Ciaran Clarke Interview | Anderson Silva Retires | Stylebender's Future | Energized Show

Summary

What is up and welcome to the latest Energized Show! On this episode we have Ireland's own undefeated Bellator athlete Ciaran Clarke on to discuss his career and his fight against crime in Ireland. We also discuss Anderson Silva's retirement along with all the latest MMA craic…

Transcript (youtube_captions)

Kind: captions Language: en okay what's going on guys welcome to a brand new episode of energized rush what's the story of the mustache before we start off the show and introduce the guest come on we are during movember all you decided always start off movember with the ridiculous mustache already there ready to rock and today we are being joined by undefeated drought his own kieran clark and for those who are listening outside of ireland drought is a lovely place in ireland thanks for coming on the show cheers thanks very much for having me yeah any time any time how is things going for you how's that your whole training regime going during this uh lockdown 2.0 um yeah i kind of just picked up from where we are where mayor june i suppose uh it's just been the same that's really just i was back i took a week off after paris and then i was back two days in the gym and then the gym was shut so it's just back to the old uh runner and and i i'm very lucky i have a brother at home here so there was get a bit training after he's at home from college and working the whole lot so look we'll just have to make do what we're uh what we're giving you know so yeah so do you wait for him to come in the door then and then like you're shooting a double leg on him and you're like let's go wow that's it that's it like um like obviously you came off a great win there over in paris and then um when i was looking at your stories after i saw the the clark household just saw wheels celebrate like when you saw that video what was that like yeah it's a matter of because they had a lot they had a lot over in the house and the whole lot and there yeah it's great to look at the little nephew he was watching at home as well isn't he he wants to be tuna in june like he's he's not here so it was good there good to see them how they are reacting the whole life it was just a shame the way everyone told this pandemic but to be honest like i'm so so lucky you know as ourselves the way the show has all gone and i got the two in this year so i'm just so happy to be honest yeah uh karen can you tell us how it all started as well because obviously you're doing brilliant now in bellator 3 you know like how did you start just to come from gerard yeah well i kind of dabbed a bit in boxing maybe a few months at a time actually there's two main if not there's a main boxing gym of daughter holy family we make one actually one of your brothers mates was there at the time so we kind of looked up for him and then we dabbed in another one then just a few months at a time he probably had one or two fights but it was nothing serious it was just like literally um it was a few months at a time now in fairness we loved it but um we oh you know we just never went back obviously 12 13 so you kind of get into that age and you know yourself you don't you don't push you don't if you don't uh fully lower commit to it then you kind of you're running out of you know so yeah and then that after that then i was in school i was about 15 but on 16 mm at the time when i was in school and uh they were like i should we're doing this we're doing mma you know and it was only kind of coming back back then that's what that's about knowing you over nine years ago now and uh it was only coming about then like they were turning away and uh they were telling me oh we're trying we're looking to get fights and you should come out and try you'd be good in the whole lot they said ah someone as well we weren't trying but they were over the lines got the lift there was about 10 minutes 10 15 minutes driving outside my house was kind of like dropped as the town and then that the gym was the country soon though and their first training session it went into two lads that was training with other you mates what's good but i was always always very stubborn very very stubborn and uh sure i went with them you know like a role at the end of the session actually i i got them like a headlock or something i tapped them out and i was like there's no way these boys must be these are doing a few months and i'm coming in tapping them out and i'm having a clue so like maybe could we go to this order but then then the few months gone boy and i only realized that the boys were only telling me they weren't training watching you know yeah okay funny and then ever since then just just kept training and yeah it's just i suppose henry just came at the i still got to about maybe 18 and i was like right look this is what i want to do then you know so yeah and what'd your parents say when you were like i'm gonna be an mayfair you're like me too i i never really said that to him to be honest because i think i don't know it was just like you see i just live i live at home with my mom here in the house and there's a few there's a the brother and two sisters and then the nephew then and uh like so um yeah look as far as repairs was like i never really said look i'm going to be because i knew at the time it was like that was ridiculous you know like they were like you know that's ridic like not like maybe you didn't think that but that's all you thought my head they would take that you know so i was like you know i just kind of kept that to me subject i'm gonna just train away like i went to like a plc course after um after i i after school i went to youtube and then i went i went to a psc course and then like i was just doing that just to be like doing it and i was i knew i was never gonna do like i think i did like something again foreign design and then i did um sports but i never like i knew it never