Ciaran Clarke & Darragh Kelly | Bellator 291 Dublin Countdown | Energized Show

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What is up and welcome to the Energized Show! On this episode SBG Ireland's Ciaran Clarke & Darragh Kelly join us to discuss their Bellator 291 Dublin matchups on Saturday the 25th of February, Training in SBG Ireland & More MMA craic. Like, Comment, Subscribe & Hit the…

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foreign guests [Music] today we have a pair of undefeated featherweights from SBG Island we have the drogheda Destroyer kieron Clark and a mobile Marler Dara Kelly Lads how are we doing all the good lights yeah good can't complain two very scary and handsome Lazarus yeah absolutely two movie stars in the making as well uh The Lads are absolutely smashed uh Kieran I gotta start with yourself obviously um big news the last couple of months was you got your documentary Relentless made and what was the process of that like and what made you think of doing a documentary in the first place um well I fella called Jamie Shirley from manifest media and he's actually a fellow load man he um he came to me last year around last year the Christmas last year and he wanted to make a video on me kind of I think it was Anthony at the point November with John Brown there's a bit of Buzz up and he walked it he walked in drought and stuff as well so it's kind of a bit of a buzz of redstone and uh he said he'd like to make a video on me so we got we did the video and it was classic it was only like two minute video and uh it was it got good response and then came to me then the summer then and said look I'd love to make a documentary on you and I was like deadly Happy Days and uh I was again I wasn't too full on for the idea because I don't know like someone following me around all the time for that many at the time especially with the train and that for Fighters it was hopeful and then um so it was well on for that and said look it'd be brilliant to be good to get those down even to look back in years to come and stuff and then uh yeah then we're doing the film and then we obviously done the uh kind of a documentary show charity and again I wasn't on for all that he was he was telling me getting toxins and everything now he's like not a chance and then he said look we'll do it for charity and then we ended up raising five and a half Grand nearly in the night then so it was class you know that's absolutely brilliant uh Kieran you're enough to Star Wars of the draw the community we are like yeah no there's not a better representative of drama than yourself and that's that's not just a sports person like you do a lot for that community so fair play to you Mr drogheda yeah he's not to be messed with either he's not to mess with but I saw him yourself uh with uh JC and Fortress 365 I've been doing some great work uh on the last show and then obviously uh I'm interested we'll be more of that sort of stuff for this show I know where JC is now so into SBG Ireland which is uh great for the gym it's a a great um bit of initiative shown by the gym to really up that media game yes we've been we've been doing stuff now I've probably I'd say two years now um there's a lot of footage there that you know he could he could destroy me off if he wanted but uh the plan in the future ends the mix on like you know a decent documentary or whatever if the day ever comes where it's worth Megan um and as Kieran says too it's just nice to have it for the future as well look back on but uh should be starting now this week starting to do a few videos now for the build up to this one actually I'm going to ask you both uh I'll start with yourself Karen um do you ever feel uncomfortable in front of the camera at first when like you know it's just following around watching your day-to-day bits and then do you feel more comfortable with it now yeah you definitely feel uh get comfortable with Ari but it is it is strange at the start and and especially it's not too bad but when you're doing your day-to-day life stuff it's kind of weird you don't have to worry but uh while when you're in Aldi or little and you're in the supermarket and someone was there with a camera in your face when you're starting an autographs that's a strange but um I I'm alright if you ask me a question I'll talk rolling but if you ask me to talk in front of a camera I find it hard to make up the words as I said you can ask me a question I'll talk but you know if you just say really start talking here it's very hard for me so it was a better get used to doing things at Apple yeah you get used to anyway if people want to check out the documentary I know you had a big Master screen and you looked it looked unbelievable in that in that talks like can people check it out like online can you tell us how to check it out yeah unfortunately there's a bit of horns at the minute where it lights um the Virgin Media was showing interest in it and uh we're still gonna wait and walk back but it's not looking good like to uh but they showed interest which was great but uh then he was