After defeating Aljamain Sterling, Sean O'Malley altered not only the bantamweight division but also the UFC as a whole. 

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While Ian Machado Garry continued to be unbeaten, Zhang Weili easily won her championship defense.

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The key lessons from a significant night in Boston are highlighted by Marc Raimondi, Brett Okamoto, Jeff Wagenheim, and Carlos Contreras Legaspi.

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In mixed martial arts, Sean O'Malley is a unique fighter who strikes a deep chord with supporters who admire his charming abilities but understand that they are only the top of a Technicolor iceberg.

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It's exciting to see him. He constantly poses the threat of shaking an arena to its very core with his explosiveness in a fight.

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Beyond the cage, O'Malley has a natural way with words and an unmistakable swagger and style.Takeaways from UFC 292: Let's start making Sean O'Malley and Conor McGregor analogies.

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Sure, it's exaggerated and possibly lazy to compare anyone to Conor McGregor, but on the night in 2015 when McGregor clipped featherweight king Jose Aldo to win his first title.

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it was uncannily similar when O'Malley knocked out UFC men's bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling with a counter right hand early in Round 2 of their fight at TD Garden in Boston.

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On that night, eight years ago, when McGregor attempted to dethrone a legend who was at the time hailed as the greatest 145-pounder, no one believed him but the fighter himself.

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