Ian Garry | Cage Warriors Update | What Next For Usman? | Bellator's Return | 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 "The Future" Garry to announce his upcoming fight with Cage Warriors, We discuss the UFC Welterweight division after Kamaru Usman's win at UFC 258 & Bellator's return in April. Check…

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Kind: captions Language: en okay what's going on guys and welcome to a brand new episode of energized ross introduce the guest man we have the one the only the undefeated prospect out of dublin ireland it is in the future gary in what's up boys you give us he gives us the lloyd's point away gives the light for the crackers there was massive news that just came out cage warriors and can you just enlighten the fans the future fans of what the news is yeah so they've just uh obviously they've got fights coming up soon but they have just released their next uh kind of couple of fights in their schedule for the rest of the year and they're looking at saying they're we're going to california they're looking at dublin potentially belfast london and paris so there's some big news coming and look it's interesting it's nice to see i mean obviously k-drawers have still been able to like put on shows during during lockdown and during cover and it's like i'm exceptionally grateful and i know a lot of the fighters are because we're still being able to do what we love and put our put our skills on display and and and continue our our careers and let the hype kind of keep keep going and if there's no pause in the momentum as we say so it's massive news to think that they've got they've got a nice couple of uh fights scheduled and different areas and different different countries and places so it's brilliant news i'm gonna say it's a credit to all the other staff and um okay drawers and all the all the fighters really because everyone's ready to go yeah looking forward to seeing what's next i mean obviously the cage warriors trilogy series is back kicking back off on thursday the 18th of march do you have a date on the trilogy and do you have an opponent so you will be delighted to know i signed a contract this morning um i've been waiting for it for a couple of weeks and it has been confirmed as far as i'm aware but the contract once it's sent we just need one more thing now we just need to be posted we're ready to go and i'm not going to announce the opponent right now i left i left it the cage or his staff do that however i will let you know that i'm fighting on march 19 on the friday show so big things big things sounds like it could be open near the the headline at could be it could be rightfully where we should be should i add absolutely absolutely will there be a welterweight toil fight after trilogy and will you be in it no i won't both okay both this is bigger so i'll leave you with that wait till you find out and and you'll understand what i mean let's leave it at that very well thank you guys there it's finally a good opponent that i can show off my skills against and when i go in there and put on a performance that i know i'm gonna put on like i do every single time it's just gonna it's just gonna put everyone on i notice um not not that i already i'm not that i need to anymore it's just it's going to kind of just back up everything i've been saying since day one so yeah i'm just gonna i'm just gonna ask one question the opponent ian is the opponent european yes okay ross take your guess what it is i don't know i assume he's gonna avoid something he's probably maybe fought in ufc before maybe like a nicholas dalby i don't know who knows let's see what happens there i'm sure i'm sure we'll get the d swinging i'm sure it'll be announced soon enough i mean the contract signed so i'd assume it'd be out soon i just i don't know what i'm i'm leaving there that'll deal with those but yeah it's done it's signed we're on it we're gonna put on a performance we're gonna get another win then we're gonna call for that belt in the future gary on the california show that must be something that you're you're looking at going like a trip to california before it will be killed i mean like for me to put my feet in the sand and sit there and have a nice fight i sit down and enjoy myself after a nice fight i wouldn't say no to that i mean if you're gonna if you're gonna represent the cage or his brand who better to to do it than the the best looking fighter in in the organization and the biggest mouth so i mean like i think part of the enjoyment something to say about that oh would you stop paul hughes is nowhere near as good looking as me he knows that i know everyone knows it and would you would you hope to fight for the cage warriors fell in california or would you rather almost slot in an extra fight and then when if they do come back to dublin or even belfast right there you could have the most amount of potential fans at an event and fights in your hometown or would you make your first defense in the hometown so my plan is to get this fight on a march always looking at whatever what's in front of me i like to plan for the future but i always look at what's right in front of me and i never kind of look past it in a sense of all my attention is on that but i'd like three fights this year i'd like to get this fight done make a statement fight for the belt then ideally i'd love to fight okay if the option to fight for a belt in dublin is there i'm going to take a moment if there's no there's no there's no other way i'd want it to go and to win the belt in my hometown and go home and see my family afterwards and i mean and enjoy it and and then sit and see what options are available then do we go up and fight for a middleweight belt do we defend the welterweight belt did the ufc come calling who knows that's that's putting myself in a situation where i can just sit back and look at my options and see what see what's there in front of me and that's that's my plan but i have to get this fight on a match first make a statement and then you take each other as it comes but that's that's the plan if you want to know what's what you know how's the plan for the 2021. well if if i was grain boiler what i would be doing is i'd have ian gary fight the trilogy i'd have headlined the california show and i would make dana white come to the cage wire show at the white looking for a fight and i don't think i don't think ian gary will see dublin kate warriors how does that sound i mean look i mean i mean maybe you should be graham boylan because that sounds good to me but that sounds good to me but i but look ian wants that strap i've had this chat with chris it's not a necessity anymore to have that to have that cage always built i mean you see people getting signed all the time but you're blessed in in in the division and have made my way from my debut to now and go 6-0-7 and i'll win the belt and prove that i've i've done it the right way and i've done