Nathan Fletcher & Luke Riley | Cage Warriors 141 London Countdown | Energized Show

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What is up and welcome to the Energized Show! On this episode Next Generation MMA, Liverpool's Nathan Fletcher & Luke Riley join us to discuss their Cage Warriors 141 London matchups on Friday the 22nd of July Live on UFC Fight Pass, Training in Team Next Gen & More MMA craic…

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[Music] [Applause] okay what's going on guys and welcome to brand new episode of energize ross introduced a guest but today we've got a cage warriors london and a next-gen special we've got the southport strangler nathan fletcher and the love island liverpudlian luke royley lads how you doing [Laughter] and you know how it is nathan if you don't have your own nickname on this show we'll just give you one until you get one that's why well this one's better than flawless what you've given me sort of i've taken it on board for this show [Laughter] lad it's great to have this boat back on the show this is obviously a next-gen special uh in in the build up the cage warriors 141 london on july 22nd so welcome to the show lads yeah absolutely we'll start with yourself nathan um obviously you've been out of the cage for 10 months and you're you're making your cage wires return how does it feel to come back and then also how does it feel to get prepared at the same time that molly and paddy are getting ready for the ufc london as well the next day yeah it's been boss i always um i always like having my fight camp around the same time as my teammates because obviously me paddy molly luke have all been in camp together so we're all going through the the highs and the lows of a fight coming together and but all them pushing each other every day so the energy in the gym has been boss um and i'm itching to get back in there now he said it's been 10 months since my last fight so been a long time out of the cage i was gonna come back a little bit sooner this year yeah on the april show but i had a little injury there to deal with so i have a few things in the way but we're getting there now with a week away so i can't wait to get back in there and then luke obviously you're a bit younger in your career uh how important is it for you to be training alongside these guys and what sort of tips and tricks you picking up from these guys in camp yeah just a shame again it's good to be training with me from paddy molly all in the same fight just bounce off each other the best thing could so having a fight camp the energy that's going behind in the gym so would you say no other than whatever and i was just gonna say yeah obviously uh the rivalry that no one asked for was a next-gen versus uh france but it's the rivalry that everyone needs in their life right now um how do you guys feel to start taking on the frenchies along with that your teammate and the king of france adam cullum listen we've got a lot of we've got a lot of living up to do adam's flying the the french flag for us all and he's been he's been smoking every single one of them so me and luke connect we've got two frenchies coming up and in yeah we've got a lot of cats want to use gladdens he's been putting him away fast do you know what i mean so and he's been making statements and now me and luke are going to do the same next week and luke how do you feel about uh stepping up away class to 145 this one um to be honest i feel a lot a lot better of course bands might space on for me how people have been asking music just to stay so about the getting a match at february but yeah there's no way i was making a way to be honest of what body fat and stuff was so i reckon that in me last fight against eggling at the first time i felt a bit flat i don't know maybe it was used to the weight hook so that can this timer down there'll be a lot i'll come up with a lot faster and feel a lot sharper maybe i'll do them give up a bit of size or strength but i think i'll make up for them speed energy and in the cage so are you going to be competing a fed away from now on did you say that yeah yeah yeah okay there's an exclusive ross yeah absolutely so there you have it you have a native fletcher at bantamweight you have luke royley uh featherweight and then you have adam cullen at lightweight and guys what do you think do you think in a year's two time you know all three of you guys will hold the belts in each perspective weight class start yourself nathan do you think that's a strong possibility oh 100 yeah i think in two hours in two years time i think the most the majority of us will be in the ufc but i don't know what i mean so and i think cage audience titles are definitely in all of our futures and i already had a little crack at it you know what i mean a few months ago and at 23 so i've got plenty of time left on cage warriors and i'm definitely coming for that belt again maybe the end of this year starting next year i know luke will be looking to do the same around about that time frame and then cullen he's on an absolute role as well so i've no doubt that he's he's probably one or two big wins away from fighting for the lightweight title so in the next 18 months to two years are going to be a massive amount a massively exciting time for us three in our careers yeah we have to give a with a map on her as well or else you come knocking on our doors straight from warrington oh yeah yeah start making beams of us he's going to be the double champion bonner he's going for that well await title next so he's already held the middleweight and now he's in now he's fighting at his proper weight class well to wait i think you're going to see him win the title there as well and then shout out to chase as well the honorary scouts doing bits over in america nathan we have to touch on your last vote obviously you fought against last time we had john you took on dominic wooding for the pantomime title like as as we alluded to there was around 10 months ago what like how much