As recently recently, it would be difficult to imagine the Star Power Bill, which UFC now finds itself.
If “Suga” Scene O’Mali had to re-establish itself as a marquee personality of the game and to start a hot streak on Saturday, the UFC would have completed its first important step towards re-establishing itself as a star-powered event. This is a requirement for the long -term prosperity of any fighter sports unit. Just ask Jake Paul. Personality sells more quarrels than fighting, selling quarrels.
It is advisable to suggest that the UFC was at the speed of becoming a major force in the American sports culture, with the motion cultivated in the late 2010s. A roster filled with anchor and name-brand talent by a bole-pay-per-view draw in Connor McGregor was continuously setting the audience records through the Combat Sports Empire 2021.
The UFC’s identity was cured when McGregor’s ankle staggering his second match against Dustin Paurier in July of the year. McGregor, who has 10 highest-bound pay-per-views in the UFC history, has not yet returned to Ashtakona.
Now a company was taken by a fighter, UFC now depends on the card packed instead of the blockbuster quarrel. This philosophy makes the biggest fans of the game happy based on a week, but it does not allow the game to establish cultural living power which was once in the US meditation market.
After O’Malley’s early U’Malley’s early U’Malley victory against Alzaman Sterling in August 2023, “Suga” was on a fast track to take over as the company’s face for the remaining time of the decade.
“He is on his way (being one of the biggest stars of all time),” White said O’Mali’s loan title defense against Chito Vera in UFC 299. “He is the biggest star ever in Banomvet history. We can say now.”
The UFC invested him in such a way that the company’s much-awaited multicibilian-dollar force in the Las Vegas region had its initial match against the Merb Dwarishwili.
Whoever was on the fast track O’Malley was stopped on that night, as Dvalishvili smelled it in front of the most expensive crowd in UFC history and controlled the whole fight. O’Malley, usually known for fireworks that he could provide in the striking game, was completely useless.
UFC rely on O’Malley to shine in its most anticipated event of the decade and gave him the opportunity to cement himself as the company’s biggest star. he failed. Badly. Nevertheless, White O’was reluctant to blame the moment for deficiency of Mali.
After UFC 306, White said, “He looked flat.”
White often states that he is in the business of selling “Oh S —“, and he depends on fighters such as O’Mali to deliver. Late, the UFC’s marquee stars – including Alex Perera and the stable John “Bones” Jones – have contrast. In 2025, you can make the appropriate argument that White himself is the largest MMA star and was included in the most memorable moments of the game within the last 12 months, almost especially in the United States President showing the front line.
In March, UFC 313, with Perera’s loss and Jones’s top heavyweight contender Tom Espinol, O’Mali again got the opportunity to establish himself as a company face – even despite his shameful loss in September.
O’Malley claims that he was also trapped in the Rockstar-Esk “Suga” personality, which was a pioneer for that loss against Dvalishvili. As a result, O’Malley left both marijuana and social media in the UFC 316 preparation for his match – two things that were synonymous with “Suga” experience.
“I just wanted to distract less in my life, in general,” O’Mali said in a UFC campaigner video. “I was very connected to this character, and it was taking me out who I am on day-to-day basis. I want to dedicate what I am for the game, because I really believe that I can be the greatest ever.
“To do this, my high self directed me to more family time and less vain s —.”
If O’Malley has actually cut off distractions and focuses on becoming a transit talent that she has the ability to be, it is difficult to imagine the rematch of Saturday, with the same results as the frustration of September. It is even more difficult to imagine an O’Malley victory, not UFC’s favorite results – although they could never accept that much.