trying to get a new trip and stuff but it was a bit of copyrightings and stuff so it's a few Horrors but we're looking to try to get now soon um on some sort of platform that you can watch it you know so I'll keep everyone posting that you know Virgin Media if you're listening like you'll be inepitant to release like a week or two out from Bellator Dublin like that's that's what I'll be thinking yeah that was our plan anyway I think to get the build up to the National book look uh see what happens you know it's great to do even interested like yeah make sure to check out kieran's Instagram for all today's details uh Tara Ross was asking Kieran about uh feeling nervous or more comfortable in camera like how do you feel now with uh 365 following you I was definitely more nervous at the start like you know you can't help but think I always thought oh he's you're blocking stupid doing that or whatever and then the more he's worthy the more you just you're just acting yourself and you know so how about Hammer Until It prepares you for all the media and stuff like that I suppose you just get used to it like exactly Ross that's that's actually really good the way the Lazar like promoting themselves promoting The Voice getting people more interested more energized in the middle of their fights by doing these documentaries yeah definitely I think um you know fans love to see the behind the scenes photos they like to see what Fighters do in the build to fight hence why you know like UFC embedded is such a massive thing and you know wrote The Octagon in the ocean and it's nice to see that SPG Ireland have taken upon themselves to and get these document mini docu series made and like even like seeing the way he couldn't before the last show and stuff like that was uh really really cool so I'm all forward I think it creates a much bigger bit the balls around shell and much bigger Buzz around the fires [Applause] absolutely absolutely yeah Dara um one thing that definitely uh struck me uh coming into this fight is the drop down to featherway and where did that come from and you know tell us a bit about her um well maybe a lot of people are asking me about this like everyone's saying I'm too big and different things but like a couple of years ago I was a lightweight you know I was 83 84 kilo a lot more muscle on me and I was just getting a bit smaller and uh I think my last my last fight like I only went down about six kilo over on the weekend only caught about three and a half in the sauna and as I was done and hard you know I thought I could if I thought on that day that if I had to make 66 I could have hand enough so I just went for it now yeah well you're not coming for Karen Clark are you yeah um [Laughter] no it was I'm not against the move you feel comfortable making that move well then like you know I mean it's it's your fault career I mean you you should definitely get the option to it like yeah like obviously you have a lot of muscle mass but there's there's very little body fat there so hopefully uh it's just just the Waterway cut but uh it it is definitely interesting and to see um kieron how do uh you compare Dara compared to other uh 66 featherweights yeah since that was making that move I think I'm gonna go down to flow of it myself to be honest [Laughter] that way like even that even that lightly and to be honest I'll be completely honest I think even the wealth away is a monster you know so um it's a scary thought all right and then look I think no matter where what weight class star goals I think he's gonna he's gonna be uh I haven't seen him a beat for a long time to be honest so um yeah look he's made it before amateur and stuff and you know on defeat there still as well so it's um look he feels uh obviously comfortable and and they look as I said anyway class Adara is an absolute it's a skill set for me you know it doesn't matter the way itself and yeah he's going to stay on the feed for a long time I think yeah and I I can definitely uh see that as well like Dara's uh sort of blown through his competition so far so uh long may it last long way at last um another thing we have to touch on as well Dary you you were on the ESPN was it only 25 under 25. 25 under 25 like how did that come about and like how did that make you feel as well getting that because like that's big news for people fighting in Ireland as well yeah like uh I've seen a few boys send me the post um just sent you a post by ESPN I don't know what I wasn't done that obviously seeing as part of the list wasn't expecting it of course but kind of shows me what people think of me and uh just that I've got to prove them right now do you know I need to prove that I I do deserve to be on that list so kind of motivated me it's good to be honored yeah it's definitely uh there's some stars with names on that list so it's great to see a part of it and uh well deserved said say the least as well as uh Barry said to me before before we went live in Texas houses there's 13 SPG fighters on this uh next card that is absolutely insane I had to go back and look at the card I didn't even