UFC Fighter Giga Chikadze on Discipline, Fighting Mindset & Never Giving Up | Coffeez for Closers
4/10/202646 min
In this episode of Coffeez for Closers, Joe sits down with UFC fighter Giga Chikadze to talk about the discipline, resilience, and mindset required to compete at the highest level of professional fighting.
Giga shares lessons from his journey through kickboxing and mixed martial arts, what it takes to stay focused under pressure, and how elite athletes handle setbacks, expectations, and constant challenges.
The conversation explores the mental toughness needed to perform on the world stage, the sacrifices behind success, and the habits that separate great competitors from everyone else.
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First 90 secondsJoseph Shalaby· Host0:00
Today, we are on site at a brand new facility in Newport Beach called GigaKick. And we are sitting down with the founder of GigaKick, Giga Chikadze, and he is known as one of the world's foremost expert strikers, a UFC legend, a multi-world champion kickboxer and karate specialist. This guy is an absolute ninja and one of the most humble people you will ever meet. Please welcome, the one, the only, Giga Chikadze. Welcome to another episode of Coffees.
Giga Chikadze· Guest0:35
Thanks for having me.
Joseph Shalaby· Host0:37
Giga, it's a pleasure. It's, it's a, it's an honor to hang out with you. You're such a special human being, a very, very humble guy. Um, I'm very impressed with, with your new dojo. It's, it's beautiful, and you're attracting some of the world's best talent. Now, I like to open up every single episode the same way, ask everybody, what's your morning routine?
Giga Chikadze· Guest0:58
Oh. Morning routine is waking up, jumping in the shower, obviously, then making the coffee, preparing the little breakfast, which most of the time is very limited, and preparing my bag and heading towards the gym. So that's pre... That's when I'm in a camp. It also depends on timing. Uh, sometime, I'm mixing