{"id":396412,"date":"2022-07-08T20:08:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T20:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=396412"},"modified":"2022-07-08T20:08:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T20:08:29","slug":"he-didnt-want-to-be-on-the-highlight-reel-sean-omalley-claims-pedro-munhoz-wanted-out-while-he-still-could","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/he-didnt-want-to-be-on-the-highlight-reel-sean-omalley-claims-pedro-munhoz-wanted-out-while-he-still-could\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;He Didn\u2019t Want to be on the Highlight Reel&#8217;- Sean O&#8217;Malley Claims Pedro Munhoz &#8216;Wanted Out While He Still Could&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC bantamweight star Sean O\u2019Malley went off on his most recent opponent, Pedro Munhoz, following their UFC 275 encounter. O\u2019Malley vs Munhoz was placed as the main card opener, but the fight fell flat after Pedro Munhoz suffered a fight-ending eye-poke.<\/p>\n<p>The doctor waved off the fight as Munhoz revealed he couldn\u2019t 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\u2019Malley 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.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pedro Munhoz gets \u201cpoked\u201d in his right eye last night\u2026now all of a sudden he can\u2019t open his left eye and his right eye is fine. Maybe this should be reviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ufc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ufc<\/a> for some bullshit <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC276?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFC276<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7RrTuJyTtC\">pic.twitter.com\/7RrTuJyTtC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Joel Austin (@itsjoelmay) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/itsjoelmay\/status\/1543616442528145411?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cPedro said I poked him in the eye, which I didn\u2019t,\u201d O\u2019Malley said. \u201cMaybe a little bit, but his eye was closed&#8230; And then he said I poked him twice. So he thought the first one, in the first round \u2014 when I punched him in the eye \u2014 was a poke.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThat\u2019s the one that swole his left eye shut. That\u2019s 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.&#8221; [h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2022\/7\/8\/23200069\/sean-omalley-unconvinced-by-pedro-munhoz-eye-injury-he-didnt-want-to-be-on-the-highlight-reel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mmafighting.com<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/guys-knock-him-down-and-they-run-away-from-his-guard-rafael-dos-anjos-assesses-the-approach-of-charles-oliveiras-former-opponents\/\">Guys Knock Him Down, and They Run Away From His Guard\u2019- Rafael dos Anjos Assesses the Approach of Charles Oliveira\u2019s Former Opponents<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Sean O\u2019Malley has claimed that Pedro Munhoz was looking for a way out of the fight to avoid going on his highlight-reel. \u2018Sugar\u2019 has turned in some sensational knockouts, notably over names like Eddie Wineland, and he believes Pedro Munhoz wasn\u2019t looking to become the next name on that list.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A devastating poke!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC276?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFC276<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SeanOMalley?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SeanOMalley<\/a>.  Pedro Munhoz is a pussy <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MOQtIiTciI\">pic.twitter.com\/MOQtIiTciI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Connor Gilbert (@connor_whiskey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/connor_whiskey\/status\/1543424960198221829?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhat was he going to do? The leg kicks weren\u2019t working. Couldn\u2019t land a body shot, couldn\u2019t 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***********\u2019s confused. &#8230; He didn\u2019t want to be on the highlight reel. He didn\u2019t want to be an Eddie Wineland. He didn\u2019t want to be a [Raulian] Paiva. He wanted out while he still could. He wanted to get another fight in the UFC.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Munhoz has vehemently denied the claims made by Sean O\u2019Malley that he tried to find a way out of the fight and this will certainly be a highly talked about narrative going forward.<\/p>\n<p>More UFC news:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/im-not-interested-in-helping-him-joe-rogan-explains-why-he-turned-down-the-opportunity-to-have-donald-trump-on-his-podcast-multiple-times\/\">\u201cOne Thing About Izzy That Is Absolutely Unique\u2026.\u201d- John McCarthy Reveals a Skill That Separates Israel Adesanya From the Rest of the Division<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/ufc-schedule-for-july-2022\/\">UFC Schedule for July 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/one-thing-about-izzy-that-is-absolutely-unique-john-mccarthy-reveals-a-skill-that-separates-israel-adesanya-from-the-rest-of-the-division\/\">\u201cI\u2019m Not Interested in Helping Him\u201d- Joe Rogan Explains Why He Turned Down the Opportunity to Have Donald Trump on His Podcast Multiple Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow our UFC page for more key UFC updates and news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC bantamweight star Sean O\u2019Malley went off on his most recent opponent, Pedro Munhoz, following their UFC 275 encounter. O\u2019Malley 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\u2019t see out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":396456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}