🥋 FROM THE TOP OF OTHER DISCIPLINES TO THE MMA CAGE 🥊

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🥋 FROM THE TOP OF OTHER DISCIPLINES TO THE MMA CAGE 🥊 Taylor Heffernan and Daniel Clooney talk about what it’s like to reach a high level in other combat sports before making the move into MMA. Both men have already proven themselves in other disciplines — now they’re chasing…

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🥋 FROM THE TOP OF OTHER DISCIPLINES TO THE MMA CAGE 🥊

Taylor Heffernan and Daniel Clooney talk about what it’s like to reach a high level in other combat sports before making the move into MMA.

Both men have already proven themselves in other disciplines — now they’re chasing gold inside the Virtus cage.

🏆 Taylor Heffernan vs Sean McDermott
For the Virtus Lightweight Belt

🏆 Daniel Clooney vs Tom Buckley
For the Interim Featherweight Belt

Different backgrounds. Different journeys. Same goal.

Saturday night, they get the chance to show how far that experience can take them in MMA.

📍 Healy Park, Omagh
📅 Saturday 22nd August
📺 Live on PPV

#Virtus6 #VirtusMMA #TaylorHeffernan #DanielClooney #SeanMcDermott TomBuckley MMAIreland TitleFight FightNight Omagh

Transcript (instagram_whisper)

these two guys not fighting each other,
they're fighting different opponents,
but we've got Daniel Clooney and he's coming in,
like I said, we said in our individual interview,
Daniel, coming in off the background of, you know,
a different discipline, building up a big reputation,
being highly decorated in another martial art,
just like Taylor Heffernan here.
So you guys would have a bit of common ground on here.
Is there a pressure, and I'll come to both of these with this,
is there a pressure that you guys find,
sits on your shoulders when you make that step up
into amateur mixed martial arts, then I will go to you for a second.
No, I don't think so. I think you're going to have to see yourself as an MMA footer now.
It's not just Jiu-Jitsu. I'm only at it just over a year, but at the start it was very like,
I'm just going to try and get the tape down and look to grapple, but now I'm also getting to the
stage where, you know, I mean, I'll shrink, I'll grapple, I'll, you know, I'm not just strictly
be down to do it soon and I'm gonna end up late for it.
Seeing you come in there and take to it like a fish to water
as has Taylor Heffernan just looks like he's at home
in that cage, Taylor.
Coming in, like I said to Dana,
is there a weight on your shoulders?
Do you feel a responsibility that you have to show up here
when you do make that initial crossover
into Mixed Martial Arts?
Of course, I'd be lying if I said there wasn't.
You know, there's definitely a pressure
and there's definitely a pressure every time I step out,
but I want it, I put it there.
I'm here to perform under pressure.
I want the highest pressure opportunities.
That's why I'm fighting for one of those.
I want to bring one of those back.
There's pressure involved.
If you're going for anything that's worthwhile,
there's going to be pressure.
But I live in pressure.
I love it.
That's what I live for.
Those moments and it's everything
from the pressure of people watching,
you know, everywhere I go, I've got this with me.
There's a little Shamra Afghan there.
I have my country on my back, no problem.
I wear it everywhere.
Whether it's the fatal world or there's a belt on the line.
Not a bother.
I love pressure at Traven, some moments like these are the ones that I seek out.