Darragh Kelly & Kenny Mokhonoana | Bellator Dublin Countdown | Energized Show

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What is up and welcome to the Energized Show! On this episode SBG Ireland's Darragh Kelly & Kenny Mokhonoana join us to discuss their Bellator Dublin matchups on Friday the 23rd of September, Training under Head Coach John Kavanagh & More MMA craic. Like, Comment, Subscribe &…

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Kind: captions Language: en [Music] energize show up the irish okay what's going on guys welcome to a brand new episode of energized rush introduce the guest map today we have two undefeated prospects from spg ireland we have dara the mobile mauler kelly and we have kenny black diamond moc no anna lads how are we doing uh i just want to put it out there uh we were laughing beforehand i called the two last decision versions and they're brought after me now ross yeah there are um absolutely finnish merchants boy uh by nature and dara tell us this it's been a while since we've seen you in the cage how much are you looking forward to getting back in there in front of a home crowd ah it's been too long now it's just six months between shows roughly i'm just trying to get back in as i was ready since the last one so eager now you get going you did you left that cage out of a scratch on you uh well we've been seeing something similar this time around i'll take it if it comes but i'd say this boy i'll have a bit more a bit more fight on him uh but never saying ever it could be another camzy job from the weekend like i'll call him the baller for nothing ross no absolutely no and then and then kenny uh your last fight was actually new ie warriors um how did sony with bellator come about and are you excited to fight with your teammates on the card as well yeah 100 it's been um it's been a long time coming i was supposed to fight on the last day of atator card but i just um i didn't get on the card for whatever reason and then um i went to the uae and got a victory there and then john and dave basically sorted out this um bellator uh one point deal for me so yeah excited to go and tell us this kenny it's a one-point deal but would you like to extend that one-fight deal or are you just going to see how this fight goes for yourself yeah unless you just get past this fight and see what happens so like just win the fight focus on winning and i feel like everything else will probably fall into place on the moon you know what they say if the numbers are right kenny that's it that's the one yeah i didn't want to say that yeah that's the real reason yeah we'll see we'll see what happens here so that's at the moment the spg is absolutely blown up at the moment johnny walker just won over the weekend the two lads over in pfl like ran the show what's the buzz and what's the vibe like now in the build up to bellator dublin uh darya you can take it away but yeah i think like as you said sbg we're we're really riding a wave at the minute and i think it's only going one direction i'd say in five years time the you know the level of the stable fighters we have in this gym is going to be through the roof because we're an upward trajectory and uh the vibe in the gym every time before bellator like there's a great balls about the place everyone's just excited the hard work's almost done everyone's ready to go so it's great to know the atmosphere in the place and kenny what's your life for yourself now being part of the camp in the building for a better tour dublin yeah i'm excited and obviously i was i was fighting with will and then in uae me and will went to um dubois last time and obviously um and learned like obviously more experience than me with the pro game so um obviously we like going through the white coat and all with him was just them it was something that was like real gorgeous on me and so i can only what battle tour is going to be like where um like with daryl and all the rest of the boys and in the build up to the fight on fight week or not it's gonna be it's gonna be a little cracking um yeah it's gonna be good yeah it's definitely go beagle crack share it will and kelly as well yeah absolutely um dara tell us this obviously you and kenny are a similar weight class so i assume you get a few rounds in together what's what's the best uh thing that kenny does and what do you find most what what challenges does he actually give you in the rounds in the gym yeah make me like we joined roughly the same time um i think i've done more fight summations of kenny than anyone else really and uh he's what he does best is i think his style is so unorthodox it's so hard to read his striking even his grappling like he throws up chokes from anywhere you just you've got to be on the ball with him everywhere it goes he's so unpredictable and then kenny what about daryl what what makes daryl so special what's what are his attributes that yeah that give you problems in the cage definitely all these all the things he's coming with in his voice but pretty much what he does he like takes down people obviously you know what he's going to do he must have stopped me like work like like work around what he's doing i mean so um yeah yeah definitely um his relentlessness like definitely that and obviously it's a strength that like i haven't really felt on like when i'm with like the grips he has and and um the when he ties you up in certain positions it's like um it's mad like it looks like like when you're watching in the fight you're like this guy should be getting outward up what like when you feel it you have to feel it yourself to understand you know what i mean yeah well they don't come to mo ville mall or for nothing well that's why you can't wait to see that's why you can't wait well we all can't wait to see the mobile maller and the black