Will Fleury & John Mitchell | UAE Warriors 28 Countdown | Energized Show

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What is up and welcome to the Energized Show! On this episode Will Fleury & John Mitchell join us to discuss their UAE Warriors matchups on Saturday the 26th of March Live on UFC Fight Pass, Flying the Irish flag & More MMA craic. Like, Comment, Subscribe & Hit the notification…

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[Music] [Applause] okay what's going on guys and welcome to a brand new episode of energize russ introduce the guest mat today we have a bit of double trouble we have the pride of tipperary and the pride of cork it's will fleury and john mitchell lads how are you doing oh man flying it out flying looking forward to weighing in uh john did you give will a few tips on the factor 50 over in sony uh abu dhabi or what yeah he he recovered anyway like you can tell by how pale i am i'm like there's so much anyway so that's thanks a million for joining us for the people who are unaware john and will are competing this saturday on uae warriors 28 lads how he's getting on are you all right yeah floyd i can't wait like i was actually ready for this fight in february but they pushed it back another month so i'm more than ready for this one like i'm just counting down the minutes now like so good yeah and will this opportunity for me when the site is going to be massive for my career so i'm just [ __ ] in that kind of zen state but there's a kind of excitement building in me and will obviously you know you've had sort of holidays and lows throughout your career and like at this this is probably the moment you've been waiting for your entire career this is this is your chance to make a statement this is your chance you know to stop your take to the big show and there's a nice shiny belt on the line on a well-recognized organization is this what you've been waiting for your entire career to show the best version of world floor you possible of course look i've earned a ton of hype throughout my career and then i've [ __ ] up that once or twice um this is obviously a pretty big opportunity but i feel like i've done what it takes to be special and now it's my time to go out there and prove it well when you got the name terry suleiman after beating him before like what went through your head especially now that the toilet is on the line and then seeing you in the photograph there the other day with the belt on the shoulder oh look look i'm collecting this [ __ ] belt on saturday that's what it says but i was amazed this guy took this fight everyone's got a [ __ ] you know i'm sure he has his own reasons his own story in his head but [ __ ] me what are you thinking excuse my language that's how i will uh what's called you'll 100 make the care express down the hippo you want to win here no doubt about it uh john this will be your third fourth outing in uae warriors do you feel like yeah and you have that lovely unblemished record do you feel like a win do you have a do you feel like a win here could get you in the toilet contention in uae warriors yeah so like my training partner and coach bruno cavera has the lightweight belt for this promotion so i'd never fight him but as soon as he vacates it i'll fight for that belt definitely but there's another lad that i want to fight this promotion that has the belt as well so definitely down and definitely that bell's coming once bruno moves on to if he moves to the ufc or something like that or retires then i'll definitely fight for that build i love john and uh john this point for you is at 160 is the catchweight a little bit nicer for you what's the job it's the job it's unreal like uh i'm a big lightweight you know what i mean and uh so the the the 1.2 makes a big difference like and i was looking at your man he's not that big of a lightweight either so i don't know how he did it but i'm happy he did i love it and then obviously you're out in mtk and i feel like there's a new celeb in mtk each week for uh you guys to spar with who's been who's been the most helpful visitor on this camp um paul redmond paul redman was definitely the most accurate government and andy ryan came out and they did a lot with us uh the other boys are morphing instagram pic like you know what i mean but uh david and the boys uh they uh they taught me a load for this fight regis was out here for a bit we're trying together every day punching the head off me he was so definitely him with it yeah shout out to retzer and patty hoolan competing on polaris professional this saturday also live in uc foy pass er will uh karen davern is someone who you're also familiar with um in terms of world-class coaches where does kieran darwin rank very highly and why like he's got the highest level jiu jitsu i've ever felt and experienced and he's very good at translating that and very good at like relaying it to you and teaching you like it's easy to get high level details off gear because he's broken down his own head so many times and he's he was only talking about this to me yesterday he's taught for thousands of hours you know guys been running his own gym since 2012 so you can feel that experience from them and i think it's just like it's only recently it's become recognized everywhere but i'm lucky i was talking to karen early so