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Fans of Sean O’Malley were excited to see him fight at UFC 276. However, his bout with Pedro Munhoz didn’t go as expected. The fight was concluded as a no-contest after O’Malley accidentally poked his opponent’s eye.

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Many people were of the opinion that the eye-poke wasn’t that bad. Sean O’Malley appeared on the Full Send Podcast and explained what happened at that moment.

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‘Sugar’ said, “I just watched it once. I hit him with a right hand, right before I hit him with the n*t kick. I hit him with the right-hand right when I hit him with his right hand. He started, kind of like, doing something with his eye. So I think that right-hand kind of hurt him … he was like wiping his eye after I hit him clean. Just like a clean shot.”

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“Then I threw the teep, landed on his like, right above the beltline and he like said it hurt his n*ts, but he started like going on his eye and it wasn’t from a poke. It was from a punch. I think just broke him mentally. He did not want to be there with me.”

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“He landed zero shots to the head. Zero shots to the body. They claimed he landed like 26 leg kicks … I checked those. If you threw a leg kick at me and I checked it, it would f**k you up.”

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Thus, the fighter went on to question the judge’s way of understanding the fight.

READ MORE- 5 Things You Need to Know About Sean O’Malley

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O’Malley also spoke about how he felt when the fight concluded with a no-contest. The bantamweight fighter wanted to put on a show which did not happen.

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Sean O’Malley says Pedro Munhoz faked the injury

Further in the discussion, O’Malley said that Munhoz made a video about the injury on Instagram where he was closing the wrong eye. This shocked the podcasters.

The fighter thus showed the podcasters a picture of Pedro Munhoz reportedly closing the wrong eye. So he thinks his opponent “looked for a way out”.

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‘Sugar’ compared the eye-poke to the accidental eye-poke Jared Cannonier got at UFC 276. However, The Killa Gorilla went through with the fight. Sean O’Malley thus didn’t like how Munhoz went to the doctor.

Watch this story: What Is Next for Sean O’Malley After a No-Contest Win Over Pedro Munhoz?

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What do you think about O’Malley’s comments about Munhoz? Let us know in the comment section below.

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