think there was 13 fights on it that must be incredible atmosphere in the gym for you guys Karen will start with yourself what's it like getting ready and is it so much more helpful knowing that there's another 13 bodies getting ready which at the same time oh yeah big time like you said it's just a there's a post about the German and uh it reminds me when I first started an SVG like with the you know you got that real feeling of being a part of something like big like with the you know with the lights it was that real SPG favorite the yellow magic you know all party Ash yeah Conor obviously Connie um looks at them and obviously I was on the amateur at the time and you know you get that kind of feeling you're a part of that now and I am like the looks to be server down and all the rest of the lights and you know we're all preparing together and it's um I think I think because trying to strength with that because we're all preparing for the same thing at the same time so everybody's in gym working hard and getting better and then even when you know um in the photo aren't coming up so close like we're all then Jim saying again trying to get better and bouncing off each other so it's great you know yeah absolutely yeah Dara do you have anything to add that do you uh do you feel more prepared knowing that you know you're getting your weight down at the same time as everyone else you know the hard spars are probably coming at the same time I like it's great having so many on you know I I feel like in a way like you're like a soldier part of an Army on that day like you know 13 I didn't think it was that much no but it's great having everyone pushing together and you're all you're all motivating each other and just it's nice being part of it like you know yeah especially I think I touched on last time having like so many guys between sort of bantamma lightweight uh you know preparing at the same time as well like that's that's yeah he's uh he's living his whole life now after that spectacular finish in Brazil yeah Shadow Johnny how do things sort of get mapped out for yourselves in the build up to one of these events with so many Lads on the card fighting and girls like like do they separate you as being like right the federal Way's over here or yeah like can you can you break it down a bit for us just for tuning in because there is a lot of people here and John John Kavanaugh will probably be sitting at the cage the whole night I said I see it will be very warm yeah but like it's like you said there it's kind of the the two weights that all those weights it's um they're obviously popular weights but um Bantam there like me so there's always So Many Bodies there for us and um yeah we kind of all just stick together and it's we're always looking for the high rounds anyway you know so it's um we got a lot of runs and you know it looks already smelling and all the lights that we're all trying to get a hard so um yeah it's not really that hard like you know because I said there's so many of us so okay and then who would also be in your corner on the night as well that's uh Karen could you tell us first uh it's obviously John and Dave wrote in the name your brother Daryl and obviously Tim's coming up together and um do a lot of training with Daryl back home here on that and you know related to train the Dublin there to be doing you know drills back home pads and stuff like that just walking things that um it's sort of a HQ and that's all it's great to have him in the corner I'll always have no you know what about yourself he'll be in the corner on the night uh Dave and John as well obviously and then um not too sure of the third man but like last time it was Reggie smallen and obviously he's fighting this time around so I'll have to ever think about that maybe I'll get one of my brothers in as well well uh Ross I think you're free tonight are you oh yeah yeah get a pair of glasses as well yeah yeah stick the glasses on you can hop them yeah like if if you get taken down I'll give it like real good voice like get up or uh you know I'll say punch it just stand off yeah knock him out yeah don't let him hit you I'll be giving that stuttering voice from the corner yeah right okay yeah every week I'm just writing this voice down what else yeah exactly exactly Benoist the reference there really is no no other show like like a Dublin show a really um is spectacular um the vibe of the people is incredible is there any average or to like foreign at the moment and then like when you get a few more wins on your belt then your looks go elsewhere you go ahead um well Kieran thought like he fought in Paris before so uh I know they have a card in May don't know what the chances are of me getting on that but if I can go and put on the Press performance I'd love to get a run out in May if not May then I think they're having a Milan show in the summer I heard so you know I'd love to get one in between the two Dublin shows and get three out this year you know and what about yourself Kieran would you like another trip to Paris or uh wood Milan uh be more of an exotic