i've had him in my corner since you know 2016 2017 and i feel like i was on that train early but like i've started to finally kind of like get to that level myself rapping wise and we'll with with that um obviously you know you'll have kiara on your corner you'll have john your corner do you almost feel like bringing home this belt for your gym for your country is almost its own way of saying thank you to them for thank you for sticking boy me of course yeah like look i was there only two weeks ago when brad bought brought well home and it's class it's unbelievable and it gives everyone a boost around you but i want to do this for me too i know what i've put into this and i know what i [ __ ] want to get out of this eventually but this is like a little sweet cherry on the way it's like this is part of your journey but this one of the things you get something physical to bring home to go hey thanks for investing me but i invested myself massively and like it's kind of a reward for my effort for me if you get me yeah yeah you're obviously you're obviously on the show like we've been doing this about six years and it was you were once in ross's house about what six years ago how much of your career like you're always in the gym you're always putting in the grafts and then like now this weekend you can finally fulfill what you've been chasing the whole time it's been great it's great to see russ and that this won't be the this is not the end of willful kobler's journey this is the beginning of something and you'll see yeah well no i haven't i did i didn't mean you're going to want to wipe here it's like you're kind of like odd it's the end of a guy's curve it's [ __ ] not this is the beginning of something well i can't wait to see it and on top of that uh i really hope pedro carvalho has some sort of uh will flirty champion socks in the making at home to gift you with a win here i'll get him a little bit of soccer with my belt on it yeah i'll let him wear an old one he can win that day well i absolutely love it uh john what a voice would you give will on uh fighting over in uae i know you've sort of fought in this region before uh will but john's living out here on the daily oh he knows what to do with this lad he's around a lot longer and i am about to smash the head off and like he knows that well anyway it's no different like it's just a bit more sunshine outside and as well he's staying in dubai for a week after so i i i'll have more advice then [Laughter] i want to do a pose for you i love him yeah yeah yeah he knows the rest himself so can you tell us a bit like what's the treatment been like towards the two years over in on the card like for the uae warriors like we you had the press conference there the other day john but like what what's the treatment been like in the build up for this weekend from for me it's unreal anyway like like like you rewards by far the best promotion by a country while ever fought on like every event's the same but this if we're even in a nicer hotel this time it's probably one of the better hotels i've ever stayed in everlake and uh i've want for nothing everything you can do they do for me even like the regulations are is saw on the ball and everything there to a t would have they treat us well on the flight day they pay us better it's unreal it's the exposures class you know what i mean so it's unreal i have no issues with it but the main thing for me is sound fight passes title and it can build my career i'm very happy to be in that position for the people tuning in right now lads can you can you tell us what time you will be fighting so the fight starts 6 pm dubois time which is 2 p.m irish time and then uh we're like on seventh flight in the cards so it's whenever that happens after that so let's say around like 8 p.m max 8 p.m maybe we'll be on 9 or 10 p.m but you know what just watching so that'll be 4 p.m irish time roughly 4 p.m for him irish time and somewhere between 6 and 8 p.m for me irish time so i'll probably fight between like 10 and 12 local time somewhere between 6 and 8 p.m irish time so you know it's it's a saturday in ireland just leave off going to mass in the local match that they tune in the whole thing make the day of it i'll definitely make math earlier in the day yeah two to eight like a few hours john does this feel any bigger now that this is on ufc fight path because obviously you fought on uae wires before but it wasn't on bypass now it's on bypass does that make any bigger for for you and do you feel like you know there's a bit more pressure on with ufc always on you not sure my my pro debut was on foot pass and my fight after that was on foot pass and to be honest like when you're fighting in there anyway i i would notice some extra camera on me recording it back home it's looking at something trying to take the head off me and i'm trying to take that off him so i never even noticed that really like more pressures the boys watching back home than ufc bypass i don't even know if they've signed up for that they're cheap they better have that this is in the this one's in the area arena like how many people are you expecting in the building huh this one's in the edit arena how many people are you expecting in the arena i have a lot coming down anyway from dubai i have a good little uh group coming down i've maybe 30 