Chael Sonnen Feels Sean O’Malley is the Biggest Star in UFC 

The former UFC fighter and current sports analyst Chael Sonnen prefers labelling the UFC bantamweight champion Sean O’Malley as the ‘biggest star’ in the sport of MMA. Chael Sonnen compares Sean O’Malley to Conor McGregor and further elaborates his point by explaining how McGregor’s availability will always be subject to heavy questioning.

Sean O’Malley will be defending his hard-earned belt against a hard fighter (Merab Dvalishvili) on 14th September at UFC Noche. It will be interesting to see if Sean O’Malley’s performance lives up to Chael Sonnen’s words and faith in him.

Chael Sonnen compares Sean O’Malley and Conor McGregor

Chael Sonnen offers words of appreciation for Sean O'Malley.

“O’Malley is the biggest star in our sport right now,” Sonnen said, as quoted by mmafighting.com. “And ‘Red Panty Night’ is still real. Conor’s not in the sport, he’s not even licensed.

Conor could not walk in and fight tonight if he wanted to. I’m just sharing with you, who’s in the sport, it’s one of those things. Conor has no more of a claim to this sport right now than [Georges] St-Pierre or Khabib [Nurmagomedov].

In fact, St-Pierre and Khabib have attended more UFCs in the last year than Conor”.

Chael Sonnen on Sean O’Malley’s work-ethic

“I feel that O’Malley, as the biggest star, who’s the hardest-working guy outside of the cage that division has ever seen, top 5 in the sports history—he might be No.

1—he is a top 5 in history of the hardest working guys outside of the cage,” Sonnen said. “For him to have landed this rocket ship in this position and whoever gets in the passenger seat and now you’re telling me [the oddsmakers] believe that he’s two-and-a-half times more likely to lose than he is to win and even if he wins he draws into a guy with a similar disastrous style?”.