destination for you you know be in the talks or something this summer so that's definitely the plan because um yeah I've had five Dublin there and the one in the Paris just the way I walked down how his place because and the way the pandemic walked out and all I was looking to get the two two fights out here in 2020 but yeah no definitely Finn and I would love to really get something abroad and you know um just even I think the Dublin shows are a lot different than obviously a lot more pressure and stuff and and uh when you're fighting abroad and that it's just it's different feeling you know it's you really have that uh feel of I don't know fighting internationally so definitely you know so I definitely loved I didn't know but that actually Milan card uh mentioned there so that'd be great obviously the Italian photo so it makes sense well it looks up like that and uh oh Paris doesn't bother me the three year I'm in for this year so hopefully three wins as well so Dublin at the end of the year as well yeah it's just obviously where irishma found if you didn't notice but uh it's just like we're obviously big fans of velodies and SPG like um like we wouldn't have you on the Shelf we weren't big fans of you and I think like if you're just only competing twice on the Dublin cards a year it just sort of like hinders the the audience keeping like keeping annoying and still being invested it's just if the if you're more cons if you're fighting more times people will will see exactly what you're doing so I was just like do you want to put the other the other side of the coin is as well nobody else tunes into a battle for sure as much as they tune into a Bellator Dublin show so basically what we want to see is we want to see how both open shows but then we also want to see an additional show we were a bit greedy Lance if that if that's all right I even think like I think it feels about opposed them for the Dublin shows you know because I think I even feel it like you know sometimes it'll take us now when it's constantly Dublin like it's like there's not more like it's not as much of a buzz um you know whereas me and Dara go off and get a window in the summer and it's like oh I wasn't see the boys now in September whereas if you have that kind of Gap where you don't have that and then it's like you know it's Dublin again so I just think it builds more of a balls for the Dublin shows then you know they want to go see it more and and it doesn't leave that kind of break between the the February and September that's when they're going back you know yeah she's being too greedy one thing I want to touch on because I I know for your for your last fight it happened that way do you ever know almost too far in advance your next voice because I think I think one stage here on you I think you you knew like 16 weeks out or something when your next flight was yeah it was actually me and there I had a chat one day and dressing was about we were like you know I was tired to like yeah you know as soon as someone get a name gets towards you I know he puts put the war today you're just like it's just you're in that mode then straight away thinking about that and you're training to you know the things you got out of you know where you can win so it is higher than 16 weeks like you know I thought Armature only can you know you'd have so much time yeah also um yeah it is hard but again look you're just more prepared now but I did learn a lot in the last one because like I said 16 15 weeks out like I kind of peaked a bit early and I was I was picking up knocks you know so you kind of learn you know uh throughout these things but um yeah look it is what it is and just happy to be getting The Voice this year you know and then what about yourself darrity do you like having that like extra bit of time no and so far you're getting ready in advance or just like do you feel like you almost go up and down a bit because you're like you're obviously getting excited for yourself and then you're like geez this voice still ages like I like you know 16 weeks is too long I find you can't enjoy not honey they're like even if you're eating some nice food or something I start to feel guilty thinking about that but uh I'd rather just know like nine ten weeks so that's plenty of time for me I don't be thinking a little too much before that like yeah so I suppose uh next time you match that far out uh you can just be told nothing and just continue on your training until about 10 weeks all right now I'm getting excited for this going and remaining excited for for that I do want to touch on your last fight um kieron you you make all the other fans uh watch with their hearts and their mouths you know I mean um there's some moments in the fight where it's not looking so good for you but like as the fight progresses you seem to always get better and better and it's not just due to you know your gas tank or is that as well as getting like that created voice from the corner yeah look I I I always give a few people a heart attack but I don't find that humor boy look um yeah I just think everybody obviously