Daniel Cormier thinks there is a path for Sean O’Malley to fight Conor McGregor in the near future. The flamboyant bantamweight champion has claimed to be the next Conor McGregor and had called out the sport’s biggest superstar after his UFC 298 victory over Marlon ‘Chito’ Vera. Recently, the champ has stated that he will be willing to move up to 155 pounds to face ‘The Notorious’.
Just this month, McGregor targeted O’Malley, calling him a drug cheat and advising he “kill himself” if he cannot get his head right. And former two-division champion Daniel Cormier, on his ‘Good Guy/ Bad Guy’ show with Chael Sonnen, thinks ‘Suga’ should actually call out McGregor and sow the seeds of a potential fight between them.
‘DC’ advises ‘Suga’ to call out Conor McGregor
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‘DC’ spoke about O’malley’s upcoming opponent, Merab Dvalishvili, who has been confirmed as the number one title contender by Dana White after his UFC 298 victory over former champion Henry Cejudo. The UFC commentator felt that while Dvalishvili’s world-class wrestling base was a nightmarish matchup for the 135-pound champion, he was not a box office draw as some of the other bantamweights may be.
This brought Cormier to “the next best thing” that ‘Suga’ could do, i.e. “call out Conor [McGregor].” The former champion felt that this woul