Marlon Vera believes Sean O’Malley ‘quit’ in their co-headlining bantamweight bout at UFC 252 last week, claiming that ‘Suga’ wasn’t as injured as he made out to be.
O’Malley was thought to have broken his foot in the first round but the X-ray came back clean. A further MRI scan is needed but, according to Vera, it was O’Malley’s mind that broke at UFC 252.
“Now that the fight is over, he didn’t hurt his ankle. The x-rays came back clean,” Vera told BJPENN.com in a recent interview. “What I did to him, is basically when someone punches you in the jaw you go out.