Sean O’Malley doesn’t want to sort out his beef with Cody Garbrandt in the Octagon, or so he told The TimboSugarShow. O’Malley, who fights at 135 pounds, engaged in a war of words with 125-pound Garbrandt at the UFC 269 press conference, with the pair facing off in a tense showdown.
“Dude, Cody wants, he’s not getting that fight (with me). When he said it, you could see in his voice, ‘Oh, I want, uh’ – but that fight’s not happening.
Sean O’Malley Dismisses Cody Garbrandt with CTE Claim
It doesn’t make sense for him to say that. I wonder if that’s CTE. He’s been knocked out five times in the last two years. That fight’s not happening, at least, not next. He needs to… it just doesn’t make sense, dude. It just literally doesn’t make sense.”
O’Malley has long insisted that he will eventually fight for the bantamweight title, and dispatching a former champ on his way up may well be useful in that regard. However, Garbrandt has moved down to flyweight, fighting at 125 pounds.
This move proved not to be as successful as Garbrandt had hoped, culminating in a brutal knockout at the hands of Kai Kara-France at UFC 269. Garbrandt called O’Malley out recently, wanting to “whoop his ass”.
“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.
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.
You got to respect his skills, he leveled up a little bit with the Raulian 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 35 and whoop his ass, but we’ll decide, we’ll figure it out.”
Cody Garbrandt talks a big game, but he has lost five of his last six fights. His last win, against Raphael Assunção, came in June 2020, but injuries and health issues plagued Garbrandt since, evident in his losses to Rob Font and Kai Kara-France, respectively.
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