was gonna like i was always be focused with the professional but i never said to them look i'm gonna to golf this but i think they kind of knew the way it was taking us so serious and they were like like you know i was fighting at the time they were like right you see he's having to go alec you know and how did the bellator then call combo obviously you were doing making a scene named yourself on the regional scene in that book you know not many fighters get you are two and oh and then get the call from one of the biggest promotions in the world well actually i am i was doing the only tournaments at the time and that was that was the goal that like to uh to win them or at least the very least medal at them and i am i was competing i did the worlds three times i did the europeans twice unfortunately i just got to that flight before the medal and i always come up short for a decision and sorry and um yeah that was my goal it was you know i did the whole buzzer and like it was just it was the dream to be on that podium with the troy color represent your country pointing abroad finding the best guys from each country in the world and i had to hear the national anthem on the podium with the med like that that was that was the goal you know and then i was doing them i um come up short and every day i i won some voice took some losses i felt like the experience that you gained from that was it was priceless like and then after i was i think at 24 amateur fights and john was like to me he took me in in the in the his office when they said karen like are you looking to go pro or what like you know and i think he was i think he was like you know are you looking to actually go oh you want to stay amazon i was like no i want to like i just wanted it i told him the crack i just sat down he was like look i think it's time and then i actually ended up i started off in baltimore i got the contract before i even um before i got the contract straight away and i was like oh wait look i maybe i didn't meddle bro it paid off didn't i i built the name itself and now i'm starting off with pro debut on bellator in detroit rain it was unbelievable so i suppose it broke my heart really really did and still those to this day but it paid off in the end maybe if i had a 1-1 or bronze silver and i would have like pro too early and then took a couple losses who knows but i stayed the course and it paid off me in the end absolutely man at the end of the day i mean there's money in your bank account now for the better for it you know i mean at the end of the day fred and at the end of the day people remember for winning world championships on the pro scene so you're already 3-0 you're making your way towards the beltless balls already uh it's sort of mad to see but like you said i'd say one thing that definitely plays in your favor is i think you said 24 amateur fights yeah and three pro fights i mean that means you know when you step foot into that cage you're comfortable in there a lot of people when they turn pro might only have four or five amateur fights like you're almost a seasoned veteran veteran at three and out which is incredible to think yeah yeah it's the matter is um to be honest it only like it really is it's i when i'm starting off and it's the worst thing when you're starting off you hate to hear it's like that's our experience and i'm like no i want to be winning and then you know i want to be you know but it's uh it's actually really like i'm saying that now to someone coming up it's it really is alex if you're in this for a long hard you have to get the experience and you have to feel comfortable in there and to be honest just as you said i walked into that fight there today i've done it all i fought the guy in the hometown which i've done that i fought the russian fought the brazilian fought the number one in the world they fought these guys have beaten them i've lost them you know i've seen every style i've i've been the main event of amateur fights you know that i've i've done it i've done it you know so that's prices and some guys haven't experienced that when it gets to the big stage then you know i was ready for it and um again as i said it paid off me well what did you know i'm 25 now 25. so you're almost like a seasoned veteran at 25 and uh having fully served your apprenticeship in uh in the amateur scene now like trino myself and roster like looking at just looking at stuff about your background and uh us you want to just sort of say what we what we came across yeah we just saw that you're very much against sort of the drug scene in in youth across ireland and specifically drata and you're almost you know making ways for a different path for the youth of the country that you know these young lads you don't have to be out dealing drugs to be a tough lad you know you can go into the cage and you know almost set your differences there or like learn a new skill or you know i mean become a martial artist as opposed to become a talk what were your thoughts point that on like what sort of brought you to those conclusions and on that journey yourself well we won't have enough time for that but i'll keep it short basically what i actually started um was because at the time i was about 13 and 14 i was 15 i was growing up in drata like it's a big play strata but it's small if that makes sense so like this there's the first we call where i am i'm moisturized and we call them the fireside so like there's always like kind of like disputes saying between different estates and it was just just just normal stuff like you know when you're growing up in drawdown always getting into like not getting into them but like you know you have your your uh your um disputes as a young flu with you know what a larger age and just kind of cracking them always starting it was i was getting like it was getting to the stage where i was like you know i can't even go down and get me help and i'm thinking about this now if i'm going to