Johnny Walker | UFC Vegas 38 Countdown | Energized Show

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What is up and welcome to the latest Energized Show! On this episode Johnny Walker joins us live from Las Vegas to discuss his fight on UFC Vegas 38 this Saturday the 2nd of October. We also discuss SBG Ireland, Living in Ireland & More MMA craic. Like, Comment and Subscribe…

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[Music] energize show up the irish okay what's going on guys and welcome to a brand new episode of energized russ introduce the guest man today we have ufc light heavyweight contender an honorary irishman not just a whiskey it's johnny walker johnny how you doing bud i'm doing good my friend how are you doing i'm doing very very important big weekend ahead of you this weekend main event in the ufc voting your fellow countrymen thiago santos how does that feel that's you just don't want my job to do you know and my first may events not the last one and i'm very proud that every hard work that i put on is gonna pay off now you know i'm gonna show the awards my first my event and i'm so excited yeah johnny before we kick into things like obviously you're living here in ireland and uh you know how much like the irishmen don't like fighting or women what's it like for yourself now fighting a fellow brazilian ah you know it's just a job right and now i'm here i live in ireland i have irish fiancee and it's been amazing that everybody treats me well no and i feel at home so it's just i have no conflict with no other nations or other fighters you know that never have issues with nobody so he's just a job he's a good fight and you know brazilians is i was on the top down in ufc i think every top 10 you have one brazilian so it's because if we fight against each other it's because we are the best you know and we have to fight and that's it and johnny can i ask what made you choose ireland out of everywhere in the world to come live to train i think just god put this path then i just follow what god put on my path you know uh also because my girlfriend's from there as well she's from belfast and second because they have really good training up there with john kavanagh john kavanagh is my my coach now i have two years with him my last camp was with him this camp is with him now so if you he treats me really well as well i feel that the connection over like a very commitment from him he helped me with everything so i feel that the most uh the most proper coach that i have ever been coached you know he really he will look after me and i feel at home so everything matched perfectly you know my girlfriend from there i like ireland i like the coach i like everything so you have to be where you'll be happy or not right so i'm happy that yeah the orders of women will get you johnny yeah well you know what to say once you fall in love with an irish girl that's it you know but uh what what is it like to train in spg i see you've done some good rounds with uh the likes of will flurry and stuff like that as well and what has been like to train in spg and what improve or what improvements have you made in your game since the move to spg improve everything because we train everything get ready for everything you know john our stitch was like not magically the things that's gonna work you know the simple things but with the proper technique i've been trying with carl mo will yuri and i have a lot of guys that are like charlie as well and so have good passions to train there everybody care about you know everybody want to learn and everybody hungry there and everybody have a go so it's good training the team that you have a goal you know yeah obviously your style johnny is like not something to not be missed and especially this weekend well like what did you do any other sports in it when you were growing up younger or maybe did you even do capoeira oh yeah but just for a few months like but i always watch martial watch i always watch like uh animes and movies about what martial arts i start training later on like i start training with i think 20 years old muay thai then jiu-jitsu with 21 or something close to 32 and 22 i start professional career already like i have not have seven years professional so not that long that i've been trained but i'm feeling good and obviously johnny your opponent at thiago santos you know he's been in there he's fought for the world title he's gone the distance with jon jones what do you make of your opponent and he also has a history of knee injuries is that something that you might target throughout the fight i gonna hurt you everywhere that i can i'm ready to to rock my friend [Laughter] man i knew we had to get you on this week johnny like well doing that oh that that that is unbelievable and johnny do you think this one's gonna end on the feet because like this this is like a stand-up um fans dream it really really is like these are two of the best knockout artists in the division i know but you know i'm just wanna be i fight mma bro you know i like jujitsu likewise and i'm a striker i knock people out but whatever it takes i'm ready to go i'm not dumb fighting i'm smart so if he if he you know if i can take him down submit him easily as well because i don't think he have a really high level you just you know so there is a way as well you know yeah from the outside looking in johnny everybody's packed as well oh i can just knock him out whatever it takes no you can't make a plum because fights usually don't go the way that you think so you have to be ready for change there they plan all the time change the the stains and everything like the game plan but i've been doing a really nice game plan he's going to work for for the striking but if he if you have the opportunity to take him down of course who knows johnny walk might go in there and shoot a double leg take down straight from the start they won't know i'll hit them see her again you might do double leg take down straight away yeah whatever double leg or i can walk on the face on the wall i cannot come out i can take him down with a flying video yeah that's that's your speciality the floyd knee yeah i have so many speciality you have no idea i don't ever be on the other end of it either johnny look from the outside looking in you can you can see that you're basically just coming into your prime now and then thiago has had like an amazing career his fight against jon jones was unbelievable like um people say he won people say john jones won but i mean i think i think this is actually your time going in now watching your whole fight camp on the stories like with the pl with the fighters you've been with even getting the likes of fabian edwards over as well it's um i think this is your time this weekend but yes sir i i've been through the hell every week on my camping train sometimes two sometimes three times a week in the hell i want to [ __ ] like almost cry you know on the sparring on the shark tank and if thiago's bringing me to the hell i want to say thank you to him because i'm going to feel at home but if you don't bring him to the hell it's going to be very sorry for him because i'm ready to rock my ready for hell so please tiago give me a heart fight because you know i've been through a lot of hard stuff for through this conference and i've been trained for seven months after susan and everything i'm hungry i'm ready i'm stronger i'm faster good precision bro i hope he brings