“Hustle Up”- Frustrated Sean O’Malley Calls for Sterling vs. Cejudo in March, Cejudo Fires Back: “You Should Fight Paddy”

No.1 ranked Sean O’Malley and returning former champion Henry Cejudo are itching to get a shot at Aljamain Sterling‘s UFC bantamweight title. O’Malley shot up the rankings to take the number one spot after his win over Petr Yan at UFC 280. Meanwhile, the former double champion Cejudo announced he was unretiring back in April. While talks are going on about a fight between “Triple C” and “Funkmaster” they have made no concrete announcement yet. This frustrated O’Malley, who wants to fight for the title sooner rather than later.

The “Suga Show” voiced his frustration on Twitter. Within a few hours, the war of words escalated between Cejudo and O’Malley as the pair took digs at each other.

Sean O’Malley and Henry Cejudo go back and forth

In early December, Aljamain Sterling announced on his podcast that Henry Cejudo would be his next title defense. Cejudo’s manager Ali Abdelaziz also stated that the fight was happening next, saying it was a done deal. However, the champion later clarified that there was nothing officially signed yet, but this was the fight that both parties wanted.

Sterling also mentioned March as the potential timeline for the fight. However, the lack of activity since these announcements frustrated Sean O’Malley. The 28-year-old tweeted addressing the delay in signing the contracts and asked if either fighter was scared of the other.

O’Malley expressed his intent to fight in July. Therefore, he said, Cejudo and Sterling should “hustle up” and fight in March and not April.

“Triple C” did not take kindly to O’Malley’s statements and fired back. He took a cheeky dig at the controversy behind O’Malley’s split decision victory over Petr Yan.

O’Malley returned fire asking Cejudo to make him a burrito.

Cejudo once again resorted to using O’Malley‘s UFC 280 win clap back.

Both Cejudo and O’Malley are exciting options for a title fight. Since O’Malley is planning to sit out until July, a fight for the title before that is likely to happen.

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Although he was bantering with Cejudo, previously, “Suga” had suggested that Sterling was the one delaying the fight for multiple reasons.

O’Malley thinks Sterling doesn’t want to fight Cejudo

In an episode of his podcast earlier this month, Sean O’Malley responded to the title fight talks between Cejudo and Sterling. He stated it would be such a cringy build-up to the fight that it would be entertaining. He added that Cejudo wanted the fight, but Sterling didn’t.

“‘Aljo’ doesn’t want that fight is what I’m seeing. I don’t know if he doesn’t want that fight because he thinks it’s a tough matchup or if he just doesn’t want that fight because he doesn’t want to get back into fight camp.”

As Cejudo and O’Malley go back and forth, the champion is yet to chime in on the situation.

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What are your thoughts on the banter between Cejudo and O’Malley? When do you think we will see the next bantamweight title fight? Let us know in the comments below.