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Sean O'Malley

UFC 12-3 (1 draw/NC)Pro 20-3Ranked #2 · Bantamweighttale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Sean O'Malley’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Power striker

UFC recordUFC 12-3 (1 draw/NC) first fight 2017-12-01 · last fight 2026-06-14
Pro record20-3
Current streak2 wins
Last 5 (UFC)W W L L W
DivisionBantamweight
Age31
Height5' 11"
StanceSwitch

5' 11" switch power striker campaigning at Bantamweight. 12 UFC wins — 7 KO/TKO, 5 decision. Top 4% of Bantamweights: lands 5.98 significant strikes a minute and connects with 60% of his significant strikes.

Every figure here is recomputed at build time from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date. If a number isn’t in the data, it isn’t in this profile.

Tale of the tape facts

The facts, plainly — vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. The social accounts are the ones linked from the fighter’s own official athlete page — we don’t match handles by name. The UFC record is counted from the official results themselves, and is dated by the first and last bout it counts.

NicknameSuga
NationalityUnited States
Born inHelena, Montana, United States Wikipedia
Fights out ofPeoria, Arizona, United States Wikipedia
CampRed Hawk Academy
Height5' 11"
Reach72"
StanceSwitch
Age31
Date of birthOct 24, 1994
Weight135 lbs.
Pro record20-3
UFC recordUFC 12-3 (1 draw/NC) first fight 2017-12-01 · last fight 2026-06-14
Finish split12 UFC wins — 7 KO/TKO, 5 decision
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Sean O'Malley has stood in the official UFC rankings, one row per table, 2 of them, each band running from the table that set it to the table that changed it.

Sean O'Malley in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Bantamweight253 weeks on the tables#11–15 · from the table of 8 June 2020#11–15 · from the table of 13 December 2021No table on record · Dec 2021 – Jan 2022#11–15 · from the table of 17 January 2022#1–5 · from the table of 24 October 2022No table on record · Dec 2022 – Jan 2023#1–5 · from the table of 17 January 2023Champion · from the table of 22 August 2023#1–5 · from the table of 17 September 2024No table on record · Dec 2024 – Jan 2025#1–5 · from the table of 14 January 2025First rankedBelt wonReign endsRanked todayPound-for-pound91 weeks on the tables#6–10 · from the table of 22 August 2023#1–5 · from the table of 30 July 2024#6–10 · from the table of 6 August 2024#11–15 · from the table of 17 September 2024No table on record · Dec 2024 – Jan 2025#11–15 · from the table of 14 January 2025First rankedLast ranked
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the tableNo table on record
PeakChampionBantamweight · Aug 2023
Weeks as champion56on the published tables
Weeks at #1–5145on the published tables, title reigns aside
Current#2Bantamweight · Oct 2026

Official UFC.com official rankings, 2013–present · rankings of 6 October 2026

A published rank holds until the next table changes it, so a band runs from the table that set it to the table that ended it — that is how a ranking works, and it is why an unbroken reign is drawn unbroken. Nothing is interpolated: the band is the last published STATUS, never a rank in between, and the hatched stretches are weeks the archive holds no table for at all. The champion band sits above #1 because a belt is not a rank. The three pound-for-pound tables — the combined one to January 2020, then the Men's and Women's ones — share a row, because they are one standing under three names.

Career rates facts

Career averages over Sean O'Malley’s UFC bouts, straight from public UFC statistics — the same eight numbers on his official record. These are the source’s figures, not our read: what we make of them is the card below.

Striking
Strikes landed / min5.98
Striking accuracy60%
Strikes absorbed / min3.40
Striking defence59%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.23
Takedown accuracy42%
Takedown defence60%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.20

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Bantamweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.

FightIQ's read — derived from the tape
Our read — derived, not official stats. Ranked within Bantamweight.
Striking96
Defence64
Grappling / TD27
Cardio40
Chin77
Fight IQ61

Our calls on Sean O'Malley’s fights

Every fight of Sean O'Malley’s that we called in the live 2026 season — whichever corner we called it for. Posted before the fight, graded after it.

FightIQ has called 2 of Sean O'Malley’s fights in 2026: 2 correct (2–0 — 100% right). Each call was posted before the fight and graded after it. The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.

DateOpponentWe called it forConfidenceResult
2026-06-15Aiemann ZahabiSean Omalley53%Correct
2026-01-24Song YadongSean O'Malley58.8%Correct
back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 4 of Sean O'Malley’s fights, 2 correct. Back-tested, not part of the public timestamped record: these were computed after the fact, so they show the model working on old cards — they were never published ahead of those fights.

Strike zones

Strike zones

Sean O'Malley

Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.

HEAD67.1%ACC 54%BODY23.8%ACC 74%LEGS9.1%ACC 94%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 67% head / 24% body / 9% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
67.1% acc 54%+5.5 vs field
BODY
23.8% acc 74%+1.9 vs field
LEGS
9.1% acc 94%−7.4 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 95%CLINCH 2%GROUND 3%

Significant strikes only, as recorded by UFCStats, across the fighter's whole UFC career. Shares are raw counts — nothing here is modelled or smoothed. Accuracy is landed ÷ attempted and comes from the per-round tape, which covers slightly fewer fights than the totals do. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.