everybody's a good round of hearing them and I think probably like look I said that everybody trains hard everybody's fit and everybody's but I think maybe for me I don't know maybe I just maybe stay calm in in of situations and I think that's maybe it you know uh look nothing I'm coming in there in top shape obviously but I'm able to stay calm in the the worst situations you know I have to get a drop first round losing and you know where so yeah I think maybe maybe if that that behind me and also but yeah that's all really it is for me just staying calm and no one look it's 15 minutes it's a long time in there and and uh it's it's it's uh not over till the fact that he sings As you say you know what I mean and I'm constantly putting my Pace in them you know I'm always in the face and they're reacting to me you know whereas um yeah I think if you're you know if it if you took the fall off the gas there you know then therefore it could be different so um yeah look I just have that mindsanity and I always did it's just it's just there keeping it going and again hopefully make it easier for you know next time you know yeah absolutely but uh no you're definitely calming the chaos which is uh which is good to seeing um put it this way it's always very very exciting uh one way or the other but um yeah like your ability to finish late is uh is next to noon in in that cage so we really love we love watching it it's great to watch it an easy win will be nice to watch it as well although like uh was the last fight was the shoulder injury was it because that was almost weird because like some people were almost have been like oh your mom was just injured but like you injured him so therefore it was damaged Dawn on your behalf yeah Loki if you watch the fight like uh and I actually caught I I catch that technique a lot in training actually yeah he trapped the album when you're rolled through and and uh cotton before you actually in Paris there John and I thought twice actually but it's a very stubbornness they committed a grip too much he he didn't want to he didn't want to uh roll through and because of that then his shoulder hit the mac and uh it forces you to roll and if you don't your shoulder your head's going to hit the mountain unfortunately for me his shoulder hit the mountain uh you can see straight away as soon as we get up off the ground you can see the AC jointed straight away out and and uh yeah and then obviously he was there couldn't continue then so oh yeah and in the moment as I said I didn't understand if it was a injury or what and it was a weird one I didn't understand how it happened or but uh looking back it definitely uh as much as it still is a model and it's it's definitely I'd take it as a stoppage because it wasn't so it wasn't as if he slept in the banana feeling there he was pointing me licking there you know um I done the damage you know yeah we inflicted enough damage here we couldn't get off the steel so like that that's that's enough for me anyway yeah uh Tara obviously your last four uh you made the judges earn their money for the first time ever in your career um obviously you were I think won the you know torture moments the last one is how disappointed you were to actually go the distance and what was that like and what was the learnings and takeaways from that uh it was obviously very disappointed like um but geez I learned I learned more than that one than the I'd say the rest of the fights combined like you know there's a lot of reasons for that too is like I went I went too far down the rabbit hole with the grappling and I was neglecting my striking for a long time and I knew that myself but uh I just kept allowing myself to keep working on my grappling keep working on my grappling put my head in the sand with me striking but uh now I feel like I've really addressed all the holes in my game since the last one I've improved I've packed them up uh that's kind of what I'm happiest about and I have I've really patched up a lot of holes from from my last game that were evidently um I was disappointed in that fate because I rushed everything um I was very inefficient with my energy and just small technical mistakes the whole way throughout the fight just made it made it what it was like but as you said I have learned from it and I'm happy that I got to what would you say I've got I made a mistake and I've patched them up now yeah and then just before we touch on your new fights I'm gonna ask about yourself here on what fight do you want to watch most on the Dublin card that's not your own orders uh let me see uh probably uh if you're the Pedro fight or uh Richie's fight to be honest I think they had two top scraps that can uh obviously a lot of steak there for the two boys like you know I think Pedro's probably a win away from another shot at the title and then I think Richie wins that when he's I personally I think he's straight into the you should be fighting someone ranked you know obviously really uh a lot of experiences spot on the top uh house and he's had a zfc experience and on a you know he's undefeated