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.

An eye poke from Sean O'Malley left Pedro Munhoz unable to continue, which brought an end to their fight at UFC 276.

When O’Malley finally started unleashing his strikes, he was a sniper from the outside with a laser on his right hand and some kicks that nearly took Munhoz’s head off. It appeared O’Malley was somewhat hesitant to engage while Munhoz continued chopping away at his foundation with those repeated leg kicks. Time was called with referee Jason Herzog giving Munhoz an opportunity to try and recovery from the eye poke.

Sean O'Malley takes shots at Pedro Munhoz and Henry Cejudo after his UFC 276 main card fight ends in a disappointing no contest because of an eye poke.

Here's what fighters had to say about the no decision in Sean O'Malley vs. Pedro Munhoz at UFC 276.

smh— Casey Oneill (@kingcaseymma) #UFC276 July 3, 2022 Speculation over the severity of the injury emerged online as fighters absorbed the disappointing ending to an otherwise competitive fight. The crowd loudly booed the call, though O’Malley raised his hands afterward as if victorious.

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.

Sean O'Malley got into it with 'Triple Cringe' Henry Cejudo at UFC 276 last night.

Cejudo, a former Olympic champion, clinched the UFC flyweight title in 2018. He looks fat as shit, what, does he want to fight in three years?” “Looks like he’s on drugs. Sean O’Malley was part of an anti-climatic fight to open the main card of UFC 276 last night. O’Malley continued talking about Cejudo at the post-fight press conference. When would you want to bend the knee, at what time?

UFC executive Reed Harris tweeted Sunday morning that he saw Munhoz at the fighter hotel and that his eye was "swollen shut." After the fight, O'Malley said he ...

After the fight, O'Malley said he felt like Munhoz was looking for a way out of the bantamweight bout and could have continued. Munhoz said his eye was swollen, he could not open it and he had to be given several medications to treat it. He also released a video on Instagram in his native Portuguese explaining the situation.