Number 12-ranked bantamweight Sean O’Malley once went on record to admit that he didn’t want to fight ranked opponents. With money as his primary reason, that kind of cherry-picking is something that many people criticized him for.
But if you ask Kevin Lee, “Sugar Sean” is doing something right.
“I gotta tip my hat to Sean O’Malley. He knows how to come up. He did it the right way. Honestly, I wish I would’ve (taken) a couple pages out of his book and had that ability to kind of pick and choose my fights and put on great performances like that.