Luke Riley & Adam Cullen | Cage Warriors 136 Countdown | Energized Show

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What is up and welcome to the Energized Show! On this episode Luke Riley & Adam Cullen join us to discuss their Cage Warriors Manchester matchups on Saturday the 2nd of April Live on UFC Fight Pass, Training in Next Generation MMA Liverpool & More MMA craic. Like, Comment…

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Kind: captions Language: en energize show up the irish okay what's going on guys and welcome to a brand new episode of energized ross introduced a guest mat today we have two of the hottest undefeated prospects under the cage warriors banner fighting out of next-gen liverpool we have luke royley and adam cullen lads how are you getting on oh god that's yourself ready god brilliant welcome that's this much both for us smash first of all adam congratulations you were the energized 2021 breakout star of the year so uh fair play to yourself uh luke hard luck on narrowly missing now you you were uh you were second place for sure beating on me trophies posters or something yeah we gave molly pear and patty a pair so we have two pairs for you boys coming soon ross yeah absolutely lads we were actually uh absolutely puzzled to get you guys on and you guys have been absolutely incredible since you burst onto the scene and i'll start with uh yourself adam what what is the buzz like around the gym ever since ufc london oh it's absolutely flying well to be fair the run-up to ufc london is but like i think luke will say the same every day that we come in there with like a different set of cameras like one day's espn then it's bt sport then bbc grenada report so like the whole fight compass mud like you know just constant constant media like the the superstars really aren't they and then after watching them in that ufc and they both absolutely smashed of the park now they're just like on another level again so i'm waiting for the next fight camps in the next documentaries and all that i'm pretty sure it's going to just get wilder and wilder for them yeah it was uh it was great to see both molly and patty win at uc london and like now boats are in the barcelona sport so like the people are looking to be looking for the next talent in next gen and i think you have it uh luke when the cameras were in there like how did that make you feel like knowing that like this could be potentially you one day signing with ufc and being part of the big show yeah people going around with luke royley wigs yeah look right wigs next black black motivation all that that's all that's the only word you can describe it just just pushes it on you just want to keep working obviously that's words saying if you don't if you don't see yourself in the ufc what are you saying for what are you fighting for because that's the only promotion i want to be another modern ufc if i've failed you know what i mean so that's the main goal just keep keeps you pushing seeing all the uh the artwork and put in the cameras stuff it's just yeah motivational russ you can see the lads at the same determination as molly and as paddy yeah i must say uh uh i think for me the highlight of ufc london was actually molly mccann i thought it was uh the moment of the entire show it was absolutely incredible and i know obviously in the uk and ireland everyone knows who meatball money mutant is but i felt like she put herself on the world stage with that knockout i feel like that was almost like a combination party for her i think it'd be very hard to argue that she's probably not the most famous female fighter on the ufc roster whatever belt exactly she is now though isn't she like yeah i think that is that's for me that is the best knuckle i've ever seen live and then it's got to be top five like knockouts ever in the ufc like i know she's my teammates and all that but that was unbelievable and especially for for the women like you don't tend to have big finishes like that do they and if we're pull that off in front of like 20 000 people so i was unbelievable that that she she is a superstar i can only think of valentine's shushenka i was knocking out the head kicked knock out against jessica that's the only other knockout that i can think of that was like absolutely like devastating only with the women you don't go with like like clean asleep like that where the eyes are all in the back and stuff yeah she obviously for 10 minutes though she was sure i didn't think she was getting up yeah no you didn't know well thank god she's all right now yeah amen to that aim into that yeah amen but let's get into it cage warriors manchester uh 136. this this is actually a strange one because we i don't think we've ever had two lads on the show who are undefeated who are also fighting two undefeated guys um does your undefeated record mean a lot to you guys and deals that actually mean anything taking someone's undefeated record away from them i will start yourself luke um yeah definitely at this point anyway seven hours i i'm going for free and i'll put it that way meows my old's not definitely not going just going so uh just got to keep the ball rolling and the loss is definitely not on my mind so yeah that was me enough means a hell of a lot for the older dogs your opponents oh mean anything to you that you you'll get to be the one who'll scalp that yeah great i can't wait to take us off because the first two fights now anyway they've been they're both pro debuts who have been like amateur prospects and they've both started both of them off norton one and it's jack's first fighting cage warriors as well on the proper cage one of these cars off it's just the same same result and luke what do you know about jack and like obviously for the people tuning in he's 2-0 but like what do you know about him that you like that you've been working towards now this saturday or saturday the second of april um just not lost to be honest he's got a very uh i say style on it on the feet is basic sort of life don't get me wrong he's by far probably is the best opponent i've only had two fights the best opponent i thought so far sorry i'm taking taking him very seriously he's just basically he's going to come we'll put it that way because i'm not coming to he's been going on about um oh you're gonna you're gonna