Karl Riordan Vs Jordan O'Neill | Cage Legacy The Aftermath | Energized "The Face Off"

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What is up and welcome to the latest Energized "The Face Off" Show! Ahead of this weekends Cage Legacy event we have the Light Heavyweight Title Fight match up Karl Riordan vs Jordan O'Neill on the show. To support Irish MMA don't miss this event. Hit the link for the PPV!…

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[Music] [Applause] [Music] okay what's going on guys welcome to a brand new episode of energized ross introduce the guests man guys inner draws the face off is back in the blue corner from combat jujitsu we have jordan o'neil and in the red corner we have the reigning defending light heavyweight champion a cage legacy out of spg charlestown mr kyle reardon lads how are we doing good good are we are we absolutely buzzing for this fight lads this is going to be history in the making this is the first mma event on irish soil since the pandemic i'm going to start with you carl how excited are you to get out there and show your skills yeah very excited a lot of hard work on him into the company that was just going to easing off now relaxing and they're going to just stay staying stay staying first time ready now for the next week so uh looking forward and jordan i can't wait uh it's been a long time coming i've been well i feel like i feel like i've been in camp for [ __ ] ages but uh i can't wait to get on there now and just let everything go and all the hard work that'll chew you know what i mean that all improvements show you know i mean yeah because that everyone's been looking forward to this like especially myself and ross we've been like looking for the case legacy for [ __ ] ages and like finally it all goes down this saturday so like we're here to get the lads on to promote the fight so everyone can uh it's something everyone's just looking forward to ross isn't yeah absolutely you know i mean and um i think one thing that is drastic important before we get into the two lads is this is a chance for you to support irish mixed martial arts from the grassroots the whole way up to the top you know i mean this pay-per-view is only calling a cost of 10 or i think there's about 25 fights on the card you probably know at least one fighter fighting and if you actually want ireland to have future athletes in the ufc or in bellator or in one you have to support the grassroot shows and it's only a tenor it's less than two points in a decent pub in dublin you know what i mean so get get that into you and uh make sure you're supported even if you're not watching this weekend you know i mean people give you give you a tenant for run 5k give a 100 cage legacy to support these irish athletes well we're going to get straight into it now boswell we're going to start off with jordan jordan what makes you think you are a better mixed martial artist than carl um uh from what i have i can only go on what i've watched of garlic and that's a very while ago because if you think about it his last fight is only about six months after i started mma to start way so he's been oddly game as much as i've been on it at the time frame like so i can only go on the videos that i've seen and i think i'm a wee bit more all-rounded you know it comes to my boxing background as well but i think i'm more well-rounded when it comes to the striking as well as grappling as well so i don't know i think i thought i'm still going to like we've sort of made a mutual agreement we're going to stand in the center of cage and take each other's heads off so i don't know i don't know if there'll be much grappling involved but well if he wants to grapple i can grapple actually every once they but i don't think we've sort of mutually agreed that we're going to just stand and bang which is exactly what i'm looking for and i'm in a fight is it am i able to pay for this right now am i or should i just put a link down in the bottom i and carl what about yourself what makes you a better mixed martial artist than jordan um itself but we're going to go off is is i think there's one video on on youtube that i've watched i've watched many times no i've only just watched it once or twice i don't really watch opponents i watch them once or twice when the fight is announced and then that's going to because there's no point in getting over like it's it it's it's a previous edition and always going to be better now he's he's more trainer um so we're going to just focus on the own game and the last one went for is a year and a half ago so he's saying there they they the grappling hadn't looked too good but since they since the last week we've been working loads on a on grappling and that so if it goes there we can or you can uh we can mix it up there oh we're just gonna stand up stand up this isn't going through the wrong yes let's go guys bro i don't think i don't think we've had two people on the show or i've seen a face off anywhere else where the two lads are so happy about standing and trying to knock the head off each other as you get in you get in they can't get a destroyer and the first thing to do is just jump on you they try and get past you straight away you know look that's the name of the game that's their way winner that's grand but with the small gloves two strokes you just you just want to see what you can deal with when you when two lads you know a good stroke or should let the irons go and it's entertaining people are going to want to see it it's not going to be like you don't want to miss this but this is the people's main event definitely yeah 100 i think i think it's it's it's more whenever two boys are more or less born they just stand and trade the whole time it's it makes the fight better i missed the standard of striking better as well so you're not something you know