Sean O'Malley

The UFC 276 main-card bout between Monster Energy fighter O'Malley and Munhoz ended in unfortunate circumstances in the second round. O'Malley eye poked Munhoz, ...

First man to finish Pedro— Sean O'Malley (@SugaSeanMMA) July 3, 2022 An unfortunate ending to this one.— UFC on BT Sport (@btsportufc) @PedroMunhozmmavs. @SugaSeanMMAends in a no-decision due to an unintentional eye poke. Sean O'Malley landed an unintentional eye poke on Pedro Munhoz during their clash, ruling their bantamweight bout a no-contest.

After a back-and-forth fight, Sean O'Malley and Pedro Munhoz had their fight ruled a no contest after an accidental eye poke.

The fight was gearing up to be a technical bout. O'Malley, a Helena native, accidentally poked his opponent Pedro Munhoz in the eye in the second round of their fight at UFC 276 in Las Vegas on Saturday. The fight was ruled a no contest after Munhoz was unable to see out of his poked eye. After a much-anticipated top-15 fight was on the books, Sean O'Malley's fight at UFC 276 ended in disappointing fashion.

See the top Twitter reactions to Sean O'Malley's no-contest with Pedro Munhoz at UFC 276.

Sean O'Malley has reacted after his UFC 276 bout with Pedro Munhoz was ruled a no-contest due to an accident eye poke.

Instead, the bantamweight bout proved to be more of a chess match that unfortunately ended in a no-contest. After trading a lot of kicks and some punches for the better part of seven minutes, the bout was waved off following an eye poke from ‘Suga’. The Brazilian was coming off back-to-back unanimous decision losses to Dominick Cruz and Jose Aldo respectively.

The surging bantamweight contender returned to the octagon early on Sunday morning on the main card of a stacked UFC 276 in Las Vegas. Advertisement. Sean O' ...

Munhoz continued to go to the calf kick well but ended up eating another good right hand after biting on a feint. As he was being tended to by the doctor, Munhoz said: "All I see is black." SEAN O'MALLEY's surge up the bantamweight ranks was stopped in a it's tracks due to an accidental eye poke in his showdown with Pedro Munhoz.

Sean O'Malley took a shot at former two-division UFC champion Henry Cejudo after they had an altercation backstage at UFC 276 on Saturday night.

- UFC 276 Event T-Shirt - UFC 276 Liquid Silver Logo T-Shirt “He mumbled some words like [I was a tune-up fight],” O’Malley said. - UFC 276 Metallic Gold Logo T-Shirt Looks like he’s on drugs. When would you want to bend the knee?

Pedro Munhoz had his eye examined at a hospital after an accidental poke led to an unsatisfying end to his UFC 276 clash with Sean O'Malley.

In his post-fight interview, O’Malley stated that he believed Munhoz was looking for a way out. Munhoz has previously gone to decisions with multiple elite bantamweights, including Dominick Cruz, Jose Aldo, Frankie Edgar, and current champion Aljamain Sterling. He also holds a first-round knockout victory over former UFC champion Cody Garbrandt. “To explain briefly what happened in the fight against Sean O’Malley, I was poked in the eye in the first round but kept fighting, and was hit with a low blow shortly after,” Munhoz said via Instagram (Portuguese translation by MMA Fighting’s Guilherme Cruz). “The fight restarted and we exchanged a few strikes.

Sean O'Malley doesn't think Pedro Munhoz wanted to be in there with him at UFC 276, so he found a way out of the fight.

I was dominating that fight. I was dominating that fight. I was dominating that fight.” I was piecing him up. The physician also told Herzog there was damage to the eye. I was piecing him up.

After UFC 276, Pedro Munhoz said a Sean O'Malley eye poke scratched his cornea – and was met by hundreds of insults from commenters online.

The referee asked if I could see at all and the doctor decided to stop the fight. I was taken to the hospital and they used a special eye drop that made my eye numb so they could open my eye. At UFC 276, the fight between Munhoz and Sean O'Malley ended in a no contest due to an inadvertent eye poke.