English heavyweights was almost immeasurable. The event brought out some of the biggest names in combat sports and was a true spectacle from start to finish.

Unfortunately for Joshua, he wasn’t ready for the power of Dubois. The reigning IBF heavyweight champion landed big shot after big shot over the first few rounds to score multiple knockdowns against Joshua. Fight fans have seen Joshua get hurt before only to regroup and mount a comeback, but this was different. Dubois was simply too strong and and put the finishing touches on his landslide victory with a titanic knockout in the fifth round.

The finish shocked those in attendance and the thousands upon thousands of fans watching at home. Sitting front row was McGregor and Fury. Both frequent these type of fights, but it was especially more intriguing for “Gypsy King” as he could very well fight Joshua or Dubois in 2025. Both of their reactions were priceless and told the entire story of this one-sided main event.

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