Coach Tim Welch Blames Self For Sean O’Malley’s Loss: ‘Imagine being in a fistfist and your foot is fully asleep’

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Coach Tim Welch takes blame for his Sean O’Malley’s loss to Marlon Vera at the UFC 252.

A wounded feet enabled Vera to beat O’Malley in his only defeat since. O’Malley went through several fighters since the unfortunate outing, including recent UFC bantamweight champion Aljermain Sterling.

Though O’Malley who is currently the UFC bantamweight champion is allegedly not worried about that loss, his coach had few things to say.

‘I gotta take a lot of the blame on this,’ coach Welch said in a YouTube video. ‘One of the UFC people wrapped his ankles, and a couple times… “Sugar” never complains about anything. A couple times he said “This ankle wrap is too tight”, he said it twice.

‘After the second time, I had the guys cut a little on the top, a little bit on the ankle, and I thought for sure it would loosen up.

‘We were done with our warmup, they said we were walking in five minutes, so we felt a little rushed. Looking back, 100 percent, I should’ve said “Hey, take that wrap off, and let’s re-do it. The fight can wait”.

‘If you’ve ever had your ankle wrapped too tight, the blood can’t flow to it, and it feels like your foot is falling asleep. So imagine being in a fistfist and your foot is fully asleep.’

Will O’Malley beat Marlon Vera? The future has the answer.