Tyler Durden 
Cody Garbrandt has unfinished business with Sean O’Malley, and would like to rectify that situation as soon as possible.
“No Love” recently competed in his first fight in 14 months at UFC Atlanta, losing a competitive decision to Raoni Barcelos. O’Malley faced bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili earlier that month in a rematch at UFC 316 and was submitted in the second round.
With both fighters currently on a losing skid, Garbrandt hopes the UFC can book the matchup between bantamweight world title holders.
“I would love to f*ck him up,” Garbrandt told MMA Fighting while discussing his partnership with Indian Motorcycles. “He just always talks shit. I think he has an infatuation with me. He’s so jealous of me and I can’t believe he became a world champion.
“He can’t wrestle for a lick, can’t defend a takedown. I mean, Merab straight bullied him. But he’s been calling me out forever, so I’ve been ready to fight that dude. I’ve got what it takes, I know how to beat this dude. The way that I fight, it’ll be a bad night for him. But that’s up to the UFC — I’ve tagged [Dana White], I tagged him in it. If that’s the next fight they want to do, I think that’s going to be a great pay-per-view fight, good drawing.
“He’s got a good fanbase, but they’re younger, you know, the Twitch people, the video games, but I’m a dog. I would love that fight.”
Garbrandt recently teamed up with Indian Motorcycles as a part of the Indian FORGED custom-build program, and was the recipient — along with just a few other influencers — of a custom Indian motorcycle. Garbrandt has been a motorcycle guy for many years, and it has become an important piece of his life.
As far as his rivalry with O’Malley is concerned, it goes back many years, including a moment at the UFC 269 press conference in December 2021 when security needed to intervene to keep the two fighters apart.
Following O’Malley’s loss to Dvalishvili, the two have gone back-and-forth in different interviews. Garbrandt understands he’s lost a few fights, but in his eyes, none of his losses compared to the way “Sugar” was stopped by the current champ in Newark, N.J,
“He opens his mouth, and he’s been embarrassed a couple of times,” Garbrandt said. “If something happens to me, I go out and put on a fight, go out on my shield, but I’ll never get dog walked like that ever.”
After losing the bantamweight title to Dvalishvili in their first meeting at UFC 306, O’Malley shared that he made a slew of life changes, including giving up smoking marijuana, and social media. O’Malley was as focused as can be for the rematch with Dvalishvili, but fell short in his opportunity to regain the title.
Garbrandt knows Dvalishvili is a tough matchup for anybody in the division, but with the styles between the past two champions, he feels Dvalishvili will win that fight every single time — not to mention, what would happen if Garbrandt got the shot at O’Malley.
“He’s trying to do all this… when you lose, you try to reinvent yourself,” Garbrandt explained. “I’m going to quit smoking, I’m going to quit doing x, y, and z, you looked worse than the first fight. So you maybe need to go back to smoking, or do whatever you need to do.
“And I was there before. I had everyone in my ear, ‘Oh, you got to do this and this, train hard.’ It’s not that, it’s, I would say, confidence. He’s not the undefeated fighter he always said he was. He has a lot of holes in his game when he’s wrestling. Taking nothing away from Merab, Merab is an amazing fighter, got a good gas tank, great wrestler, good pressure, and styles make fights. So at the end of the day, my style would be a bad, bad matchup for him.”
Garbrandt has been around the game long enough to know that the hatchet can be buried in a lot of cases between fighters. Should O’Malley reach out to Garbrandt to ask for some motivation, or lessons learned in the UFC, and how to deal with losses from a mental perspective, it would not go the way O’Malley would hope.
“I wouldn’t give him any advice,” Garbrandt said. “F*ck that dude. For real. Anyone else calls me, I’ll help them out, but I’m cool on that, dude.”
Check out the exclusive reveal of Garbrandt receiving his custom-made Indian FORGED motorcycle below.
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