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Sean O’Malley doesn’t think he and Ryan Garcia are ever going to fight.
Last week, Garcia told MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani that he wanted to fight O’Malley in an MMA fight and would be attending UFC Miami to confront the UFC star.
“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.
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Since then, Garcia has been going on Twitter tirades about “elites” who are trying to kill him and people trying to control what he says.
On Wednesday, during his UFC 299 media day, O’Malley was asked about Garcia’s comments, and the UFC champ said he felt the boxer was on drugs.
“Cocaine is a hell of a drug, I think he’s on drugs and he’s acting a fool, yeah I feel bad for him more than anything you know?
O’Malley told the media he doesn’t the fight with Garcia will ever materialize.
“Yeah, that will never happen, and if it does I’m here for it, you know it wouldn’t be my fault that fight doesn’t happen.