Petr Yan Accuses the UFC of Showing Favoritism Toward Sean O’Malley

Petr thinks UFC gave a present to Omalley as
the second title fight after losses:

“Everybody knows UFC gave a present to O’Malley a second time. When
I was fighting O’Malley, I beat him. UFC gave him a present there,
and now they gave him a title fight. He’s a chicken — a guy…
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May 6, 2025

Petr
Yan believes the
Ultimate Fighting Championship is biased towards Sean
O’Malley.

O’Malley (18-2) will try to regain his bantamweight title against
Merab
Dvalishvili (19-4) at UFC 317
on June 7 at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. Yan doesn’t
consider O’Malley worthy of a title shot and thinks he is being
favored by the UFC.

And that is not new to Yan, 18-5, who believes he was robbed in his
split-decision loss against O’Malley in 2022. “No Mercy” thinks
O’Malley is a “chicken guy” who is privileged as he is a big
draw.

“Everybody know[s] UFC give present for O’Malley second time,” Yan
told Submission Radio. “When [I was] fighting O’Malley, I beat him.
UFC gave him present there, and now they give him title fight. He’s
a chicken guy, [a guy for] UFC to make money.”

Yan lost his title to Aljamain
Sterling via disqualification due to an illegal knee in 2021.
The Russian then failed to regain the belt in their rematch next
year. Then followed a controversial split decision loss against
O’Malley which earned “Suga” an immediate title shot. O’Malley
dethroned Sterling via knockout while Yan faded away from the title
picture with another unanimous decision loss against Dvalishvili.
Meanwhile, O’Malley defended his title just once against Marlon Vera
before losing it to Dvalishvili. And Yan has since bounced back
with decision wins over Song Yadong and Deiveson
Figueiredo to make his case for another title run.