Ryan Garcia has embraced the challenge proffered by UFC champion Sean O’Malley following his decisive triumph over Devin Haney. Garcia emerged victorious by points in a contest that witnessed Haney being knocked down thrice, dispelling any lingering doubts about his mental resilience. Prior to the match, Garcia’s eccentric social media behavior had dominated the headlines. Despite being poised to claim the world championship after defeating Haney, Garcia’s 3.2lb weight disadvantage disqualified him from eligibility for his opponent’s title. O’Malley, since claiming the UFC championship last year, has alluded to potentially venturing into boxing, asserting that only two significant victories separate him from a future in the sport. “They told me you can do a boxing fight, 100 percent, if it makes us enough money,” O’Malley stated on his TimboSugarShow podcast. “The option’s there, it just has to be able to make enough money. I’m not there yet. I’ve still got to become bigger.
“Two more f
sick performances and then we’re talking about being able to do whatever the f
* we want. I think he’s that crazy, he’s that good too. He probably trained hard. Some people have different genes. I couldn’t do it… He’s going to make his money. Let’s see where he goes in the next two weeks.”Garcia has expressed his enthusiasm for engaging with O’Malley in the cage rather than the boxing ring, but he has since indicated a willingness to consider his rival’s suggestion of a boxing match. “Rainbow caca brain wants to box – be prepared to bleed rainbow. Man bun slash Conor clone wants a boxing match, hmmm I wanted MMA but let’s do it. That’s my brothers name b, now i have to destroy you, lil pony cannot defeat me,” Garcia posted.
Garcia also mentioned that he had reached out to UFC president Dana White about an MMA fight with O’Malley, believing a boxing match would be too one-sided. “I know I’m going to knock him out in boxing, that’s not even fair. What is fair is to test myself in MMA,” Garcia said on The MMA Hour.
“I’ve already got people that are connected to Dana to ask him, let’s do this. I’ll come to UFC, pay me a bag, I’m there. I’m down to do it.
“I know if I put my mind to it and I trained every day and I had Nate [Diaz] helping me, even Alex Pereira, all of them, and I really locked in, he will not beat me. I will come with everything I have and I will destroy Sean O’Malley. In the UFC.”