shoot first and all this and i was laughing in the gym because he was saying i don't even know how to shoot because so how am i gonna shoot first oh am i gonna shoot first if i don't even know how to shoot to take down so it's definitely not gonna be me so we'll see what happens but uh yeah i definitely come to grapple anyway he says he's coming to state but we'll see what happens when he gets it on the second so and then adam how important is euro to you to be honest i don't even really think about it like in reality like i just take it one fight at the time like them fights they've happened daphne doesn't mean nothing to me now like and i've been people before but i'd be get beat in the gym every day don't mean so for me i'm not that hung up on it i'm just concentrating on every time i sign a contract i'm gonna smash someone off so i mean like it's it's just one of them in it like undefeated yeah but it's yeah i don't see it that way it's just part of the game isn't it records are just one of them i don't want to know where i'm going regardless and what about indeed i i i won't i won't i won't try and say it again because i'll butcher the name but what do you know about him i just know he's never thought for anyone like me don't mean like it's irrelevant like i keep seeing all four you know and he's never been beaten all up but it's like you've never ever fought anyone my level like it's the same for everyone i've ever thought they've all got like good records so i mean the last phone was like five and one and and all this and but it just doesn't matter because i'm just a different level to everyone so for me i don't even look at that i just know i'm going to smash it and obviously yeah obviously adam like you're known for rear naked chokes as well as the gym the gym is notorious for that um is that what you're like what are you looking to to implement this saturday the second of april uh live on uc5 past ross i just take it wherever it goes you don't mean i'm confident everywhere it just it's not my fault that these are all sold by the grappling like i can't even describe to you how bad the lad if they these slides i thought were in my gym they'd all be wipeouts because they cannot grapple so it just tends to be the easy routine i mean so for me this and i or whatever whatever his name is i don't know whether the fight goes not me and if he wants to give his neck up if he wants to give up and give me his neck yes and i'll choke him but if he wants to stand with me i'll punch you stephen yeah absolutely sure everyone next year next gen these days does me in business uh adam what do you make of the 155 pound uh total picture at the moment i know uh you know george hardwick recently fought uh joe mcculligan is i don't know whether he is the champ where it's vacated or what story is mike figalax there how long do you start putting yourself in with those sort of names i reckon one or two after this one maybe one or two more fights i'll have to be right up there like personally i consider that george order his champ and i've trained with george and he is very good and he should be the champ man it's not his fault that everyone else flaps and pulls i want him but like one or two fights i can see george being off the ufc and then me being right up there and i'll be honest with you like who even is at the top now because they're going about all these people have signed but none of them are fighting that's the thing it doesn't matter what your record is and you you're not but if you're not fighting like i honestly could not tell you who is like the number one contender you know apart from george i think he fights every every chance he gets where are the rest of them like john mccolgan i don't know what he's doing uh mehdi he has an e4 he hasn't fallen like 18 months or something is he and then before daddy that he's having like one fight a year and decided all these other lads having here like um the scottish clubs when are they fighting it just doesn't you can't be a contender if you're not going to fight kanye don't forget to be fair to think like he fights regularly doesn't he so yeah he'd have to be up there i'd assume he's going to probably get a crack of it soon but the rest of them they need to pull their finger and actually have a fight before they consider to be contenders i think john mcculligan was like physically actually building a house with his bare hands i think that's that's what he's been doing for the last uh six months or or something so uh he's been writing that one house i've been like over as well yeah been like crack look but where is he this time though but where was he in london he couldn't go to fort george in london couldn't it i just told him don't get it yeah but i think i think george hardwick needs to be fighting for the belt one way or another next time whether even i know i know last time it was very strange because he was pointing an interim total and then he was fighting the catchweight fight i think he should have weighed in 155 pounds and fought for the belt and if his opponent missed weight his opponent missed weight that's that's on him uh because i think he he deserves that toilet shot at this stage but uh speaking of one division uncertainty to another ones um we haven't seen dominic wooden fighting them all he starts his last three opponents uh luke how far do you think you are from fighting for the bantamweight toil i know you're two and oh and we don't want to rush in there yet but from the performances you put on like you know you won't be long getting there yeah i'm in i'm in no rush to be honest i'm still i'm still young and flashlight so i'm just yeah maybe learn the takedowns first maybe i'll learn how to say and after this jack fight and then i'd uh i might have my eyes shut on the belt but yeah i'm just taking your time each fight as it comes i'm in no rush at all i've only had four amateur fights as well mma so all in all i've had six fights i've been training mma for two and a half three years i've got loads of time i'm not i'm in no rush at all so i'm just taking every fight one step at a time to be honest i'm not in normal brush see what i do well we would have been giving out to if we didn't ask you when when do you think you're flying for the title [Laughter] tell us this what's your favorite thing about