The UFC's brand new bantamweight champion Sean O'Malley has called for a boxing crossover fight with top super-lightweight contender Gervonta Davis after winning the belt last night.
The wildly popular striker stunned fans with a second round knockout of the long-reigning champion Aljamain Sterling in front of a packed house at Boston's TD Garden. And now he wants to take his skills to the ring to face the hard-hitting undefeated WBA regular champion Davis in what would be a monstrous pay-per-view show.
Davis recently headlined at the T-Mobile Arena against Ryan Garcia with over 1.2million pay-per-view buys reported as the pair drew over $22million at the box office. Meanwhile, O'Malley's maiden title shot against the infamously low-drawing Sterling saw the pair draw a monumental gate of over $7m in Boston, with promoter Dana White saying it was the highest-selling PPV in divisional history.
"I wouldn't mind knocking out Gervonta Davis," O'Malley told Mirror Fighting after UFC 292. "I know people are going to go 'oh you're a wannabe Conor,' but I'm telling you, bro, that fight is going to happen... I would love to go over and box him, he's not that f***ing tall, dude. I've never seen him in person.
"I feel like it could happen sooner than later but I also know that UFC is down to get behind stuff like that if it's big enough and with that performance I think we're getting close. But maybe I have to go out there and win a couple more fights, win another belt because I don't even know if he's considered a big enough star for the UFC to let that happen.
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"But it'll happen, I said this [winning the UFC title] was going to happen a couple of years ago and I got so much s*** for saying I'm going to be the champ, I'm going to be the next big star, this, that. I got so much hate and s*** for it but look at me now."
O'Malley doesn't necessarily have a keen interest in boxing as a sport, nor a particular feud ongoing with Davis. But he feels that with a bout against long-time rival Chito Vera his only big option at bantamweight that his division is currently devoid of stars in the octagon.
"I don't really follow boxing," he continued. "But I've heard of Gervonta Davis and I think he's undefeated. I want to have crazy massive fights, that s*** gets me excited. I love that stuff and there's no stars in the bantamweight division. Gervonta you could consider almost a star and that's what gets me excited. Me vs Gervonta at T-Mobile or here [in Boston] would be massive, f*** it!"
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