‘He Didn’t Want to be on the Highlight Reel’- Sean O’Malley Claims Pedro Munhoz ‘Wanted Out While He Still Could’

Posted on by Matt James

UFC bantamweight star Sean O’Malley went off on his most recent opponent, Pedro Munhoz, following their UFC 275 encounter. O’Malley vs Munhoz was placed as the main card opener, but the fight fell flat after Pedro Munhoz suffered a fight-ending eye-poke.

The doctor waved off the fight as Munhoz revealed he couldn’t see out of his right eye. Since then, fans have stormed social media and claimed that Munhoz was searching for a reason to quit in the contest. Moreover, Sean O’Malley has further bolstered this narrative and gone on record claiming that Pedro Munhoz actually suffered a punch to the eye that he claimed was an eye poke.

“Pedro said I poked him in the eye, which I didn’t,” O’Malley said. “Maybe a little bit, but his eye was closed… And then he said I poked him twice. So he thought the first one, in the first round — when I punched him in the eye — was a poke.”

“That’s the one that swole his left eye shut. That’s the one that really hurt him, when I punched him in the eye. My knuckle is actually still sore from that punch, boom, right in the eye socket.” [h/t mmafighting.com]

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Additionally, Sean O’Malley has claimed that Pedro Munhoz was looking for a way out of the fight to avoid going on his highlight-reel. ‘Sugar’ has turned in some sensational knockouts, notably over names like Eddie Wineland, and he believes Pedro Munhoz wasn’t looking to become the next name on that list.

“What was he going to do? The leg kicks weren’t working. Couldn’t land a body shot, couldn’t land a head shot. I cracked him with a hard right hand, I spun to the body, kicked him hard, spun to the head, landed. This m***********’s confused. … He didn’t want to be on the highlight reel. He didn’t want to be an Eddie Wineland. He didn’t want to be a [Raulian] Paiva. He wanted out while he still could. He wanted to get another fight in the UFC.”

Munhoz has vehemently denied the claims made by Sean O’Malley that he tried to find a way out of the fight and this will certainly be a highly talked about narrative going forward.

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