Sean O’Malley believes he’ll steal the headlines from Canelo Alvarez after their respective Sept. 14 battles.
O’Malley defends his bantamweight title against Merab Dvalishvili in the main event of UFC 306 at Sphere in Las Vegas, while Alvarez faces Edgar Berlanga on his own Mexican Independence Day card just down the road at T-Mobile Arena.
Although there’s a lot of emphasis on the head-to-head between UFC and one of boxing’s big stars, O’Malley sees it as a fun challenge — and plans to let his performance make the waves throughout the following week.
“I say this every fight, and I’ll probably continue to say it, but I’m so f*cking excited for this fight,” O’Malley said on his YouTube channel. “I wasn’t actually excited for the [Aljamain Sterling] fight, I was f*cking stressed about that fight — just because of my rib, my t
