Suga Sean O'Malley tells Pat McAfee about defeating Chito Vera at UFC 299 | The Pat McAfee Show

sugar Shan thank you what up boys hey it was fun to watch you work on Saturday bro I stayed up for that thing until like cuz the spring forward situation felt like I was up until 4:00 a.m. or whatever I don't even know how you handle your day-to-day and I know you're on Arizona time so I guess the time zone is not that big of a a mess but you picked them apart dude it was fantastic to watch Joe Rogan DC everybody in basically talking was like this is your finest performance do you agree with tha

t looking back on it watching the film do you feel like this is the best you've been yeah that fight was really fun I mean that stylistic match Up's always fun for me I feel like I'm faster than everybody but I knew I was way faster than Cheeto so for me you know I knew I was gonna I knew that fight was gonna play out like that I just had to show up and perform at my best and do what I do and I always do that so you know I kind of figured that fight was going to play out like that was it my best

performance yeah yeah I was probably up there didn't get the Finish doesn't sit quite well with me it is yeah and I saw you okay so let's dive into it because I heard Tim Timbo going into the fifth round and I don't know how much you're listening in between rounds as are putting ice on you that's fascinating to watch it all take place but he was saying going into the fifth round hey bud this thing's won stick and move let's stay out of it so we don't lose this thing is that because there was a

thought like when you land that knee on his face as clean as you did oh listen to this Sean listen to this oh listen to [Applause] this when you lay in that it's gross it's gross when when afterwards you said you felt something broken there but when he doesn't go down there do you think to yourself like okay this is going to go the entire fight if this walking cement truck doesn't go down to that is there a thought of that while you land that and he doesn't go down um yeah I knew I knew like I I

know how durable he is I know how tough some people can be that they just don't go away obviously that Chris montinho that green hair green-haired dude another guy that just some people just don't go away so you just can't waste all your energy trying to put them out after you get them hurt and I'm a vet I've been in the sport for a long time I'm very good with my energy and I understood that you know if he didn't go down from that he was gonna be tough to put him put him away so you know I mad

e sure I didn't waste all my energy on that trying to put him out of say um whenever he's trying to make it dirty late is how DC and Rogan were describing it trying to make it dirty late he he seemed to connect one or two on you did you feel that or no did he did he get close to hitting you late uh he didn't hit me once no I'm kidding uh yeah no he landed a couple decent shots nothing that really rocked me um uh yeah nothing really landed super clean a lot of the punches I was take I was kind of

you know going with um I mean he hurt my hands if anything so that mutino fight we remember talking to you afterwards look at my hands man from beating up a guy's face broken that guy's face was an actual weapon for him it felt like Cheeto was the same exact thing look at this look what you did to him though I mean you were piecing him apart uh obviously you're goal I think you've told us before is I want to hit the other guy and I want to not it hit that was that that was kind of how you descr

ibed it a lot of people are questioning your cardio can this guy last five rounds into the championship rounds felt like you felt good didn't you felt good late felt like yeah yeah I think we answered that question I mean I can keep that kick kind of kickboxing Pace all day uh so yeah answered that question but it's crazy to think about I fought Cheeto for five rounds I fought Chris montinho for three rounds and I landed more shots on Chris montinho than I landed on Cheeto which is kind of crazy

to think about uh so yeah just handing out brain damage not proud of it but you know I'm making money get paid to do it it pays the bills he got a sick robe on right now dude great robe are you still down in Miami no we left we left 2 pm uh flew straight home and and we're back it's so weird laying in bed Saturday 7 p.m. I'm just laying in bed all day waiting for the fight to roll around I'm fighting at 12:30 in the morning on Sunday so Saturday I just I'm laying in bed all day but it's so weir

d to think about Saturday 7 p.m. I'm laying in bed thinking in 24 hours Sunday at 7 pm I'm gonna be laying in bed at home in Arizona and it's going to be all said and done and it's such time such a weird thing especially that fight week and fight day but uh yeah pumped with pumped with how it turned out well yeah it was a wild 24 hours I'd assumed to fly from Miami to Arizona what else oh beat up a guy for five rounds just beat up a guy for five rounds in the middle of it uh the whole press week