training with adam without him um he's an intense person to stay with on the mat uh what's your favorite thing about trying about luke i don't really like training with luke because like when we're training together and you look up like at him you know um on shrek prince charming and he's like his hair's always perfect that's luke you know i mean he'll have a three round wall in the cage and come stepping out and you're like i'll let you know at least for one second and there's me just looking all all up all the time i'm pretty jealous at least to be honest yeah that's one thing that everyone knows look for after the flight is there fixed in his hair look at trying to look good but like i mean when you when you're waiting good you look good you know yeah adam i have to ask as well who's the better back taker adam cullen or nathan fletcher me i told him everything he knows i'm not getting involved in this conversation no nathan's done it on the night though honey gotta give it to nathan at the minute i think i need one more uh one more reina could choke him will be even on um vna kids in um in pro fights so um i'll i'll give it in for now but um when i choke someone else i'll stake my claim as the king of the back taking the gym who knows maybe that's who you call out on the mic home saturday night yeah grappling no shout out today or maybe in the crowd i'll just jump on his back after the fight yeah shout out tonight we hadn't eaten on the show called a few times big big fans of him he was also meant to be on this card two nights of action in manchester but um unfortunately he's not going to be competing but uh adam can you tell us who else from next gen are going to be competing at the double header in manchester this friday and saturday we think we've got seven of us so seven big wins coming in and we've got liam gittins liam malloy and connor wilson matt bonnett and um chasing um our international from america's coming over to slam some people on the red so seven of us have named everyone uh ready to put on the show wanna take over that's that's a lot of people like are you bringing many people over to manchester from liverpool they'll be quite i think there'll be a big crowd there's no me because one would split across the two nights yeah so or on on friday and three on no three on friday four on saturday there was no um but it's going to be rally in there we're going to be it's going to be amazing take over in the um in the bec i'd say that's going to be 2k after us yeah absolutely and uh we all know boys from liverpool they like the irish they bring the noise so uh they love a drink and they love us drink a baby as a volleyball caller so there'll be a few a few bevvies there to be had guys and for our own selfish purposes i want to ask this would you guys uh will ask yourself luke first would you be interested in finding the belfast card yeah one hundred percent one million percent what dates that the 24th of june 25th 25th of june well it's my birthday on the first year so i'll be a good uh good b day present to get the winner definitely 100 yeah i want to win and get out as quick as possible no breaks so yeah awesome adam what about yourself bud oh yeah definitely i've already um spoke about that to a few people that i am i'll be turning this straight around and um i'm getting back in there for belfast um having an active year all in all and it'll be my first em your first fight after getting off a plane so it'll be a big good one be a big one for me um i don't call on the way it would be to bring the flares on that one over the crowd the cullen ultras and the royal just not leaving you out there luke we will myself and ross will be there at cage warriors belfast as well so it'll be great to see you two lads on the card as well so make sure you just tell green ball and you want to be over on it and that's before we wrap things up because the noises are very very busy uh first of all do you want to tell the fans how you got the job done this saturday uh cage warriors 136 live on ufc fight pass uh adam you can go first uh first round i'm gonna smash into bits simple as you'll have nothing for me wherever he wants to go i'll go and i'm going to finish him devastating fashion and luke how do you get it done again bud uh same same as always first on chao definitely i don't know what we're but definitely a first armchair whatever weapon i choose to uh land on him to be honest yes exactly uh before we wrap things up lads is there anyone you need to give a shout out to like whether it be teammates friends or family as well before we wrap things up let's jump over ahead next year here we're gonna absolutely smoke everyone on the first and second and shout out to all the cultures who've helped us get here but it's gonna be a big night for the gym luke yeah that's about it that's the whole next yeah um yeah the coaches just have to be honest only sponsors is all knowledges are you've hopped in helped me out it's the first time i've had sponsors so it's been a big big help to help me train full-time yeah that's about it nice and ross like the when we saw the fly card was announced we saw luke's name on it we saw adam's name on it we couldn't wait to get them on yeah absolutely the boys are boys are the on bits big time and you know uh shadow paul rimmer vent and ellis they're doing absolute smashing job at the moment and you could easily argue that next gen liverpool is the best gym in liverpool or the best gym in europe at the moment but liverpool [Laughter] could be the best gym in europe at the moment they really are smashing out the park at the moment and can't wait to see what the future holds for all the fighters coming out there and they're all still that's all that really matters so guys just want to say a special shout out to monster energy for uh sorting the lads though what a few cons and we're amazing partners with them here in ireland so big shout out to them and if you have watched this video on youtube make sure to like share subscribe and if you're watching on ufc fight pass make sure to tell a few friends and hit the favorite button and hit the favorite button and catch up catch cage warriors on april 1st on april 2nd live in the bn arena in manchester and as always stay energized energized 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