Henry Cejudo says Sean O’Malley thinks he’s better than he really is: ‘I would eat that dude alive’

Henry Cejudo says Sean O’Malley thinks he’s better than he really is: ‘I would eat that dude alive’

Henry Cejudo sees Sean O’Malley as a tune-up fight.

Following O’Malley’s no contest against Pedro Munhoz this past Saturday at UFC 276, Cejudo (16-2 MMA, 10-2 UFC) confronted O’Malley backstage and challenged him.

O’Malley (15-1 MMA, 7-1 UFC) brushed him off, but Cejudo thinks “The Suga Show” talks a big game without backing it up.

“First of all, his performance absolutely sucked,” Cejudo said on “The Triple C & Schmo Show.” “He talks a lot. If anybody that talks – I’m proven, man. I don’t think I talk enough, to be quite honest with you.

“I just think he thinks he’s better than what he really is, and to me that’s a problem, so I challenged him. I said, ‘What’s up, man? Are you ready?’ He’s like, ‘Cuh-cuh-cuh …’ I should start calling him ‘Stuttering Sean.’ He freaking tripped over his own damn words. But anyways, he doesn’t want this smoke. That would be the worst. It would be like Jake Paul facing Jon Jones. I would eat that dude alive.”

Henry Cejudo @HenryCejudo was escorted out of backstage after he interrupted Sean O’Malleys post fight interview.

“I’d love a tune up” @espnmma pic.twitter.com/mshj8O9pxN

— Carlos Contreras Legaspi (@CCLegaspi) July 3, 2022

Since re-entering the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency drug-testing pool, Cejudo has kept his options open by calling out numerous fighters, including UFC bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling and UFC featherweight champ Alexander Volkanovski, both of whom he also confronted this past week in Las Vegas.

Cejudo is willing to face O’Malley in his first fight back from retirement, but doubts O’Malley will take it.

“I think that might be a good tune-up fight, but the goal for me for Sean is to get rid of him in two rounds,” Cejudo said. “Like, don’t make him go past two rounds. So that’s my goal. But he wouldn’t take the fight. Stylistically, I’m just too smart, I’m too experienced, I’m too tough, and I’m definitely too damn good looking.

“I would take him down. I would do some nasty things to him. I’d kick that front leg of his and then I’d slowly start putting may hands on him, and that’s the game plan.”