leading up to it you know the press conference the day before or two days before you're getting booed a little bit out of Miami were you playing heel did you know it was going to be the sugar crowd cuz it was obviously we all saw it what were your thoughts going into Miami and the crowd that was down there felt electric all week in Miami felt electric yeah that was a perfect place for for me versus Cheeto to happen in Miami he had a lot the American Community coming together you know it would h

ave been cool for them to have a first Ecuadorian I just call him dorians as a champ so he had a lot of a lot of that those reporters out there and uh so you know I figured it was going to kind of be like that it it was cool I didn't mind it I could fight in Spain and elia's Hometown and have nobody there going for me and still perform so I'm not worried about that but it is cool when the sugar fans come together in Miami in Boston in Vegas wherever we go and and uh the suar fans will be there y

eah Connor is going to ask you about Alia call out because obviously afterwards there was a lot of interactions you had in the walk out in behind the scenes of the Arena you had a boot on we know there was that stomach shot late when do you get hurt and do you just play it off well like what cuz I think last fight you had like three different things that were like broken but we couldn't really tell in the fight how'd you come out of this fight do you have any surgeries or anything needed and whe

n do you think you know Ilia or morab or who was it uh Henry cejudo I think came over to you in the middle of an interview with a British TV feels like everybody would like to fight you that was a long time ago when Henry did that that was a little bit more when he was relevant Henry's got to be the number one dumbest shortest okay Champion that has ever lived he's so stupid every time he talks I think he's getting Dumber the dude is so stupid and I cannot believe he won a championship belt he t

alks and he talks he says some of the dumbest ever so but yeah that was a long time ago he's really dumb and short uh yeah I had a couple runin morab came up to me was congratulating me I said thank you I thought it was a fan I didn't even recognize him and then he said you got to say my name and I was like oh that's forab I completely it's you know I didn't realize I thought it was just someone saying good job yeah just got out of a fight just got out of a fight you know yeah a lot going on yea

h yeah the dude's nose is so crooked and uh you know very well morab 100% could be next if Mor's next I would love do in the sphere in Vegas um if Elia is next I would love to do in Spain I'm not ducking either of them I don't care I've called out Elia because he's scarier than morab like morab is a very very dangerous opponent he's got crazy gas tank name his last three Fighters he couldn't he's boring win streak and he's done it so many times that it is there is something to it to you know it'

s completely opposite of my style I'm striking stand up fun to watch Quick fast he's so boring and takes people down so there is something there and uh people want to see me so they're like well put RAB on him so if that's next cool you know UFC we'll talk soon and figure it out well hey people W to see you lose as good box office there's also a lot of people that want to see you fight because as you said you're entertaining you're electrifying two-time main event now right second time main Even

ting you have Boston and you have Miami places filled places packed I assume the numbers are going to come out that they're big we got a chance to talk to you over your entire run here from back in the empty Apex where you're knocking people out doing fadeaway threes in the middle of it where we became fans to now your main event Marquee selling out Arenas congrats bro hey feels good got to feel good right you're in the middle of it right now it does feel good you know and i' I was I've been ver

y confident in myself my skills believed in myself that I was I was saying this before I was in the UFC I was in the contender series to get into the UFC I said trust me I'm gonna be in these positions not and it's just you know I've been able to go out there and put on performance after performance after performance and uh yeah it's just been a lot of hard work and and just dedicating my life to this sport you know I'm in a really really cool POS cool cool position yeah you and Timbo is cool to

o you know yeah yeah there's some videos of him after the fight where it looked like he was willing to fight some people if they needed it you know and it's like you guys are a cool partnership man that's a cool thing yeah no I mean it's we have really good chemistry we uh we lived together for like five years as we were coming up I was just turning pro he was already Pro he was trying to get into the UFC I was trying to you know build up a pro record and we lived together for like four or five