whenever i'm just trying to chase you and take you down the whole time and just hold you in close distance you can't get any clean work off at all really and you're you're more concentrating on getting him off he than you are in your own game which is probably why most most people do it because it does work like it nullifies all your nice dragon work and all your skills so it'll be classed for me me and him just to cut up and see right who's better and who's got the better the better techniques and the better skills and jordan do you think you can close the show do you think you think you could knock carl out of of course a hundred percent my my my striking player has never never been in equation at all you know i i can with both hands i can i can turn the lights off and i'm sure i can't do you know when we were treated by glass smoking light heavyweights if you land with them small gloves and a soft part of the head you're that's it the light's over but that's the thing about that's the worst thing that can happen you know and that's that's the way you look at it now i mean working on the occasion to finish your worst thing you get knocked out [ __ ] it no man and carl is that your goal as well to get the knockout and you're the man coming in here with the strap you you have more to lose let's be honest the strap is just a piece of plastic you know you want to win the fight um you want to put on the best performance possible and you want to get the knockout and that's every time i get in there that's what i'm looking to do put on a good performance entertain the crowd and and get the knuckle so be no different this time can i just ask like um obviously this has been like like crazy crazy times for everyone obviously you guys are getting back into doing what you love the most but like what's it what's the sort of driving force behind your ambition to get in there and put on a performance so like jordan can i ask you first please what's your sort of what drives your ambition to uh go out there um i love fighting a lot that's just as corny and as jesus as cerns i actually love every aspect of the sport i love getting in there and you could ring me on a week's notice and i haven't had training and if you give me a fight i'm taking it like i love fighting i love putting myself against tests and i actually carry santa with that fight a year and a half ago i watched i watched that fight a year and a half ago because you know i was always watching when i was getting mma i wanted to use my weight and stuff like that there and i watched him on the belt and i i sort of ahead of that hey man right he's a champion out there i want to i want to fight them someday and then it's down the lane it's it's good the way it's worked out yeah um but yeah that's that's pretty much it yeah carl what about yourself for troy view man yeah it's just a passion i look down and i love training every day and i love getting in there and fighting um there's there's no better buzz either that adrenaline rush just before before you getting in there and then when you get in there just enjoying it you know um so that's why that's what that's what drives me here okay and lads yeah i'll start off with jordan just in case you think we're picking jordan first all the time carl we're just going with the challenger first we don't we don't we don't have a preference here we don't have a preference here um jordan who was your fighting hero fighting hero yeah um fighting hero and when i was when i was boxing i love watching floyd mayweather and stuff um i'm not too sure about fighting hero obviously conor is [ __ ] he's laid the path for all irish mma fighters which is kind of a given like but i'm not too sure but hero probably probably saying muhammad ali here's something that got there just because of how how prestigious they are yeah how could you not say muhammad ali yeah anytime anyone says it's like all right grant no explanation needed what about you carl yeah would have been the same eh ali and just yeah the grace pacquiao when he was in his prime love watching pacquiao as well his combination function was was great and who else probably probably actually um juan manuel marquez who's ever heard of him mexican footer yeah packing apart four times against each other yeah yeah yeah and america has knocked them out in the fourth the last the last week um very good four or so that was going to last yeah what about euros oh geez uh i haven't added but like in terms of may like gsp was always my hero um got to see his last fight against biz being live in madison square garden so it doesn't get much better than that i suppose it'd be rude not to ask you now about i'm going to i secretly my favorite my favorite ever is like it would have to be katie taylor i think like just what she's doing for the country and everything she represents i think is like it's one of the main reasons why i love this sport you know especially like if the combat sports man's up in lake arsenal stop the lights but guys i don't know which one you want to tell the story but you guys are actually booked for each other before was that right yeah they're a book for clown wars there and the sugar put back or whatever um i have made weird for 93 but it was a [ __ ] and a nightmare of a wake up to be honest i was coming off coming off the sofa more or less coming off at the very beginning i started the four weeks i was up around 115 kilo maybe more okay so i'm 110 right now so like well that doesn't sound rough russ you might be the standing man so get ready probably around 112 actually 112 and then coming down then and then the last two weeks i lost the angles i cut i cut a good bit and then i made weight and the sugar put back and they come back and tried to we tried to sort it away between us but i obviously whenever you lose that much weight you put it back