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Sean O’Malley Shuts Down Cody Garbrandt FIght Next, Questions If He’s Suffering From CTE

Sean O'Malley Surging UFC bantamweight challenger, Sean O’Malley has dismissed talk of a showdown with former division kingpin, Cody Garbrandt next, questioning if the Ohio native could possibly be suffering from CTE (Chronic traumatic encephalopathy) after suffering a slew of knockout losses recently. O’Malley, who eventually earned the #12 rank at bantamweight back in December, took out […]

Surging UFC bantamweight challenger, Sean O’Malley has dismissed talk of a showdown with former division kingpin, Cody Garbrandt next, questioning if the Ohio native could possibly be suffering from CTE (Chronic traumatic encephalopathy) after suffering a slew of knockout losses recently.

O’Malley, who eventually earned the #12 rank at bantamweight back in December, took out Brazilian striker, Raulian Paiva with a one-sided opening round knockout at UFC 269.

Sean O’Malley landed his third consecutive knockout victory with his December win over Raulian Paiva

On the same card, former bantamweight champion, Garbrandt made his flyweight divisional bow against City Kickboxing feature, Kai Kara-France, suffering his second consecutive defeat after succumbing to late first round strikes.

Following the loss, Ohio native Garbrandt claimed that he felt good at flyweight, and mentioned how easy his weight cut to the 125lbs limit was, however, failed to rule out a bantamweight return – explaining how he would like to fight O’Malley next following a press conference war of words between the two.

“There’s a lot of good matchups – Sean O’Malley, I really want to whoop his ass,” Cody Garbrandt said. “That’s a fight that’s looming. Hopefully, that could possibly be my next one. I want that fight so I’d like to stay 1t 35. He might fight me now because I’m not in the rankings at 35 and he’s ranked so that’ll be a good fight. You’ve got to respect his skills, he leveled up a little bit with the Raulian (Paiva) fight, caught him early on, but we know that. The only way he was gonna win was catching him early on and he did that. He did his job, hats off to him. He’s now in the rankings so I have to go back up to 25 and whoop his ass, but we’ll decide, we’ll figure it out.”

Responding to Garbrandt’s call out, O’Malley distanced himself from a fight with the former champion next, at least, as well as questioning if Garbrandt was suffering from the progressive brain condition, CTE – after suffering knockout losses in four of his last five losses.

“Dude, Cody (Garbrandt) wants – he’s not getting that fight (with me),” Sean O’Malley said on his podcast. “When he said it, you could see in his voice (sic), ‘Oh, I want, uh’ – but that fight’s not happening. It doesn’t make sense for him to say that, I wonder if that’s CTE, he’s been knocked out five (four) times in the last two years (five years). That fights not happening, at least, not next. He needs to – it just doesn’t make sense, dude. It just literally doesn’t make sense.”

Before his win over Paiva last month, Montana striker, O’Malley had landed a July knockout win over Kris Moutinho in record-setting fashion – which followed a March stoppage victory over now-promotional alum, Thomas Almeida.

Chael Sonnen Asks Fans To Support 135lb GOAT Cody Garbrandt

Chael Sonnen has asked fight fans to show their support for Cody Garbrandt as the former UFC champion experiences difficulties during his career. Garbrandt dropped down to flyweight last month to make his debut at UFC 269 where he faced Kai Kara-France. The weight cut was a potential issue for Garbrandt but after having made […]

The weight cut was a potential issue for Garbrandt but after having made the successful cut fans believed he may be able to consistently fight at flyweight and make a run. However, it wasn’t meant to be for the former champion as he suffered a first round knockout loss.

Despite the rough start, Garbrandt has no intention of calling it a day on his career and has already called on who he wants to face as his next opponent, Sean O’Malley.

“Like I said, I felt great at 125. I think that’s something I have to decide, whether I – 35, 25, I feel great at both. I think if I went to 35, I would do things a little differently. Keep my weight up throughout the camp. There’s a lot of good matchups. Sean O’Malley, I really want to whoop his ass. That’s a fight that’s looming.”

Chael Sonnen Rallies Fans Behind Cody Garbrandt

Fans criticized Garbrandt’s callout of O’Malley given the ‘SugaShow’ is currently pushing through a higher weight class accumulating wins along the way as well. Although fans critiqued this move for ‘No Love’, former UFC title challenger Chael Sonnen has urged fans to show support to Garbrandt.

“Cody Garbrandt came out in a interview and said something I found confusing. He said that he felt great at 125lbs but that a fight with Sean O’Malley was looming. That’s tough. I read that thing and then I read it a third time.”