it my way and i've earned it i want to earn that gold and earn that title and then move on to bigger and better things and just keep progressing and showing everybody how how [ __ ] good i am right now is well sorry russ when did we first i've been in the show in your house 2018 is yeah what was your record after you'd be uh or before you i don't know whether it was before after i think you have to be we're still an amateur at that stage oh yeah yeah yeah amateur yeah i'd say a lot oh no buzz maybe we don't know when you were when you i was you know when i was a pro yeah the pro hadn't fought a couple of amateur fights yeah yeah it was amateur yeah well jesus like but it's funny it's funny how seeing you there and then you were just dying to jump straight into ufc probably like after one flight but now like you've totally slowed things down and you're like taking all in you're taking it one step by step it's it's it's the evolution of you over the last two and a half years it's a lot to do with with chris chris is kind of just going look it he's like you're good enough he's like you're gonna get there you don't need to rush you've heard graham saying as much as i don't like to say it like you've seen it with rhys jumped in a bit too early like i don't want to be a late notice like a late replacement i'm not a replacement for anyone i'm i'm the [ __ ] that's the way i'm looking at this lens if the cage will if ufc want me then they come and get me they don't come and get me for relate late replacement i'm like i'm going to be a star where the person i am it's just a way the way i am is it i'm going to i'm gonna be marketable i'm gonna fight i'm gonna put it put a showcase on every time i'm in there and i'm i'm confident i can speak it'll be stupid to put me in there on short notice to be a replacement they want to put me in there against someone build it up and that's the way it will go and i'm in no rush i mean i i'd happily finish off the year three fights in cage orders and then signed the ufc by the end of this year and the way i look at it is this year is my final year of an apprenticeship and it's now like i just have to finish this year off and we're good to go and we're ready to to go off in the world and take over well i'm also um you know i listened to you on layla's podcast for always knocks and uh you know there was so there were some uh nice ufc stars in there where alec minto was on there and molly mccann darren stewart and i will say you fit right in there so uh you'll you'll breeze into that ufc no bother i don't think there's anywhere i wouldn't go where i would be heard i'm loud enough like you hear me before you see me so yeah yeah people say that about me too being like obviously like you're gonna be fighting on the trilogy but also that weekend there's gonna be clown wars and the week after it's gonna be caged legacy as well it's good it's a great time for ourselves today isn't it it's absolutely fantastic it's amazing because i get to see so me and my so many of my teammates who haven't been given a platform to fight and and showcase their skills oh that they've been they've been learning and grinding away over the last year i mean that two teammates of mine uh taka mandu and ryan shelley are fighting and they're making their pro debuts on clan wars the last time they fought was on the same night in bolton at the end of 2009 i think it's 2019 they didn't fight all 20 20. um i think i'm writing that now it could be wrong but yeah so like the progression both of those guys have made and there's so much more fun from the gym like it's ridiculous like i'm not going to say any more because i don't want to leave anyone out but like i was out there last fight we went over to bolton and and they put children put on amazing performances and they were ready then and now they put so much time and effort into training they're ready now and it's like they they're just going to be on a different level when they get into arcades and they jump from their last fight and this fight is going to be ridiculous so i'm just super excited to see the gym progress and the gym move on and it's not just the likes of me and and james webb who are assigned to k drawers because obviously we were blessed with covered that cage always could still put on events and it's nice to see the gym the lads in the gym who are putting the hard work and putting in the spa and the time and just they're not getting anything else but i finally been able to get on and it's great for irish mma as well to have all these shows back up and running them it's good it's good to see one photo i'm really looking forward to on the regional scene is actually page legacy and it's leonard hill versus paula han i think that's going to be an epic what's your thoughts on that sorry you broke up it's going to be a what an epic fight the people's main event for me huh yeah the people's main event we've done that lads leon is liam is doing not not dirty leon is a killer right and i have so much respect for leon i have so much respect he's so game leon was over doing a weight they're doing do it like doing the corner with me when i was fighting um in september against george manus and i asked him to come over because we put a lot of time in in camps together and i said to him then and he'd say it now i said to him look here's how come he's going to go i said i switch into a different zone when i'm going to fight camp i said i'm going to box them out off but i guarantee by the end of it your level is going to jump a serious amount because you'll have no choice but to fight back and if he didn't fight back he's not a fighter and he brought it every single day and since then he's just shown because he stepped in on short notice he caught a load away two days like on two days notice he cut a load away and he went in there and was game now he's he's focused he's got his mind on the prize which is this pro debut he's gonna go in there he's gonna put on an amazing performance and lives look i've not been against parliament but i'm telling you now leon was gonna run trump and that's just it i'm just like no i'm just looking forward to seeing all these doors to be honest it's gonna be great look leo yeah it's going to be massive or it's amazing i speak i speak about leon so confidently because he's literally one of my main inspiring partners we do rounds together he started coming doing standing conditioning with me i like him a lot he's he's like my little sidekick now we're like but we're both just absolutely on it at the moment we're just getting after and he's he's he's willing to put the hard work in he's willing to put the hours in and put his body through it through the hell and yeah i've i've no doubt that he's going to go in there and put on a performance that that he deserves to to put on and it's good and i'm happy that he's got a camp for and he's not just trying to get me ready for he's got he's in he's in the right mindset