have you developed since then for the people that have been watching watching you like evolve like how much have you developed since that last fight it's i'm a completely different level now to what i was then you know what i mean i think in terms of my skill set that's gone up massively i've got a lot more confidence in my striking now where you know my hands my boxing's improved a lot a lot of that's down to training with luke you know what i mean he's a very high level striker and we're mixing in with him a lot every week trying to trying to focus on his kickboxing trying to get me boxing better doing rounds with him and uh but other than me skill set me mindset is what has improved the most and um i've always i've always come on here and preached to use about how mentally tough i am you know i like to do a lot of the mental training i'm into my reading into my philosophy and stuff like that so it's been a good time to put into practice everything that i've been learning about you know what i mean because my career was pretty smooth sailing up until that first loss that i encountered and then that was the time for me to put into practice all this you know about coming back from adversity and then i got injured when i was about to make me return so i got a few bumps in the roads but ultimately that's just made me stronger you know what i mean it's made me realize how much i want this and how much i'm willing to dig in and and then i know i'm going to be champion you know what i mean i know i'm going to go to the ufc based off how i'm going to come back from this one and usually all going to see it as well next friday like the performance i put on it's just going to remind everyone what i'm about my name you're all going to see that i'm on a different level now yeah well you're obviously doing something right to make luke riley move up at the weight division luke that's what i mean me and luke looking like ideal training partners for each other because obviously i'm a strong wrestling rapper and he's a really strong striker so both are not necessarily our weaker areas but the areas where we need to be you know building and getting better we do that for each other don't mean we develop each other's strengths so he's an absolute to take down now is it so strong and you know what i mean so i don't see any i don't see any featherweight taking him down or getting anywhere near him now and then same for me with striking like i've been been doing sparring rounds with him on the feet so i'm ready for whatever bantamweights are going to throw at me a million percent so are we expecting a knockout come next friday from nathan fletcher and a rear naked choke from uh luke royley is that is that the plan that's it [Music] rolls reversed yeah luke you obviously came off like like a very eventful fight last last time like it was like it was like blown guts basically like and like well after that fight what made you decide to move up to federate like how recently did you make that decision well obviously i missed the weight then i buy a pond or whatever it was that was and i didn't i didn't basically find me to wait like go back to the thingy because nathan i'll tell you themselves what was up for this is enough for the exclusive fears that was optional and then we went till two in the morning and that was literally non-stop bath towel bath towel and not nobody before and then i had i think but don't even get out of shape if i was scientists didn't we and then same again after our bathtub or bath towel until returned to the way in like 15 minutes later it was bad yeah and it was still a pound and a half over oh and that's not him taking breaks in between boys he was literally bath towel bath towel non-stop no complaining you know what i mean he was just getting it done and the weight was flying off but it was a it was a big cut to have to do overnight on it so i think it's a smart decision obviously going up and you've had all the all the tests on that's in that yeah your body competition i came back the gym and then the i said i said to myself spoke to got a nutritionist then first number four lead and he said oh we'll go we'll go back wait i've got a uh that and we company okay we'll start we'll start maybe we'll try with it fully all the science to know everything in check the food quality and it just it wasn't wasn't coming off me as powerful false it was so i went to university got some hydration tests on body fat and came out and we said i'll tell you this the last fight bouncing right then and the felonies on the test just be dead now there's no last fight like you don't fancy no no chance you can awake with what you'd probably thought in your hydrations at so there's just not a chance you need to move away so just listen about three weeks ago that's what you need to do that's what you need to do and if you've been told medically that's that's what you're being voiced too that's what you've been voiced to do and apparently you've been very successful at bantamweight so there's no reason to say well you wouldn't be successful uh or a featherweight so uh look excited to see you up there because uh i think the featherweight division is also full of killers in cage warriors yeah of course it is everybody in snowboard i feel like on one side of me i do feel a bit sad because i have a bit of unfinished business demands and weight but there's plenty of good names to take on lots of stuff oh don't worry flash for cleaning that up we have to touch on that because obviously when you always walked into nextgen at first you know it was a good game it has a bit of a balls better but now it's like seen as a gym with with like two of the biggest superstars in the sport and especially now with that molly and paddy been swinging the bars to the sports like with like all the cameras and you know people i'm sure people are like clamoring outside the gym at times like people are just standing outside to to see the next-gen fighters hey exactly has that changed anything for you