In a startling display of deception, Suga Sean O’Malley’s coach, Tim Welch, was caught on the UFC camera pretending to be the coach of Aljamain Sterling, just moments before O’Malley’s knockout victory over Sterling. The footage has sparked mixed reactions.
The incident occurred when Welch was seen standing near the twosome by the fence. The video shows Welch shouting instructions, attempting to deceive Sterling into believing he was Ray Longo. “Aljo, you gotta go. Yeah!” Welch can be heard shouting on the damning video.
Sean O'Malley’s coach is the reason Aljo got finished 😠pic.twitter.com/Jw3rqBjLRm
— Elon Rakhmonov 🇦🇺 (@ElonRakhmonov) May 8, 2024
The stunt has left many in the MMA community stunned.
Meanwhile O’Malley revealed he made tripple what he made to face Aljamain Sterling just on social media.
In a revelation during an interview on Bradley Martyn’s Raw Talk, O’Malley disclosed: “My goal is always to become a multi-multi-multi-multi-multi-multi-millionaire. I wanted to become — make a lot of money. You can make a lot of money in the UFC not talking sh*t, not really being on social media, doing all that thing. But you’re not — it’s gonna be harder when you have to win 5000 fights in a row.”
He continued by saying that his income from social media platforms, including Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter, tripled his earnings from MMA.
O’Malley stated: “I paid more in taxes than I made last year in my fight [with Sterling]. I made a lot of money fighting but I made triple that from social media. From Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, all these different social medias. I made triple the amount I made fighting. I made a lot of money fighting. So, it just depends what these guys’ goals are.”