just watch and wait you'll see what i mean when it happens well bosmo should we shift gears from the local scene in ireland to you know uf ufc 258 and what a beautiful performance put in by camaro and a lot of people have a lot of negative things to say about karma kamara usman i think he almost unfairly gets targeted as a boer and fighter yeah the fight against massive born but the war against covington was brilliant on this football fight i just thought the way he executed that job was beautiful and give us your breakdown and tell us about utah you're a division i thought it was yeah my division that's my belt i'm getting a bunch of worried boys that's coming in the in the future right that's why we haven't heard it all right i'm sure i've said it i'm sure i'm sure i've said it many times that that belt will be mine and i'm sure you said that every time you've been on the show i'm sure i'm sure i have um so i was massively impressed with uh the performance from ozman i've never doubted it um i he's he's always so consistently good and he's so solid and and the problem with him is a lot of people don't bring the fight to uzman and that's why it's considered boring because when you inspire someone like him for example like if you're in the gym you know that guy's dangerous everywhere you've got to be careful you don't run in and try to just knock him out because why because he's going to take you down and smash the [ __ ] teeth out of your mouth he's like he's a dangerous guy he's a strike you've seen what he's done to woodley he ragged do you know what i mean he's big he's strong he's athletic he's smart he's technical he's not stupid he doesn't make a lot of mistakes and then on the feet he's just getting better and better and better and that's why i was interested to see the work that trevor whitman had put in with him and and it clearly showed that his striking had gotten better um 100 percent take down defense in the ufc i'm pretty sure like he's never been taken down never knocked down either never knocked out well yeah debatable uh you still couldn't need him in the face so i don't care about that as long as my face you know what you know what i i agree i agree with you he didn't get nothing he got crack yeah but he took a knee he was on his feet he put his hand down he recorded yeah i don't even think he did to anything you just put your hand down and then got back up but um just but you just posted that you just posted yeah he was just he was just pretending he just wanted guild and burns to blow his gas tank that was it um i was massively impressed because it was such a solid performance the composure get to get rocked early against a guy's got heavy hands to when you've you've put them down to not engage in the grappling to to to understand that look that's his best aspect to win this fight is to me to get carried in and drawn into this i can be him like the ego to just stand there and just kick his legs and be like look if you don't want to get up i'm going to hurt you i'm going to hurt you um it was it was brilliant and then the finish was just that switch that switched the cell pot up boom straight left straight right jab hook over on his arse and then just the composure to just land every shot in the in the strike and on the ground apparently was beautiful it just shows that he's now surpassed gsp in in consecutive wins in the welterweight division he has earned his spot as as one of the best welterweights to ever grace the ufc and there's a lot of potential matchups that he can go on now and go on a tear because i mean he's already beaten mass without he's already beaten woodley he's already beaten burns he's already beaten covington and edwards and edwards who else you give him what's next i don't know well that's not that's what we're going to get into it but i just have to announce one thing right uh in the lot the longest win streaks in ufc history anderson silva's on 16. pokemon mario uzman is now joined second with max holloway demetrius johnson jon jones khabib and gsp for 13. gsp just announced today that he's not interested in coming back to fight camaro huzman for the welterweight title so lads this is what everyone wants to know where does the uc go now with the welterweight situation because we've been told there's going to be uh an ultimate fighter and potentially welterweight um coaches as well so like ross what way do you see this well landscape coming because like oozman's almost wiped the floor with everyone well i think what way it will go in what way it should go are going to be two diff totally different things and i think ufc is gonna try and do another block bait poster paid view with jorge masada and camaro husband i think they will coach the ultimate fighter and i think they will square up sometime in the summer against each other uh on another pay-per-view last time they did um um paid for you i think it did over 1.3 million pay-per-view boys it's a bit like um conor mcgregor justin 483 like is it probably a match to make in terms of vision no but when you do gangbusters on pay-per-view ufc they scrap all all the divisional sense and they put on the fight that makes the most money also it looks like ufc is going to seriously push to get leon edwards to fight colby covington next so i almost think you have a little semi-final bracket there and anyone outside those four i think has a decent way to go for a title shot i even think if you look at something like cosmos you know he hasn't fought in three months now his name is like deteriorating um as time goes on so i think he'll probably have to get two fights before he gets belted i think the only way he was going to get that belt was going through leon edwards and if he's not getting one of those top guys next i'd probably have to win two ian what did you make of that yeah i mean it's it's hard to it's hard to think i mean i don't think you can justify giving jorge massadal a title shot when his last fight was a loss like two oozman um i don't think he deserves i understand it was short notice and if you want to argue that with me i'll be like look give him a camera it's like i mean matador still went in there and put on a fight like a camp's not really going to make much of a difference like it's i think this one's going to just dominate the fight again i think he'll just take it pick him apart i mean it's it's it's just it's it's really hard to think what's going to happen next because he literally has nearly wiped out the entire division at least all the top contenders i mean you need to have a big performance of someone i mean you're talking about kamza i don't think comes out is going to be in a title shot anytime soon i think he does need two more fights i'd like to see him fight like a woodley or something like that and just get another and one more big name before he could fight someone for that number one contender spot i think they i think edwards versus covington is a great