Sean O'Malley is making a few changes before UFC 316.
The show will be headlined by O'Malley challenging Merab Dvalishvili for the UFC Bantamweight Championship, a rematch following their first fight at UFC 306 in September 2024.
Following his first loss to Dvalishvili, O'Mallley is approaching things differently this time around, first revealing that he's stop using social media.
“I feel like a lot of things that have changed in my life are going to attribute to my performance. For example, not being on social media. I decided in 2025 I’m done with social media - I don’t get on social media, and I feel like that’s changed my life. It’s only been three months, but I literally feel like it’s changed my life, and I feel like that’s going to play a role in my performance. All those little things –making decisions like that, sacrifices. I don’t believe [social media] is a sacrifice, but giving up something, I feel like that is going to help me perform in the future.” O'Malley said on the latest edition of the TimboSugarShow.
O'Malley went on to say that he has also stopped masturbating, gaming, and smoking weed.
“I haven’t j’d the peen (masturbated) once this year – not once in 2025. Haven’t j’d the peen, haven’t been on social. I haven’t gamed, either. I quit gaming. I did a lot of gaming, two or three hours a day, and I need to fill it with something. We’ve been playing a lot of Texas Hold ‘Em poker with the fellas. It’s been too fun. It’s like gaming. You say, ‘One more hand.’ I quit smoking weed, too. I just stopped randomly. I just didn’t like the way it made me feel. I’m not over eating. My sleep’s better. … I’m not done smoking forever, but just right now I don’t feel the need to, and I just don’t have any desire to. I feel like it’s been good.”
UFC 316 is set to take place in Newark, New Jersey on Saturday, June 7.
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