bump into this flow bump into that flight and i was like you know i'm going to start this because mma over 10 10 years ago it was it was like you know it was like you know you knew magic if you were doing that i was like right now don't don't mess with him so i was like you know i'll do that and if i do that then you'll be like you know what you know right they're going to say roy leave him alone and i wasn't the case i was getting bullied and it was just like i was getting sick of it if that if that makes sense and again every most hearings will tell you that in or anywhere you know and it's just it's just kids stuff you know but um that's where it started but then going through internet into the drugs part you know when i was growing up you know the the company i kept and and you know all my mates were getting into drugs and very early i would say you know very very young like and i was always like i was just i don't know what was in me but i knew i just i never done it i never even tried it to be honest and i don't know what was inside before and just before even i started mma or anything but it was there was no desire for me to do and then even then as i started to go home and when i did get into the mma and all that i had positive role models look look up to people that weren't there and it looks like the looks like conor mcgregor coming up and like those guys that were chasing that and i was like and that's the thing mma i see as well with gaelic and stuff it's um you know kind of like it go i'm not just saying that when you get again the ground but like on the lower level i see like something may take they have the championship i have to wait for the few points so it kind of goes hand in hand with and that's good that's socially good yeah it's all done with the rugby as well yeah like for the for the mma you couldn't do that because you have to be fully committed you know you're not on the the weekend having drinks or anything or anything like that so like what are we made to start they get into all that you know uh early teens middle like you know 15 16. i was always kind of there in the world like boys caught winded up like you don't have to be doing that and then they started to fizzle me out they were like all right so he's annoying us you know no one wants to hear that yeah and then you start to get about 18 and they see that's when it started kind of you know people moisture it was a drug dealing thing and then i was like right and then let's get into your early twenties and like i'll be honest it is a fact if like not many know but has affected me in certain ways that a lot like of my group of friends that i grew up in like a lot and ended up getting involved and getting into it and um it was just it was just i'm not sure why or it was uh maybe just a peer pressure of socially at the time and you know the guy inspiring me and you know a lot of things happened as far as like you know drug bills are brought up and i i look i won't get into it too much i just seen the damage it done to me friends very close to me and then i know it's like you know what this is it and then obviously we see him with with the feud and um you know these are like you're growing up all your life went to school and next letter you know it's in the papers and you're like you know what it's just getting their hand and that's why it's so close to homie because i know so many and you know that were involved and lower level not not that would anyone would have seen in um you know in the country and it wouldn't have been a paid bullet lower level like you thought it was always like little things are happening all the time you know in different estates and around yeah and also i was like you know what i'm i grew up i grew up all these ads i was around this all my life every day in my teenage life every you know the temptation of it was there for me oh you're not different anymore i live in a council house here a single parent you know we brought her here like i mean the council stay here it's it's a you know it's quiet and one day but it's you know i grew up exactly that i grew up with that type of group of people and i was able to say no to it and that's what i want to like bring up and bring to the young people now to say look i'm an example now and to be honest i just done my own thing that it's only kind of come up to me now and people are saying to me like like have you meet people in the shop and like to be saying this stuff to me i'm like you know what i wouldn't have realized i'm not just like no way that's i'm like i think i i nearly have a responsibility now to actually say this now because people like me don't realize what you're actually doing for the turn and i'm like you know what jesus i feel a bit of pressure and that you know it's actually dead so and so that's kind of how that came about but it was all i would have always been vocal about anyway but just not on the level of you know say getting onto a microphone or even at this here now because i didn't think really or didn't know that the audience i could get you know so suppose that's how that came about like and you like a local celebrity on drugs like jeff young kids stop and you look for pictures and stuff like i'm not messing with you i get a little bit i you know i couldn't really go to i'm actually delighted with these masks now i can hold the face a little bit but i know it's not like that movable and now i'd be well known in that sense you know someone young and like and again the people i draw like that's one thing like it's as i said it's it's small but it's the biggest town in ireland i'm like like both sides of the town are really really behind me and like everywhere i go i'm stopped to be talking to someone for 10 minutes like be careful if you don't mind like she'd be saying you know anywhere we go it's just it can't even go for a bit to eat like you know he'd be chatting something now it's not it's not nothing is it like it's not