scrap i mean if coming to wins that fight then rematch covington and new zealand because it was such a good fight the first time then maybe potentially you give gilbert burns comes out do you know what i mean i mean he's up there as one of the top top like prospects in in the ufc and in the world gilbert burns is coming off a loss he's game to fight anyone and not a lot of people clearly want to fight kamsa and like if i'm gilbert burns i'm like right i can derail this hype train i can take everything again and and earn myself back to a title shot i think that's a great fight for him um so yeah what would come what do you think of kanza first with molecular kiesa yeah it's a good fight i didn't even think about oh my jesus no one ever decor michael jason no one ever thinks about him no i feel bad you know what i didn't know he was fighting i was doing a voice notes with leila and all that all the all the guys the voice notes and i didn't even know that he was fighting that week i was so unaware and then he goes out and puts on a performance like that he's um yeah he was very impressive i'd like to see him up there i'd like to see he's someone that i'd like to see in up in the mix and get another high highly ranked opponent and show off his skills and see because i mean if he goes in and gets another win you're talking right he's in there too so what about what happened with that he came off a very good win i think i think his hands are broken or something but like i wouldn't want something casa versus wonderboy was like at least stylistically that's an interesting fight i'd watch that fight i'd watch casey versus wonder boy well that's right really that's it welterweight division's in a bit of a pickle right now because guzman's just dominated everybody well that's that's one of the main reasons why we had to get you on like if you're looking at the ultimate fighter what two coaches would you actually be interested in tuning in and watching like covington and masuda that would be like fairly block poster even put shamoyev in there against anyone that would be very interesting it's just um do they even need to have these two coaches coach and then fight each other for the titles but this does because camaro this one isn't overly maybe maybe the ultimate fighter is great for camaros so people get to know more i think that's really what he's lacking well i think also the fact that he won the ultimate fighter would make him like a good coach on it as well i i think camaros never you're never gonna watch camaros from press conference to walk away and go jesus he was brilliant but what you will do is i suppose your record eventually will speak for itself um i i only went back and watched camaro camaro ism's uh tough finale um right now that's that's that was very nice for me to see i watched that fire went that's not that impressive not at all so it's nice to see but it shows the progression it shows the hard work i think that was in 2015 it shows how in his way obviously clearly 13 wins in a row like he's he's proven he is legit so i don't think guzman should waste his time doing tough i don't think it's gonna it's gonna it's gonna build his brand up any more than it would if anything i wouldn't want to see him against myself do it against covington talk let them talk [ __ ] but i don't think he needs to do that i think you give him a couple more fights you got like look in terms of purposes like for argument's sake we will go with this you've got the mastodon rematch you've got the covington rematch they're too massive so master that brings a lot of eyes to the to the division because he's just he is a star you know what i mean he is he's got this if if you introduce him and then leon throw him into the mix there's three fights he's beaten it's it's really hard just leave us and do what he wants let him sit on the top of his throne and let master darling covington coach the ultimate father well he really is the noise and he's he's causing a nightmare for you so you might make he's a problem you know what like you know what it's so hard to actually pick the correct thing i do think what the ufc will do or do you think would be mazda and husband asked both coaches i think jorge maslow is a star until he loses his next fight and if he is going to lose next fight you might as well try and make a start the champion off his back and no better way especially because this is going to be the first open fighter on espn as well they're going to want to bring in fireworks and it doesn't get more fireworks than jorge masdale and camaro agreed agreed and also i think covington would be great but like you'd almost have to be afraid of what he'd say on on espn if you're following around for too long i know but like that's love him or hate him like like he he he's an absolute like savage in the cage i mean he's given camaro isn't his toughest fight and it's like yeah he you run that back there's no saying that he doesn't win that fight i mean it was close like i remember i had it i had it 2-2 going into the final round same thing um so it's run it back like that's that's the fight if you're asking me what to find i'd say i'd like to see him coming to do it again so that's that's what i would like to do well so finish off i would like to see that i fight him let's go let's go come on to finish off the uh camaro usman chat where would you rank camaro uzman in the pound for pound rankings right now oh you have minute number three i have um what no say no no no no wait what order we going in one talk to me walk me through your order come on let's get into this so i have jon jones number one good man yeah um who do i have number two well it depends on whether khabib's in the rank i would put it as jon jones one i would put it as addisonia a two at the moment because we're obviously taking kabib as a time just to clear that out at a sanyetta two i would have it was been a tree and probably stipe or volkanovsky maybe a four yeah put sleeping in and then probably yeah probably among the nunas then because like she's the goat of the women's so i think they have their own list now that women still i think i think they should i don't think you can create a greatest of all time in in men's and women's i think it's they should be separate they're like like she is by far we go in in in women's mma like she is just insane and i think yeah i think guzman's up there i think i look as much as i don't think it's it's it's possible for him to beat jon jones because he's just he's gonna have to go on an absolute tear and like jon jones his record look when you take out the the steroids you know i mean he's still he's still he still beat every single guy and like i know he he's look he's soiled he he's pissed on his own [ __ ] grave like he's he's he's he's done it himself like it's his own fault that he has this asterisk beside his name but i i just i think he's still he's still amazing and and to even juice or no juice