Sean O'Malley is the current bantamweight champion. Photo: Reproduction/Instagram @sugasean
Just like all fighters and even champions, Sean O'Malley He still has skills to improve in MMA. Despite his great talent with punches and kicks, Tim Welch, the North American's coach, pointed out a crucial improvement that his pupil must make. In the coach's opinion, 'Sugar' needs a higher level in grappling.
“For Sean, he's not even close to how good he could be at jiu-jitsu. He's good at jiu-jitsu. He has a brown belt in jiu-jitsu. He has very dangerous front braces. He is very flexible. His guard is very dangerous, but he’s not as dangerous as he could be,” the coach declared in an interview with Demetrious Johnson.
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By continuing his speech, Tim highlighted the danger that O'Malley can offer despite not being at his ideal level.
“We have Tanquinho there to help us. We will never leave you aside in terms of knowledge. Developing the game underneath him (O'Malley) to where, thankfully, people haven't even seen it yet. So they don't even know which submissions he is very confident in and is very capable of. But still, we have great wrestlers. Your wrestling can improve, your jiu-jitsu can improve,” he concluded.
S. O'Malley in victory for the UFC. Photo: Reproduction/Twitter UFC Europe
Current bantamweight champion (up to 61,2kg.), Sean O'Malley He never submitted any opponent in UFC fights. Despite this fact, the athlete has already ventured into grappling events on three occasions, where he achieved a victory, a draw and suffered a defeat.
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