Kerry Ann Vernon & Cameron Clements | IMMAA National Champions | Energized Show

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energize show up the irish okay what's going on guys and welcome to a brand new episode of energized ross introduce the champs today we have super cup teammates for ireland the national bantamweight champion carry on vernon and the national middleweight champion cameron clements lads how are you doing absolutely fantastic welcome hey for the people that aren't aware over the weekend cameron and carrie ann bowen gold for the irish national team and they'll be competing at the bahrain super cup on march 9th so we have to get the guys on uh so thanks a little guys for joining us yeah thanks a million and carry on i'll start with yourself what does it mean to you to be ranked the number one bantamweight in the country and to be going on an all-expenses paid trip to bahrain to represent your country uh man is absolutely unbelievable but you know i'm heading over to fight some of the best fight well i'm heading for russia first like you know and we'll see who's after that but uh yeah man i just love fighting i love what i do you know mixed martial arts is my life so to be to be progressing the way that i am and to be able to get to fight the best fighters in the world it's actually a dream and cameron what about yourself uh this this must be a bit of a redemption uh journey for yourself number one you're getting the uh you're going to go to an imap event and you don't have to put your hand in your pocket that's got to be a massive relief uh for the fighters and number two uh you know you get to go back and fight a russian oh yeah bring them on more russians yeah well here this time's gonna be different because this time i'm not quite i'm not i like i'm coming in at my best with like this is me that's this is what i would be on fight day uh like most times your shoes anyway so uh me coming in like around my with the here it's it's what although all the other boys when i was over there when one was in the world championships anybody who's fighting at their with usually just fighting their weight up like most of the welterweights were actually lightweights so they were coming in full full of energy ready to go so here it's going to be it's it's going to be a different story like i'm just buzzing to get back in there like here this is this is that's what i want to do this is my life carry on i think this time it's going to be different because i know when you went over to the imaps you were a team per se but i'm sure everyone was more focused on themselves uh which you can't really blame people now every other person's fight matters if carry on vernon goes out and wins her fight and the rest team lose ireland get knocked out of the competition will that change anything going over for this event uh yeah do you know i think it will like in general the fact that we're actually an even smaller crowd like we usually do have quite a big amount of numbers going over to these imf events so like you know we've got five guys two girls we're a small team and we actually have to do it to the team i feel like you know there will be a lot of bonding on the way over there we're gonna chat we're gonna be boosting each other up i think for the support is actually going to be tenfold we are as a team we are coming we're hungry the irish are gonna take russia we are gonna do this there's no doubt about it like you know and yeah no definitely let's go massively let's go one team ireland actually already this all goes down on march 9th like like russia i've been saying online that this is going to be easy work like this is they're obviously spooked from cameron yeah all right here they here they made it it's just it's just because of how easy things were made to look when when they went over those world championships we now know what we're in for we know what what what's coming we know exactly what's coming like we've had a look at these guys i hear these guys are beatable like uh like and like hillary gaming like here they might be very good at what they do but there's there's nothing wrong with a good game plan uh making sure you're fighting where you want to keep the fade control and controlling them not let them get off what they they want to do because as soon as as soon as you give them one thing they will come for you so here it's it's gonna be a battle [ __ ] mentality it's going it's not just gonna be a physical battle on there it's gonna be who wants us more and it's got it here it's gonna be absolute wars every single one of these plates it's gonna be absolute [ __ ] chaos that's fine it's going in there and [ __ ] being ready for this i hear i i'm i'm wanting i want let's go in the deep waters i wanna see i wanna see what this [ __ ] [ __ ] is made of yeah cameron clements and carry on vernon definitely bring the heat ross don't they yeah absolutely that's something that i want to touch on do you guys view this as a different fighting style than you would in your own tournament fight install because i think more now than ever you probably have to view each fight as a final because it might be the last chance you get to fight over here you winning doesn't actually determine whether your team advanced or not so do you view each fight as a final for this super cup oh yeah i'm bringing everyone first fate 100 bringing it but it doesn't matter every every fight has to be like that like you know you there has to be a combination of given absolute war and keeping yourself safe because there's always going to be a next fight so you know you know as much as you want to go in there and you want to go full destruction you always got to keep yourself safe and that's what we have to remember about this sport too it is a war but we got to be smart and you know these russians if they if they're under miss underestimating us like that's their first mistake we're coming in we're coming in hard like uh every fight you're leaving it all in there you know there's no holding back yeah we're calling for the kill coming for the [ __ ] jugger cameron cameron i have to i have to admit when you're going to the cage there you're the last fight over the weekend and the energy you brought into that cage was something serious like uh there's no you're not messing around there bud you have to bring an energy and when i'm on there jason will have to bring out there that is true that is very true