Ian Garry | Cage Warriors 125 Countdown | Energized Show

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What is up and welcome to the latest Energized Show! On this episode we have the return of Ian Garry ahead of his Cage Warriors WW Title fight. We discuss the countdown to CW125 & more craic. Check it out, enjoy, subscribe for more and as always Stay Energized! Follow us on…

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[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay what's going on guys welcome to a brand new episode of energize ross introduce the guest man we have in the future cage warriors welterweight champion of the world gary what's up boys how are we doing great in doing great in you know you know i'm just going to bring this back a bit okay back in 2000 february 2019 you came to ross's house you were just you want to know you told us you've been under you've been on the show now this is the ninth appearance on the show i feel like you deserve a jersey at this stage or maybe a belt but we'll get into that but then in 10 days time in you're going to be fighting for the title you told us that it was the one thing that was behind you driving you i know you're about to actually live out a dream next saturday in the main event how does that feel now in the countdown to cage wires um you know what again it feels very like the fights of the fight and but for me like i already feel like i am the champion i've said this multiple times i've talked to you about this like i feel like that belt's already mine and like this whole tournament was made around me it was made to slow me down but knowing that when i win this fight i'm going to get that bell right around me it's a nice feeling it's a nice image it's going to be beautiful i'm going to stand there my beautiful my beautiful gear on i'm going to get that belt wrapping on my waist and i'm just going to go i am so good looking still pretty standard standing from that camera oh god i am a good looking man tell us this do you reckon this could be your last home in the cage warriors cage um well i suppose that's all down to how how good performance i put on if it's anything like i plan on potentially telling me i mean i think the ufc could come snap me up if they think that as 7-0 undefeated best prospect in europe prettiest champion in the world if that's anything that they want for their uh their um their officers would be pretty smart yeah i think it'd be good good move maybe yeah exactly and if if not though would you be interested going out to san diego and pointing on that card again look i've got this fight to deal with i want to win the belt and then we'll see what happens but look i am inevitably going to be in the ufc regardless so that's that's the that's the main aim as long as they are the main the best organization in the world and they have all the best fighters that is exactly where i'm going to be so we'll take this fight and then we'll see what happens you know what possible that's a much more calculated uh slowed down versus being gary so maybe we're seeing a bit of maturity yeah with this professionalism we're moving up in the world a little bit no it's great it's great to see just the evolution of yourself and like as you just like you took went on leaps and bounds in every fight and now like after being on the journey but since like what february if not if not longer seeing you now like just going into it next weekend it's just a it's a crazy story to actually follow and then like you're going to see a follower true as well we just wish we were an airman you know i mean it's just it's it's all right but like ian obviously everyone knows you for like your style the way you go in the the even the shorts or people are listening that ian has all the shorts in the background up there with the gloves but ian like you obviously took a hiatus off social media as well like what made you do that and how do you feel coming out of that now as well well just in general so like lately i've faced like obviously social media is a part of the new age of kind of you see a lot like and i know it's a brilliant example but like jake and logan paul are perfect example of how like social media and entertainment the fact that they're youtubers they can make they can they can manifest stuff because they've got that power right you're looking you look at like followers now like it's it's not the way the sport should be but followers matter nowadays because it shows the power you have and i'm alright with that because if i have more followers than someone else and i've worked hard to that's not about followers but if i have a bigger following right you you deserve more right because you've worked harder to get um but on social media is obviously something that is is is needed to help grow the brand to help grow my platform to help get people more interested in my flight because i want to advertise and not know what's going on here's how it is hyped them up a little bit but um lately i've knocked notifications off from all my groups all my like my instagram my twitter my facebook like everything the only thing i have on is whatsapp just for people who want to get in touch with that's it so i don't i've knocked it all off and dude it's quite refreshing i found myself not on my phone as much i've obviously got a new apartment that i'm like i'm trying to like enjoy i'm i've got a world title fight that i'm training for and i don't