Pedro Carvalho | Starting MMA, SBG Ireland & His Bellator Title Shot | Energized Show

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What is up and welcome to the latest Energized Show! On this episode we have Bellator Featherweight Title challenger Pedro Carvalho. We discuss Pedro leaving Portugal to join SBG Ireland, His pending title shot vs Pitbull and Where he plans to make his first defence of the…

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okay what's going on guys and welcome to a brand new episode of energized today we have a very special guest on the show the future featherweight Bellator world champion yeah yeah if you say you very well you said you sir correct very soon yeah treat you to any potatoes then you get you into the potatoes the conversation was why it was like because it was like that's potato in period no no no I call it no I yeah we we were there for common is a fella was actually a belt or in Dublin and we did the quick chat backstage you you were in full swing preparations for people obviously you did the whole shebang weigh-ins and everything before the fight console talk us through how that went down your mindset through entire event proceedings yes yeah like at the time when I found out that the the whole show got canceled was like three hours before the whole thing start and like I'm gonna be honest like there was like a heartbreaking moment for me like I was like or like for like the first two hours I was with no one I was like oh the bad dream even even like two days after that I still was like like kind of no reality thing I was like but then like then as all the you know time goes by you you start to think about it and and yeah was the right move to thing and like I've said I was just bit sad that the decision wasn't made like on Wednesday or something like tell you know what I mean but yeah it is what it is in the end of the day they made the right decision and now we just we just wait because in the end of the day the outcome will be the same I'll be champion doesn't matter if you were if he wasn't on on March 13 or he will be down the year I will be world champion and that's what Myers and that's at rest his breast Pedro and there was maybe no audience in that arena it wasn't enough when we yeah firstly yeah when were you told that so I was told on Wednesday if I know if I'm not mistaken I was told on Wednesday that the show will be it closed doors yeah so my first thing was like fine at least like my first idea was actually like I'm kind of happy because they are you know going on with these instead of counseling they are going on like I said if if as people there or no like as long as long on Wednesday dead he closed closed to public but the show would still go on yeah oh no do you feel better how would you feel about headline and Bellator döblin against because robbery between SPG and the pitbull brothers has been a longtime ongoing war better play is to do it than to do the integral because the tricky for you Peter query on my car Disney yeah yes there will be like Monday I doubt that will happen because the zone has TV rights of the whole tournament so they gonna do all the fights in us but man if that will happen there will be like a dream come true are you joking me like we know well amazing there will be amazing but I doubt but there will be an amazing idea that will be like especially when his brother is also fighting on that same car so there will be fun Manas all over the place there will be there will be something special to see yeah because Pedro you're one of the only few SP gene Forrester has actually far in Orland on a battle twerker yeah yeah that's that's all I still I still believe that one day big big fight I'm gonna bring a big big fight to there and and who knows who knows if he's not the next one but I doubt you can bring the belt to three arena there's sort of only compliment in determined to go and you have called well it's gonna fight aging McKee hey don't you see that one known who do you think you'll end up with in final I think I think before I think I'm gonna face and I actually I said that's when personally AJ McKee I think AJ McKee cowgirl is dangerous that the thing between em and AJ they gonna face is that the big web the biggest weapon of cowboy is wrestling and it's striking is not as dangerous you know and Matias are pretty eager is wrestling can naturalize how Wells wrestling and then AJ is gonna have the upper hand because it's right it's better than Cal well so I think there will be the major factor of their fight and and then how well oh well cardio is you know it's not a good so we can only like not even daddy can threat AJ so that's there's a lot of like of course surprises can happen you know I always actually think that Boris will be at all surprised and surprised can happen he can can beat AJ but in case of boys understand because it was pretty much a grappler against Shrike is a grappler there is not a great striker that is called against bollocks that is a great striker but he does have great grappling so that wasn't like a huge surprise for me but you know to take him down and and yeah I think AJ is going to the final and I think like I would want to fight to fight them Sanchez in the semi-finals because he's very much the number one contender but I think in my personal opinion I think vice shell will beat sánchez and you'll be crowned the king of Europe as well before this Pedro your next fight against the pitbull will be a fully round fight and everyone else is fine three round fights do you think that's a disadvantage or doesn't really play into any account for you now that's that's a huge advantage for me like fighting in five fives it's like like if people see in sixty percent of what I can do and I can't okay and I play at my full you know performance trade when I'm fighting for five fives because I started to really get ink on the third I feel like I surpass already there were weird feelings and already know the fighting and I just go up you know and that's when I see my opponents and go downhill so I clearly see but I'm also I'm also know that I'm facing one of the best ever you know and and not even because of that is it really experiment guy so and he's been doing five five four years so even I have to we have some cautions and you know like I said before all corners are covered no surprise will happen and the only surprise that will happen is the whole world shocked when I dominate beat and finish Patrizio yeah we were really looking forward to that fight until it was cancelled you know that we were follow to the last minute yeah you have me excited for it again that was that was bad but like see see like I always like to see things for the positive side and the positive side about it like is like now we can promote even more this fight you know so we're gonna have more time to sell it a little bit more and trained a little bit more and and and and and myself pretty even in a bigger show to everyone you know so we cannot we see the bad things or everything it doesn't matter how open to us we are we always try to find something positive out of it and from this solution there is no for this occasion is not even that bad because there's a lot of I'm not even sad about it right now I'm actually happy you know I just spent almost few weeks in my mom's home where everything started that it was really really really good because I was able to spend more time than normal with my mom and you know see the old posters what I started when I