it's still hard to do what he did at light heavyweight or yeah i like heavyweight every single time you're going up there again it's the next best guy so i mean oozman's on trend i mean he's we're sitting here talking about who's next like there is no one he's beating everyone i mean he literally is he's on that way he's on that on that trajectory him and ardasanya so it's quite two to see the two africans go at it and i i was listening to the post conference with dana white he's saying that could potentially have three african champions by the end the next month and the next month no no yeah you say april i think that's crazy i mean unless that is a that is a massive possibility i know i know i know that first fight like was insane by stipe but it only takes one dig he he's almost like a superhero like um that meowtic is kryptonite it's it's it's it's ridiculous like it's it's so like he's so big and he's so powerful it's just like what like like surely like he just has to work tight and defense and he is the baddest man on the planet like oh you're not you're not you're aspiring as well oh that's he's an animal he's an animal silicon is a savage oh he's someone i want to keep my eyes on him and him and he's going for two weeks yeah him and tom him and tom aspen are my uh uh two people that i'm watching heavyweight that could go all the way and that's that that they're very good i think sierra grounds are silent i think thomas mann is a top broken he's also a savage so heavyweight divisions looking good lance it's gonna it's getting good got some yogurt give us a quick uh pound for poundless there gives your top three to this my feature i'm going to have to just go jon jones adasanya and oozman and the funny thing is i don't think we've ever talked as long about camaro uzman until now but when when some of that happens you have to really stand up and take notice and ross you said last week you think you expected camaros to gain the respect you deserved and that's exactly what he got so uh you hit the nail better put some respect on his name huh anyone he said anything else you want to mention from the um ufc 258 warm big shadow i want to give out to is sanchez sanchez uh he won boy guillotine um i can't remember the name of the guy he fought for vienna how does that he put a guillotine on a 17-time world champion in bjj and if you asked me before and you laid out the card to go what is the most unbelievable finish in the entire night i would have said sanchez to be vieira voiced by his mission oh actually um boyce missions win so he owes me a point that's probably one of the biggest upsets in mma history that's like damian meyer getting submitted i don't know if you mentioned that he was under the vehicle yeah by wonderboy yeah literally it's it's it's just something you don't see it's it's crazy and like yeah like adolfo is as legit as they come i'm pretty sure adolfo vieira is the most um accomplished grappler in mma i could be pulling that on my ass but i think he's the most accomplished as in he's won the most world titles and he is the most decorated and he just got submitted he just got submitted it just goes to show that you can be the best at any single kind of aspect of the sport but you have to be okay sorry about that if the if the signal has been bad sorry about that we come here every week it's bleeding hurricanes outside of dublin uh hurricanes any time any time you show up but that's ultimately did you notice this julia marquez uh he won him daniel uh tuesday contender series after his win this weekend after a couple years off at least i didn't realize it was off for a few years but then uh molly sawyers are shouting about saying if you if you shave mc into your chest that she's all his and then he was like if you get a tattoo saying a human missile crisis over your over your belly button you can i'll come well i've been saying i'll come back you know what i mean but uh very sorry checking out this [ __ ] ian you never know who could be watching the cage water strategy when that said someone in the ufc that's going to sign me up soon eventually i couldn't care less there there you go what was jennifer lopez i couldn't care less all right fair enough i've just heard of we're like lads nights lads the ufc is the goal you see ain't nothing stopping me ain't nothing getting in the way ain't no stopping you right the lads this weekend right ufc is back battle of the big dogs curtis blade is taking on derrick lewis in the heavyweight division in before you head off because we are going to be discussing more mma once in heads off ian what do you what you make for this headline i think it's a good fight i think curtis blades is gonna win i think he's gonna i think he's gonna take him down and i think he's gonna ground a pound they get a good finish i think look it's it's a good fight i just think curtis blades is is is really good really solid and yeah it's it's all up to derek lewis if derek lewis can stop the takedown then you know i mean he has heavy heavy hands so all right if i was a batman i'd be putting my money on curtis plates same here you're asking about yourself uh i really really thought about this and i actually think curtis blades could be one of the best in the world i know he's ranked up there but he could beat steven he's ranked number three yeah isn't he his problem is that he's lost toys to francis and ghana so he's praying for francis and gano to lose steven ufc 260. but honestly for whatever reason i don't understand why any person would want to fight francis in god yeah well i don't think stephen did really either he didn't have much choice he didn't want that's what i mean like like i don't think like no one wants it like i'm like it's fair like he is an absolute specimen like you look at him and he's what like he's he's the type of person you don't want to see in the middle of a road like that looking at you like you take off and run like you don't even walk that way you just turn around because you know there's no way you would not fight right now there's no way unless you're sleeping unless you're sleeping down the road that's just yeah he's going to pull out uh he's going to be sort of licking people for however they'd pull out them like look john jones jon jones how do you think john johnson's a heavyweight oh i think he has all the capabilities been world champion there as well i think he'd be able to beat stipe as well to be honest i i think look john jones has a chain on him but i don't know if any chain is capable of taking a solid punch from from mangano so i think but that's the thing if jon jones those go open with that belt there is no one ever ever that can argue i don't care about steroids and this one okay because you've got to be light heavyweight and heavyweight champion of the world and be undefeated in the ufc yeah apparently so i think he's john actually has probably got double x so i think he'll be able to take him down almost