Sean O'Malley

The UFC 276 main-card bout between Monster Energy fighter O'Malley and Munhoz ended in unfortunate circumstances in the second round. O'Malley eye poked Munhoz, ...

First man to finish Pedro— Sean O'Malley (@SugaSeanMMA) July 3, 2022 An unfortunate ending to this one.— UFC on BT Sport (@btsportufc) @PedroMunhozmmavs. @SugaSeanMMAends in a no-decision due to an unintentional eye poke. Sean O'Malley landed an unintentional eye poke on Pedro Munhoz during their clash, ruling their bantamweight bout a no-contest.

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An eye poke from Sean O'Malley left Pedro Munhoz unable to continue, which brought an end to their fight at UFC 276.

When O’Malley finally started unleashing his strikes, he was a sniper from the outside with a laser on his right hand and some kicks that nearly took Munhoz’s head off. It appeared O’Malley was somewhat hesitant to engage while Munhoz continued chopping away at his foundation with those repeated leg kicks. Time was called with referee Jason Herzog giving Munhoz an opportunity to try and recovery from the eye poke.

After a back-and-forth fight, Sean O'Malley and Pedro Munhoz had their fight ruled a no contest after an accidental eye poke.

The fight was gearing up to be a technical bout. O'Malley, a Helena native, accidentally poked his opponent Pedro Munhoz in the eye in the second round of their fight at UFC 276 in Las Vegas on Saturday. The fight was ruled a no contest after Munhoz was unable to see out of his poked eye. After a much-anticipated top-15 fight was on the books, Sean O'Malley's fight at UFC 276 ended in disappointing fashion.

Sean Zerillo breaks down Saturday's matchup between Pedro Munhoz and Sean O'Malley at UFC 276 (T-Mobile Arena).

Elsewhere, the pricing in this fight looks about right, and I wouldn’t necessarily include O’Malley in parlays. O’Malley fires straight punches in bunches, and he should be able to keep the range with his reach advantage and teep kicks. And while he does have several submission wins on his record, Munhoz has averaged just 0.57 takedowns per 15 minutes in UFC — and hasn’t completed a takedown since 2018. Despite Munhoz’s durability, however, O’Malley’s decision line is higher than his KO/TKO prop or inside the prop. Still, Munhoz’s primary skill (leg kicks) has been O’Malley’s kryptonite. 9/7/86

It was an anticlimactic ending at UFC 276 when Pedro Munhoz was unable to continue in the second round due to an eye poke from Sean O'Malley.

Munhoz came out with a head kick and got back to the gameplan of leg kicks. O’Malley tried a spinning back kick that didn’t connect then had to check a few more leg kicks from Munhoz. Munhoz continued to throw kicks after a brief pause in action due to a kick from O’Malley that went below the belt. Both fighters stayed at kicking range to start the fight with Munhoz throwing a heavy amount of leg kicks to start.

Sean O'Malley takes shots at Pedro Munhoz and Henry Cejudo after his UFC 276 main card fight ends in a disappointing no contest because of an eye poke.

Sean O'Malley has reacted after his UFC 276 bout with Pedro Munhoz was ruled a no-contest due to an accident eye poke.

Instead, the bantamweight bout proved to be more of a chess match that unfortunately ended in a no-contest. After trading a lot of kicks and some punches for the better part of seven minutes, the bout was waved off following an eye poke from ‘Suga’. The Brazilian was coming off back-to-back unanimous decision losses to Dominick Cruz and Jose Aldo respectively.

A bantamweight bout between Sean O'Malley and Pedro Munhoz kicked off tonight's UFC 276 main card from Las Vegas.

Share your thoughts in the comment section PENN Nation!This article appeared first on Instead, the bantamweight bout proved to be more of a chess match that unfortunately ended in a no-contest. The Brazilian was coming off back-to-back unanimous decision losses to Dominick Cruz and Jose Aldo respectively.

Sean O'Malley took a shot at former two-division UFC champion Henry Cejudo after they had an altercation backstage at UFC 276 on Saturday night.

- UFC 276 Event T-Shirt - UFC 276 Liquid Silver Logo T-Shirt “He mumbled some words like [I was a tune-up fight],” O’Malley said. - UFC 276 Metallic Gold Logo T-Shirt Looks like he’s on drugs. When would you want to bend the knee?

Pedro Munhoz had his eye examined at a hospital after an accidental poke led to an unsatisfying end to his UFC 276 clash with Sean O'Malley.

In his post-fight interview, O’Malley stated that he believed Munhoz was looking for a way out. Munhoz has previously gone to decisions with multiple elite bantamweights, including Dominick Cruz, Jose Aldo, Frankie Edgar, and current champion Aljamain Sterling. He also holds a first-round knockout victory over former UFC champion Cody Garbrandt. “To explain briefly what happened in the fight against Sean O’Malley, I was poked in the eye in the first round but kept fighting, and was hit with a low blow shortly after,” Munhoz said via Instagram (Portuguese translation by MMA Fighting’s Guilherme Cruz). “The fight restarted and we exchanged a few strikes.

Sean O'Malley doesn't think Pedro Munhoz wanted to be in there with him at UFC 276, so he found a way out of the fight.

I was dominating that fight. I was dominating that fight. I was dominating that fight.” I was piecing him up. The physician also told Herzog there was damage to the eye. I was piecing him up.