Conor McCarthy Vs Jess Paulo | IUR 4 Super Lightweight Title Fight | Energized's "The Face Off"

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What is up and welcome to Energized's "The Face Off" Show! On this episode Conor McCarthy (SBG Naas) & Jess Paulo (Team Sanda MMA) join us to discuss the Countdown to their IUR Super Lightweight Title Fight on Saturday the 4th of June in The Canal Court Hotel, Newry. We discuss…

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Kind: captions Language: en energize show up the irish okay what's going on guys and welcome to a brand new episode of energize the face off russ introduce the guest map today we have the eur championship super lightweight title fight that goes down on june 4th we have conor mccarthy from spgnace and we have jess polo from sanma mma how are we doing lads you're all good man that's this this is a big one and we had catches on we previously had andrew barr and rory labrion however and roy larry's have to pull out that fight so energizers have to put on another uh show for uh your championship and you boys were uh total void that we were really really interested in also the uh your uh fc instagram got hacked so uh had to do it becky mclean in favor and then get a bit of traction on the page going for them yeah but before we start right who's hacking the instagram page is it jess or connor let us know or is it ross who knows well we'll start with yourself connor uh how did you feel about getting a total fight up on your um what'd you make of jess as an opponent uh yeah it was the lawyer he said to me after and uh my last one was that welterweight but i wasn't really coming anyway fair welterweight so i was like we're going to start going down maybe towards lightweight or something then we got offered super lightweight and it was originally against things and oil wilson but uh he got injured so then just i think that's why he was sorted within the day or something just put his name in so i was delighted you know he's a good body like he fought when the lads in the club last time so i'm looking forward to test myself against them and then just what about yourself how do you feel going up against conor mccarthy connor's got quite a bit of hype uh on him at the moment especially after his uh ima performs is moving up as far as middleweight i'm delighted i'm delighted to be facing uh it's kind of an honor to me to be honest because like you said yourself he's one of the best ambassador fighters in the country at the moment in my opinion pound for pounds so that's what i want to do i don't want to take easy fights i don't want to i want to test myself there's no point in fighting kind of the lower people you know i don't feel like okay yeah you'll win but like did you really test yourself i just want to fight the best that's all i've been fighting the best since my very first fight debuted against jordan fury so like i said i i just want to fight the best and yeah connor is one of the best at the moment and i can't wait to get in there with him jess oh sorry i have to touch on this right first of all the hair looks absolutely fresh to death right but is this the way you're gonna rock the hair on point does it ever get in the way uh no no usually for the fights i get it made into cornrows because yeah i'm just not arsed i don't want my hair in my eyes or even if i put on a bobbin and the bobbin comes loose i just got the cornrows versus looks fresh man i just i just had to ask i was like is he going to go in you know who reminds you have you ever seen clay guide and he's fighting yeah he's like this the whole time yeah he doesn't even he doesn't want a bomb in her title right he just goes in like that he's crazy he he is an absolute wild man yes this whole card by the way ross is absolutely stacked ahead the head to toe like obviously this fight conor against jess's one to watch but there is other fights on the card if you are going to the event you can get tickets off conor or jess or if you want to purchase a pay-per-view for the event go on the connor or jess's instagram as well yeah absolutely connor you are bringing the clean army up everywhere you go you have a big plane following this timeout as well i think so yeah i think the army is inbound uh might not be as big as the last one because nuri is a bit of a hike for us but i would definitely have a good few troops going up and what about yourself jess will you have many people coming to the show uh shouldn't be between ten to fifteen maybe twenty one two i never really bring a big big crowd like that's just you know the distance and all it's a bit long for some people but no should be a decent amount of bodies anyway yeah no i think um plus uh with that show in general you're uh team torrez i'm sure hold most of the tickets because um i'm sure there'll be a massive nerdy bass crowd there that's did this one's obviously yeah for a toilet fight uh it's a it's not super lightweight what did the title actually um mean to you because i've heard some people say it doesn't mean a lot of them i've heard some people say it doesn't mean a lot is the body across from you more important than the actual toilet itself start yourself connor definitely i think so that is my kill like you know falling for a toilet skill like you know for the instagram whatever with that but it's all about who you fight you know that kind of way like um it means it means [ __ ] all to be very like it's not supposed to be cursing but like it is cool to get a belt or whatever but like it's more like kill your fight in the experience you get because it's amateur like you know doesn't mean a whole lot and what about yourself jess uh i was kind of the same as connor i used to in my head i used to always say kind of like the bell city it's not like it doesn't really matter anyways because i mean like no no no offense ranking but like you'd see people making their debut and fighting for about like just stuff like that again it doesn't really hold much meaning to it but at the same time in the eyes of other people is kind of viewed as prestigious more prestigious than you would think yourself so then again it wouldn't hurt to have a few under your belt anyways in my opinion that's just how i see it oh you're right yeah it definitely is cool you know collecting belts at amateur and all like kind of a little bit of hype about yourself before you go pro but yeah i was like it's well it's not like the [ __ ] biggest thing you can get as far as it's just kind of amateur you know at the end of the day yeah i think it's a it's important to take these tough floats in amateur you know i mean you can avoid everyone in amateur and like have this sparkling glow and record but when you go pro it's very hard to hide from the gold foilers so you might as well get those those gold rounds in while you're amateur and jess i want to touch on the fight itself where do you think you're going to hold the advantages in this fight um it's a very very tough fight you know there's not really kind of any clear advantage i