straight away y'all the only issue is the long like that long kind of thing doesn't work against in ghana because he's just gonna run at you but like it's that if you can just clinch up and just take him down it's we'll see we'll see but it just pisses me off with john johnson this old steroids thing said why'd you have to do that you [ __ ] tick it seem like everyone else is doing it you know i mean look at lance armstrong like he was doing me how's it tuning me who knows anymore do you know who knows anymore i'm i'm going to be a world champion when i still have love handles so there's no argument here who's going to be like if i'm on them or not like i can tell you two people who aren't on steroids ian gary and derek lewis who's gonna pick derrick lewis just to go go get slots and also i feel like if you can stuff the takedown or you can catch him on the way in and he's been caught on the way in before i think he might be able to do it also he's actually weirdly athletic there too so i was even trolling flying there he is so uh he's looking more accurate these days after his surgery yeah i think got his back fixed i think he walk around crocs but also all you love nothing more with derrick lewis possibly and he's like hands on his knees pretending he's knackered and then someone listens and he tries to decapitate them please possum oh my god come here is tom osborne along this car as well yes yes it's gonna be a bit of box and brilliance two of the best technical boxers in ufc heavyweight roster definitely ask them aspirin gonna show the young guns are gonna be coming up and he's gonna i think i think astronaut makes like working up boys didn't their loss cannot come off a great win against um another open comer in his most recent fight and the rejuvenation of his chicken well i think he's got four of his last fights uh before that he was like chinny mcchinnerson you know and so fair playtime [Music] oh yeah actually he was a massive open corner i actually think i'll pick time browser to be one of the head weights to watch out for this year um but i do think anytime marlowski fights there's a little bit inside you no matter who he fights you're sort of rooting for him a little bit because he's such an lg i think he was like headway champion at ufc 18. uh we're gonna yeah we're gonna let we're gonna let you lager right and i do apologize for everyone who's tuned in the weather outside it's bad what can you do you know i mean but uh ian i don't know if you know it's covered we'll blame the word it would blink home i know i'm gonna cover the internet i'm gonna swim after that this after but uh in if you didn't know myself and ross are said to be on the uc 259 countdown video the official video and uh we're meant to be like um the beginning not the russell we're gonna be we're gonna we're gonna announce ufc 259 israel alessandra versus yamlhovich is family homes couch when it comes to tea and coffee right now to ut259 let's make it up i love it lads i love it congratulations that's massive meals well done yeah next thing you know we're going to spoil it um we'll be part of the announce team for you and gary first flight hey look hey look no i'm too bad a man to hype me up i'm just saying yeah and thanks and thanks a lot for coming on uh if you are new to the show make sure to like and subscribe because we will have ian on again bills with this fight and else to say before we let you go i'm just better than everyone else and that's it i will talk to you all later all right ross so we just had the future on let's make it up entertaining as always uh absolute legends big fan and uh i'm very much so sorry for his voice yeah like just as stuffy when you're even looking at his stories he's he's getting a big push from cage warriors as much as he can like obviously doing all the stuff with all the all the ufc fighters and stuff dude there's something it's almost like yeah he's the newer paddy pimlet you know see two different stories although he was funny because he was on that voice i was thinking with paddy coming today i feel like um he's what they wish paddy pinot was i feel like you know he's that bit out there he's that bit more arrogant he's that big cockier if you know me yeah i feel like uh patty pin almost has like a bit of skills or humbleness about if you know me maybe like because he's never lost he's at least like he doesn't think he will ever lose if you know what i mean he like i don't think he believes it's possible which is probably what makes him so confident in there and you can see it in there as well it's just exciting for for us covering our channel so it's it's it's it's cool for everyone either people are going to like her this like i think either way people are going to tune in they want to know what he has to say but um russ bellator announced last week that the comeback the first one is going to be on friday april 2nd so they're coming back in just over a month and a half time um first things first they announced that they're setting up a show time this is a huge con like a huge partnership but uh and they're also going to be showing events on friday nights as well ross so like what to make of that before we get into the everything else i do think that then selling michelle time is a massive deal and i think in hindsight we were both saying in the background what's the story of bellator like you know yeah obviously no fights happening in march around obviously they announced fights for early april we're saying the ufc is on a bleeding hype train and like full steam ahead two two bellator are they the dust and then we're also seeing you know local shows in ireland you're putting on dates before bellator put on dates well then tomorrow for show time is probably worth waiting for they probably didn't want to do any shows until that deal was finalized and it makes sense understandably yeah i think it was worth the wait um i think the production value that chow town will bring to bellator will be absolutely fantastic like showtime brought us conor mcgregor versus floyd mayweather uh amongst many other massive combat sports events and i think freudian is the perfect night for bellator to put their shows on there's no point then going head-to-head with the ufc they will not win and but floyd annoyed is a perfect noise for fights i don't know why they were doing thursday nights before terrible idea friday nights it's brilliant and i think you have more people at home watching there's really more freud knight than you do a home watch not on a saturday night if you take cover out of the world and like put people back in there that's my two cents on a plasma what's your worst yeah you know it was obviously financial problems or d like discrepancies that made them go on thursdays yadda yadda um from listen to weighing in with big john and josh they seem to be saying a lot of stuff that is sort of going into the years of scott coker like i said like this is a better idea