carry on you obviously do as well you love throwing them diggs like did you prefer to have a stand-up war or do you mind bringing it to the ground uh well to be honest obviously like uh the striking game is kind of my bread and butter um i'm quite long so you know obviously i like my hands uh i'm i'm not afraid of the fence i'm not afraid of the ground like i i'm i've been working hard you know i'm living in the gym i'm studying you know i'm training my my body is ready for anything my mind is ready for anything you can take it where you want to go and i'm going to play i'm going to i'm going to play along you know i'm not afraid of any area um i'm i'm coming i'm ready like you know there is no area that i would be like oh crap i can't let it go here you know i'm ready carry on out of all your older ireland teammates by yourself and cameron who is your favorite person on the team to watch come with hard questions here yeah you put the pressure on the camera sit there yeah i mean like like the nationals just happened the team just got announced like um and like i haven't really looked into i've been so i'm this is going to be my third eye mass in six months like i've been flat out like in between like traveling around for fighting and coming back home to be working and stuff i haven't had a whole lot of time to be researching other people that sounds really bad i'm really sorry um so i like obviously i don't know okay i'm looking forward obviously i'm looking forward to seeing like as a female i'm looking forward to seeing what ava can bring to the table like i saw her she made her debut out on an international platform and she went in the complete underdog and she represented so i'm i'm interested to see what she can bring again yeah she was very scrappy over the imf's and like she's she's not she's not an easy out for anyone so i'll be very excited to see her and i think she was a bit devastated that she didn't actually get to earn her spot on the team she she was uh she was given a look she still made weight on the day she was ready to rock if the opportunity rose so fair play to her uh she's yeah yeah oh no she is yeah that's what i mean but i'm saying at the nationals she didn't get the chance to earn earners but look these things happen there i saw she was getting a bit of work in with their awesome vanderford uh uh what's called when the perks are working in the gibson hotel so uh that that would be interesting to see uh cameron is there anywhere else mr vanzant is there anyone else on the orders team who you just enjoyed to watch fight ah well [ __ ] it jimmy put on a [ __ ] performance there the lord hey jesus like moving up waiting fighting your mind calm calm away like i was some [ __ ] that was i was like a [ __ ] pay-per-view [ __ ] card they got like that that was unreal like your man's so experienced your man's like [ __ ] thinking yeah like he's serious about fights and he was like a clown worst champion everything like in jimmy weapon and took it to him like hey there was class to watch uh i heard like all like all the things i could hear carry oh well i know you won't really want me to say too much but i carry and she hit on an absolute war it was an absolute banger like yeah that was an absolute treat i was sitting there getting warmed up and watching these absolute like like these were liter fights that should have been on bloody pro cards pay-per-view cards they got lightweight fighters solomon and andrew barrett like barrett he went down he went into them deep waters and he showed what he had like and that's it lose it that's the kind of boy that we need coming over us to fight these russians we need boys we got and then that well witchcraft like we couldn't couldn't went there either way and like you're like your mommy me her had that he's a brilliant i'm off style and stuff and uh sure he just brings that [ __ ] heat so here uh i know i think fury's after he's coming instead of uh me hers all night so uh it'll be or maher whatever you say uh but here it'll be good it'll it's just gonna be good because there's so many different styles going over so i'll just be good to see uh what's the most effective against these russians because we we need boys they're gonna bring it and this is a solid team and everybody's gonna be bringing us yeah the team that are going over are obviously cameron clements carry on vernon ava cruz jamie abba bisit dennis perry andrew barr jordan bradshaw jordan fury and gustavo lopez so like that's a solid team going to be dressed in green yeah absolutely and that's one thing i will say you know i mean uh uh i think you've probably seen the comments online where i've been like oh russia african easy draw you you look at that team ireland that we're sending over there and there's not one fighter out of any of those it was an easy match for anyone these guys that were sending over like i'd say 70 of them earned their spot and the other ones that didn't like are still top-notch amateur martial artists i'm very very excited for this team and like i believe ireland thrive in that underdog mentality and they're out here to prove a point and make sure that irish mma is one of the most recognized uh franchises on the planet and no better way to do it than go and beat the russians who were so dominant over imaps oh yeah you can't beat that basma can you no i fully agree i can't i can't see anyone talking [ __ ] in this country and then like the irish mentality the way the way almost every irish fighter fights you can see they all have that dog and like that heart and it's just non-stop it's it's it's basically the same person that said the different passport i love it same person different passports if you are new to the show make sure to like and subscribe because this happens every week and we will be promoting the irish team in the build up to the imf super cup uh also we want to give a shout out to all the irish competing this week and a battle tour dublin as well it's going to be a huge event for our champion as well uh would that be something you guys would like to do in the future yeah would you do you plan on going pro uh carry on can you tell us first yeah that's the dream like obviously like going pro like making a living out of something that you absolutely love to do i mean like who who doesn't want that you know like i i live and breathe martial arts at this stage like you know obviously i'm lucky i like my job like i work in security