but it's just it's in a good way you know and it's it's a it's a good way yeah sure look those people are gonna be deploying the kieran clark t-shirts for your next fight so that's important you know oh i'm not there yet no definitely not that's a that's actually a brilliant thing to like be living by you know what i mean because like even even these days like demented it seems like people younger and younger younger are starting doing drugs as well and uh yeah and dealing drugs yeah well i actually said to one of the lads there the other day like like myself and roster attorney now right and when we went through the debts like no one would have brought drugs really at all and now like if people went to the devs just past i'm saying nearly everyone beyond it it's just crazy how the world has changed but i mean like you can even go back to that like it was halloween delay right and like actually my mates have shared the fault from ten years and we were all like i was fifteen you were all collecting it for the bottom four you know that kind of stuff into that age and there's not many doing that now i know sorry and i'm like what happened but then i realized that's what they're actually like they're actually getting into it earlier they're selling drugs earlier they're realizing like these people are they're uh grooming them earlier and they're getting make their few quid and show why would they go and collect for a bonfire but back then that's all i could think about you know when you're that age you know i'm trying to say like i know they're just getting it's just getting worse it's getting to a later age now that they're starting and it's it's it's tough really and i think that's where you have to intervene i think maybe late teens maybe a bit late look you can but i think it's earlier you know now you have to kind of intervene and get getting it to the head you know so they just need to be getting into stuff and like obviously social media can kind of help and not help in certain ways like you can see people wearing the balenciagas and the gucci and you're like here i [ __ ] want that you know but like yeah yeah yeah but like like what you're actually standing for is actually way more important and that that could actually if that even helps one person carry on that's that's that's one person saved you know so unless i mean like i mean i think if someone could look to me and say you know we'll look like here and clark don't know like so he didn't have a different you know path to you or you know what the exact same choices was all there in front of me you know every day you know it was the temptation was there and by me and i i just i didn't i said no i said where is it going to get me it's oh i think when you look at it and it's hard to tell someone that young like you know you're going to get to an age where you know everyone's getting on with their life that the girlfriends their card are starting to save for a house and it's hard to tell someone at that age you know that because they don't want to hear it but i think you have to start telling them early on that i am you know i'm looking here people some people are damaged early and it's tough so it's definitely something i would like to get into after fighting you know i definitely feel it's something i enjoy and i want to think i could get through to people i'd like to get into something like that you know yeah that's stuff russ doesn't feel like man do stuff like that you're a man from the dogs yeah he does yeah he owns his own gym now as well uh we do seven i think it's called um but yeah he does a bit of a youth outreach sort of program as far as more so like that could be a karen clark up in rotterdam here on let let's get into the l fighting um you're obviously three no now uh new color how many points do you have signed for now so i'm starting for six votes now you're going forward so oh wow big contract big contract and is it a flat fee for each fight or is it a very or you don't it's hard if you say you don't understand some people that don't want to supposed to pay yeah we won't get into that we'll see okay fair enough fair enough and uh do you have a any future dates lined up do you know when is there another european series on the roys for bellator or something to be honest i'm in the dark but that was just like ourselves it's as we know it's in certain times the minute like it's you know i didn't expect her on the one lockdown again a lot of people were telling me but i didn't think it so i really don't know i really being realistic i'd imagine for every march april that's the kind of dates if someone's asked me do i think we'll be in ireland i don't think so because we're in lockdown now i can't imagine them having ten thousand people in the tree arena in less than six months so who knows that we really don't know and then looking at the looks of jeremy and friends coming back into lockdown and we really don't know you know it's ourselves like tomorrow could be changed you know yeah yeah you can't have it in the free arena without without fans there you'll be like oh yeah like it just feels like that just not the same like you know yeah and then like a lot a lot of people a lot more yeah a lot more family mates they wouldn't be happy with that you know what sometimes i'm surprised how big venues they use sometimes considering all that they have is the cage and the fighters if that makes sense yeah boys don't do smaller venues like uh where where where was god i thought uh recently it was a box and i think it was like royal albert hall or something or windows hello yeah although i suppose somewhere like three arena has everything set up they're just like attached to the cameras on all that sort of jazz they know that whatever look oh i hope there's european series soon you know yourself spg has so many fighters bellator uh they run bellator europe let's be honest uh the lads but uh do you have any idea who you'd even like to