want to be on my phone so i'm i'm one thing i'm practicing is to be more present in in stuff i don't want to be on my phone anywhere near as much and i'm just living in the moment enjoying it enjoying them enjoying the journey enjoying this this amazing dream as you said like i'm literally living the dream that's a minute ago i was upstairs trying to call you stumbling on the roof i was gonna do it topless on the roof and it wasn't working it was i could messages i could talk is i'm what's up link wasn't working for me somehow it was acting the wallet so i ran in here got it done but i was going to do it like it's literally i'm enjoying life as it happens and that's what i'm trying to do i feel like people on the people are on their phones a lot lately and i just so i like golf forget about walk and not be on my phone and just think be in my head think about the fight enjoy it enjoy the time my mates are on my own yeah i enjoy it so it's been really nice really refreshing i think everyone listening could probably deal with taking a bit of time off their phone and then you know being it's just not spending hours on it during the day like it's like you find yourself very unproductive so like at least i'm going to absolutely check see if anything's happening i try to stay off as much as they can yeah in fairness it was actually listed junk happening the other day and he said if you catch yourself he was actually speaking his instagram story which is slowly ironic and he goes at yourself watching this now he goes i want you to put your phone down from your hot subscribe for 20 minutes then walk back to your half and then you'd be done 40 minutes of a walk and i was like you know what that's actually not a terrible idea i was actually out for a walk at the time so like that was fine but uh i probably shouldn't be like looking at instagram stories on my walk you know live in the moment not you know exactly yeah that's what we're trying to do let's talk a bit about training in the build up to this like has things changed in the lead up to this as well and like what has chris been saying to you in the build up as well because obviously this is going to be your biggest moment in others bigger moments to come in in the future excuse the opponent but like what is he saying to you now and like how's training going in the build-up to it i don't think it's changed and it's very similar to what we do we look what we've done has worked all the way till now so we've just adapted a little bit to kind of give myself the best chance and like we always do we train smart we train hard and every time we step into that cage we're ready and prepared for a fight and it's the exact same i'm ready for whatever happens in that cage i'm like i'm very confident that no matter what happens i'm going to go in there and smash background tiny simple you know you know what you can almost watch every year gary interview and they're almost nearly going to be the exact same because that confidence and that christmas is always going to be there and like you're going to get that sound bite off maybe every single time yeah i don't know if you saw but we were speaking to john mitchell he was there over in dubois at the moment and he actually was sparring with conor mcgregor when he was over there and something he sort of said to me actually stuck with me and actually reminded me of you we asked him like what makes conor mcgregor conor mcgregor different to everyone and he said his composure to me that's when i see gary i look at him and think composure from the walk out to the minute he gets his hand raised he's the most relaxed man i've seen in the octagon in a very long time yeah i mean where's that composure come from you don't have to say i taught you anything but like yeah the power the composure comes from confidence and the confidence comes from endless hard work like i've been saying this a couple ads in the gym and just people who ask me these questions it's like there is no secret behind success of course i'm i'm i'm very talented now i'm like i'm very lucky to be blessed with the skit with with the the athleticism i have but like that's all well and good i can have all the athleticism and i can have everything but if i don't have the right mental attitude and the right the right dedication and hard work and the heart to do what i do and to keep pushing to consistently constantly move forward and work my ass off then i wouldn't be as confident as i am i wouldn't be as i wouldn't stay here say her influentials and tell you so easily that like i'm going to smash anyone who steps in front of me i'm so i'm so well prepared for anything to happen and it's just from hard hard work i work harder than anyone else and that's it it's like and every fight camp i work harder every fight camp i adapt i change little bits to get better and that is consistently why you see a better version of me every time in the cage this fight i'll be bigger i'll be better i'll be stronger i know i hate people saying that but it's [ __ ] true i'm like like it's it's the truth i'm growing do i mean like i'm still growing into my friend i'm still i'm still like booking getting this like size i'm looking bigger my chest is bigger my back is bigger my arms like and i'm faster i'm fitter it just shoot down 20 60 gym and watch you'll see in um sir alex ferguson a while ago said that he would encourage his um his players to get get like into relationships or get