on again so it was impossible for me making 83 um and then cars came obviously wasn't happy that it was so much bigger although i would have although it would have been that weird anyways we'd have fought but i think it was just the fact of of knowing that i was that we had sort of put them off a bit but i'm happy enough we're getting it done now like i knew we'd end up fighting down the line anyway because there are only two ones really about this weird that really want that a proper scrap it is a unique thing i don't know carl do you want to add on to that story or yeah basically yeah that's that doesn't start really we weighed in at like 91 91 and a half or something like that yeah i was walking around at 92. that's what i usually go up to about 94 but then once again at the camp the weight just falls off me so i'm 92 so when they when the fight just got pushed back and i think they wanted that like 90 or 100 kilo force then 97 that looks fought no problem with the team it was probably the right decision the team said no way look hold off don't they don't fight it that way so we just held off and you get to do it now tell me this um do you believe you have an advantage then carl if you won't have to cut much weight for this fight an advantage yeah i don't know i don't know i wouldn't say advantage no i'd imagine that john has lost the weight and he's on weight now i'm i'm i'm on it now like i'm i'm on i'm 93 on the bottom like so it's not there's no way caught this time um i think he's jordan jordan's on that chicken and broccoli's oil sponsored um no i think that uh i think if anything it's going to be a disadvantage this time no if he got me when i was fat it would have been a hell of a lot easier for him on there you know if you take a look at my last performance and clown mars it wasn't that's not the way i felt at all i was heavy in my feet and the punches i wasn't even i barely touched them because i was just i wasn't sharp whereas now the weight's down my feet i'm lighting my feet and the punches are sharp so i'm going to be twice as hard about a report for him now than i was than i would have been if i could have took out five forward on four weeks notice um what happened to obviously you're both going in there and you're both looking for the knockout but are you prepared to go the distance if that's what it takes i would love i would love a wire like i would love just to smile i would love it just as much as an awkward i would love to stand for three rounds and get bloody and [ __ ] no broken noses and stuff like that that's a shot on monday like i love that stuff so i'd be all that if gary if gary was up for like everyone ever went that way like yeah yeah absolutely look what we've prepared for everything for the we know it's just going to be a standoff for you we're going to go for an okay one if it goes three rounds which i don't think it will but those got three rounds it's obvious there you have it yeah it's it's not gonna get much better than that is it no and to be honest i actually really enjoyed this crack and i'm sure everyone else watching it as well we can't believe we will be taking on each other this weekend it's tenure we're putting the link down in the description uh like this is not being missed in the light heavyweight champ for the light heavyweight championship we're also cam saturday can't wait 10 year old will you give us an end of a tenner demand i'll pay for both our subscriptions that's him we'll try a little voyage in may and i'm knocking on lloyd lads i'm actually really excited for your fight um lloyd heavyweight division is a rare thing for our people so it's great to see top irish prospects going how to talk in the light heavyweight division the big boys and i'm looking forward to seeing it yeah guys just before i wrap things up uh like obviously like it's it's hard enough to get a sponsor these days but especially certain ones would need a shadow uh jordan could you tell us what um sponsors you have and uh just so you they get an honorable mention before you wrap things up yeah a hundred percent um i've got jury ready apparel they've looked after me giving me some like nice clothing putts for my training camp and stuff um 70 degrees street kitchen and bio punk nutrition i started out all my supplements and stuff that like fall camp like it was it was brilliant anyway um trying to say i don't want to leave anybody out this is the worst that's right my head's all blank we'll make sure to tag some of the uh car working yourself you can mess with us after we'll type them in yeah call any sponsors yeah john connors just the one for me john connor is in the iso oil strength institute uh strength conditioning coach best in ireland um red hair that's the red hair guy yeah he's not known well yeah yeah top ladder nice and that's that's and shout out to the responses as well because without without sponsors these athletes can't uh give it a 100 of themselves uh before we wrap things up no i think yeah on this occasion plasma we'll let the lads have one last final word is there anything you want to say to each other before fight night good luck sorry man i can't wait to get on there that's it unless they were thanksgiving coming on right this is absolutely brilliant cracking sure everyone that's watching right now make sure to like comment and subscribe because uh this is good they paid the 10 euro as well yeah get that card out and pay the 10 euro go is this going to be an absolute epic night the best skill to both fighters uh i don't know if you can root for both people in the fight but uh we will be maybe me and barry will flip a coin beforehand like heads as one and tails is the other yeah uh but we'll definitely be looking forward this and as barry said if you are watching this video make sure to like share subscribe and as always stay energized