Stevie McKenna | Starting Boxing, Life In California & Training Under Freddie Roach | Energized Show

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What is up and welcome to the latest Energized Show! On this episode we have Irish boxer Stevie McKenna on the show to discuss Starting boxing, Moving to LA to train with Freddie Roach & Sparring some of the greatest boxers in the game. Check it out, enjoy, subscribe for more…

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hey what's going on girls welcome to a brand new episode of energized today we have a very special guest on the show we have undefeated pro boxer alisone Stevie the hit man Stevie how are you doing cool that's all facility you have there is a gym at the back rice here so it's really handy to have some training there Steve and Medad me at this gym of it since we were young with 11 or 12 years old and just been adding two toned with every time so ever full size ring we have full strength conditioning treadmills everything the whole works yeah so you're really boring was born into the into a boxing yeah yeah I started off when I was 8 years old I would say in karate I started off crowding my dad was a martial arts coach and then I didn't really like it too much skill you didn't get the contour hit anyone and that's you know I find it boring and then I went to the boxing gym my dad would put me in the queue brothers all right and they just started off from there now they all buy home at the moment all three of you yeah he's up studying in Jordan central so you know shortage of sparring partners the moment or two million nothing much just ain't for us like we have the whole gym here to work gin away and we agree with each other with me in our own as well yeah it must be really good for a boxer and make it like yourself just me having the gym in the back garden first of all the second file being like Manan because they go excuse me if I'm incorrect but there's not much going on Amman and you know yeah monitors that small can't be like hey not too much happens but it nice it's a nice area here where we live so we're happy out here yeah so it's cool to just read you just focus in on your craft yeah yeah we we focus we I don't really go out much drink running so and I want to navigate boxing and hopefully it'll all pay up towards the end yeah that's that's one of the main reasons why I want to get you on the show because like your mindset towards the toward box and it's just unbelievable and you can just see how like dedicated and focused on and like we have people who know boxing and live anime and for the entered now check out your check out like what you do is this brilliant yeah we gotta get a book me and on when we're opening la verdad as well he comes over and joins us so we are open Alec there since January and then we came back over and once all this started but three three or four weeks ago so we obey the gym here that was one of the main reasons why we came came back this gym over there we did know sylvie view so we're just training in the park and we're doing a lot of running and pad work so we have a plane here frogs now yeah are as I see me you and I were to have a super fan in Kendrick Lamar hello doc hold open arms sparring with each other we're working looser than he came over and start watching us you sitting ringside what's to lose Bob Marley runs it no watching he in which of them that always house up to work in our craft and accent for that yeah Canberra care he's a big pond over stretch so he came to one of our own spikes there last year or year and a half ago then he really took to sweep there to keep in with him that's me that's amazing you it like you did you said you're going on here is just a bet that you couldn't even imagine this sort of stuff going down yeah yeah it's hard to believe like still Lannon kendrick lamar's really you're really robot elders in in the right realms like I've seen you with Julio Chavez Jr Oscar De La Hoya Gillian boy the Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and then even got a few rounds in below mishchenko like that's pretty whirlwind suffered two brothers Romano yeah it's unbelievable they like me did we meet no least it's an opportunity that we have to take and then sparring with lemon chanko is Sharon armed with unbelievable experience even before I made my food a big one what was that like wells are like cause like people know him as they probably the best in the world right now yeah I reckon he said my number one hey when when I came by today we're at Jim's barn Jason and we need lamb shank of Chandra and then they will respond so they were asking for a sec I I said poor but I can switch I said yeah I'm fine barn and they they didn't believe is the weight that was because I saw 135 to time that came up away at me and happening did the rib fest about it and they give me sparring Gilson all and it was just an unbelievable experience to get in the ring with him he's a very smart by Tony's but I technically does a lot of think nice trying to work yet like every second you can't switch off and they'd be making mistake he can trust that's invaluable experience who else whispered that would like almost be as close along with Django other M it has aspired a certain lip nets party me world champion for de