Sinead Kavanagh | Bellator 271 Countdown | Energized Show · Ireland news

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What is up and welcome to the Energized Show! Here's a few questions with Sinead Kavanagh at the Bellator Dublin media day ahead of her World Title fight this Friday against Cris Cyborg. Like, Comment and Subscribe for more Energized MMA videos! Follow us on : Instagram…

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Sinead Kavanagh appears on the Energized Show ahead of Bellator 271, discussing her upcoming five-round MMA bout against Cris Cyborg. She emphasizes her extensive boxing background, compares Ireland’s Olympic boxing success with fighters like Katie Taylor and Kellie Harrington, and argues her boxing skill is elite for her division. Kavanagh says her recent performances have been well above her previous opponents and that she sees openings in Cyborg’s game she intends to exploit, while declining to reveal full details. She addresses cardio concerns about her first five-round MMA fight, saying three-round fights have never been a problem and that she has trained hard for the longer distance. She expects Cyborg to wrestle, tire quickly, and struggle with her pace and power over five rounds. When the host raises Cyborg’s loss to Amanda Nunes, Kavanagh downplays the comparison while respecting Nunes as a legend. On preparation, she describes years spent improving her ground game, seven years invested in MMA, and recent wrestling work with Sergey at ICE. She predicts Cyborg will not last the full five rounds. The host closes by encouraging Kavanagh and praising her recent interview clips with Dylan Moore.

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Kind: captions Language: en [Music] [Applause] [Music] energy show up the irish shane obviously you come from an extensive boxing background we've seen the likes of katie taylor and kelly harrington you know with olympic gold in this country do you feel like you can actually draw on your bottom experience and what sort of holes do you see in chris hoyberg stan again that's boxing has been like my life i'm up there with the best i'm i'm one of i'm the best boxer in that division by far i make my skill set is is gold like genomic the last few fights i'm just gone like miles above above the girls like and um yeah i see holds in chris's game and i am and i'm going to i'm going to make her pay for them like you know and yeah that's that's it i don't want to really give too much away you know but uh yeah it's this is my time you know and obviously it's going to be your first time doing five rounds in mixed martial arts and do you think cardio might play as an advantage to you um just the five rounds i just uh obviously but i've done the three three rounds i've never had a problem with that the only three rounds you know um so yeah i'm trying i've been trying my ass off like so i don't think it's gonna be a problem you know deploy rounds no problem get in there you might struggle with your pace for five rounds she might struggle with me power that's that's what she's gonna do like you know she's gonna shoot and that's what i know she's gonna do she's gonna become arrested very fast like the rest of them have all done and have you really treated the amanda nunes void because obviously that's the last one she lost um yeah who is them what should what should i overwatch the few before it's over you know where and yeah she's obviously she's a legends now but like you know it's it's not like that i can't handle you know that's how it feels obviously you said that you know you're going to turn soyberg into a wrestler what sort of work on your ground game have been doing preparing for this fight um like i like obviously like it's taken me years to catch up on the ground again and it wasn't um it wasn't the main thing like at the start you know um but i've caught up now it's it's good seven years now i've i've put my life into the jet site so um i've been down with sergey down in ice doing the wrestling one of the best in the world uh wrestling coach so it's all i'm ready i'm ready wherever wherever this goal is you know and how many rounds think cyborg can last for kl haven't yeah i'm giving it a treat let's go three rounds you know yeah energy show 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