UFC veteran Brian Kelleher looks back on his career, one that almost saw him fight Sean O'Malley.
Three world champions, an undefeated Nurmagomedov, and a number of contenders is what Brian Kelleher had to deal with inside of his UFC career.
With 17 fights to remember him by in the Octagon, "Boom" says one highlight stands above the rest - a "Performance of the Night" guillotine submission of Iuri Alcantara at UFC 212 in 2017. The debut win came in Rio de Janeiro, with Kelleher playing spoiler to the #13-ranked Brazilian contender on two weeks' notice.
Fighting title contenders like "Chito" Vera the month afterwards and John Lineker years later, there is one matchup that got away from Kelleher in the first half of his UFC run - a dream fight against Sean O'Malley, who was undefeated and unranked at the time he was calling him out between 2018 and 2020.
"I had actually gotten really close to getting that fight. Tim Welch, his coach, we had a DM session, and he was telling me that I was one of the names that they had proposed to fight next and that the UFC had said no," Kelleher revealed. "That kind of p***ed me off. I was like, 'Man, if the UFC wasn't behind that, I probably would have got that fight.
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