Jose Ramirez he said you forget a champion he's he's a mean guy 140 him aghast yellow it did a lot of work with him for the very secret fight sparred with a Ranga see yeah part of him I sparked a lot of people like hard to think of I mean like sort of like lomachenko soil yeah oh I didn't like it so it sparked by Brian's very tactical response cute experience like I saw you we were said in a previous interview I think it was maybe even with or TV but you were saying like Congo like Manny Pacquiao was when your favor for us how you got to meet him so is his noises there he appears sweet oye Manny gentleman to you say he was in training we were in the wild card games foreign if you fall in their money patio walks in so he was trained indeed he does up there I think 35 wines runs every assassin so we trained second animal but I'd looked at spar him sometime hopefully no wife Miriam no just Iran to them you're caught you calling them out right now well obviously they get your training on him and then all of a sudden you moved here they California like come about they are in the aren't proof he was a 16 and he started to over him back and they're my plans to go for the Olympics from 2020 but they are in turn improve when he was 18 then and he was he was doing really well he was one of bikes and I was over there saying I want to do to see him yeah I decided to make move as well so I think the proof that suits me a lot more bronze suit me now mature say very short three trees but in the longer Ryan's will save me I'm it's getting for Shriners am now so extremely fit yeah the cardio isn't real but they can what appear what have you sort of changed in your training it seems trade training with training back home and then to move into LA like what like like obviously you met some like maize and Forrest but like whatever like how's that made you like just improve you know yeah every day I go to the gym I'm learning I'm with working on the Freddie okay Freddie Roach is a phenomenal coach one of the world's best treatment under him is it's like sir real sodas but they I take every bit of information he gets me in doing the ring so Freddie and me get on really well and were a great team so it says for being exciting always fun him very very interested say growth because I've see he's got as a Parkinson's ax gays parking Sue's yeah but like Dwight he still was able to hold Pat for so long even with Parkinson's was like unbelievable I think he's one of the best box and coaches of all time he's trained like thirty world champions and chiton so hopefully will be the next ones bring it back down what's it what's it what's it what do you get off someone like that you know mean that's the site that's the top of the top training you were again there you know like what like what what exactly are you getting for people that are just tuning in now and are like are just like amateur boxers or just want to go on with the pro like what are you really getting there you know well then train and with Freddie it's unbelievable like growing up I was always watching Freddie Roach and money thank you and I never like thought that I'd get that level or he'd betray enemy and I like but it's a dream come true and there everybody information you get from buddy up there listen to them and they're just take it all in and keep them very able to learn every day and that's what we want to do but it's unbelievable experience being I turn the wire Jim Brady is in France the event like pass through that gym is absolutely fried and all the way from like heavyweight all the way you know to flyweight it's absolutely crazy and you've met some the best Boston's had to offer no like I said la manche anko Canelo Klitschko yeah I mean you am is there anyone boxing you haven't bet that's right you and I had Mike Tyson I'd love to meet and I've met in yet so I'd like to meet him and see see yes met a lot of fighters fortunate enough that beat them and some advice for them to train there as well do you have to be like in voided or what way does it go around because obviously some people would rather train in the lovely weather as well oh yeah and we're up every morning 4:00 a.m. that's for yeah 4:00 a.m. I know running sessions we have to get there early so we beat the traffic we leave a day 7 a.m. and take an hour to get there but if we leave earlier 10 minutes so the traffic over there and say the real annoying thing about it but hey well they're not there the weather the weather to be dabbling with where it's good training like sighs it's running down on the beach from very motivational sodas yeah it's like perfect for like your mindset as well as all the people like observant boxers like it the only person I can sort of see with that's what a mindset right now is like a home like a detailer like the way you're just like eat sleep and breathe it it's a it's actually brilliant especially way we've been friends online now and covering your store it's just there they go like it's they could like really proud of you man you dude you're doing a great job and you'd like to dance moves over to 20 California so it's not that much of a transporter you're really really doing it you're doing a great job as well so knocking people out for and Olek yeah want to keep it go on there a kitty it's very Inspira so