Payton Talbott recently called out Sean O’Malley for a fight after defeating Deiveson Figueiredo in spectacular fashion.
Talbott and Figueiredo went up against each other in a bantamweight clash in the co-main event of UFC 332 earlier today in Salt Lake City, Utah. While many expected Figueiredo to push Talbott to his limits, the 28-year-old fighter breezed past the former two-time UFC flyweight champion and secured a massive first-round TKO victory.
In his post-fight octagon interview with Joe Rogan, Talbott called out O’Malley and said:
“I just mopped the floor with two champions back-to-back, and now I want another one. Andrew Garfield, I mean, Sean O’Malley, you can’t run forever. Give the people what they want.”
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Prior to the Figueiredo fight, Talbott outpointed Henry Cejudo over three rounds to win via unanimous decision at UFC 323 last December. He’s now on a three-fight win streak and has an impressive 12-1 record as a professional mixed martial artist.
Meanwhile, O’Malley is coming off a second-round TKO win over Aiemann Zahabi at UFC Freedom 250 in June and is currently riding a two-fight win streak. The former UFC bantamweight champion is widely considered one of the best strikers in the game and has a 20-3 record as a professional with one NC.
When Payton Talbott talked about reinventing himself before UFC 332 fight
Before going up against Deiveson Figueiredo at UFC 332, Payton Talbott opened up about his training camp and claimed that he had “reinvented” himself.
In a pre-fight interview with the UFC, the 28-year-old fighter claimed he had revisited his “roots” and said:
“This is all still new to me, so I tried to just stay training and just stay ready. I mean, I trained pretty much the whole year, and I feel like I kind of reinvented myself a little bit and went back to my roots, went inward.”
He added:
“You go and train out of town, and you pick people’s brains and sometimes you take things from them and implement them into your game. But a lot of the times, the reason you got where you are is because of you. And so, you just have to correctly learn how to implement it and not let it fully change you, but just use the best of what you learn.” [H/t: Sherdog]
Edited by Nishant Zende.