fight next oh no no idea guys to be honest i'm not that type he's going to call anyone out or i mean you know he's not even by now i'm sure that i am i'm not that typical person and whoever you put in front of me i'll sign it because i'm at the level now where i can't you know it's it's um you know um i'm in bellator there's no building you know i'm i'm i'm i'm at the big stage you know so um whoever they put in front of me i'll fight you know i've always been like that as you can see from the amateur record i'm sure he's looked at and i've just so far everyone you know i haven't said no to anyone so i mean if it makes sense you know i'll do it and um again yeah whoever you put in front of me and i'm not looking too far ahead here i'm just taking each fight as it comes like and uh you know i'm not just one of these guys that's at this at this stage make them screaming to be saying i'm going to be a world champion i'm just taking each photo to come and speak the man in front of me and i think if i live without i think um it shouldn't go too bad you know have you always been like that or is this does that come from like the team that you have around you with spg yeah well john would be very like that as well like he'd be you know a big thing like which i learned at the amateurs as well like and and being on the mat as well they don't live and die on the mat you know like if someone gets about you one day you know don't don't go home with one or if someone uh if you're if you beat someone one day or you you know don't dwell on that because at the end of the day uh forget where i heard it before it's not me that's good it's a technique i've just trained for nine years and i've you know it's so it's not personal to you you know and so i suppose john would be definitely like that you know as you you can see as well he's vocal on twitter so he'd be saying all this so that's kind of what he has in the gym and as well as that come back to like the amateurs i i i just was so focused on being a world champion and and to meddle at these tournaments and i didn't and you know look what's have to happen look where i am now so i mean you can't live and die in the cage or in them these situations so i suppose for yeah it's going well for me at the moment yeah like if you look at like tyson fury for instance who his sole goal is becoming the heavyweight champion in the world then he achieved that and then he just went off he just went he just lost the head because like he reached his life goal and he's like now what but like maybe but you're not actually meddling then you're like right going to push yourself even further you know exactly no i think that's what did happen you know look i just said look at those i'm sure that was his goal since he was 15 and then he got there and he was like right what's next like you know yeah you know so you just have to uh take it for what is a sport don't get me wrong it's me life and only far like you know and it's been the best it's been my whole life and uh basically and um yeah like it's um you just take for what is the sport you know uh quick question for you just a team 80 years uh james gallagher did you see he uh challenged sean o'malley underground and john o'malley turned it down did you see that and what are your thoughts on it i've seen that yeah i didn't even i didn't know i didn't know the heights felt like to be honest um i seen james just want enough uh a tweet or something and he said he did so i thought that'd be interesting boy i didn't know he turned it down already i thought that was all just a bit of rumor and i didn't really know the internet's football that's a matter of knowing like for one thing i was would say but james like some people like might watch his fights and they think it's just it's only when you're on the map with james if you really feel how good he is you know and uh he's he's um he is he's really really good in the man and i think when you watch his voice people can look at and they say oh no look i mean there's nothing there's nothing special he's doing that but it's the jiu jitsu he's doing it's uh it's clinical stuff and it's only when it's only when you go and you feel it and yeah personally i think your mind isn't a perfect uh blue or purple like and james he's a he's a he's a wizard on the mat like so i think yeah that yeah i think it'd be handy nothing for james to be honest i think i think he'd have him like i just want to see the like then go have a bit of back and forth i think it would absolutely be brilliant the leader with the leader will be more excited than the actual grapple itself oh they don't like think about it james rebels on his ufc it probably never happened you know correctly oh absolutely and uh give your prediction for mcgregor poirier too uh will it be for ufc gold i reckon it'll probably be for the interim title i think they'll probably do that you know make the bit of a buzz around i'd say so it'd be smart as well i think and then what do i think i think i think probably force the second round conor again you know i think um i think the two immensely improved but again you know if you're a striker in that division connors is kind of kind of a sniper as you know and if you're standing with me okay you know you're you're going out so i think i think uh i think it'd be a little bit more competitive this time but yeah i think i think can't catch someone there puts them away yeah and what the 2021 hold for here on clark well hopefully next year three fights hopefully um with with the cover 19 lollies gone we uh get boy and you know get three fights in next year you know maybe one february match one this summer and then again maybe around this time next year that's that's that's what i'd like to like to have for next year anyway unbelievable any other questions oh i was just going to say karen like thanks for like going into depth a bit about um like just your upbringing as well and just what's going on around the