diamond compete at bellator dublin in the tree arena on the 23rd of september ross yeah absolutely uh daryl knocking lloyd like every time you what's called your schedules for it barry's like derek helly he gets so excited for it like he absolutely loves it uh is it stephanie and not to be missed and like look one thing that i always think is you sort of want a bit of both uh like i want to see you guys win of course but i also want to see you know more than two minutes he is fight as well because the last year two times the two years got the job done in two minutes i want to see the the development on on there but uh daryl what difference are we gonna see from last time out to this time you've had six months in the gym like you've probably known about this toy for about 15 or 16 weeks weeks tell us what differences have you made those 16 weeks yeah so my style hasn't changed my style is all the same but i think i was only coming to grips with the positions i work in all uh last february and then the last six months i've really what would you say i've really sharpened my tools in those areas like i'm leaps and bounds better once i against the cage taken down i know how to work to control the system more um you're going to see the same thing it's just going to be it's going to be crisper what about what about yourself kenny obviously you've been waiting a while as well um what's what version of kenny mohanna are we going to say um yeah just the normal it's normal me mixing the mix up i think like i can beat the guy everywhere and then yeah if it goes longer you'll you will see um that on well well-rounded i'm not just a grappler like i feel like people think i'm just i'm just there it's a triangle merchant i mean but i feel like yeah i feel i feel like decision-making yeah yeah i feel like um hopefully i'm not like if it doesn't if i stop him really you can't complain you know what i mean but um a good thing will it will be good to go a bit longer as well and show um my my full skill set yeah it definitely definitely will be a good see you guys back in there and see what skills you have developed sorry about you want to come in there yeah daryl like i just saw like you posted on your instagram recently that you were that conor mcgregor obviously he was down in the gym train and when he comes into the gym like what's the sort of atmosphere like and like does it make you feel like you have to like impress or like try even harder knowing what you could potentially like reach at some stage yeah so the atmosphere is funny like um i think everyone turns into almost kids like uh all the grown men where i'm looking at i'm staring i'm trying to get photos with him you know um obviously he's he's one of the biggest names in the game so you know it's bound to happen but as you say even before my last faith um he came up and watched everyone look and that was one of the things usually you'd don't be thinking before your fight you don't be thinking about too much but that was actually in the back of my head like you know connor's watching us now he's after calling wishing us luck and i wanted to try and put on a show to impress him so that kind of shows you the what would you say the the effect he has on everyone kenny what's it like for yourself but as well actually actually i've seen haven't seen him too much i think i've seen him he was there last week doing jiu-jitsu he just said what's open that was i didn't want to oh i don't want to annoy him and i say like everyone's back in his head so i just said what's up i'm not the most outgoing guy or whatever i was i just said what's good and kept it kept pushing done i mean well yeah it's good obviously it's good to it's good to have them someone someone like that in the gym like a double ufc champion and stuff like it's obviously inspiring to everyone you know i mean you can't you can't not be inspired by that but yeah it's good yeah hopefully i might get some more rounds on them and i see him i see him more there you have a basketball kenny kenny mcdowanna uh cool coolest cucumber you know just facebook and the nod you know yeah actually i haven't done anything when he was doing like say when he was doing um jiu jitsu i was doing striking her just i just happened but i'd say we will don't even know i haven't been in the gym er like that long journey and so um it definitely i definitely will at some point then um you know what i mean get get rounds and have a word up and stuff yeah you could you could ask could the two he's gonna get a part in his new movie as well but obviously we're gonna have to look at your opponents here and we'll start with yourself guys you're taking on excuse me where do i have here you're taking on coil stevens uh like when you got the name kyle stevens like like when you're looking now what do you think what what do you think you can bring to the table that you haven't seen before um so we found out like 15 weeks outside unlocked too much on them until recently um watch them he's he's very aggressive on the feet he's primarily a boxer with a few kicks and i said very aggressive likes to come forward doesn't doesn't like be put in the back foot um his takedown defense doesn't look great and when it hits the floor i'm not too impressed so i think it'll play like stay less stigly right under my hands you know strike him for a bit eventually take him to the ground at don't i don't see it lasting too long i think it's gonna be another first-round job i'm not a first-rounder and kenny what about yourself you're taking on alex bodner well what what do you think he possesses that you haven't seen before i don't think he's he's he's well-rounded like everywhere but i feel like i'm better than him everywhere like i feel like he might try strike with me he probably might do like i feel like i'll be him everywhere