Former UFC Bantamweight Champion Sean O’Malley had revealed that he has stopped smoking weed forward of his UFC 316 rematch with Merab Dvalishvili.
‘Suga’ goals to win again the UFC Bantamweight Title, which he misplaced to Dvalishvili at UFC 306 final September on the Sphere.
Sean O’Malley Reveals He Has Give up Smoking Weed
Forward of his rematch with Merab Dvalishvili at UFC 316, former bantamweight champion Sean O’Malley has revealed he has stop smoking weed.
‘Suga’ has made no secret of the truth that he enjoys smoking marijuana infrequently, however has stopped smoking weed for the previous few months as he prepares for the most important combat of his life.
O’Malley has pulled out all of the stops forward of his rematch with Dvalishvili. He has been coaching with the likes of Israel Adesanya and Demetrius Johnson, in addition to coming off social media.
The largest change that O’Malley has made nonetheless is quitting smoking weed.
In his early days within the UFC, O’Malley was smoking weed with Snoop Dogg and has at all times been an enormous supporting of marijuana. Being a supporter of smoking weed hasn’t modified, however O’Malley has revealed that he hasn’t smoked weed in any respect in 2025.
He has stated that this isn’t solely right down to his combat with Merab Dvalishvili, who has damaged his silence on his reported toe damage, however that he wished to make some life-style modifications throughout the board.
In his current interview with Jim Rome, O’Malley revealed that he has been taking a weed detox this yr, in addition to not spending any time on social media:
“I don’t assume I’ve even smoked this yr. I’m not performed smoking weed ceaselessly. I positively take pleasure in it, but it surely was type of simply giving me this anxiousness I didn’t actually need.
I don’t know if it was a mix between the social media after which smoking, it was simply one thing in me was saying, ‘Hey, let’s take a [break]. We’re stopping social media, we’re stopping this, we’re stopping that, let’s take a bit break from it.’ And that additionally feels actually good,” admitted O’Malley.
Sean O’Malley Feels Higher Than Ever Forward Of Merab Dvalishvili Rematch At UFC 316
In addition to quitting smoking weed, Sean O’Malley has additionally revealed that he has had an entire social media detox forward of his UFC 316 rematch with Merab Dvalishvili.
‘Suga’ has cleansed a few of his habits in an effort to give him the perfect probability of changing into a two-time UFC Bantamweight Champion. Stopping smoking weed and coming off social media are the 2 predominant life-style modifications the American MMA phenom has made.
In his chat with Jim Rome on Wednesday, Might 28, O’Malley admitted that he feels so a lot better having come off social media and performed an entire detox for everything of the yr up to now:
“There are usually not a complete lot of issues you may most likely say are ‘life-changing’ however I might say me getting off of my social media – they’re nonetheless working, we’re nonetheless making content material, I nonetheless have a group doing that stuff – however for me to really not get on my cellphone, get on Instagram, get on Snapchat, get on Twitter, interact with the digital actuality each single day, hours a day, has fully modified my life in a constructive method,” stated the previous 135-pound king.
The 30-year-old has admitted that he feels higher than ever heading into his rematch with Dvalishvili. Whether or not or not these modifications will make a special to the result of their second combat stays to be seen.
“For me truly taking a look at feedback, posting stuff, browsing, scrolling, all that… Not being a part of that has been life altering.”@SugaSeanMMA has caught to his “life altering” social media detox courting again to September. pic.twitter.com/ihE1Ki9Hgv
— Jim Rome (@jimrome) Might 29, 2025
When Is Sean O’Malley’s Rematch With Merab Dvalishvili?
Sean O’Malley embarks on his highly-anticipated rematch with Merab Dvalishvili in only a couple weeks time.
Dvalishvili vs O’Malley 2 headlines the following UFC pay-per-view occasion on the Prudential Heart in Newark, New Jersey. The combat is the primary occasion of UFC 316, which works down on Saturday, June 6.
These life-style modifications that O’Malley has made could effectively profit him contained in the octagon in the case of combat evening. Though ‘Suga’ has made so many modifications, one factor about him hasn’t modified in any respect – his confidence.
“I do know I can beat Merab,” O’Malley stated.
“He’s open to getting knocked out. I’m very assured that I can put his lights out. I’m additionally assured I can beat him in a five-round combat. There’s positively a risk of me placing his lights out, however I’m able to go for 25 minutes. I’m able to need to dig deep.”
It isn’t lengthy now till the Merab Dvalishvili vs Sean O’Malley rematch headlines UFC 316 for the UFC Bantamweight Title. What a combat this could possibly be in what’s the Dana White’s subsequent UFC PPV occasion on June 6.
