Sean O'Malley has made it no secret that he plans on treating his UFC career like a business rather than some sort of fun hobby. He has been taking things slow and saying ‘no' whenever he feels like it's appropriate.
The UFC bantamweight has made it clear he wouldn't fight anyone ranked without a big raise. Now he says he's not interested in fighting for five rounds either.
“I don’t want a fucking five-round fight,” O-Malley said during an appearance on the ‘Full Send Podcast’ (h/t MMANews). “They’re gonna give me like, $20,000 extra to go fight, basically another fight, 10 minutes. I’m like, ‘I’m not gonna fucking do that.’”
“When I’m champ, yeah. There comes a point, you can’t say no to the UFC, you know what I mean? I’d rather not fight five rounds unless you wanna pay me a fucking lot more money. You know how much more training goes (into it). That was like a 10-week camp (ahead of UFC 269) for 15 minutes. That’s a hard camp. I think, though, with the level of cardio I was in, I could have gone five rounds, just because when you’re in there, you’re not gonna give up, you’re not gonna fall, you’re gonna fight. But five rounds, that’s a lot. That’s 25 minutes of fucking fist-fighting. I’d like to be paid, if I’m gonna do that, paid equally. That’s a long time to fucking fight, dude.”
It's safe to say Sean O'Malley is being smart with everything he does in the UFC. He wants to make sure he is getting appropriately paid for anything he does.
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