area and what you stand for because like i'm sure the people checking this out and they're like [ __ ] out of this class i was like it's not even yeah yeah it's the first time i've ever kind of got the chance to go fully into that i never really you know only gonna kind of got two three minutes after a fight and everybody got the chance and again like it could be a longer video but i am yeah cheers thanks for having me no worries man uh guys if you have enjoyed here on we'll make sure to leave all those handles uh to follow him on social media and hear hear how he's getting on make sure to like share subscribe and as always stay energized all right so russ that was kieran clark on the show um i didn't know we were going to get that deep about at that situation but like it's it's amazing to hear that he like stands for something so real and uh something that really affects everyone really but not everything like it's everyone somehow yeah yeah but he's a good guy and he's making a difference and i suppose they're the two main things that matter yeah well that's why i [ __ ] love doing the show man the the the people you get on the stories you hear and just jesus great great great great thing to do but uh yeah if you are enjoying the show make sure to like and subscribe and uh ross i think we should put the movember link down in the description as well if you want to donate towards november we already have that we have people lovely yeah ross is russ is winning ross we may as well finish off with bellator and then go into the ufc action as well so we'll finish off bellator during the week um here we go gregar musassi be double slimer boy decision uh to win the middleweight belt which he had previously lost to uh lovato jr yeah look i think it sort of played that was it was uh lima caused some big problems with the leg kicks but at the end of the day musashi was able to take him down and sort of have his way with him on the ground yeah we sort of thought the skill sets match each other but the size difference was going to be in musashi's favor hill played out i don't see douglas zima go to the ufc at some stage right obviously bellator don't want to do that but geiger mr sassy ended up leaving he was flying home in a wheelchair yeah those leg kicks are are absolutely vicious and they're the welterweight versions of justin gage's leg kicks or heads and barbells like extra that good for those people who are not familiar with bellator and he's one of the best welterweights in the world i would love to see him for you know camaro oozman and leon edwards colby connellton wonderboy thompson met you uh any of those guys yeah i'd love to see how he he does against him because i believe he is one of the lead welterweights in the world yeah and then this thursday there is only for 251 melbourne manholes has taken on corey anderson uh courtney anderson is making his debut in bellator that's an interesting debut for corey anderson and it's quite a dangerous one really because i know he'll be the heavy favorite there he's come over from ufc but he has been known to be knocked out before and melvin manhoff is not someone who you really want to fight when your chin has been suspect before and also melvin manhoff is going to go for this straight away because he knows anderson's going to try and take him down and make his game over so manhoof come with a big strike start off but or anderson's going to take him down there are the two options i think anderson will probably win though yeah i'd go for anderson as well also austin vanderford is on the card he was meant to fight someone but they dropped off so i'm not sure what the situation is but he is still on the card and i also saw the page didn't he say he's like knowing you know now or something oh no yeah i saw i saw paige put out a video saying like um fight week or something so that was like obviously awesome mr vanzant mr vanzant uh yeah so like bellator thursday go crack what you can't really go wrong but uh ross obviously over the weekend anderson silva took on your ira hall i supposedly this was going to be anderson silva's retirement flight and then after he's like um who knows russia 45 do we want to see anderson silva go again like what do we want to see i actually wouldn't be against seeing anderson's go outside ufc and some sort of like legends void league fighting someone else of his caliber and his age but i think he still loves to do put this way if anderson silva wanted to play vitor belfort or shot evans i'd be like bran and like their own sort of legends foily or if he did like an mma fight in a ring on like one of my tysons cards something along those lines i would like why not like it's been a crack or what about anderson silva chelsea 3 on uh my toys and cards like that i'll be interested i mean i'd watch it uh do you want to see ander silva like try and make a rune for the belt in bellator or something no i don't want to see him do that um but where we'll see how he gets on i wouldn't mind seeing him return one thing i did think was interesting is anderson silva made his debut at like 31 and a half and could be retired from the ufc at 32 so like if you actually think of how good anders silva's career was he actually only starred as ufc germany at same age [ __ ] and we put it like that that sounds pretty outrageous yeah like the doc wasn't d u of c until he elixir came as well who anderson silva yeah yeah i think anything below 205 wasn't looked upon with any sort of you know brilliance and then anderson silva showed up and i was like piggy could beat all the 205 or something he went up he did beat some of the 205 as well like at his leisure he went up and went he went up from like b.j observe and then came back down and he went back up and was like first griffin actually i'll beat him and then beat him and like fire scripture went down with the belt as well so uh it's not like he was beating trumps yeah conor mcgregor tweeted after flight