Reigning UFC bantamweight champion ‘Sugar’ Sean O’Malley believes Snoop Dogg performed a giant position in his rise from MMA standout to bonafide famous person.
In 2017, the long-lasting hip-hop star was readily available when O’Malley made a memorable look on Dana White’s Contender Sequence. Dealing with Alfred Khashakyan, ‘Sugar’ delivered a charming efficiency, scoring a highlight-reel-worthy knockout with solely 45 seconds left within the combat. Following the end, Snoop Dogg famously yelled O’Malley’s identify again and again which helped add a stage of hype behind his inevitable UFC debut.
Earlier this week, O’Malley sat down for an interview with The Breakfast Club and acknowledged that the viral second helped enhance his stardom.
“Oh, enormous. Huge, huge,” O’Malley mentioned. “It’s loopy how my profession has performed out. That was the start of the craziness. Snoop Dogg is commentating on my combat once I was 21, 22 on the Contender Sequence. It’s the primary time they’ve executed it. I knock that dude out, and he yells ‘O’Malley’ like 30 instances. That was loopy” (h/t MMA Mania).
Sean O’Malley can’t fairly keep in mind his dialog with Snoop Dogg
Making the second much more memorable was O’Malley’s behind-the-scenes interplay with Snoop Dogg. As ‘Sugar’ tells it, he joined ‘The Doggfather’ in his trailer to partake in a few of the most interesting sticky icky that cash can purchase. As for what they spoke about, O’Malley acquired so excessive that he can’t even keep in mind.
“I don’t even keep in mind, I acquired so excessive,” he mentioned. “We have been within the trailer, and so they simply saved passing it. I walked out of the trailer, and there have been a bunch of cameras. A bunch of individuals round. I hadn’t smoked, most likely for 3 or 4 weeks main as much as a combat. I simply acquired a loopy knockout. I simply acquired signed to the UFC. Now I’m smoking with Snoop and once I was leaving the trailer, that felt like a film. That was loopy. I don’t keep in mind what we talked about in any respect.”
In the present day, Sean O’Malley is a formidable 9-1 contained in the Octagon (10-0 should you ask him) and presently sits atop the bantamweight throne following a surprising second-round knockout of Aljamain Sterling at UFC 292 in August. ‘Sugar’ is slated to make his first protection of the 135-pound crown at UFC 299 in March towards the one man at hand him a loss beneath the UFC banner, Marlon ‘Chito’ Vera.
