Former interim bantamweight title challenger, Cory Sandhagen has called for a title eliminator against former champion, Sean O’Malley next — claiming the Montana striker has “no business” fighting for gold in his return to the Octagon.
Sandhagen, the current number four ranked bantamweight contender, has been sidelined since the summer, most recently taking on most recent title challenger and UFC 311 co-headliner, Umar Nurmagomedov.
And suffering defeat in the pair’s title eliminator, Sandhagen was dispatched over the course of five rounds in a one-sided unanimous decision loss to the Russian — seeing his impressive run of three straight wins halted to boot.