saying yeah just keep fighting to stop when you want to stop that's like and that's actually a good point i know we've said in previous shows like someone like uh junior dos santos we were like oh maybe you should retire man like the amount of like punches he's not getting to the head like can't be okay but like then after when you when you read that tweet you're sort of like you know what like who the [ __ ] are we to tell people what to do and not do i know we're not physically saying it to their face like joe rogan told brenda to stop but like if they want to keep going they want to keep going but like i think when when we sort of say maybe they should retire it's more like that you don't want to see them get like brain damage at the end of the day it's more that sort of rather than well i think when we say retire as in like stop fighting the absolute elite of the elite who like shorten your lifespan yeah more like we're like compete against you know someone a bit older who's around your age bracket uh like yeah put it this way i understand it again would like be dreadful from human yeah as opposed to i don't know if he fought foreign for it over in japan he could go fight one fc against vitor belfort be interested i don't think you keep just saying peter pan for its name like you're a stir in the pot mate like well it's a chest arm as well people will be interested in that i don't know i don't know well let's see what happens like i mean i really feel like you should retort against chris widen up yeah i think um also if that was a three-round fight anderson silva might want as well true also he literally is bringing up as well i think like if anderson there could be a role with for him within the ufc being on events and stuff you know the way like uh boys crazy is for bellator maybe there's something like that but um brazilian events like i'm sure they need a portuguese analyst yeah i'm watching speaking and lost yeah there's definitely there's definitely there's definitely something there i mean honestly silver is a draw no matter what like yeah also he didn't look in bad shape i've seen him definitely looking worship i don't know and he was doing it he was doing all right the first couple of rounds as well until he until he got finished but uh ross also on the card bryce mitchell defeated andre and touchy feely yeah boys mitchell's gone on a serious run he looks like he could be a future featherweight contender uh the only thing i will say is watch them fight this fight and maybe like slow my horse on them a little bit and tutti feely is quite good he's always verging around that like number 15 slot in the featherweight rankings well i think bryce mitchell now should like sort of fight maybe one more fight out of the rankings and then sort of slowly ascend his way up he is young and what didn't you like it wasn't just that i didn't like it i just thought i just think he's not quite up there with your balconowskis your holloways your brian ortegas and like that's where he's gonna have to try and get to i just don't feel like his striking he's striking and then like i think once he gets the mat it's incredible yeah like i don't think his takedowns are phenomenal yet if that makes sense i feel like they're a bit forced they're not as fluid i got you to get you so i think he's made three or four points away from getting there but for his benefit how he can then actually make that challenge i might be stirring some [ __ ] now right but um after the fight he got on he went to the press conference and he said that um he doesn't know if he showed or shouldn't say this but he he's just going to say it he's saying that people he doesn't think people should be wearing masks so he went boy loads of kids and they're all wearing masks out when they're playing out in the field or what you do for recess you call but um and i was just like like yeah i mean you benefit nothing from saying that yeah it's almost like saying who you're going to vote for like yeah people like i think you should you're just going to piss someone off yeah you're just going to piss someone off like oh you think you should just wear a mask just almost out of curtsy you know i mean but like you mean some people might be like no don't wear a mask but like i mean we'll move on yeah at the end day i'm just like if it means no one's like pissed off me for no reason then i'll just wear masks yeah whatever that's it oh man i'm the same bulls as well um yeah just i'll just mention a few other people that won over the weekend as well that craig hardy won after it but should have been a super heavyweight fight uh kevin hall won as well and then bobby green was defeated but ross we're going to this weekend's card it is give it to me it is being headlined with tiago santos against global tech share ross before we get into this actually dana white did announce that he is planning on setting up israel alasana versus jan blackwich for the lloyd heavyweight title so this is serious implications about with this fight here thiago santos against grover but ross what do you make of that yeah blackfish israel yeah well this this well first thing to start off with this weekend the glover tiago santa's fight has i think this is like the third time it's been remade i think glover got covered then thiago covered and this is like the third time it's been moved okay well i think when the ahn first dominic reyes fight was like picked for the like that's who's gonna pee for the belt i think people look this way and went well the winner of that fight is going to fight the winner of that fight if that makes sense and i almost think ufc made a blunder and they'll probably have less viewers this weekend because of it if they actually waited till after this weekend to announce alasania first black witch i think more people would be interested to see if santos could put on another amazing performance and go he should play on blackwitch next or now they've gone and done