we look up to give you a lot yeah we don't see him sort of mindset is har and yeah Lisa I work a lot with Keira and still keep in touch with her oh yeah yeah from this have you seen a documentary boat away oh yes yes unbelievable this yeah when's yours going down produced by Kendrick Lamar as well what's called Steve McKenna just dropping names like it's hot man like yeah it's actually crazy just think like two humble ads Manan like going over to LA doing a salute work and then robbing our or rubbing shoulders with slabs you don't mean it stops you brilliant see hey yeah we even saw you you're you're hanging over to Johnny's as well oh yeah yeah yeah we're getting them on soon as well like you mean yeah yeah it's just great to see like the REO slots going over just like just doing it like they're killing it as well by the way they're like doing a fantastic job as well yeah so it's a great time to be a part and is the money golden box in our apple of throughout the moment or so return you get better each time yeah it's slowly getting better each time it's you build yourself up towards more level you know then we'll start making a lot of money but until and it's it's it's decent like it's good yeah whether we have a great management team behind us sheer sports they looked after us really well and very grateful to have them on board as well and like a Mobius sort of stints that you do over in California as well liquid to be there for a certain amount of time would have either or they got so freaked out yeah we we stayed without full full year around usually come home in the summertime for two weeks and then Christmas lap for maybe three or four weeks and then we have bad p1 visas over there so we'll be there for the next couple years all right and then hopefully yeah and it's just you and iron or did you die stay there as well yeah yeah my dad he's with us as well so he eat the salt strain analysis well he does all endurance training and he said put us in the tracking in the gym all the time so he plays a big role as well yeah that's great way of the family just told you I'm an award like that's I mean that's because they know some coaches might let you off for certain things but like like your brother is special joy there and then you die as well he'd be like I've seen you do better than this you can go you know yeah it keeps good I have nothing pushes forward that's what we need yeah need would be a some very motivational ourselves but if he gives us that extra push as well um see obviously you know your route obviously back home in Ireland and I was your main trains base out in LA well where's like your Altima fight venue like are we open up you know the stable Center is a you know the MGM in Las Vegas is a Madison Square Garden Ord want to fight in the SSE in Belfast or you know Trey arena and doable whereas like the ultimate point for you yeah and you're in America you know look in LA or a msg O'Day those module I'd love to fight in such it's part of us it'd be a huge thing it's it's right right five minutes away but they I don't feel like such an expert you know anymore now do I was ever had both noventa a month before a robot event nah not that I know of no I don't think so so we look to be the first you never had the McKenna brothers before either though how they I know no one's actually print is not yeah like obviously did you say to the karate and like obviously the boxing's well board like did you do it did you do her in there the gun when you're younger as well yeah made a Gillick right up until those under-16s and then give it up for the boxing just Khaliq medevacs nah I like yeah yeah each player from a local team now who's pretty good at underage level for them one of the other so I fully commit box what team is that put away hey Cleveland here I'm sure I'm sure the lads are always on t already oh yeah looking for free flow at their lair that's brilliant well like what what's like training like so much with your brother and have them like base you like someone that's driving you down watch as well because like obviously you're like trying to outdo each other as brothers to you but like what's that like you're having that constantly yeah I mean like if he's open is he if he's about forward to for your again over six to four you know yeah well we're always pushing each other on the track it's very competitive say he's always trying to beat me and I'm trying to beat him and none of us like getting late that's way sometimes inspiring to speak with heaters you know we we try to get the better of each other you know you'll try to step it up in an outfit stepped up and we'll great to have preachers like back home here great have for each other and being stuck in quarantine and then have someone to train with spar with and ward in laughs good combo with each other so we're practicing a lot and we're not really missing that much just yes yeah the same we easily it is not much change for us so you're so lucky right in the have not because like some fighters would be at home now and they they wouldn't really have some what they would just be hitting the bag you know yeah just doing a bit of shadow boxing up and we're very fortunately we have we feel only about full gym here everything with everything going for us so yeah it looks like a