16 UFC fights · 1,131 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Sean O'Malley

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

0.23takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Rarely shoots 0.23 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — −1.87 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS3
0.23 / 15m−1.87 vs field
ATTEMPTS1
0.55 / 15m−5.06 vs field
ACCURACY62
42%+1pp vs field
SUB ATT17
0.20 / 15m−0.88 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.50 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.

Ranked in Bantamweight

Recent form

Pro record: 20-3. In the UFC: 12-3-1. Sean O'Malley’s last 8 UFC bouts, most recent first — the result in the cage, not our pick.

Straight off the official UFC fight record. Card names are left off on purpose: the only event labels in our data are derived, and we’d rather print nothing than print one that’s wrong.

Post-fight bonuses

9 post-fight bonuses since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 3 Fight of the Night, 6 Performance of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2024-03-09POTNPerformance of the NightMarlon VeraUFC 299: O'Malley vs. Vera 2
2023-08-19POTNPerformance of the NightAljamain SterlingUFC 292: Sterling vs. O'Malley
2022-10-22FOTNFight of the NightPetr YanUFC 280: Oliveira vs. Makhachev
2021-12-11POTNPerformance of the NightRaulian PaivaUFC 269: Oliveira vs. Poirier
2021-07-10FOTNFight of the NightKris MoutinhoUFC 264: Poirier vs. McGregor 3
2021-03-27POTNPerformance of the NightThomas AlmeidaUFC 260: Miocic vs. Ngannou
2020-06-06POTNPerformance of the NightEddie WinelandUFC 250: Nunes vs. Spencer
2020-03-07POTNPerformance of the NightJose QuinonezUFC 248: Adesanya vs. Romero
2018-03-03FOTNFight of the NightAndre SoukhamthathUFC 222: Cyborg vs. Kunitskaya

The UFC's post-fight bonus programme began in 2006, so every total here is a career total since 2006. A fighter who fought only before then has no bonuses because the award did not exist yet. Fight of the Night is a shared award and is credited to both fighters. Performance, Knockout and Submission of the Night are individual awards, credited to the fighter the official record names.

Awards whose recipient the official list does not name are credited to nobody, so these counts are a floor: 245 of 1,339 Performance of the Night and 1 of 180 Submission of the Night awards are unassigned as of 11 October 2026.

Full UFC career — 16 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2026-06-14WAiemann ZahabiKO/TKOR2UFC Freedom 250
2026-01-24WSong YadongDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 324: Gaethje vs. Pimblett
2025-06-07LMerab DvalishviliSubmissionR3UFC 316: Dvalishvili vs. O'Malley 2
2024-09-14LMerab DvalishviliDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 306: Riyadh Season Noche UFC
2024-03-09WMarlon VeraDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 299: O'Malley vs. Vera 2
2023-08-19WAljamain SterlingKO/TKOR2UFC 292: Sterling vs. O'Malley
2022-10-22WPetr YanDecision (split)R3UFC 280: Oliveira vs. Makhachev
2022-07-02DPedro MunhozCould not continueR2UFC 276: Adesanya vs. Cannonier
2021-12-11WRaulian PaivaKO/TKOR1UFC 269: Oliveira vs. Poirier
2021-07-10WKris MoutinhoKO/TKOR3UFC 264: Poirier vs. McGregor 3
2021-03-27WThomas AlmeidaKO/TKOR3UFC 260: Miocic vs. Ngannou
2020-08-15LMarlon VeraKO/TKOR1UFC 252: Miocic vs. Cormier 3
2020-06-06WEddie WinelandKO/TKOR1UFC 250: Nunes vs. Spencer
2020-03-07WJose QuinonezKO/TKOR1UFC 248: Adesanya vs. Romero
2018-03-03WAndre SoukhamthathDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 222: Cyborg vs. Kunitskaya
2017-12-01WTerrion WareDecision (unanimous)R3The Ultimate Fighter: A New World Champion Finale

Every date links to that bout’s own page. Card names come from the official event record; where the UFC ran two cards on one date, or that record has no row for it, the Event column is left empty rather than filled with a guess.

On the scale

Sean O'Malley’s official weigh-ins — the weight the commission read off the scale, and the limit it had to be under.

DateOpponentWeight / limitDivisionSource
2026-06-14Aiemann Zahabi135.5 / 136MADEBantamweightUFC.com
2026-01-24Song Yadong135.5 / 136MADEBantamweightUFC.com

Weigh-in results cover the 31 UFC cards held in 2026 so far — 24 January 2026 to 12 September 2026. Earlier years are not on file yet, so a fighter with no row here is not a fighter who never missed weight.

On the map

The 6 cities Sean O'Malley has fought a UFC bout in. Every pin was looked up by name in OpenStreetMap’s gazetteer and stored with the answer it gave; nothing here is estimated.

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 11 bouts, 2017–2026Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates — 1 bout, 2022Boston, Massachusetts, USA — 1 bout, 2023Miami, Florida, USA — 1 bout, 2024Newark, New Jersey, USA — 1 bout, 2025Washington, DC, USA — 1 bout, 2026

Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.

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