i i love where i work i'm very well looked after actually shout out to um bro because they are actually my sponsors and they're the one i just might like they've been they've been supporting me so much like you know showing my fights in the bar like any time at training camps anything i need they're there for me you know so uh go on pro is definitely definitely something that i would i would love to do like you know i literally i've got i go to the gym in the morning and then i go to work i sleep gym work sleep gym work sleep that's my life and i'm very very happy that way who knows maybe one day you pull a conor mcgregor and you bought that bar yeah it's early days i made my debut six months ago so you know we're still learning at the moment uh and what about yourself cameron is the is the gold go pro oh yeah as soon as possible just here literally at the moment let's just get as many faces i possibly can get every experience feel everything that i can at amateur so when i go up when i go through i've got everything i ever ever every detail that possibly could be happening to me a pro i've already experienced so i'll be going in there like an absolute veteran and i just want to touch on a few final words carry on what was the conversation like that you had with lee moog after you went and won the gold medal oh dude bit of a blur um well yeah i think it was more set like you know he was he always checks in see how i'm feeling you know and he's very good like i was a little bit hard on myself after that fight you know you know i'm always first of all because i'm always about learning i don't care results at this point obviously that was a bantamweight title i wanted the title but i'm always about what i can learn from every single fight i'm always about upskilling and educating and so every time i fight i'm always thinking this is what i did wrong this is what i need to work on that's what i need to fix i like liam's very good for jumping in and he's kind of like well carrie remember this is what you did right this is what you did right you sparked just work this work so he kind of you know he's there kind of balancing me out you know and then cameron what did jerry have to say after you calm down and you were done wrong lots of mistakes lots of mistakes he was hot he was happy and he was happy enough with the performance he just said i should have done the weaver quicker and uh now here uh here look at one of you wanna keep going to the uh would just try to show as much uh it was true yeah we had a couple things we were wanting to work on and stuff we got and we went in there we implemented them very quickly so uh it was good and uh like the the big take from us was just being able to get that tournament again experience again making sure that you're eating even just having those uh been fighting day after day like it's it's getting used to that and stuff like that because last time unfortunately night in the first round i didn't get the experience of fighting the next day and the day after that and the day after that so that that and that's something that i want to have the experience with especially when i want the future eye mask uh so like here it's best just like that that's what was the brilliant thing about the irish nationals like uh for me i i'd like i was i was almost watching that we had their snatches before the world championship because it would have been a great uh it would have been a great way to have uh got yourself prepared like for for this kind of tournament because this is completely different amateur like a go with an amateur show like you you're you're weighing in the day before if that whole day to recover like you're you're you you've loads you've lose the time then you're just going and you've won fight in one day so you can just put everything into that one faith it's completely different when you know right you've scrapped this boy you're going in and you're like you you have to you have to you have to be smart you can't you can't be going in there and be like uh taking damage something happens it eats up every single day the more damage you're taking every day like that's you don't want to be doing that so you want to get in get out do the business get ready to go next day i love it guys guys we're going to wish you all the very best look over at super cup i'm sure we'll probably be talking to you before that uh you guys are two stars of the team uh do yourselves proud do your teams proud do the country's crowd and rasmus last words yeah just for the people watching the show um carry on if you've got any sponsors you want to shout out before we before we wrap things up and cameron you can go second yeah like i said i want to shout out to um brogues they've been absolutely incredible uh wouldn't be where i am without them you know that the support they've given me like you know i i just can't thank them enough and obviously i want to give a shout out to my gym like spg cork city like i am what i am because of you guys thank you so much one tripod five guys shout out to spg cork city and cameron cameron we're waiting for you oh yeah no worries no worries hey i will just uh for me it's just like [ __ ] anybody's helping me locally like anybody who's been giving me their time and stuff like that they uh just all the boys don't know me all the ones who've been helping me get prepared all the boys who like anybody who's done airline for me in the build up to any of these things where it's been the world championship or leading up to a super cup uh airing they've done this fashion my family and family have been absolutely unbelievable like my mom uh like i've been knocking at them you need you need as much support as when you're going in to do stuff like hey that's like you need to be you need people you can lean on you need people you can you can support you and stuff like that because it's too tough a sport to be able to have to be all and you need a team around you you need people you're you're backing me and stuff like that so uh anybody anybody who's who's done anything for me like i'm so i'm so grateful and i'll try i'm gonna i'm gonna pace back by the results i'm putting under the cage that's [ __ ] go team ireland guys thanks for watching absolute legends of the perry is and [Applause] you guys a couple of times i've seen a couple of clips i think you're doing some interviews with dylan moore and that i i saw so keep going keep up the good walkers