this is a better deal this is a better idea accepting the fact that the ufc is the champions league of mma and bellator like it it has a long way to go like obviously it's it's apples and oranges here obviously bellator is a great promotion they've looked after us numerous times but i think they've accepted it's like right we're not gonna we're not gonna try and create a different champions league we're gonna create this our own thing on a friday night they're gonna make friday their home and like when there's a huge ufc event on on a saturday i'm looking forward to so much as a you as is everyone who's checking the show but know now that you're gonna get like a starter on a friday night with bellator and then your main course on the sunday with the with ufc i think it's just brilliant for all mma fans in general yeah i do think if you take the top five in any division of bellator they could go into the top 15 in the ufc well i think where the massive disparity is if you take the worst 20 fighters on the beltway roster put them against the worst 24 years on the ufc roster that's where you get the massive gap and that's where the ufc talent is better there has no bra all of them bellator but i think you're right you know big voice on friday night followed by ufc's big fights on saturday night you know it gives the fans what they want um you know what the last thing as a fan you want to do is actually have to choose between two i'm the boxing man and you want to know you want to catch all the entertainment but i'm pretty sure the boston does a good job of putting itself on before the main card in the ufc i think it's like when canelo alvarez fights like as a main event i think he sort of fights it around one or two a.m and then he can almost watch the canal fight and then turn back on to the ufc for the co-main event the main event and the boxing know that the majority of people are going to be watching the ufc so they hold off ross and the weekend it's the the week after the 12th to the 18th of april like that weekend there's jay paul's [ __ ] ben asking whitaker's fighting costa and the bellator heavyweight grand prix is on as well like i mean like what are they on that weekend you know which is uh i'll be i'm glued to the couch whatever i think we should get into the bellator lloyd heavyweight grand prix yeah well let me just mention this bellator is coming back on the second of april bellator 255. it's gonna be the semi-final practicio pitbull is taking on emmanuel sanchez pipple's obviously the champ champ uh the winner of this fight aj in the final and then ross as you said the heavyweight grand prix tournament was announced and um first of all like some good names and then one name i've never heard of yeah i think it was seven great names supporting the tournament like seven of their best i think you know if you could take out i'm probably gonna butcher his name i'm gonna call him yagaslav dodev oh my god yag shim u radhov yakshim yakshim uh muradov you actually murdered off there you go this is 100 gonna be the clip that i take for the show tomorrow um but he's fighting corey anderson in the first round so let's just pray to god corey anderson wins that how we'll be having more intrigue in the semifinal we'll go if we go in order here right we should just go and order right bellator 256 beta versus machida two um obviously this is a rematch for us the other machine have defeated ron bader now this was for the title yeah i do think they're putting a lot of their eggs and the one basket here haven't ruined better fight in this tournament if their heavyweight champion loses two votes in a row and leon machida does hold a win over roy and better and i think you know that does not look great for the promotion and if you really ask me who i think is going to win i do think the ottoman chief is going to win i still do think he has that elusiveness i still think he has that bit of knockout power i just feel like fader technically from a striking standpoint is not up to lyoto's standards then also well i'm going to go better on that one right now but also don't know russ anthony rumble johnson's back he's taking on your own romero this is this is the fight everyone was looking forward to and then do you think peloto pulled it off greatly i don't think it was announced as sexly as a chord and this is the irresistible force versus the movable object and also maro ronello was like announced them on stage i don't know if you watch this part and i was like is that the rumble johnson here it's like no and then like 10 minutes later he was like are you sure he's not here could've sworn us home somewhere and uh it was it was very very strange but uh i i felt like when they brought the mail onto the stage there should have been a back and forth with the microphone there and then if that makes sense except they sort of brought them out and said they stood there and then then it's the next person i thought that was a bit of a mix trick also whatever way the camera angle was you could actually sort of see them walk up the stairs i don't really like that either i thought it should have i liked the way bellator almost wwe titantron i feel like there should have been like a graphic behind them as if they were walking out and i felt like you see the way they had the ring in the middle yeah i felt like they should have walked down into the ring if that makes sense they sort of did it in a proud way but not really you know what it was like seven out of ten like definitely missed a few tricks you see the way they had scott coker sitting there with maronello and your man who like conor mcgregor was called the wrath which also espionage i think steven espinoza and then i think they had won the matchmakers from between there they should have been up on the stage they went hot from there and the foyers should look mean to to the cage sort of area and talk there because like that's where they're gonna fight not then talk on i'm gonna call it the titans run because they don't know that's to call it yeah rumble romero who are you going for i'm gonna say rumble i think these two are definitely gonna like have a proper knock in the middle um you know what joe romero has an absolutely outrageous chain his neck is like the thickest thing i've ever seen went hard but i feel like rumble dance is gonna crack him at some stage and that's that's gonna be all she wrote because he's been wobbled before but like rumble hits a different animal i'm gonna go romero just to go against you but i have to you know uh then like uh on bellator 257 on april 16th then as we said corey cory anderson is going to be fighting that yak shimra duff and then that's only his first name up or second name absolutely in the first name and then also the headline of the card is going to be nemkoff the champion who defeated ryan better taking on phil davis so like that card's obviously not going to be as good as the other one but like romero