Sean O’Malley thinks Aljamain Sterling wants him to beat Merab Dvalishvili

The UFC bantamweight champion Sean O’Malley is a little skeptical about Aljamain Sterling and Merab Dvalishvili’s friendship. O’Malley feels that somewhere inside, Aljamain Sterling would be hoping for Merab Dvalishvili to lose.

The title fight is a few days away - 14th September promises fireworks. All UFC enthusiasts are waiting to see if Sean O’Malley can successfully defend his belt again and be a disruptive force to Merab Dvalishvili’s solid 10-match winning streak.

I’ll ko merab in 2 pic.twitter.com/usXHQyNEqS — Sean O'Malley (@SugaSeanMMA) July 2, 2024

Sean O’Malley assuming the advice Sterling would give to Dvalishvili

In a recent interview with TMZ, Sean O’Malley shared his thoughts on Aljamain Sterling and Merab Dvalishvili’s friendship.

“I mean, I don’t know what Aljo’s going to tell Merab,” O’Malley said as quoted by mmafighting.com. “Like, ‘*, he’s fast, he’s sharp, he’s accurate, he’s hard to take down, good luck.’ There wasn’t a lot of success Aljo had in that fight.

If anything, Aljo probably shouldn’t tell him anything because it’s probably just going to make him a little bit nervous”.

Sean O’Malley on Aljamain Sterling hoping for Merab to lose

“Who knows? Aljo probably hopes I beat Merab, It makes Aljo look better.

I’m just curious if Merab was happy that I knocked out Aljo because if I didn’t knock out Aljo, Merab still would be waiting around. So I have a little theory that maybe they’re not as good buddies as we all thought”.