mean conor is more of a striker than a grappler bull that doesn't mean that he's not a good grappler i'm pretty sure he i've seen that he is solid enough in that aspect as well um i mean if looking at it on paper you'd say that i'm more of the grappler uh grappler and he's the striker style so then obviously it kind of makes sense to say that he holds the advantage in the striking and i hold the advantage into grappling ball i feel like i'm 100 confident or wherever the fight will go and i'm sure he feels the same way too people might not uh say that after they saw your last knockout winning a jess he's being humble here [Laughter] is supposed to be this their guru on the feet as well but he likes submission as well and he has five wins all by submission and then uh conor obviously you're coming um from spg nice and what's called that sergey is uh one of the best wrestling coaches in the country and do you feel like you'll you come on leaps and bounds from your last fight and maybe you'll show a bit more wrestling this fight or you know when you when when the hands are good and they're they're feeling good it's hard not to rely on them yeah you know like yeah and probably i started with boxing so that's kind of my base um but i do grapple with the majority of my training is grappling and even my last weather one i took them down and then i stopped them from full amount um yeah we see where the fight's going to go you know i'll be kind of confident fighting anywhere yeah i'm probably more striking than the grappler definitely but uh wherever it goes you never know what's happening in the fight you know they're just in there just going for the win that's the main thing and connor you still do a bit across trying to in spg charlestown as well i am back until there and i finished college so i was living up in valley moon so i was with the lads in charlestown and now i'm back for the summer and i'll be back up in september when i start college again so this camp is nearly all out of spg nice more or less yeah we can do inspiring and um john kavanagh's gym for most of my training has been in nice oh brilliant who's your main training partner there would you say um depends like defend yeah from mma look good go with maybe diary defender just fought a gold bit and also do a lot of training with peter on macdonald there's a good few bodies you know and paul's a child he's on the card as well you've got a few grapplers as well then there's all the mad like moldovan wrestlers and all that crack so you know there's plenty of good bodies in every discipline to be overrated and then connor just just touched on that and after just gotta win over your last opponent you feel like you you're avenging the loss for your gym it'll be sweet you know definitely it's like the point interested me after that it definitely did interest me i was like you know what i was i was i'm watching cage sign i was like you know what that's a definitely a fight down the line to happen i didn't think it could be my next fight but the way it happened was like yeah happy days let's go uh and jessica you could be known as the spg days killer who knows who knows who knows anything could happen no definitely definitely yeah duels jess what would win over conor mccarthy mean to you uh it meant a lot really because like i said he's a really really good fighter one of the best at the moment and if that was to happen uh it kind of you know it would mean a lot to me definitely because it kind of show the level that i'm at and kind of the leaps and bounds that i've come so yeah it'd mean a lot to me you would buzz how excited are you for this fight like like you're i'm gonna say as a promotion it's only their fourth card and they've put on absolute bangers of cards time at the time time after time yeah now this one's definitely one i've been looking forward to since i saw the flowers announced like obviously conor has a huge hype going up and then like jess he obviously lost his first two fights but now he's on a three-four win streak so it's just going to show that like the hard work and determination and like these two lads taking on each other on the fourth in nuri is just one not to be missed it's gonna be up there lads that's the plan that's the the plan is that we're gonna be at our first year european championship fight on the yeah like we're going unless they find out i hacked the instagram it's me what's got the barry's going to put the bells on the winner yeah i'll put the belt in the winner if becky allows it obviously this one's going to be a big one oh it's going to be the people's main event after this show but like for the people that are gonna be tuning in for pay-per-views or going to the event uh what what should they expect conor and then jess we'll ask you a second i think it's gonna be a very high pace for you because i'm i'm gonna be bringing a high face and i know jess will match that so i say the first round's gonna be a banger and then we'll see how long it goes i don't think it's gonna go decision i think it's gonna be there's been probably you go through the first round then there's gonna be a stoppage along the way uh high pace that's one thing that you think and jess what about yourself what yeah i more or less agree with him definitely yeah it's going to be a high pace from the get-go uh i don't think it's going to go the distance either if i had to make a guess i'd say it'd be late first round or sometime in the middle of the second uh but yeah it's just gonna it's gonna be a high-level matchup like like you guys said the people's main event definitely a hundred percent buzz we've been at the at the bar with the judges for this one people's main event now yeah no it absolutely is look at the two lads we have we have a lot of respect for both years um you've both been more than cordial to each other and you're a fighting championship do a great job but we love promoting orange and mate that's exactly what we're here for and we'll just finish off with that any final thoughts and before you go lads or is there anyone you want to give a shout out to we'll start with yourself first connor hey shout out to all the boys i've been trying to it like the last night's nays charlestown even i got good rounds up in a john's gym so shout out to my training partners my coaches you know who you are that's all me and yes uh yeah just the same as well shout out to all my uh coaches teammates uh friends family that support everyone yeah just shout out to everyone and good luck to connor i hope he brings his a game and yeah we'll see each other in the game best look bro there we have a buzz so guys you haven't if you have been watching this video and you loved it as much as we did make sure to like share subscribe tell a friend people have friends they like to hear this sort of stuff and make sure to hit the bell notification to never miss another energized show and as always stay energized energy show up the irish and sustain 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 so keep going keep up the good walkers