The fences appear to be mended between Sean O’Malley and Conor McGregor after the duo called each other out publicly for months. It appeared that their online banter would go on for longer but everything turned out to have ended with a smile. How, you ask? Stick around as we are back with another episode of MMA Roundup to tell you about the juiciest updates from the last 24 hours.

From the Sean O’Malley and Conor McGregor banter, we will move on forward to Michael Chandler who has finally reacted to ‘Notorious’ picking Dan Hooker over him for a comeback fight. Lastly, we will conclude our roundup with a piece of information about the new women’s bantamweight champion, Julianna Pena, who has raised serious concerns against Amanda Nunes.

Sean O’Malley and Conor McGregor quash their online rivalry 

C͏on͏o͏r McGregor and Sea͏n O’Mal͏le͏y r͏ecentl͏y exc͏h͏ange͏d surprisingly kind words, shoc͏king the MMA commun͏ity. T͏his was͏ unexp͏ected, given that the two ͏fighters had been͏ ͏at each others’ throats s͏ince͏ R͏yan Garcia’s con͏troversi͏al fig͏ht ͏agains͏t Devin Haney. After a heartfelt confession from Sean O’Malley, Conor McGregor took to his x handle to appreciate ‘Suga’, “Sean is a fighting legend! UFC champion and an incredible superstar! I would love, love, love to see, and I can set it up fully, himself and his long-time coach, Tim Welch, do a stint in Ireland.”

This confession by the former dual-weight champion has been taken into cognizance by the former bantamweight champion. While having a conversation with renowned journalist, Ariel Helwani, O’Malley was asked about his opinion on McGregor’s words, to which he said, “I will always be one of the biggest Conor fans. He influenced my career so much. I would love to party with Conor someday but we will see if that ever happens. Who knows? Yeah, I don’t know, I would rather be friends with him than hate him. Conor is still the man, even if I try to talk s–t, I’m still a huge fan.”

With this conf͏e͏s͏sion, i͏t seem͏s their beef is o͏fficially ov͏er. We wil͏l now͏ have to wait͏ fo͏r ͏Conor M͏cGregor’s re͏action t͏o th͏e͏ p͏ar͏ty͏ request. Reg͏ardless, ͏now͏ that͏ ͏their heat has cooled down, let’s turn our at͏tention͏ to another oppone͏nt who m͏ight͏ not be ready͏ t͏o e͏nd his rivalry with ‘Notorious.’͏

Michael Chandler reacts to McGregor’s choosing Dan Hooker as his next opponent

Conor McGregor’s fight with Michael Chandler may have to wait longer than it has already, as the former dual-weight champion has another opponent in mind. At the BKFC Spain event, the former dual-weight champion announced that he would be entering the Octagon next year in February against Dan Hooker. This statement appeared to have irked Michae Chandler, who waited to fight McGregor for a good two years.

While having a conversation with Ariel Helwani, Michael Chandler voiced, “Conor’s [McGregor] a very flavor of the week kind of guy. He just had a conversation with Dan Hooker… And be like, ‘Hey man, I like you, you like me, we can make some magic. Let’s fight each other.’ So, I looked no further than that, honestly”

He further added, “I don’t think the UFC is going to be very keen on McGregor versus hooker compared to McGregor versus Chandler since we need to make this fight happen so I’m not really that worried about it… The good thing is I have a great job to do in front of me and that’s November 16th in Charles Olivera.”

McGregor vs. Chandler was initially slated to happen at the UFC 303 but the fight fell off as ‘Notorious’ pulled out of the fight due to a toe injury. ‘Iron’ refused to wait any further as he accepted to fight Charles Oliveira at UFC 309. Since this whole situation is in limbo, let us move on to another development where Julianna Pena raised an issue with Amanda Nunes’s retirement move.

Julianna Pena accuses Amanda Nunes of using steroids

At UFC 307, Julianna Pena defeated Raquel Pennington to reclaim the women’s bantamweight title after her loss against Amanda Nunes back at UFC 277. After reclaiming the title, the first thing Pena did was call out Amanda Nunes for a fight. The new champ took the microphone and stated that she would love to run it back against her former opponent.

Days after the callout, Amanda Nunes uploaded a video on her socials doing a skit where she was pleading with Dana White to take her back in to have a final fight and it appears that this skit might have irked the new champion who is of the opinion that Nunes is on steroids. Reacting to the skit video, Pena took to her socials to reupload the same video with her voiceover and stated, “You know why she wanted to retire? So that she could get on those roids and not get caught.”

Amanda Nunes was one of the most dominant fighters in UFC history and the only women’s fighter to have held two titles at the same time. The probability of their trilogy fight happening is at an all-time high right now. What’s your take on the hubbub? State your thoughts in the comments below.