years at the time so we built a cool relationship and uh you know it's it's important to have someone you trust so much in your corner like that uh really my whole team my whole Corner everyone plays an important role but yeah we got a we have a really cool squad and uh you know we're taking over yeah you guys are killing it it's fun to watch he's got that call F here too from top to bottom you know he turns his head it's like yep not a guy don't want to let's not accidentally piss off that that

redheaded man right there let learn the fact that he's got the full UFC kit on debuts got a question for you about that whole process definitely avoid not but I talk about the process kind of comparing to football a little bit but you talked about the of the different Fighters how much I guess film study or how much do you watch these Fighters before you fight them and then post fight like how much of your fight do you watch after um after you know knockout or big match I've watched the fights

three times since um I I really enjoy rewatching my masterpieces and uh so I've always enjoyed that I Spar when in Camp a couple times a week well I usually Spar once a week in Camp I'll go and watch those I'll watch them slow but as far as who I watch or how much of my opponent I watch I don't watch a ton I watch a little bit just enough to know I'm like okay I'll whoop this dude's ass so sometimes a minute or two and I'm like okay I got I kind of downloaded everything I need to know he's too s

low I'm gonna piece him up so that's usually how that goes Tim watches more of the film more of the more of that but I mean the last two fights we've pretty much just had a game plan and perfect did it and it's been a you know at the higher levels we kind of have a game plan more so is coming up I was like okay I'm just going to go out there and do what I do do what I do what I do now we got these you know these game plan specific for these opponents and it's they're sparring weekly are they try

ing to fight like Cheeto do you know that yeah we I mean that's the plan that's kind of Ideal everyone's helping everyone um so when I obviously have a big fight coming up you know we bring in sparring partners Tim will kind of give them you know have them watch Cheeto to leading up to sparring he'll watch it in the back before we Spar he'll kind of say hey do do do these little tendencies that that he does and and yeah they try to emulate him as much as possible but for the most part you know s

parring is just that getting that cardio getting that push did you want a spinning heel kick on him was there a way you wanted to end it did you have any merch for cuz what was it another right hand from Sugarland one of your fight on UFC you had to guy knocked out but it was with a left hand you let him up you said because you wanted to finish him with the right because you had merch already made that said another right hand from Sugarland which I think we bought 20 of them or whatever and I ho

pe a lot of people did you have a way you thought that was going to end spinning heel kick felt like you were trying there early ah yeah I wanted I just wanted any finish against someone that tough that durable you'll take whatever you can get as far as a finish but you know going into that fight I really really truly believed it was going to be a war I I I knew how tough he was he never I I I officially dropped him I don't know if they counted it or not but I think in that second or third round

I put him down to a knee so hopefully they'll give me that but yeah's he's never been finished so I I figured it was gonna be hard but you know the shirts said the rain remains and you know we're still we're still Camp still doing it but yeah we had those shirts ready to rock hey the rain remains tells me you knew those was there was a chance he goes five there there's a chance here I'm going to try my best even after Timbo going into rounds like stay away from him you were still trying your ye

ah you were trying your it was awesome hey you're fun to watch Dude I I like the thought of like you sitting there while Tim's telling you like hey let's just not get pieced up here everything's good and then you go Tim I'm an entertaining fighter okay these people didn't come for me to run around this damn cage although you could have you could have you crushed them it was like a like unanimous too everybody in there fun night fun night Sean Ty has a question for you yeah Sean how was the proce

ss with the weight cut for this fight I think one of the last times we talked to you you were like Hey listen cutting weight sucks but it kind of is what it is it's part of the gig um but but you didn't tire at all you looked your cardio looked great all five rounds um what like what did you end up actually weighing when you fought on Saturday night because every time you fight too like you look massive compared to these guys in your division um so what like is is that part of like the hey I don