40 people but how many people are going to go upstairs i'm not sure and we'll tell you what i think we you were trying to say something there obviously uh you're truth that this is on ufc floyd pass especially when you're fighting for belt because uh you do know the total fight's going to get a bit of spotlight also uh is this the coolest poster uh you've ever been on as well yeah yeah it is it's actually pretty well i wish they'd given it to me a few weeks beforehand it's like i would have blown the [ __ ] out of that but yeah it's glass yeah i i think um i think for a lot of promotions getting that ufc five past steal from them is fantastic because just when you're on the platform you can just go straight on to live events and see what's going on so uh also you can see us 2e just as well uh as well which is uh always nice what's for you well for now foreign but uh john obviously your toil isn't as attainable at the moment because your training partner has it but is there when you were saying you know there's people you want to fight is there a goal of how many fights before you'd like to get that ufc call uh no like at the moment like i was saying all weekend like i'm just loving that i'm getting out to be here i'm mastering my craft i'm fighting on a high level i'm staying in a class hotel all that good stuff's going to come if i take it fight by foot anyway so i'm all i'm looking at is this saturday and then after that whatever my management tells me to do next i'll look at that then you know and what about yourself will would you look to defend this belt or are you looking are you waiting for dana white to make that phone call as soon as that belt is put around your waist again it's all about the way i perform so if i go in there and i put on the performance that i'm working towards i expect a call but if i go in there and i don't perform to that level then i'll have to defend this belt probably and will is this the first rematch of your career yeah yeah and does that make preparation in any way difficult different or does will florida we haven't fought before because i'm a very different fighter he's going to be a very different fighter i'm not taking it as you know i know what this guy is because he'll have changed what he is at this stage i definitely have anyway um so it to me i've approached the same way mentally as i would any other fight but it is like i was really shocked when he took this fight because he was beating pretty comprehensively last time and he's a lot to lose here you know he's tried his best to rebuild his reputation but he's going to get that destroyed again on saturday yeah uh john will just mentioned his preparation hasn't changed in the build up to this fight like what about yourself john like you're you're constantly in the gym there with absolute savages as ross mentioned earlier there's a new slab in the door every week the the most recent one being will flurry like what's your preparation been like in the build up to this one yeah it sounds like cliche every fighter says but easily the best camp in my life like you know what i mean like everything seemed to click for this one my weight's better the campers unreal will be good lads in all camp help me get ready so uh yeah just go down and smash some lad it's all good yeah yeah that's why you can't miss the lads fighting on uc fly pass this saturday on uae warriors 28. lads before we wrap things up is there anything you want to tell the the temporary nation or the cork onion nation uh like tuning in right now yeah i'm back to cork after a 1.5 year hiatus like so make sure they lock down the city for that day from april 1st to april 15th it's on trying to mean the boys know i'm coming anyway but just to double check will you be will you be getting a bus going through temporary no i won't know a [ __ ] morning probably go home to be honest i'll just bring the belt back up to sunny valentin okay but look i want to thank the people who helped me for this fight like carl moore was huge in my camp johnny as well was great but a lot of people have been around the last few months have been great narius mohammed a bunch of lads who have brought me to a new level and i'm looking forward to going in and showing that but i own them a lot because they brought me there it wasn't just me who did this they did that they were part of what's going to happen on saturday how do we are we expecting two finishes come saturday night boys yeah very yeah just before we wrap things up for us i just need to get a shout out to monster energy who's actually joined the energize team so in the build-up ever since we just saw him with ufc fight pass so we want to shout out monster energy russ is there anything else to say before we wrap things up because the lads air that does need a bit more weight you know to look shredded for those instagram photos i don't know what you're talking about no i just want to say best of skills boat lads do yourselves do your james do your country proud uh as you always do and thanks minion for everyone watching make sure to give it a like share subscribe and as always stay stay energized energize up the irish been sussing you guys a couple of times i've seen a couple of clips i think you're doing some interviews with dylan moore and then that i i saw so keep going keep up the good workers