Adrian Yanez continued his impressive run by defeating Davey Grant at UFC Vegas 43. This moved him to 8-0 in his past eight fights and keeps him undefeated in the UFC.

Adrian Yanez knew exactly who he wanted after the bout and let the media know at the UFC Vegas 43 post-fight press conference. He's looking at Sean O'Malley next.

“Yeah, I would definitely fight Sean O’Malley,” Yanez told reporters including MMA Junkie at a post-fight news conference Saturday. “Right now he says he wants to get a ranked opponent and all that stuff but he’s dodging all these other ranked opponents. Let’s dive into that one right quick.

“So, Sean O’Malley says, ‘OK, let me go out there and let me fight a top-ranked opponent.’ But then he gets Thomas Almeida, who was on the shelf for a couple years. Then he gets on a (losing) streak and he knocks him out. But it takes him three rounds to do it against the guy that is coming off the coach (Kris Moutinho). Talk about that. And then also, Eddie Wineland, who was also kind of just like off the couch for a long time, already at the tail-end of his career. (He) knocks him out. OK, cool. That kind of doesn’t really get no brownie points from me.”

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Adrian Yanez was very questionable of Sean O'Malley's past UFC opponents. He even mentioned that Davey Grant was a bigger win than anything O'Malley had done.

“If you go out there and starch someone like Davey Grant,” Yanez said. “… Davey Grant can take a shot. He can take a hard shot. Man, if you go against someone who is a fighter like Chito. If you go against someone like Chito, and then he goes out there and just kind of plays with him and toys with him and knocks him out on the ground. I don’t know. There’s ups and downs with that, man. Then also, too, whenever he fought Kris Moutinho, he had the chance to fight a guy, who I think was ranked at the time, Ricky Simon. He had the chance to fight him but then doesn’t fight him. I don’t know. Something, I don’t know. But also, I’d be down to fight him. I don’t care. They’d have to pay me more. He’s always about the money. I am about the money, too, because I’ve got a family to feed.”

Adrian Yanez vs Sean O'Malley would be a great next fight in the UFC. It will be interesting to see if the UFC explores this option once both men are free to fight.