“You’re 125, Sean is 135, these two things don’t go together. They don’t have to. I don’t have to understand everything. But I still focused on this. Now my problem with Cody Garbrandt…Look, I believe Cody is the best 135 pounder the world has ever seen. You want to give me a hard time about that go ahead. I believe the Cody Garbrandt that beat Dominick Cruz can beat any man that can tip the scale at a 135lbs.”

“Some guys’ (title) reign isn’t long. Some guys don’t defend and re-defend and go on to defend that thing 5, 6 or 7 times. Those guys that do, wow. There’s a real adoration for that, but it doesn’t take away from the guy who did it one time. “

“So, the rules are different for Cody Garbrandt as I see them. When you become a world champion the rules are now changed. Cody doesn’t have a whole bunch of options. You want to give him a hard time (for calling out O’Malley), he doesn’t have a lot of options. Fight or not fight? What do you want to do? He’s made it clear that he’s going to fight. Accept it!

For some guys, they’d be given their walking papers and it wouldn’t even be a conversation. Make sure you understand, there are laurels here. One hundred percent. This is a world champion who is desperately trying, that’s what changing weight classes, doing whatever it takes, taking on all comers. He’s desperately trying to recapture something. Let’s get behind that. Let’s not give Cody a hard time.” (transcribed by BJPenn.com)

Cody Garbrandt’s future is unclear now in terms of opponents, but there is no doubt he has helped provide some amazing moments within this sport, it will be interesting to see if ‘No Love’ can get his career back on track.

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Cody Garbrandt: I’ll Decide When It’s Over, Not Dana, The UFC, Or Fans

Cody Garbrandt is maintaining a positive mindset despite suffering a brutal loss.

Garbrandt suffered a brutal knockout loss at UFC’s final pay-per-view event of 2021, getting stopped in the first round by Kai Kara-France. Despite this, the former U…

Cody Garbrandt is maintaining a positive mindset despite suffering a brutal loss.

Garbrandt suffered a brutal knockout loss at UFC’s final pay-per-view event of 2021, getting stopped in the first round by Kai Kara-France. Despite this, the former UFC bantamweight champion recently talked about the future of his career, proclaiming that he still has a lot to give.

“When it’s over, I say it’s over. Not the fans, not Dana, not anybody but me. When I know and I understand that I don’t have it anymore, I don’t have what it takes to push myself and train to be prepared to go out there and give my best shot to win, then I’ll be done,” said Garbrandt on his latest episode of the Rollin With The Homies podcast.

“I can honestly say that, and I have a good support system around me that’ll be like, ‘Look, let’s look at something else.’ But that’s so far down the road. I’m 30 years old, I still have a lot left in the tank to do. We’ll make the corrections, we’ll figure it out.” (h/t MMA Junkie)

Garbrandt Struggling Since Title Reign

Garbrandt’s recent loss at UFC 269 continued a long streak of unfortunate results. The former UFC bantamweight champion has only won once in his past five appearances. His sole victory since dropping his belt was an emphatic win in 2020, scoring a walk-off knockout against Raphael Assuncao.

Garbrandt was making his debut at the flyweight class just last month. He made weight for his fight and is still open to competing at that weight class again.

His recent success is in great contrast to earlier years in his career. Garbrandt became a UFC champ in 2017, putting together a stellar performance against Dominick Cruz to take the 135-pound belt.

Garbrandt was undefeated at the time, boasting 11 pro wins when heading into his first title fight.

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Cody Garbrandt Not Ruling Out Flyweight, Wants Sean O’Malley

Former UFC bantamweight champion Cody Garbrandt isn’t done with flyweight and could be targeting a possible matchup with bantamweight contender Sean O’Malley. Garbrandt is coming off of his first-round knockout loss to Kai Kara-France at UFC 269. It was his flyweight debut after a rough series of fights at bantamweight after losing the title to […]

Former UFC bantamweight champion Cody Garbrandt isn’t done with flyweight and could be targeting a possible matchup with bantamweight contender Sean O’Malley.

Garbrandt is coming off of his first-round knockout loss to Kai Kara-France at UFC 269. It was his flyweight debut after a rough series of fights at bantamweight after losing the title to TJ Dillashaw in back-to-back bouts.

Garbrandt has remained relatively quiet since his most recent loss at UFC 269. But during a recent appearance on the Rollin with the Homies podcast, Garbrandt reflected on his first fight at 125 pounds.

“Rehydration, refuel process was good, I felt great at 125,” Garbrandt said. “I just got caught with a good punch in there and I just couldn’t recover. After I got hit with the punch, got back up, kinda felt OK to where I was moving, coming forward, but I still wasn’t like all there and then I took him down, and then we got into a scramble and came back to our feet and it just felt like I was on a slant.” (h/t MMA Junkie)

Garbrandt had some tense moments with O’Malley during the pre-fight press conference, and he pointed to the rising bantamweight as a possible matchup next.

