{"id":455704,"date":"2023-08-20T15:08:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T11:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=455704"},"modified":"2023-08-20T15:08:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T11:08:51","slug":"against-all-odds-sean-omalley-clinches-ufc-bantamweight-title","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/against-all-odds-sean-omalley-clinches-ufc-bantamweight-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Against all odds Sean O&#8217;Malley clinches UFC bantamweight title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sean O&#8217;Malley is the new UFC bantamweight champions after shockingly defeating Aljamain Sterling in a face-off match at UFC 292 in Boston, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SEAN O&#39;MALLEY KNOCKS OUT ALJAMAIN STERLING \ud83d\ude31<\/p>\n<p>WE HAVE A NEW BANTAMWEIGHT WORLD CHAMP <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC292?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#UFC292<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/imITCioq49\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/imITCioq49<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UFC (@ufc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ufc\/status\/1693128200098906343?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old landed a perfect counter-right hand, which put Sterling to the ground, where he finished the match with series of punches on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was the most nervous I&#8217;ve ever been for a fight,&#8221; said O&#8217;Malley.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Aljamain is the best bantamweight of all time, so yeah, I was nervous, but I never lost the confidence because I know what I possess &#8211; this right hand, baby.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was sweet success for O&#8217;Malley as his opponent claimed before the match that he is not worthy of a title shot, which earned the more experienced fighter boos from the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Many pundits and experts predicted victory for the 34-year-old, but in the end the less experienced man prevailed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean O&#8217;Malley is the new UFC bantamweight champions after shockingly defeating Aljamain Sterling in a face-off match at UFC 292 in Boston, Massachusetts. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":455705,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[],"news_category":[16710],"gn_keywords":[21018,21017],"acf":{"announce":"The 28-year-old stunned Aljamain Sterling to claim victory","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/455704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/455704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455704"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=455704"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=455704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}