like it's honestly up to him if he if he wants to keep strong if he wants to think that i'm that truck this uh truck i'm just a triangle grappling merchant or whatever i mean he wants to keep it standing get me that's up to him and that would be his it'll be his thoughts on what happens there and he wants this take me down he's he's as well there's none of me so it's honestly up to him how long it lasts it's up to how tough he is and stuff what like um i feel like i will i'll get him out there at some stage in the foyer i just i don't know ends i mean i just will get him of there ross neither lads oh he's going to go no definitely not i think uh like we're saying earlier the gym's on fire you know brad katona went and won the brave bantamweight championship will fleury won the uae uh middleweight championship then the two boys in pfl johnny walker and ufc like this is building up for a big battle tour donald and this building look for a big card for the spg boys and i i expect mauldwin to be honest i look at the card and i think everyone has the capability of doing it from top to the top of the card to the bottom of the card you know and obviously you know peter quilly's probably taking on his most well-known opponents today benson henderson but you know uh anything can happen in a fight as well so i'm really looking forward to that one as well but you also have to take into account barry that if you look at the guys on the card and you look at kenny you look at dara you look kieran clark you look competitive a lot of them are around the same size so you know what they say orange sharpens iron so i'm really looking forward to seeing all the feather weights on there lightweights get to get the job done i couldn't agree more that's what you think of that yeah 100 yeah yeah i think yeah go ahead well yeah as you said we've got a lot of men around the same size like and uh i think that's one thing that stands out to me since i moved down like up at home it was me and jordan fury and you're kind of wondering like you know how much of an advantage it is to have all the training partners and i think confidence in it now being surrounded by boys like you've got we've got 20 odd people our size here top level guys like and uh i was just saying like i don't think he's got that what what will he have two or three men his own size to dream of like you you can't you can't really get that experience in the gym that we're in every single day like where he's at exactly and if none of the lads are there you can call him conor mccarthy as well there exactly i get boys from left and right coming in zara tell us this um obviously you wouldn't know at battle tour and obviously before that you had a pull out at the previous bellator at the last minute someone had to slip and fall in the bath that's uh one of my favorite excuses i've heard it too often uh tell us this what did uh um dave roach and john cavanaugh said to you before before your first battle tour event because obviously you went from fighting on the local scene to then fighting on this massive stage um there wasn't really anything in particular they said to me like you know i i gave my experience on the amateur scene i went undefeated uh i showed up in the gym with a lot of fight simulations they just they said to me like you show up every single time and you're now you're ready to go to the pro scene so i just once they told me okay i was in new rush but they once they gave me the go ahead then i agreed i gotta and kenny obviously you fought on on sort of you know the big arena stage before uh over new way you are earth is there going to be any extra nerves fighting in front of a dublin audience would everyone shout in your name um i don't i don't think so what we'll see you know i mean i never know i don't know how i'm going to feel that day but i know is when i'm in the cage it's the same as any other cage still five for trees and i mean so it's gonna i feel like it's gonna be the exact same but obviously it might feel a bit different with the the noise levels and stuff but in there it's it's just the asparagus basically tournament and you know what they say kenny pressure makes diamonds hundred percent bro ready for the festival i love it bro you know what i mean i absolutely love the past do you have anything else before you wrap things up no i just want to say make sure to tune in and watch the lads on the 23rd of september on in dublin's tree arena at battle tour dublin like bow lads as it says earlier are expecting no o's to disappear yeah absolutely um you should be able to check it out on virgin media on virgin media youtube channel or bellator youtube channel depending on what stage of the card people are on but it's definitely want to watch out for and if you can still get tickets definitely go to see it like there is no show like a like a battle tour dublin show it's next level really is the audiences they make the show and the fighters they're the always on top it's absolutely incredible and we look forward to supporting us there uh dara do you anyone you want to shout out before we wrap things up uh just a shout out to all my sponsors and um any seats especially who have backed me for the last couple of years you up the lads and what about yourself kenny yeah just the team my team my teammates my family that's it here absolutely well guys we wish you both all the very best look uh we are absolutely convinced that no o's are going to go from from here so uh let's keep that way and as i said best of skill if you haven't watched this video at home make sure to like share subscribe and as always stay energized energize up the irish and so send you guys a couple of times i've seen a couple of clips i think you're doing some interviews with dylan moore and then that i i saw so keep going keep up the good work guys