't know if I want to keep cutting and staying here um what what did you end up fighting at and and how was the weight cut for this fight yeah the weight cut was pretty much the same as the last few I I Journal all my weights for about three four weeks out I Journal all my days I know exactly what I was doing each fight Camp each day out so I I kind of try to stay around that same weight so I know exactly that I'm going to make the weight and I have a nutritionist Dan Garner that's we're doing it

as scientifically as possible so there's no guessing if I'm GNA make weight I'm going to make weight I've done it I know how and it sucks every single time it is the closest thing you can a man can do die you know there's you have you have headaches you're completely dehydrated you don't sleep that night it's not fun it's you know and if anyone says they make it a easier you know they're probably not cutting as much weight or they're just lying but yeah it sucks cutting weight is the worst part

about the sport um but the weight cut with that being said went went perfect as far as you know that I mastered it thank you thank you I have mastered it no the re the rehydration part went perfect got it down now I feel like all you do is win you know that's all I've known you to do literally since I've watched you even while Buffer's doing the introduction 17 you go and oh yeah I like to think of people watching it bars with the captions and then what they're seeing uh like wait a second hold

on how's this entire thing work but you just won uh something that has been happening on this particular program since we started on ESPN I believe right now you're at 11 or 12 12 you're a 12 you're a 12 F just keep winning champ All I Do Is Win that's right absolute Crush uh we appreciate that but speaking of winning there's something else on the line go ahead com man yeah Sean another huge win I believe you will be getting a brand new car is that the case do you know what car you being gifted

and who is giving it to you again yeah so before I fought um Aiden this streamer Aiden uh messaged me and he's like bro I'm going to put so much money on you if you win I'm going to buy you a car and uh yeah so he said he's gonna give me a car and that that's kind of where it left off at and uh but yeah that would be absolutely insane he didn't say what car he said he's G let his chat pick so I don't know where that goes to but I'm oh the chat I mean the chat could go a couple different directi

ons I'm not 100% sure how it will go they could be like all right let's go toyot to Camry yeah exctly they go toyot to Camry hey hell yeah hell yeah could you imagine putting little uh hubcap Spinners on that not actual Spinners hubcap Spinners on yeah that would be dope on that or they go or they go the other day other way you get like a ghost or like Rolls-Royce come on or like something yeah that's the way we're hoping huh we'll have to wait and see we'll have to wait and see hey good luck to

the chat hey good you guys are going to do it the right that's cool Ross I appreciate the hell out of that I respect respect that a lot I also respect the way you're doing your thing you have remained yourself through the entirety keep crushing it we're lucky to know you appreciate you guys thank you so much for having me and uh yeah talk soon when's next fight do we not we don't have a clue right we don't know no I don't know I mean UFC does their matchmaking Tuesdays so maybe they're talking

about the sugar show I'm sure they are uh the sphere is a big deal in Vegas they're saying it could be a one and done the sphere the one time only Mexican Independence Day who bigger to have than your Mexican bantamweight champion shano Ali to defend his title uh in the spere so that's a possibility if I had a guess okay so this is just a question because my journalism has not told me with the Ali thing in Boston I did not know you you are a Mexican male uh SC uh scientifically yes I'm Mexican m

y DNA is Mexican I have a Mexican princess we have the same DNA therefore how could I not be Mexican okay well said ladies and gentlemen come say hi real quick okay never mind he doesn't want to it's all right she'll get she's too big for our show anyways you know maybe one day we'll be able to hey what's going on Helen oh no not having it how old how old how old they're she's three man that's awesome I got a 10-month old man it's crazy every day it's something new yeah it's wild isn't it yeah I

love it yeah yeah I love it I want I want a whole tribe I want more I want to keep popping them out well not me but you know what I mean ladies and gentlemen bantamweight champion of the world sugar Shan and Ali thank you buddy par it's cool you hear that that guy just went to war for five months he has a science on how to cut weight then his daughter comes around he's like oh excuse me lover mhm it is awesome it's a whole new world this whole kid thing oh yeah yeah 10 months huh so is she like

moving around walking crawling well we're not walking yet good you can but we are crawling we are standing no rush no rush