ABU DHABI – It’s safe to say Petr Yan and Sean O’Malley have their differences. The bantamweight contenders had a fiery exchange at Thursday’s UFC 280 pre-fight press conference. Yan (16-3 MMA, 8-2 UFC) and O’Malley (15-1 MMA, 7-1 UFC) went back and forth, trading shots ahead of their main card contest Saturday. It started after O’Malley was asked bout his reaction to Yan calling him “a Conor McGregor wannabe.” “I mean, Conor, some of the stuff he’s done recently, I don’t want to be. But he’s had a pretty sweet career, so that’s someone that’s not too bad to (be compared with),” O’Malley said. “I’m going to smash Petr, how about that
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