Marty Morgan | GladiatEire FC 1 · Ireland news

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We catch up with Party Marty Morgan moments after his first MMA win — and it's a great one. After tough losses in his first two fights, Marty came better than ever at GladiatEire FC, sealing the deal with a third-round submission victory and an outpouring of emotion. Don't…

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Combat Confidential speaks with Marty Morgan immediately after his win at Gladiateire Fighting Championship 1. Morgan describes this as his third amateur MMA bout and his first victory after two submission losses, calling the camp the hardest of the last two or three months and mentally make-or-break. He credits a new training journal—roughly three months logged, reread for visualization, and about 50–60 pages the night before the fight—for boosting confidence alongside physical work. He finished the opponent with a guillotine in the third round after the opponent shot and training memories surfaced; he wanted a submission partly to show he can grapple despite favoring stand-up from a karate background. He thanks Donnie Core, Rowan Pral, training partners, and family. Corners were Donnie Core and Rowan Pral; Donnie told him to get the win before he entered the cage. Morgan plans to take a few weeks off enjoying life, then compete again around October or November while repeating what worked. He names his walk-out track, sums the night as euphoric, and reflects that martial arts gives him discipline, focus, and purpose compared with drifting off path.

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[Music] Um, all right, everyone. Um, welcome back. Um, where we go? Uh, Gladiator FC. Gladiator. Gladiator FC. Mr. Marty Morgan. Party Marty Morgan. Marty Morgan. Party Marty. Party Marty. Party Marty Morgan. That's the name. Uh, Marty Muddy Morgan. We are gonna make some money soon. Yeah. Mm, baby. Um, all right. First of all, congratulations. Thank you very much. Thank you. Um, talk to me about it. Uh, got your hand up. What are you thinking? You a It's uh It was amazing. I couldn't I couldn't control myself cuz I really the last two three months this is the hardest to put in. That was my first one as well. See? Yeah. I've had three fights. I've lost the first two. So, this one was uh this one was like the make or break mentally for me. What What did you How did you prepare differently then? Um massive part of it was I did a journal. Okay. And journaling was something I added new what I do what I did the last two three months was I'll write down what I did in training that night. Okay. So I recorded about 3 months of training. I read it back and then when I read it back what that does is I imagine myself doing it. So I visualize my training and it's also a confidence booster cuz last night before the fight I just read the book and it's like I don't know like maybe 50 60 pages of just everything I done and that's a massive confidence booster to know the distance. Physically see the work you put in. Yeah. Obviously cuz you physically look at your body like train or something tangible you can feel it. Yeah. But yeah, I've read it and recorded everything. Every wrote time every time train has been [ __ ] how it made me feel. How every time training was good how it made me feel. Um cuz I've listen I lost the first two. I was like I'm not losing a third. What do I need to do differently? First two I trained like a maniac. Worked hard, train hard, but I there was obviously something there was obviously something I wasn't doing. So that was a massive part of it. visualization, the mental, okay, the mental game is something like at this camp and it's obviously paired with two ends because the last round I realized I can leave it the decision or I can get the win and he shot a bit of training came in remembering and I got the finish for the guillotine. Awesome. Shout out McN went over that guilt team all week. So shout out to him but also a massive shout out to everybody. Uh Donnie Core especially Donnie Core is the me and mom without Donnie Core wouldn't have these opportunities. Love that man Dave. Uh all my training partners, all my coaches, thank you just and all my family and friends who came today support me. Heck yeah. Um so did you did you have like a plan coming into this like you know so you were coming off of two losses and then you know you really wanted to obviously take it um come home with the with the win there. Did you have like a you know a plan A coming into this? Um I know my strong point is my feet um my stand up. Um the first two fights I lost were submission. So I'm actually happy I got a submission when this time like to show people I can grapple. What round was it in then? I third the last round. Okay. The first two the first two fights I got submitted. So I I know my stand up was a strong point. I didn't let my hands go as well as I thought I should there. Maybe that was a bit of nerves anxiety. It happens. But uh I got that submission. I'm really happy cuz I want to show people I can grapple. Excellent. Would uh would you prefer kind of the standup game then? Oh yeah. Stand up. Yeah. cuz like you have to remember you come from a boxing background. Uh I don't no I come from the karate D trying to coach my karate stand up but uh even then the fight only went to the ground cuz he shot I never shot I never I never try to take it to the ground. I'm always let's go on the feet but he brought it to the ground and I can show that if it goes there I have no problem there either. Awesome. Awesome. Um like what what's next for you? What are you uh the next the next few weeks I'm not going to be an athlete. The next few weeks I'm going to enjoy I've worked hard. I've trained hard. Um, and then probably October, November, I'll compete again and I'll just keep doing what I'm doing cuz what I did this time work, right? And I love this. This is this is like I love I love training. I love like the physical, but there's nothing like fighting it. There's nothing like making that walk, hearing that like when I got that night when he tapped and I heard that [ __ ] roar. Oh man, I couldn't control myself, man. It was just hitting my soul. It was Oh. What was your What was your walk out song? Uh, it was uh Not so bad to meet you Vegas. It's like a party mad to get a pump going. You know what I mean, man? Okay. Um, talk to me about uh like your corners. Um, corner. Uh, brilliant. Um, Donnie Core and Rowan Pral. Donnie Core legends out of the game. Rowan Roman, one of the first uh MMA fighters out of here. Do you feel do you feel like a what's the word? Um, not an obligation. Uh do you feel like uh do do you feel pressure to like perform well or to to do uh to you know kind of to hit the moves properly to get proper takedowns? Do like do you feel that pressure from your coaches? I feel pressure is more of a it's how you feel things. I remember saying something I don't know who wrote it or said it but it was like pressure is a privilege. It's a sign that there's expectations on you that you can achieve. And before I got in the cage Donnie said get this for me. And I never really seen that as pressure. I see it more as a blessing that like he he trusts me to get this. Yeah. He like and that then if I can get that for him, the man who's did so far for me, I'll be [ __ ] lifted up. So it's not really it's not a pressure thing. It's more of a blessing. Like the fact that people think this much of me just shows how high people think of me. Amazing. So it's not a pressure. It's not pressure. Yeah. So that's one of my friends are all the ones that going nuts for me. But uh yeah, so I love the man. Love the leg. There's nothing like Fight Night. Awesome. Um, if you could give kind of like describe this evening one word, what would it be? Euphoric. Yeah. Awesome. Um, okay. And, uh, last thing here. Um, one of the things I do on my podcast, like I told you briefly before, I like to focus on kind of um, mental health aspect of combat sports. Give me one thing that has, uh, that you've taken out of this out of combat sports for you personally. Um, martial arts has given me a focus on a discipline and I know from experience when I drift out of this, that's when I that's that's where the name potty muddy came from. When I drift out of this, that's when I just start being wild, just going crazy, just being just out doing stuff I shouldn't be doing. But when I'm in the gym, it's just I'm just right. I'm what I should be as a person. Um, so yeah, it's uh it's given me a discipline. It's given me a focus. It's given me a purpose. And it's the one thing that just itches my soul like nothing else. Excellent. Excellent. Uh, look man, I appreciate your time. Uh, congratulations and No, thank you. I've never had to do anything like this before, so I don't know if I've talked too much or I don't know, but the perfect amount. Yes. Thank you, Ryan. Thank you. No, it was perfect. Thank you so much. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you. Um, and hope to see a fight again. Hope to have a talk with you again as well. All right, thank you. Give me sir. [Music]