married young so they just like they have that sword and they don't need to be like yeah i'll concentrate on on the goal like obviously you're in a very like high enough profile relationship now do you think being in that it just like keeps you just totally like with the p what's that called when you're linkers on the blinders do you think that is that's like helped you as well just not take your eyes off the gold and i don't think it's not helped me take the eyes and god i think it's it's it motivates me and i mean work ethic and hard work from her is ridiculous she works hard i talk about working hard i don't do 18 hours of [ __ ] work in a desert and bollocks four hours and do it all again like i don't do that um i have a very easy life it's very very easy i wake up i train i come home i eat i sleep i train i eat i sleep i train i do it all over again that's my life it's very simple it's not that hard so i mean the work i do was hard but it's an easy life and having someone who helps motivate you and someone you can gain motivation of motivation from so easily just by the way she speaks the way she talks everything like that's brilliant so i couldn't ask for anything more i'm extremely happy and i look forward to the journey we're going on you know what i mean it's it's an exciting new chapter in my life that i'm looking i'm looking forward to sharing so that's great that's great man no absolutely um that was that was a lovely question possible vq guys uh but yeah man two of the hardest crafters in the game tell us this when it comes down to it the cage drawer closes you and jack grant and the referee are in there how long does this fight last and how does it finish it are we looking for another highlight reel knockout always always highlight real finishes absolutely always um how long does it last here get out of the first round purely because i don't want to finish them in the first um look i'd be he'd be lucky if he makes it out in a second he's definitely not making it past the third you can also like um obviously you've gone very quiet and um we actually really enjoyed watching the build up to the fights all the training all the pictures all the stuff you know i mean like we're really big fans of team kf and everything chris and tom are doing there but like is there anything we can look for in the build-up there's gonna be any like not sort of vlogs but sort of behind the scenes sort of stuff obviously cage warriors do their sort of build up videos is there anything that we can look forward to seeing in the build-up in the next 10 days all right did there's some stuff that we're working on that's going to happen hopefully that will be released soon and but they'll definitely be content going up over the next 10 days we're gonna we're gonna absolutely do that don't you worry we're going to be making sure that everyone's everyone's ready and around to go for this uh for this world title place the biggest part of my life and the reason i'm kind of taking a step back from social media over the last week is because i've been working hard because i don't want i want to put my head down yeah absolutely i want people to be excited i want people to tune in and i want people to see this highlight finish it's going to be a highlight real quick look you know what that's you know what i'm like i'm always looking for look i'm the main event on saturday night right yeah man you've been saying this for ages man i'm like i'm so excited i'm always the main guy in paris you're always our main event anyway i'm always the main event right it's my [ __ ] show every time when i'm on it who do people talk about after the fights me end up right it's always my show why because i show up time and time again when we stand under those bright lights who performs the best me and i'm going to do the exact same thing again and no one in the in the world is gonna be able to stop me right i'm going to get that belt wrapped down my waist and i'm going to have a big [ __ ] smile on my face i'm going to stand there looking this pretty right and i'm just going to be like everyone i've said this for [ __ ] years that i'm going to be a cadres world champion i'm not i am going to the ufc it is just written it's the path no one is going to be able to stop me and i'm just going to sit there and go what did i tell everyone i was right i am inevitable [Music] uh chris fields and my surrounding conditioning coach john crowe i can't wait to have him in my corner um he has been me and him have put in so much [ __ ] work oh since since my recovery from the jmc inflight when i broke my hand so since about march march april or may of 2019 me and him are basically work non-stop to get my fitness to where i want to be my strengths where i wanted to be and there's been so much work over the last couple of months that has really really benefited me and i can really see the difference so i'm absolutely delighted to have in my corners the first time he's gonna be in my corner he's one of my he's one of my closest friends and he's just possibly the funniest guy i've ever met um to speak to him he is hilarious um but yeah he's like that diamond in the roof like when we find him he's going to be that that person like when we get on you'll see embedded when we get on all these videos everyone's gonna be talking about him not me him he's he's just that type of guy he's brilliant and so i'm really excited to have him and chris and we're going to let me