MMA News Round-Up: Sean O’Malley & Team Khabib’s Beef, UFC Vegas 70 Weigh-In Recap, ONE Fight Night 7 Results

The MMA world had a lot happening in it within the past 24 hours, just like the other days. With ONE Championship holding one of their biggest events of the year and UFC fighters preparing for UFC Vegas 70, the last day was packed with quite a lot of excitement for the fans. In today’s MMA news roundup, we’ll start off by taking a look at the pre-event weigh-ins for the UFC Vegas 70. Furthermore, ONE Championship also offered an enthralling event to the fans with several exciting bouts in different combat disciplines. And we’ll wrap things up with knowledge about how the noted UFC Bantamweight star, Sean O’Malley‘s tweet, received a taunting reply from his fellow divisional fighter, Umar Nurmagomedov, who is also a member of former UFC Khabib Nurmagomedov‘s team.

A look at the UFC Vegas 70 pre-bout weigh-ins

The stage was all set for its next Fight Night at the UFC Apex. Fighters scheduled to compete at the event also went through the official ceremonial weigh-ins recently. The main eventers of the UFC Vegas 70 took the scale initially. Both fighters, Nikita Krylov and Ryann Spann, made their weights and proceeded to have a frolicking staredown.

Next to the scale was the #11 ranked UFC Middleweight, Andre Muniz, followed by his opponent, Brendan Allen. This pair also made their weights successfully and went on to have a respectful stare-down. The entire main card contestants made their weights successfully and had mostly respectful staredowns prior to their bouts at UFC Vegas 60. However, two fights on the prelims card had to be canceled citing health issues from Jose Johnson and Haily Cowan. Here’s a look at the entire fight card for UFC Vegas 60:

Main card

• Light heavyweight: Nikita Krylov (206) vs. Ryan Spann (205)
• Middleweight: Andre Muniz (186) vs. Brendan Allen (186)
• Heavyweight: Augusto Sakai (265) vs. Don’Tale Mayes (261.5)
• Flyweight: Tatiana Suarez (125) vs. Montana De La Rosa (125.5)
• Welterweight: Mike Malott (171) vs. Yohan Lainesse (171)

Prelim card

• Lightweight: Erick Gonzalez (156) vs. Trevor Peek (155.5)
• Flyweight: Jasmine Jasudavicius (125.5) vs. Gabriella Fernandes (126)
• Lightweight: Jordan Leavitt (155.5) vs. Victor Martinez (154.5)
• Catchweight (130lbs): Ode Osbourne (130) vs. Charles Johnson (130)
• Lightweight: Joe Solecki (155.5) vs. Carl Deaton (156)
• Lightweight: Nurullo Aliev (155) vs. Rafael Alves (155)
• Bantamweight: Hailey Cowan vs. Ailin Perez (135) (canceled)
• Bantamweight: Jose Johnson vs. Garrett Armfield (canceled)

Who earned victory and who tasted defeat at ONE Fight Night 7?

ONE Championship also hosted their enthralling event, ONE Fight Night 7 on Prime Video just a few hours back. It also proved to be a triumph of victory for some fighters. However, others had to cope with defeat. Moreover, it might be agreed that fans at the iconic Lumpinee Boxing Stadium in Bangkok had one more captivating experience after the coveted event.

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The main event of the night was a Bantamweight MMA bout for the vacant ONE Bantamweight World title. ‘Wonderboy’ Fabricio Andrade finally achieved a victory over his coveted opponent John ‘Hands of Stone Lineker’ after his prolonged wait.

In the co-main event, the Muay Thai prodigy, Tawanchai PK.Saenchai finished off his opponent Jamal Yusupov with a brutal calf kick in the initial round itself. Here’s a look at the results sheet of the entire ONE Fight Night 7 card:

• Bantamweight MMA championship: Fabricio Andrade defeats John Lineker via corner stoppage between the fourth and fifth rounds

• Featherweight Muay Thai championship: Tawanchai PK.Saenchai defeats Jamal Yusupov via TKO at 0:49 of round one

• Featherweight MMA: Martin Nguyen defeats Leonardo Casotti via unanimous decision

• Bantamweight kickboxing: Saemapetch Fairtex defeats Zhang Chenglong via unanimous decision

• Flyweight MMA: Danny Kingad defeats Eko Roni Saputra via unanimous decision

• Catchweight (53.9kh) submission grappling: Danielle Kelly defeats Ayaka Miura via unanimous decision

• Light heavyweight kickboxing: Françesko Xhaja defeats Andrei Stoica via split decision

• Atomweight MMA: Victoria Souza defeats Linda Darrow via unanimous decision

• Lightweight submission grappling: Tommy Langaker defeats Uali Kurzhev via submission (heel hook) at 2:58 of round one

• Strawweight MMA: Adrian Mattheis defeats Zelang Zhaxi via TKO at 0:57 of round one

Umar Nurmagomedov derides Sean O’Malley’s tweet

The noted former UFC Bantamweight, ‘Sugar’ Sean O’Malley, probably had one more opponent looking to get his hands on him. The #1 UFC Bantamweight contender recently put out a tweet where he opinionated that he will be considered one of the greatest of MMA after he is done and dusted in the sport.

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However, Khabib’s cousin and also O’Malley‘s fellow UFC divisional fighter, Umar Nurmagomedov, lashed out at his tweet. Nurmagomedov presented his opinion calling O’Malley an average fighter.

Things might have been really personal here. Or this reply might be an attempt from Nurmagomedov to improve his stature in the division by fighting better-ranked guys. Will this lead to a bout scheduled between the two? Let us know your opinions about this.

Some more MMA news

• Tatiana Suarez is all set to take the Octagon at the UFC Vegas 70 after a long break starting in 2019.
• The coveted UFC star Jon Jones accused the former UFC Heavyweight champion, Francis Ngannou, of “not believing in himself” which led to the fight between them falling flat.