and rumble like i mean well i actually think funny enough the winner comes out that's why the bracket i think um i think phil davis will beat nenkov they have split decision first time around i think phil davis is severely under red um just as a 205 pounder across all divisions and i think coriander since my weight corey anderson's been my picture in the entire tournament i just think fighting that guy your wife who grave do you undress me i think he has potentially the least damage run to the toil if that makes sense for this way whoever liked on the other side you don't want to have to fight rumble or roel romero to the last fight until like you're fighting for all the marbles yeah damn uh also like james gallagher was hinting that he's going to be fighting on one of the cards either the second ninth or sixteenth yeah any preference well i think i saw someone on instagram saying it might not be to me now but i think we know he's gonna fight i think he is going to fight patchy mix and i think james gallagher probably would have fought maple but uh maybe it's patchy mix pushing out till may and i think that's a normal contender for the bellator bantamweight title because it was also announced that sergio pettis is going to follow one arch letter for that bantamweight strap yeah so that's going to be on may 7th uh bellator 258 yeah so there you have it they're they're they're slowly but really catching or sorry are they on the same number then as ufc are at the moment well obviously ufc will be a few on for that like that's their 258 is the longest ufc event yeah they because they count every event as a number yeah yeah you'll see views yeah so like russell that sort of wraps things up uh i do want to mention like like there's so many irish bellator fighters that hopefully will get on these cards and then hopefully they'll have them on again like that's like it's just really exciting to have extra content to be able to put out during the like during the upcoming months because there's loads of stuff coming up oh no there is there is that plenty of fight content coming out i'm very much so looking forward to these local shows seeing how they're wrong i don't see the production we will have some fighters on on the show but i i think just for anyone who is watching this wonder what we haven't yet i mean like eight weeks out uh i think it's what five weeks or six weeks for clan wars now and like eight weeks out for a legacy or there are thereabouts it's a long time now people have injuries and some of that so we want to make sure we have you know the fights are definitely going ahead when we have those fighters on we don't want anyone to pull out an injury and then he had someone on and they're not fighting so we want to make sure that they are fine but we'll we'll start those um series sooner or later rather than later i think yeah we have new moisture on the way everyone's going on ground yeah actually our next podcast we'll probably have new equipment so the same will be a lot better because i know some people say when they list their own podcasts and just some podcast apps audio that uh it's a bit hard to listen or you have to have your headphones turned on full blast so hopefully you get the new magazine and that won't be an issue anymore yeah like after all this is a two-man band you know yeah it's a it's a two-one behind down there we finance it ourselves so yeah here i'll also hope you guys enjoy it yeah also before we wrap things up yeah i know we announced the thing we in ufc 259 county and i don't think we went into any detail really about that um what you have to say about that well i think it's like an actually you know flying or cap or whatever it is um you know a notch on the bed post if you're talking those terms [Laughter] but um no it's definitely something that i wouldn't even tell you when we ever did the show we ever thought that was gonna be a thing that we'd feature on a ufc countdown show especially when we talk about immigration yeah exactly here we are i think we're making the right moves i think um we're doing the right things as a whole uh i think you know good things come to those who are persistent and passionate i think we are persistent and passionate and to be honest we can't say too much about it because then we caught us in [Music] they've actually like taken snips from us before and then went i'll we'd make the final cut you know what it looks very much like we're making the final cut on this occasion and also we don't know what visual is going to play as the audio plays over the background so i assume you won't see our faces but you will hear our voices so you'll see a lot yeah you'll see our logo or does he say the energy show or something along those lines but um yeah it's definitely a a big moment for the lads you know let's see what happens so i'll be hopefully hopefully i can edit all this out if we don't get on it but uh but uh yeah also a massive shout out to tiernan bradley fighting this weekend as well and isn't it john cooney as well yeah and is tony fighting as well no he's probably just called after ah typical typical isn't it typically i should have tony brown anyway for preparing for a fight that was held off yeah um right so ross we went over a cage warriors in saying he's coming back and we went over what's well for the next for the welterweight division because that's interesting enough and then bellator's headlight heavyweight grand prix uh next week we're going to be going over all all the stuff from this weekend and obviously it's going to be more stuff as well so i mean like if you are new make sure to like make sure to share make sure to comment make sure to subscribe make sure to what else uh oh don't forget about you have a shout out to give it to kb nutrition yeah share the kb nutrition for a few on the lads um to be honest one of the easiest things is the oats in the morning like i know that's such an easy thing to do but when that's done for you already in the fridge to start the day it's um it sets you for a good day to be honest well one thing i will say is i know you quite well basma i know you're sure you eat breakfast so i know if that's pre-made there for you you'll actually have something to eat before you go otherwise you're very much a coffee in the morning i swear to god i didn't properly eat until about six o'clock today i had two coffees and then probably supported there you know yeah but there you go well he's making your life a lot easier for yourself as you see i have to cut down the adam weight you know well uh russ it was good talking i'm sure we're gonna do this again on sale yeah i'm sure we'll hopefully sometimes this week yeah hopefully the weather is better because it was lovely at some stage today but yeah thanks for everyone for shooting because like this opportunity for uc 251 wouldn't happen without us you know i'm agreeing so guys make sure to like share subscribe and as always stay energized