Cody O'Connor | GladiatEire FC 2

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Cody “Cobra” O'Connor breaks down a dominant performance at Gladiator Fighting Championship 2, reflecting on a disciplined win built on hard training, physical control and growing confidence. He talks about preparing for a strong grappling opponent, respecting that threat in…

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Okay. All right, everyone. Welcome back. Uh, Gladiator Fighting Championship. I have here next to me, uh, no stranger, Mr. Cody Cody Oconor. >> Cody Cobra Okconor. >> Seemingly, that's something called Right on. First of all, congratulations, sir. There was a very dominant fight on your behalf. um talk to like how do you feel about that victory? >> I feel great. I put in the after work train twice a day, one class 6:00 in the morning and the other evening class from like half 6:00 to 9 or whatever putting in want to become professional one day and yeah that's about it. >> Heck yeah. Um so let's talk about this fight in general. Like what what what were you feeling kind of coming into this? Like did you have any expectations or >> I knew he was going to be heavy grappler um want to push me up against the cage and take me down and pound me out through the rounds. That's how he won his first two fights and he's very good at that. So I put a lot of respect into that type of train like you know. >> Right on. Um so at the very beginning there's an accidental uh uh shot to the groin there. What happened there? Did you know you did that right away or um were you hoping maybe you you kind of hit the inside of his thigh or or something like that? >> I was trying to knee his leg. I don't like I actually try and not really knee to the body because when you're kneeling into the body, their groin is there. if they move down or if I miss aim like you know I really it was really accidental like you know like I like I didn't really want to go for much knees to the body because like especially after hitting them in the groin like it can easily happen like you know >> completely unintentional though and not what I wanted to do like >> yeah know it's tough and it happens you know what I mean like uh it is what it is uh that's why they get uh or that's why you get quite a few minutes to recover from it um so the rest of the fight you let's say like you pretty much dominated and kind of to manhandle um >> what terrible names uh not ma Matthew Matthew O'Neal the last time I interviewed him I was I was calling him Ned Flanders >> yeah yeah I've seen the interview I seen the interview >> um but um you know like you were able to you know kind of >> you know just pick him up move him around put them on the ground >> um like you know do do Obviously, you trained to do that, but like is that something you were expecting to do today in your training? >> I was expecting to do a little bit more striking, which I think I did because I want to keep getting more comfortable with the striking cuz like in my first amateur fight, I kind of shot the bed because like just fighting it's one thing doing it in the gym, that's no problem, but fighting in front of a crowd like I just didn't want to be there. And then but after fighting three times on shows since then, one out to fight and two uh amateurs. So like yeah, I'm getting a bit more experienced being in front of people like you know. >> Right on. >> When I'm like when I sign up for the fight, I'm completely grand confident. But the last week, maybe two weeks, >> I'm just terrified. Not because of my opponent, but just the atmosphere of fighting, the way it cut, >> fighting in front of people that are on his side or my side, whatever. When there's people on watching me expecting to perform >> and like I just hate the process to be honest. Didn't want to be there. >> Did you have to cut weight for this? >> Yeah. >> How much? I was walking. >> Can't imagine you'd have to cut too much weight. >> I dieted down a bit to be honest because I was from came I was in holidays in Spain for a month a month ago before that. So >> okay >> like yeah I was uh I think about 71 72 now maybe at 66 >> like um last week just so nervous. Am I good enough to be here? um you know just all these thoughts are going into your head but at the end as soon as you step out to the cage all that goes away but only as soon as you step out the leadup to it the waiting around for a couple of hours in the stadium or community center stand what whatever it's just miserable >> what what do you do to kind of really keep that in check to make you know kind of this nervousness or fear or whatever you want to call it like how do how do you keep that from overcoming you >> I don't know I mean it did overcome me in my first amateur fight absolutely and you whatever fights it just kind of as soon as I step as soon as I maybe 10 minutes before I walk out or when I walk out or when I step into the cage then I gain my confidence just by like that going away and I have to fight. No choice. But I do love fighting. I do love grappling. I do love kickboxing, but it's just once the lead up to it is just I don't know. It's get something getting better with I suppose, but just the leadup can be a bit miserable, but once you step into the cage and perform or even if you don't perform, but you know that you put your most effort in, that's where it comes. >> Right on. Would you give any or would you have any advice that you'd give anyone to try and uh you know kind of manage their nervousness or fears like that? >> I don't know. I don't even think I don't I don't even think I'm doing it that great myself. But like um just keep fighting, keep performing in front of crowds. Perform in front of crowds is way different than doing hard going hard sparring or doing hard work in the gym. >> Absolutely. Yeah, it is definitely >> like I can do 20, 25, 30 minutes with a a training partner hard non-stop. But I did 9 minutes there and I never felt so exhausted. Like my coach, for example, way better than me, would beat the out of me in a couple minutes if you want to. I could go me and him could do plenty of hard rounds and I'm still in there. Of course, he's winning, but like I'm still in there doing my thing, but like like in the middle of that though, like after a couple after a couple minutes, you you never feel so tired in your life. >> Just atmosphere. The adrenaline >> the adrenaline I think is difficult to prepare for especially after your on your first uh for your first time. >> Swear at the end of it, like even your gloves feel like two two liter dumbbells afterwards. I swear. >> All right, man. Look, I don't want to keep it too much longer. Um, I know you got to you got to Well, we both got a bit of a track home, but uh look, man, I I appreciate your time. Uh I look forward to seeing me fight again. When are we going to see you fight again, do you think? >> Um I'm doing the Ala show in two weeks, just for a short a guy who's looking for an opponent. Um >> two weeks or next week? >> Two weeks. Yeah. And after then sometime maybe in February or March. >> Awesome. >> All right, man. Look forward to it. >> Appreciate it. Thank you so much. Thank you. All right. Till next time.