about no sorry he won't last about if I have a spread decision they target one and you know wins it um fights against Reese McKee all top top boys you know so I think Richie's one win away then from from really uh fighting top boys and then obviously Pedro as well so they're probably the two fights on me looking forward to it so you have to pick someone else I was gonna pick right here as well um we're all gonna pick Richie you get your fingers after the trolls with the crowd after he wins I'll be there um Azrael I'm looking forward to his fate as well because I think the boys fight is at Liam what's his name Liam McCracken is it or yeah I think it's his name annoy but I heard he's decent as well obviously a sales uh top of the food chain in there so I'm excited to see that one I think it would have another big performance yeah that's a boy out of higher level isn't it I think um no I don't think he's scared maybe I've got the wrong guy who is it I think it might be Dean Garnett's gym I think oh wait uh somewhere around there but I heard heard he's very good too so that'll be interesting not gonna see that one yeah definitely um I think Barry actually well we're here which one are you looking forward to most everyone's not named uh it's always great to see Brian Moore back in action and then I have to give a shout out to Sinead kavner so Russ who's left for you to pick well I'm very interesting Carl Moore after his performance than last fight like that was actually sick so like I'm going to see him back in there and like who doesn't like watching the big boys banging out so uh I'm very interested I'm like I feel like he's got a very hard under the radar opponent so uh I think if he wins this letter let's get the respect on his name he deserves and let's have him fight you know one of the top contenders yeah uh the the fighters from SPG on the character obviously Kieran and Darth there is also Pedro Capello Peter created snake having a Richie smallen Azale uh uh Kenny Moco no Hannah uh Daniel scatizzi crime or charity Ward brymoor and Luca poklett so it isn't it's going to be an action-packed Knight Ross in the tree Arena yeah absolutely absolutely you will and Kieran tell us this what do you make of your opponent at this time out and how did you see the fight going yeah he's good like um I just knew a bit about him from just uh obviously same way class point in Europe and I'd uh I'd imagine I'd probably bump into some stage if you didn't he didn't really progress too much with cage Warriors and they didn't sign him and uh EFC and stuff no he got his wins and stuff there but he just uh didn't sign so I was thinking maybe it could be a lad that I could end up coming against so um yeah obviously a few promotions um yeah I feel myself I think you know it could be I think like the way he fights I think it could be like you know it could be actually over earlier you know I think like because he's he's a game live you know so I think it could be you know finish quick or finish late in the sense that'll be you know kind of see God exchange between the service and because Society is he's a game blood but I think um yeah I I always think yeah uh as I'm hoping obviously uh second third round I think you want to put the pressure on him and uh yeah I think they'll end up there getting some sort of finish up um that's how to say yeah Karen Clark breaks people puzzle he does he breaks your will and uh Daryl what about yourself how do you see your fight going and uh on boarding for your move down the featherweight yeah yeah like I I do think that featherweight will suit me slightly better like obviously I'm comfortable out late with but I think I think I'll just be that much more physical at the feather uh my opponent haven't watched a wild pylon but he's not really a striker or a Grappler he's 50 50. I think it's going to be stylistically a nice matchup for me and although I'm not gonna Force the finish this time uh I think it'll come maybe in the could be the first or second round but I'll be more precise and uh I'll lock in the show off but I'm gonna strike you know that all the work I've put in since the last fight so I think I'll get him out of there at the end of the first or second right yeah you know one thing about uh Daryl Kelly fight he puts the pressure on from the gecko um you know you better get used to Rolling backwards that's what I'd say for the people tuned in now make sure to get tickets off Kieran are there are they're going to be the Rarity sections in the whole entire tree Arena on the 25th of February Ross takes away blood yeah absolutely uh Care on Section will be like Earth night club and it's Prime you can't you can't beat the yellow movilly and so uh the players will be absolutely on Wheels um guys thanks a million for joining us we really appreciate it we look forward to seeing you do your business on the night it is going to be an absolute brilliant noise for Irish mixed martial arts um for coming on and as always energize [Applause] the Irish I'll send you guys a couple of times more I saw so keep going keep up the good workers