brilliant compacted odds after being over here oh yeah it's you to this like it's a big shed so we about one side right here we have strength work we have the two treadmills with we're babbling yeah my place we have two of everything yeah live to link one for me unbelievable unbelievable you're like the charlo brothers of Ireland except you boys are all defeatist yeah they got no obviously obviously you have heard I'll round like a hundred hundred fifty I'm sure for it's an area for no freshly like am I'm sure this year you wanted to really make your mark in the division but like but like what can we sort of expect for yourselves like I like coming out of this situation and like what are you sort of looking to do and over the next while as well just for people I really want to know ya wanna well my plan for this year was to get update it irin a nano and then finish off with me at random the end of the year so and now the things been push back a bit I still want to keep it that way and hopefully this time next year I'll be opening ten renders as fast as I can so I keep knocking these guys out and keep moving along yeah you won't even EDA trails I'm ready for you Prince even though I like I'm extremely fit so Stephen McKenna Deontay Wilder of the super lightweight division not an effort in center 140 so I'm pretty big for the weight as well yeah like you're actually killing it what you sort of make it like boxing these days as well like obviously did like like over the last few years like MMA sort of came Auckland then it's like oh it was doing better than boxing but now the box in the heavyweight division everyone is like so engrossed out like toys of fury yeah aunty Joshua and now potentially to take on each other as well like what were your thoughts in their boxing right now these days yeah boxers feynman at the minute there's a lot of big fights happening and there especially in the heavyweight division it's a door I'll start there thank but babe each other and the wild of fury was a brilliant to watch as well and hopefully more Big Sight Sookie poplin might see canals oh and he hopefully we'll see more big fights let me check - and few people keep envelope is there another big fight it'll be a you wonder watch so it's very exciting boxing with minute a lot of big fight yeah is there any like cards you look to get on like obviously you'd love to get on cuz varies next one or auntie Joshua's were like or even Katy Taylor's next as well is there any cards that you look on you're like I want to get on that and then hope you can sort it out yeah looked again kid you know card yeah that'd be real honor to fight one of our cards is someone the mean arm before put a lot when we were younger as well we sparkle up with kidding and high performance when we were younger we were a lot lighter for there yeah that'd be unreal to be an hour card have you got any funny stories a Katie Taylor because there we had John Oh Carol on the show and we had more Yukon on the show and they're just timeless a bit few cool things wait hey there and like some roster just like there were that I think it's just unbelievable and if you got any funny stories and I just mean kitty interesting it's extremely extremely fast I've never seen anyone exposed woman she's bastard most men like she's extremely fast and she loves speed and power create sparks Butte experience as well was growing up being with hard Olympic gold-medalist like killing at the pro game and that's that's what I my homeland John Carroll said that they couldn't leave her hands paid it was like just recording fast regardless of sex yeah lame unbelievable speed yeah did you did you've any a voice phone up before this situation happened or what will be looking to get outfit def a professional for you yeah I had a fight be it may 9th April it was in LA and then it got postponed so I was training I was ready for a fight and was looking forward to it but unfortunately what has happened in the up just keep training and stare at it I'll be ready anytime once the go-ahead goes for bikes to be allowed back on I'll be ready but then a few weeks just anywhere anytime chomp not to be but I still like like we haven't like we actually couldn't wait okay on the show and just because like like from from distant sobs you we're friends online but like seeing your work I think it's just like you just like whoa you know I mean certain people stand out like and then the way like your own they're like fun to fly around like really doing it like which is it's the work I think it's one believable yeah I mean you and your brother as well for that we're gonna have to get you on next time and the Billups your foot as well you know like we enjoy promote and your folks as well like as I know we've only got about like 12,000 people following us for like it they people that are like wow you know I mean we have yeah we must put on the Irish people like actually doing a great job you know yeah thanks very much thank you yeah no yeah Steve you're an absolute killer we can't wait to see all those top operas try and join together fold over you like only met Steve McKenna pac-man of beat asked for a selfie next time you sees it but I had thanks man for coming on if you did like the show make sure to like share subscribe and as always stay energized