was just a kid and I was dreaming to be what I am so actually all these things been really even it was he's been even better for me because it's just giving even more of a boost my motivation to go harder to go further and and to absolutely crush everyone then taper in front of me so you're all you've lived to giving your whole life to this I heard that in Portugal I I given up of being a normal kid when I was 13 years old days you know I know everything that a key does I was putting aside so I go to the gym train and that's it and people ask me why I'm just like I know why I think has been very impressive as of late like your performances seem to get better each and every time and when you beat some Cecilia very very impressive then you beat their campus also very very impressive do you have a particular performance that you were like that was the best pet role of people have seen so far what sort of game time do you have gone into this pit bull fight so it's it's kind of it's funny because I spoke these personally and I said that it for me till till the date the best performance by far that I haven't had was against campus that was like almost that was almost perfect the only buffer was like they take down and and then you got you got my back for a few seconds but forgetting that was like by far my best performance today there was like just one side fight against the name that is you know and and and it's funny because the way that ice that I was feeling not only about the outcome even physically feeling going to their fight you know because you know you just feel yourself you know yourself and and and and I was seeing I always when their accomplice fight was scheduled I was saying and saying like straight away the first thought that I had going through my mind was like I'm gonna knock him out and that was it and and there were they became they become like a reality for me and and it happened and then I was fighting some Cecilia and everyone who was seeing me on a gym you know problem the work and and everyone was saying my my striking flow so well and everyone said like man you gotta knock this guy out and it was like yeah like I I didn't thought out looks like I was I was believing that would crush him but I don't know why and actually that was fun that we were like on the same day of the fight you were on the on the on the room with my team and John and John coming I was like so we're gonna have a knockout today were like I think I'm gonna submit him if I submit him do you give my purple belt he was like congratulations you are officially a purple well these fights gonna finish like this because I'm gonna limit myself to an idea but but I also stayed together a lot with with the feeling and from these when these Patricia fight got done not only I in any moment of my camp it was going through my mind that our mind lose no it was like always a hundred two hundred percent sure that would dominate cruise ship and the only thing that is going through my mind is how come out and I know and I can see I can perfectly see it and and kind of exactly no one's gonna happen you know so the only thing that I right right right now what is after the date said you know and and go out there and do what I love that is fight it you know in the end of the day I don't care if I go out there in win by knockout submission or decision I just want to go out there and have a fight and test myself against the best in the world and in the end of the day prove to everyone there what I said but I'm the best world and so forth yeah I do for everyone you know it's my family do for my friends with my country for Ireland you know for everyone they wanna as an Irishman tweeted supported as an Irishman and that's one of the things I will never forget and that's and that's why I look for my country and I always take with me and with big bro the Irish fight with me and I also because when you win the title when you win the toilet you have to make sure your first offense after the Grand Prix perfect tell me coz Pedro you're coming from the best gyms in the entire world looking for us it's on our doorstep when it comes here a training day is near spawn days who your mains farm partners so like many my sparring partners so that's gonna depend on my opponent you know that we all we never you know because of sparring that fight simulation it's all it's always it's always depending on who we are facing and we try to bring to our camp the most similar guys that can simulate the fight stance and style of our opponent but like I trained with everyone I try to take the best of everyone but of course my training partners are with the guys that I train spend time training is bitter queerly are to evolve rich is small and but like there are guys that I maybe I do more around because I do wrong with everyone you know we we are just like a big big family that are trying to take the best out of each of each other in every single session you know and we are trying to improve and be the best there's no like groups like I trained Oh together and we try to improve all together and reach the top together the team as a family that's brilliant and come for you whenever we are rebooked who we expect to see in your corner bar John covenant of course on my corner you know my corner is the very same from from day one is John Cavanaugh my striking cause Davy Jones my second striking coach and my wrestling coach Sergei okay so mom is me he's a beast he's a beast of a man and not only the beast of a man he's a great individual it's a great man is a great person and you know it's just he's real [Music] if work to know I can learn so much from and for everyone that's why that people are always the same in my corner you always see the same people in my corner and and that's it and especially on this fight you know the title fight it's gonna be a special fight for me I want to make sure they're the four of them are are there Pedro we actually saw your Bellator debut at Bellator 200 in London no I mean following your battle tour career ever seen Sabrina to see yeah their fight yeah was their fight and the next one in Italy there was the only yeah only fighter that yeah there was the three fight that was your father always was someone missing in my corner you know one person and and yeah and and right now like I said before I wanted to make sure that everyone was there you know it's special night I want I want to everyone be there not so much for helping me but to celebrate together so I've been sitting there thinking they're written song and this heresy it matters for deublin Pedro defendant made his first offense over his featherweight oil James Gallaher vs. Sergio Pettis for the bantamweight oil and then we'll get Peter Quillin first Patricio pitbull in a rematch well that'll be like the greatest Bellator heart of all you're saying like at the end of my tournament yeah yeah so I know actually I have we been a bad idea oh here we go oh here we go I'm gonna defend my world damn James go there and fight whatever he has to face maybe maybe such Pat is the biggest name for the Bantam weight belt and Peter queerly goes out there and fights Patricio pitbull for the 155 L idea there we go yeah we will hurry on the card doesn't matter and we see moose yeah yeah we'll see you never know you never know a million for coming on your announce a legend about hedgerow that was pretty much to everyone make sure to make sure to follow petrol because he's going to come to champ make sure you subscribe and as always stay energized