Sean O’Malley recently recalled an encounter with Luke Rockhold who was apparently intoxicated at Whitefish (a town in Montana). The former middleweight champion had exchanged words with O’Malley’s father. Rockhold reminded him of his son’s only loss at the hands of his teammate Marlon ‘Chito’ Vera at UFC 252.
The bout saw him beaten for the first time in MMA after losing to the first-round TKO. The 26-year-old considers himself “mentally undefeated,” but the records have that he lost to Marlon Vera
Sean O’ Malley shares the details of the incident involving Luke Rockhold
Recalling the story on episode 149 of TimboSugarShow, Sean O’Malley said:
“They were in Whitefish. Luke (Rockhold) was drunk and he kept telling my dad ‘Chito beat your son’s a**’. My dad said Luke was super (buzzed) but he kept saying ‘Chito beat your son’s a**’. Why would he be like that?”
O’Malley then added that his father failed to recognize Rockhold, which likely frustrated the 16-5 fighter.
“Luke said (to my father) ‘do you not know who I am?’, and my dad said ‘you look familiar but I don’t know’. So that probably p*ssed him off. I don’t know the whole story,” said Sean O’Malley.
Rockhold has not competed inside the UFC octagon since July 2019 when he lost to Jan Blachowicz at UFC 239. Derrick Lewis Exposed For ‘Cheating’ At UFC 265
The American Kickboxing Academy (AKA) member is now expected to make his return at UFC 268 on November 6, 2021, where he will go up against Sean Strickland.
