O'Malley is confident of an early victory over Topuria

UFC Bantamweight Champion Sean O'Malley once again expressed a desire to measure his strength with Ilia Topuria, who last weekend at the UFC 298 tournament in Anaheim, USA, knocked out Alexandra Volkanovski and took the title in the promotion's featherweight division.

“I’m just trying to put on a fight that I think will be exciting. I don’t know if people want me to fight Dvalishvili or if they just hate my confidence that I will come out and knock out Topuria. But I made a decision and sent Elijah a message.

If Merab is next, so be it. I can fight Elijah at any other time. I haven’t talked about this with the UFC yet because there’s nothing to talk about yet. On March 9, I have a fight with Marlon Vera, and now I need to focus on that,” the American said on The MMA Hour show.