Ryan Garcia Plans To Attend UFC Miami To Confront Sean O’Malley

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Boxing superstar Ryan Garcia plans to continue pushing for a crossover fight against Sean O’Malley at UFC Miami.

While speaking with Ariel Helwani, Garcia made the bold claim that he could beat O’Malley in an MMA fight and has texted UFC CEO Dana White to make the fight happen.

“I’ll beat his a– in MMA, guaranteed,” “You don’t understand, I’m a natural wrestler. I just beat my security who’s a wrestler. I beat him. I’m strong, and I got crazy conditioning. 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 because I know if I put my mind to it and train 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. I’ve already sent text messages to Dana (White). I’ve already got people that are connected to Dana to ask him. Let’s do this. I’ll come to the UFC. Pay me a bag and I’m there. I’m down to do it.”

Next week, O’Malley will defend his UFC bantamweight championship against Marlon ‘Chito’ Vera at UFC 299 in Miami, and Garcia says he’s “going to pull up” and hopes to get in the Octagon to confront the MMA star.

O’Malley has already scoffed at the idea of fighting the boxer in the Octagon by saying that he could beat Garcia and Devin Haney on the same night in MMA.

It’ll be interesting to see if Garcia does follow through and shows up to UFC Miami.