get in get that belt up on my waist and that's the job done yeah you may know you're very very busy so we're going to let you go now in one minute but uh training with a world title boys that's why that's yeah this is obviously the ninth time you've been on the show like and hopefully the tent is gonna be with the belt as well but like yeah and uh we can't wait to go down team kf as well which is the seeing the belt and everything is just uh like chris and tom what they've done with that game is on rail and uh yeah also shout out to there's six other slabs on this trilogy there's yourself redzer decky leon kieron and john mccollum as well like so there's like a lot of irish people to watch out for as well next week russ and nelson's day for wrap things up no ian i would say best lookbook if someone you've never ever needed just go in there do your thing and you'll be the first irish cage warriors champion in a very long time um i'm looking forward to seeing it i appreciate the well wishes i don't i don't need it but i'll absolutely take it right oh here we go i'll always say you now i'm i'm really looking forward to this um well potentially joe could be the first irish fan because he's fighting on the friday night but we'll forget about y'all right now now i'm looking forward to it it's going to be a big night it's going to be a big weekend of fights and i'm going to look to finish it off with that cherry on top as i always do get the highlight reel finish get that bell wrap on my waist and sit there and be like someone ring dana white and tell venom that they need purple shorts for the ufc yeah ones that aren't backwards as well it's it's it's a plan at this stage it's not not happening right it's gonna happen when i sign for the ufc right because it's inevitable i'm gonna get purple shorts i will make sure that that i don't care about anything else just give me purple shorts the evolution is gonna be from purple and purple and yellow to purple and black the americans are gonna be like why is the irish guy not wearing the green i think i think nowadays the irish that the green is more related to the nigerians like if you look at like all the lads around all um is he was how does he might agree now he's put my own black and thing but like all the all the um they were so deep i think was wearing dark green yeah and it looked brilliant but i would i would i would i i suppose i probably have to give you your own questions it's about how you've been connor radio i'm just trying to take it i'm trying to take them if if if bryce mitchell can get camo shorts ian gary can get purple shorts but i'm getting broken don't you worry about that leave that with me in i think it's the best way to finish it if like if you tell the people what like obviously you've been on this journey you're now about to like go in next weekend and actually just see often this chapter of your life yeah like what you want to say to people now that are like striving and just are going for something in their life and like you're actually about to go in and fulfill it what could you say to them just to wrap things up yeah well regardless of what it is i i've always been a big believer put 110 of everything you have into it don't go into anything half hours like it's great always having a plan b right everyone says oh you should have a backup but i don't need a backup if my first plan is going to work out and if i have a backup i'm preparing to fail tell me this isn't something i want to be preparing to fail for so for me it would be give it your all you've only got one life work your ass off get whatever you want succeed whatever way you want to succeed and make sure you have a good time doing it you know what i mean i'm laughing here i'm laughing here because i'm thinking about a show but it's actually very funny it's a very good quote it's like don't mess up don't make uh don't make making a living get in the way of making a life it's quite funny do i mean because it was in a comedy and it was brilliant but that's why i'm laughing but it's something like that and say don't work yourself that you don't enjoy what you're doing make sure you always enjoy the process you see me i enjoy every step of the way because it's memories you're making memories every way anytime you get a paycheck it's a memory anytime you do something good you should celebrate it's a memory enjoy it put everything you have into it and just live the best life you possibly can because you only have fun yeah also i want to mention as well myself and ross were featured on two ufc countdowns and the turtle is going to be on uc 264 as well so it's obviously the connor versus dustin carr like that's big for uh that's big for us big for you we've been on the same sort of journey obviously we didn't have to get in the cage now and but we don't get a belt either you know but like think about it i get to win and literally physically assault another human being and get away with it if i don't pay for it right but instead i get praised for it because it's a good performance my dear you're you're an absolute animal and for those who are watching at home make sure to check out ian's fight and it will be on daytime saturday as far as wearing anytime i'd imagine it'll be about 6 00 p.m 6 30 p.m don't worry we'll make sure everyone knows beforehand and again if you are watching this video make sure to like share subscribe following gary on all his social channels and as always