“There’s a lot of good matchups. Sean O’Malley, I really want to whoop his ass,” Garbrandt continued. “That’s a fight that’s looming. Hopefully, that could possibly be my next one. I want that fight so I’d like to stay at 35. He might fight me now because I’m not in the rankings at 35 and he’s ranked so that’ll be a good fight.”

Cody Garbrandt Has Lost Five Of His Last Six

UFC president Dana White seemed vague when discussing Garbrandt’s future with the promotion. He likely needs to win in his next fight to remain on the roster, especially in light of recent cuts such as Kevin Lee and Junior dos Santos.

Garbrandt has now lost back-to-back fights in 2021 after losing three of his previous four. It’s unclear if he’ll return to title contention again, but he’s still young enough in his career where he still has time to make up lost ground.

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Kara-France Happy To Spoil The Party UFC Had Planned For Garbrandt

Kai Kara-France is still reeling over his UFC 269 win.

Kai Kara-France is flying high following his win at UFC 269. He defeated former bantamweight champion Cody Garbrandt by TKO in the first round of their matchup. The win was probably the bigges…

Kai Kara-France is still reeling over his UFC 269 win.

Kai Kara-France is flying high following his win at UFC 269. He defeated former bantamweight champion Cody Garbrandt by TKO in the first round of their matchup. The win was probably the biggest of Kara-France’s career so far. The performance shot the 28-year-old to number six in the flyweight rankings. Now, two weeks removed from the event, Kara-France is still in disbelief of his performance. He spoke about his feelings on The Schmo Youtube channel.

“Every morning I wake up and I’m like, ‘Did that really happen?” Kara-France explained. “It couldn’t have gone any better, from the lead-up to the actual fight, and then the finish and getting a bonus, and everyone really doubting me and kinda overlooking me. Especially Cody overlooking me, already telling Dana, ‘I’ll be the alternate for the next flyweight title fight.’

Kara-France has been a staple in the UFC flyweight division since 2018 when he made his promotional debut. Since then, he has only lost two fights, one of which was against champion Brandon Moreno. Despite Kara-France’s résumé, most media attention was on Garbrandt and his move to 125 pounds. Kara-France thought the UFC had a plan to give Garbrandt a title shot off a win and was glad to put a stop to that.

“So yeah, the whole lead-up was a weird one,” Kara-France said. “I knew that I’d been putting in the work, so when I turned up on fight week, I was focused. I only had one person in front of me and that’s all I was focused on, which was Cody. And he’s too busy trying to fight everyone else but me and won’t even acknowledge me. It was kinda like I was set up. He was getting set up for the title shot, and I was just a pawn and a stepping stone for him, to build him up for flyweight. So I was here to spoil the party, and that’s what I did.”

The win over a former champion is sure to give Kara-France a boost in motivation and confidence. He will need this confidence when he takes on Askar Askarov on March 26, as announced yesterday. Because should he win this bout, a title shot will more than likely be waiting for him.

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Dominick Cruz Says He Still Has Faith In Cody Garbrandt At 125lbs

Dominick Cruz comes to the defense of his former foe Cody Garbrandt following UFC 269.

UFC 269 was filled with amazing finishes and great performances from top to bottom. Two men who put on a show were Dominick Cruz and Kai Kara-France. Kara-France…

Dominick Cruz comes to the defense of his former foe Cody Garbrandt following UFC 269.

UFC 269 was filled with amazing finishes and great performances from top to bottom. Two men who put on a show were Dominick Cruz and Kai Kara-France. Kara-France put a beating on former bantamweight champion Cody Garbrandt and could have ended his promising run in the flyweight division. Cruz, however, doesn’t believe that the KO should be the end of the road for Garbarandt.

“I know that Cody is a champion,” Cruz said during UFC 269 post-fight press conference. “Obviously, in his heart and mind. I think he will get back on track. He is still very young. Cutting down to 125 is, I don’t even know how that’s possible for him, but he made it work and he said it was easy so I think he’ll be fine. Just give the guy some time and let him find his bearings with his team or whatever he needs to find. I got nothing but faith in the guy.”

There is a history between these two. Back in 2016, it was Grabrandt that defeated Cruz and took away his bantamweight belt. There was quite a bit of animosity between the two of them leading up to the fight. During the fight, it was clear that Garbrandt was quite comfortable and began mocking Cruz with dance moves. Now, five years later, Cruz, coming off a win at 135 pounds, is coming to the defense of Garbrandt, who is now riding a two-fight losing streak.

Garbrandt decided to make the move down to 125 pounds in order to try his hand at another title. Now with the loss to Kara-France, the future is unknown for Garbrandt. Curz believes that he could still continue at flyweight, but perhaps he will move back up and find himself face to face with Cruz once more.

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