Matty O'Ruairc | IUR Fighting Championship XIII

Summary

IUR Fighting Championship XIII - Matty O'Ruairc Matty O'Ruairc's is the newest undisputed IUR Middleweight Champion. It is a culmination of hard work and preparation. Matty highlights his determination to defend his title while showing respect for his opponents, particularly…

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someone was in here [Applause] [Music] sorry all right first of all all right everyone welcome back thanks for tuning in um awesome fight thank you thank you very much awesome awesome um sorry Mr Mato work everyone you know I always forget to do the inter oh that's fine um I can't even see you right now first of all like congrats there a hell of a finish thank you um did you just see that opening and then land it or like did it just I don't want to say did it just happen but you know what I mean like did you see that and well a lot of it is muscle memory um you know I I have a strong boxing teammate back at the club and we' kind of been drilling getting out of distance and Landing shots kind of on the counter strike managing distance layers all that kind of thing and you know once I felt my weight come into my back foot it was was just natural yeah yeah just just throw the right hand off it just C beautiful with it yeah know it was it was gorgeous and I honestly I can't wait to look back at that footage cuz you know everything just happens so quickly in a moment you don't you know you're watching you don't get to see it um how much time do you have to prepare for this fight um well you know I've had a pretty steady amount of camps this year I've fought four times this year so i' I've pretty much been in camps since like marchish yeah and you know with each fight we've taken as kind of a checkpoint to develop a little bit more do you know my my last fight up here about 2 months ago with h Bradley rice you know we had a strong game plan for working off the wall we were doing a lot of wrestling defense a lot of counter wrestling that kind of thing and Bradley of course is an excellent Striker you know so from that fight we kind of took okay distance management layering you know and being in Camp for so long throughout the year and having so many opportunities to kind of test myself um it's been easy to just kind of come back with you know mixed results what do we need to work on what can we strengthen that kind of thing so I feel like the whole year combined has really led up to a nice Christmas fight you know like a gift to myself excellent was there anything kind of specific that you worked on um you know just just again looking at Ben himself and and studying on man first thing I have to say is you know can I swear say what the [ __ ] [ __ ] me he lit me up dude like bing bing bing bing bing it was like Mario was playing to my [ __ ] head you know you know as as they say uh he's a mean looking [ __ ] oh dude dude he looks he looks scary you know to see him on the street I saw I saw him a little bit through the door and I kind of went that [ __ ] stole my look a little bit I do the buzz cut beard you know but you know and coming into the fight we knew we knew Ben was going to be you know strong right hand good grindy wrestlers you know so like I said we we really really worked on a lot of distance management you know using layers counter striking again just sharpening the wrestling from from former fights uh throughout the year and again a lot of it is just kind of when you get in feel the rhythm do your Rhythm lead the dance you know that kind of way excellent um you're the uh the newest uh I Champion yes yes I am yes um so now that you have this what's next for you a fat [ __ ] Christmas dude yeah oh man there's going to be three more te's in the name mat you you [ __ ] see me come back I'm going to be the ultra heavyweight champion next [ __ ] hell yeah um after a minute you know uh I need to give my body a little bit of rest recovery study um you've been pretty active the last six months yeah like I said this year I've had about four fights you know my my most recent one two months ago on it was actually my my debut for a so uh to become Champion two fights is very you know I'm very very about that you must have put on hell of a show in the last one there oh man you know fighting Bradley was great um strong strong Striker really really like he put me on my ass from first round so I had it was a lot of mental Warfare to come back and keep that pressure and and eventually get the win so in terms of throughout the year and and and working and and effort and and kind of really really keeping the ball rolling it has just been next to next to next to next you know just really staying on the horse the whole time right on um is there is there anyone that you think you might want to you know defend your title again is anyone worthy to try and take it from you who have I turned down who who have I turned down if you're looking for this [ __ ] come for it's like I said in the ring Come Get It Come Get It anybody I don't turn you down you want to turn out that's fine you want to come in watch my last two fights see what [ __ ] happens train for me drill for me spend time for me I [ __ ] want a three rounder here I haven't had a three rounder in ior yet I [ __ ] want one come get it come get it yeah hell yeah brother look appreciate your time thank you very much uh safe drive home same to you ladies and gentlemen the endes after 2 minutes and 52 seconds of the very first round you're winner by knockout and now the your middleweight champion man [Music]