guys or you know did the cameras make you nervous to start at the start are you just use them now or you know how often are cameras they're a full camera crew in the gym the cameras are there every day you know me and paddy's an absolute superstar now and molly's working her way up to be a superstar as well so and they've literally even besides them two shems always got a camera in with him leah is sickly is in the gym now she's always got bbc island or whatever in filming her so every single day this this there's cameras in the gym you know what i mean but we're used to it and i'll be honest i'll just pretend they're for me anyway i'm just visualizing when i'm in the ufc i'm gonna have all the cameras there anyway so it's it's nice practice you know what i mean i just i'm just there i'm just there shadowing thinking yeah these are filming me anyway so it's sweet it was great to see both these being featured on barstool they're showing off your golf skills so after this show we're gonna have to go into a golf podcast with the two boys after us shout out to me me golf teacher there alex river [Laughter] yeah oh you have to love it uh nathan tell us this uh how do you get the job done on the night against what will probably be your most experienced opponent state this guy has got what 35 plus fights yeah yeah he's got in him 36 prominent fights i think he's had kickboxing fights as well mixed in there and probably some karate fights or some as well and he's been fighting pro since 2009 my opponent and in 2009 i was starting year seven at secondary school so he's definitely the most experienced guy i've faced but i am based off watching his recent fights and they're knowing where i'm at and how i'm performing in the gym at the minute i don't see it going past the first round to be honest i think i'm gonna come out and put a pace on him like i always do dominate the fight and name i'll be getting that first round finish 100 we see a bit of air chris williams boxing in this fight of course you will yeah the fight starts on the feet so you're going to see in you're going to see some chris williams 101 like him a little shout out afterwards like paddy's on his ufc debut yeah we we we know what's up we know what's up and then uh luke obviously this is a i don't know whether you'd actually call it a late notice fight boy i think he knew you're fighting but we we didn't get an opponent for a while if you got a chance to look at the opponent and how do you feel like you're going to get the job done or is the opponent irrelevant at this stage to you um obviously no opponents in the cage you can anyone can cause damage but i don't really there isn't much on the kids to be honest i think there's one little fight on youtube that's you stop sticking like i don't know two minutes so i haven't really looked too much into it really this part of this and then i want to know will uh will next chance still be on the field against france come fight night yeah one mill millions i want to see adam colon flying that france this is obviously a big weekend coming up for like the whole team but like are you lads looking beyond this weekend or is just all all systems that go towards the 22nd of july and obviously the 23rd of july for uc london yeah this is a massive weekend for the gym and then i made up to be honest making my return on this weekend it's almost fitting you know what i mean like when cage warriors announced the schedule i was rumors that the ufc was going to be in july so i knew that that sort of the friday the 22nd date looked like a good option because i thought you know the ufc might be the next day and stuff and now the way it's all worked out it's perfect me and luke are on the on the card together on friday and then having our two teammates paddy and molly gonna blow the roof off the echo on the saturday night and it's gonna be a great weekend for the gym it's just gonna elevate all of us up even further and there i can't wait to get in there now it's gonna be gonna be an unreal weekend yeah russ you've an announcement to make as well but yeah and the android show will be um hosting uh an event in 26 league street of the ufc london watch party and i'm pretty sure you can still buy tickets for on ticketmaster just search uh ufc watch party and london i'll put the link down below uh the link down the bio and uh you can come watch the ufc london fights with us in 26 league street it's going to be an incredible event and the event will be hosted by ufc fight pass on helderhead and the energizer show so you have the special guest reuter and a special guest fighter who's yet to be named once we know who it is you will know who it is any guesses lads with your special guest fighter it is here's not where he is no no no or she yeah we don't actually know but you may as well take a guess now happy birthday buddies after i beat that yeah i don't think we got the message but maybe next year uh lads lads it's always great to talk in the two years is there anything else you want to say to the the sailforce strangler army or the was a love island luke royally nation make sure you're all tuned in next friday to watch me and luke absolutely bury two frenchmen in the first round you aren't going to want to miss it i can guarantee that yeah don't blink there you go we said it best yeah you want to get on the tickets get on to both of the lads i'm sure next gen you get onto them as well and also we'll be live on uc foy pass so it'll be all miserable event cage warriors 141 london ross take it away bud guys thanks a million for both joining us and your absolute legends we we love you we'll see you on the night and if you haven't watched this on youtube make sure to like share subscribe if you're watching on ufc fight pass make sure to make the android show one of your favorites and as always stay [Applause] you guys a couple of times i've seen a couple of clips i think you're doing some interviews with dylan moore and then that i i saw so keep going keep up the good work guys