this this is like i suppose this is the super fight that no one asked for and the middleweight champ first the lloyd heavyweight champ and look if arizona wins great move by the ufc if alexander gets knocked out you're just after knocking your biggest star and you're after knocking your biggest star with probably your second or maybe your least biggest star as the champions yeah i would say like it's between figuereto and jan blackwitch who's less of a star as champion if you'll see would you say this another heavyweight division's all over the place now because of jon jones leaving um everyone sort of like nearly everyone was coming off a loss so you couldn't really handle the toilet but would you say this is more than likely the normal contender spot for july heavyweight title i would imagine so but the only thing is that with the way things are going although i decided one thing i will say in favor is he does like to stay busy but like that title fight is probably not going to take place unless it happens at ufc 256 it's not going to happen to ufc 258 like that's a long way down the road and thiago santos or clover if they both win they only have to fight again and if i would pull over to share i'd definitely try and hold out for a toilet shot because at the end of the day he's really getting on nate he must be 40 odd now as opposed to thiago santos if he wins he might go you know what i'll fight one more time yeah it's very very interesting but um i'll just see what else is on the card uh arlowski is back against tanner bowser yeah i think this is going to be a very tough one for olofsky i think his box and his movement has been really good uh recently like he's gone a lot of gone to the distance quite a lot now they haven't all gotten his way but tanner bowser i think his footwork for heavyweight is incredible and i think he actually will get the tko this time this is your number one prospect in the heavyweight division isn't it he's definitely up there between um himself and the french guy can't think of his name off top of my head he's fighting junior to santos next yeah then uh ian hoyner's just taking on brendan island as well and the ever good looking plot of your day is on the card as well but uh before we wrap things up during the week there was also the press conference for tyson versus roy jones jr as well that's going to be something interesting coming on like later on this month yeah it really really is um who's not going to check out that out yeah i'll be sure to see the production of it um i'm excited to see jake paul versus nate robinson robinson robinson yeah yeah but like i really or we expect nate twin because i'm like he was actually an athlete if you don't mean as opposed to i don't want to say jake paul's not matthew because he's in very good shape and he is quite athletic but like this guy was a professional sportsman yeah uh so like i would expect him to win but we'll see and there's a few other good uh photos in the card uh what's your man culture or chad coulter's pointing on the card as well yeah foreign yeah he's fighting vidal roy the guy who coached ksi yeah so he's fighting on the card and there's something else on the card right now yeah he's definitely the best boxer on the card yeah it's going to be an interesting card in it yeah oh you can really see mayweather a headline and one b is next oh yeah with a little bit of an undercard yeah and like he said he's only going to fight non-boxers going forward mayweather was and he'd uh happy for mayfair yourself something like that give me your name henry mayweather khabib nah could be too big yeah you could do though although i think cejudo is going to end the point your mind is lopez no garcia all right ryan garcia i think that's going to happen the muay thais against roy jordan's junior fight is on the 28th of november so we'll be that's a few weeks away we'll be definitely like covering things up until then uh over the weekend as well uh usyk p chazor by decision and also giovanni who makes him the mandatory does not i don't know what the story is there now i feel like humanity doesn't even mean anything anymore because like dylan white was like mandatory for like 18 months never to fight uh for the actual world title so we'll see what the story is i think they're very much going either way they're trying to make fury versus joshua yeah and so i think it was a good definitely fight uh the winner there or i wouldn't be surprised if he fought the winner of the veteran versus white in the meantime it was looks very undersized in that division you know oh he is yeah i was there i thought he's going to be another no i knew he was going to be undersized but i didn't expect i actually expect him to be a bit beef here because like i felt like he didn't beef up that much from cruiserweight yeah he obviously made cruiserweight quite handily he's such a character yeah it reminds me of a verdum remember doom doing all the faces and stuff yeah he's uh he's he's an elite talent put it that way one way or the other so he's an interesting addition to the heavyweight division and look uh i think trezor that was one of the best resources you'll ever see pointing them and he's still handling quite well oh yeah she's all looked very good but uh russ i think like obviously part of the champions league coming back and the six stations i think that's everything really isn't it until next week because uh next week and yeah well obviously this weekend is like uh santos and glover and then obviously corey anderson against melvin manhoef on thursday and then um like the following week like reese mckee is going to be fighting again on us in ufc k taylor's back and like the show continues ufc 255 to be back in the pay-per-view business yeah and uh jack manson could be on the show next week he knows yeah yeah jacqueline manson's meant to be lined up the joker so guys on that note make sure to like share subscribe and as always stay energized