me to the hell because i'm i want to feel at home exactly ross russ uh johnny's saying he wants hell this weekend from when this was announced we were like right we have to get on this what are you like for the people that haven't that want to or might check out this weekend what should they expect this weekend ross this weekend is going to go and guaranteed fireworks johnny isn't it broke the octagon my friend i'm gonna do all i want to be the first one to broke the octagon no better man to do it no better man to do it johnny tell me this um some of your post-fight celebrations in the octagon have been i've been wild and i i think you even injured yourself after one of your celebrations uh as john spoke to you about your celebrations and told you to take it easy on the celebrations yeah i i've been practicing a new celebration was a little bit simpler it's funny but there are way more safe so yeah i'm ready to don't hurt me again no i'm not going to hurt you anymore i'll be smart no worries i know i'm sure when um the nightclubs open back up in dublin you'll be able to show off your dance moves in the nightclubs i can try i don't actually just touch on that how often when you're walking around dublin you get stopped and get get recognized ah every day when i go to the streets people's a mma funny island and they all want pictures with the main man the future champ yes sir the i love the scottish love people there's a huge fan and it's really really good yeah it's a special thing with the rst with the irish nations behind you johnny like obviously now you put your whole you've moved your whole life here to ireland and like obviously you're putting on the line this weekend but like what sort of like what what sort of goals you have in the future would you like obviously did you see what were meant to come to dublin i think on the 10th of august that didn't happen is there a certain is certain venues you want to find out certain things you want to achieve in your career as well that like you want to share with the irish fans here of course i want to fight sweden island and i want to i want to raise the brazilian the radish flag you won't want to when i when i win the fight i don't i don't bring it at this time but i want to make her be ready for the next time i wanna i want to be champ champ my friend i want to be i'd like to have weight and have your jump so it's going to take time i'm just focused on my career on the light of weights now and i'm doing good and very focused i know it's going to happen because it's been working i feel my body or all my uh i have a good uh i would say no scared of habits you know every day i'm i'm doing string conditioning and injury prevents i improve my box i improve everything i have a good night's sleep i follow good diet so i'm fox 100 on my career there is no way to do so i don't be a champion because now i'm feeling amazed you know my first time that i thought that i'm gonna fight with him injury-free so everything's perfect and working well and i see the belt to the window already and johnny when um things do open up when ufc starts go back all over the world would you like to go back to rio and fight in your hometown oh of course i want to fight our other wards no i love to to to to feel the the the people energy and the cool different cultures you know and i really like to travel my name is welcome i like to walk around the world i'm a walker and then johnny obviously um ufc 267 is only around the corner and how do you see the fight between jan blehovich and glover's chair are going yeah it's true big veterans guys right and they have similar age i think uh black of which have 37 i guess i think uh glover's like 104. and then i hope glover will win because he's a veteran he wasn't this game for so long you know i hope he if he if you take blackboard he gonna submit him he's really tight jiu-jitsu really high-level jiu-jitsu and i i i he deserve no to have a good retirement i don't think he these guys can keep fighting high performance because the lighting rate is coming for big big and young generation guys on the top 10 like me jimmy jr pro huska hot kick so we're gonna be on the top five now we already on the top five they are i'm coming to the top five so big and young guys coming i don't think these old guys can handle it yeah i think that's another fight i'm looking at down the line uh johnny walker versus yuri prohaska uh i think that's another one that could be for the belt in the future yeah um the lloyd heavyweight division it sort of almost went through a slight lull for a while but i think now people are getting very excited again again about the light heavyweight division now that jon jones isn't in there like heavyweight division anymore it's almost like who's going to be the next breakout star and johnny you're definitely one of those people in line who could be the next breakout star at 205 pounds yes it's been work so much for this so it's going to be there soon my friend and johnny go on buzz yeah i was going to ask you can you tell us who's coming out with you this weekend uh coach side again who's coming out with you this weekend uh on k side uh john kavanagh uh dave wrote just uh the coach the other coach just johnson and i'm gonna put michelle pereira my brazilian friend oh my god who could be crazier than johnny walker in the octagon for us that that is absolutely brilliant uh johnny if we didn't think the fight was going to be four works already to have michelle pereira in your corner as well we'll already make it better i can't wait to see it right johnny before we wrap things up because like we know you're a very very busy man and we want to thank everyone in paradigm for setting us up what does rest of the week look like for yourself now in the build up to saturday night uh what's the rest of the week going to look like for yourself in the build up to saturday the rest week yeah ah i'm gonna do some major stuff i'm cutting my way to do some some training keep my diets you know just relax they're all hard work was done when i'm gonna do some bed walks and wall walks it's just technique just to keep fresh in the mic you know and it's gonna i'm gonna be very easy cutting weights because i've been doing uh my diet for so long like it's very well very hard for so long my my fields have been uh cooking really good for me and i've been doing a really nice diet from from churchill he's a con christian oh we know we know him well yeah we know tristan shadow tristan yeah he's really really really good he'd give him really good food and make a really good receipt from himself i'm happy i'm losing weight eating so this is amazing yeah tristan if tristan's listening there we better sort of say with the six packs he yells us as well we're gonna have to save that for the only fans account there russ johnny i'm sure everyone's gonna be able to follow you this week on on the keep up the day on your instagram so make sure to follow johnny on instagram at johnny walker ross anything to say to mr johnny walker before you wrap things up um no johnny just want to say thank you so much for your time and thank you to your fiance who's being so patient with us uh there the background i know she's trying to get you back to and if you have enjoyed this podcast make sure to like share subscribe give it a share and as always see you in the energized energy show up the irish and 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 work guys you