O'Malley was seriously injured six weeks before the fight with Sterling

Freshly minted UFC bantamweight champion Sean O'Malley admitted that six weeks before the fight against Aljamain Sterling, he suffered a serious injury, due to which he could neither fight nor spar.

“I didn't wrestle for six weeks. I had a muscle strain and couldn't wrestle for six weeks and couldn't spar. I had to compete in the main fight in Boston, so it was impossible to refuse. I had a muscle strain in the area of ​​​​the ribs ... ”, Sean said.

Recall that today O'Malley won a TKO in the second round against Aljamain Sterling and became the new UFC bantamweight champion.