Conor McGregor has set a standard in the UFC that many fighters try to follow. Some dress like him, act like him, and once they rise to fame, they are compared to him, just as it happened with Ilia Topuria. Sean O’Malley was once hailed as the fighter who could step into McGregor’s shoes now revealed a painful truth: his attempts to mirror the Irish icon’s persona had backfired spectacularly.

The former UFC bantamweight champion recently opened up about a period where he lost sight of his own identity, becoming too focused on emulating the larger-than-life persona of McGregor rather than developing his natural fighting style and personality.

Talking to MMA Lab he said, “I feel like I lost, almost in a sense, where I wanted to be like Conor too much instead of being myself. I think from M

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