But was it enough to land Yadong the next bantamweight title shot?
“Just how good is Sean O’Malley?” O’Malley said after watching Song beat Nurmagomedov. “He knocked him out cold. He necked him out. If Merab wins, it sounds like you have to give Song the title shot. If not, if Petr wins, I get the title shot. Mario (Bautista) is right there, too. The division is on fire right now.”
“My boxing coach, Rudy Hernandez, he already told me, ‘You gonna get the knockout tonight with an uppercut.’ I feel like I can finish everyone,” Song said in his UFC Shanghai post-fight interview. “I can finish Petr, I can finish Merab. So even Sean’s fight was very close. You know, if we have a rematch, I can finish him too.”
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