James Webb & Omran Chaaban | Cage Warriors 137 & 138 Colchester | Energized Show

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What is up and welcome to the Energized Show! On this episode James Webb & Omran Chaaban join us to discuss their Cage Warriors 137 & 138 Colchester matchups on Friday the 27th & Saturday the 28th of May Live on UFC Fight Pass, Training in Team KF & More MMA craic. Like…

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Kind: captions Language: en energize show up the irish okay what's going on guys welcome to brand new episode of energize ross introduced the guest today bosmo we got a team kf and cage warriors colchester special we have former middleweight champion james webb and the lebanese gorilla omran shaban lads how are we doing amazing that's great it's great to be joined by these lads for the people tuning in james webb will be competing arcade warriors 138 this saturday and omran shaban will be competing at cage warriors 137 this friday both exclusively live on uc fight pass absolutely buzz we are buzzing for this one can't wait to see it cage warriors always put on a great show and we're glad to see the lads on i'm ron i'm going to start with yourself uh how does it feel to be sent that cage warriors contract on sawing with the rest of your teammates for cage warriors oh man it's great like because like i know kate wears the like minds to where i want to go so yeah it says amazing you know like 21 years old to get that contract so it's nice lovely and ed james you're one of the uh stalwarts at team kf you're a former cage warriors middleweight champion how does it feel to have nearly every pro athlete on out of a team kf saw into the cage warriors roster um obviously it's um when you actually never really thought of it like that before buff so if i'm just going off the cusp here obviously i think that's an amazing thing for chris and tom to have achieved already um and now thinking about it myself having all those guys on the same platform nothing but greatness can come from that you know if everyone's at that similar level pushing each other i believe you'll see another wave another wave come through um so it's fantastic for the gym the gym's booming um and it's fantastic for all of us as well because everyone's keeping everyone on their toes now everyone's at a level where they're looking no one's in that gym no one's fighting pro um fighting on cage roy is not trying to be a champion no no one's just on cage royals to fight on cage rows you know they're not doing that everyone's saying i want to be the champion of this this division so when everyone's got that attitude every day's a [ __ ] school day you know everyone's coming at y'all um and that's what you need and that's that's that's been great um this time around the camp you know um having everyone so hungry you know i would return up to positional maybe 10 10 to 12 10 to 12 pros um all trying to just kill each other which is which is phenomenal well yeah absolutely if you like that love me yeah no absolutely i think i think the dream has come from strength and strength being honest and obviously you have yourselves you know the shetty bros um and taka human um and that's that's only just the top the iceberg there and it's great to see and you know i'll probably be future contenders uh at some stage but uh james just touching yourself how much are you doing to get a win here and then get back in there for the middleweight belt man massively you know like i i've i've come through a lot of um dodgy hairdo uh i come for a lot of adversity [Music] and um i probably i probably had the what was probably the last two years probably the worst two years of my life you know and um i've got through it i got healthy i got fit and i'm raring to go now you know like um really raring to go off i've given myself now a year where i've just been selfish and focused on myself um and it's paid off you know um my missus has left me well i'm [ __ ] great so i'm just doing what i need to do to focus on fighting and the biggest thing that is hard for me to understand is for for her like she doesn't care about a fight you know so why does she have to do that but like it's such a big deal to me so it's great to have that support um and right now i've got this great circle around me i've got great advice around me i've got a great team around me i'm injury-free and i i'm it's probably the best i've ever felt and been before in the gym so i'm looking forward to it i'm really looking forward to it the buzz you know what they say the single james webb is the best james webb that's what this aerial tkf you know you know that yourself [Laughter] um omran you're in an interesting situation yourself moment you're physically living in the gym what has that been like and how much more driven are you than most like you are literally as i say uh eat sleep and drinking uh team kf these days yeah like for me it's pretty normal you know just like this is what i do so like even like train all day like yeah it's like normal to me now so that's like a normal day for me so it's nothing special you know just just normal day that's my day so some people that is like like they don't train basically all day and that's my life there you know that's actually the amazing thing about the two lads we're here i have here ross like ultimately james also lives in the gym as well and like when you go to see people like chasing their dreams as as much as actually physically live like live in the gym that's something to be admired yeah absolutely like the boys haven't actually like lived in the gym it's a testament to their dedication sport but then also a testament to uh chris phil's belief in these guys and trusting these goals because at the end they yeah i suppose that's effectively his house as well you know what i mean his place of business on you know i mean i don't know how many people i trust to come sleeping and my house bought uh the chris fields he saw man from one man and because chris chris had me in the gym he told me i was sleeping there just to look after the place because swords main street was a bit dodgy so he said you you stay here you stay here and you anyone comes in get them out no i i i'll tell you something though um that sacrifice living in the gym that um that done tenfold for me um and i appreciate everything that chris and tom did for me like that and now i'm just in a different point in my life now where like i you know i have a i have i have a young family now i have a i have a one-year-old baby so um i'm not in fact living in the gym but the sacrifice of leaving three days forward well you know i don't even see myself monday night so i'm over tuesday the thursday by the time i see him i'm seeing my son friday you know so i get to see my son friday saturday sunday monday day and i'm off again um and i've done that for the last 16 weeks and that's been that's the sacrifice i've taken next you know like um i wouldn't be able to dedicate too much time because i have my own gym back home where i like i have a very good team back home for grappling so i have a lot of good training here so friday saturday monday i have my certain training then tuesday wednesday thursday we hit at hardin island you know so um but yeah what you're saying with von ram what he's done there that that is the way forward you know you you don't get anywhere by not giving up something you know and from from moving away from your home your family setting up somewhere where you're not really known anywhere and trying to make make things work i think only good things can happen so i think that's both maybe that's why we're doing well uh in our careers because we deserve to do well we've put we've put out there we're willing to work hard we're willing to to sacrifice and um and i'm ready and i'm sure on man is to take all the rewards i mean you're basically following the exact same footsteps as james like you're both in the middleweight division both team kf both fighting and cage warriors now obviously james's former wife yeah but like now looking looking at james's path like and they haven't gone and like literally lived in the gym like like what what sort of like what inspiration have you taken off that yeah i'm not like seeing like the first time i came to her in the fame while she like was back then living in gmail like for me it was like it's like you know i think and i was okay yep like you know he wear their title and did his thing and i was like you know so it's like i say this all the time just like it's pretty simple end of the day just talk you know just like making hard work so be careful the same as the other but you have to work harder you know if you want to be different so yeah there's always been like an example when i came like i was 18 19. so yeah it's great you know everybody like james chris cohen yeah lots of you guys so you know to yeah we're big fans of team k afros yeah absolutely the in terms of becoming a pro fighter there's very few games in the country that i can compete with kfc implement a brilliant game plan and brilliant style for foiler's turn pro and it's very very impressive it's very thought out and you can actually you can see it that like chris molds them into profilers and it goes to show um you know cage warriors has four or so kf has four cage warriors belts associated with the gym and if you take you know colin chris and i ain't gary's not there anymore and then james you know i mean like that's that's four belts and like it looks like with the current crop of talent they have many more to come and james is there anyone in the gym that particularly stands out to you bar omran of course you go james um do you know what i mean there's a load of amateurs that stand out right now um and then i don't really want to i don't want to talk about that because they're amateurs you don't want them to hear that and then think too much for themselves but there's a lot of amateurs right now that of that's scary um and then as far as i'm concerned like every every pro like i said earlier every pro there is is trying to like win a world title that's what it feels like everyone that's everyone's aim so everyone's on that same page so everyone's standing out you know like um omran the shelley's taka camille all the guys everyone's everyone's showing up they're putting the work in comrade shows up still you know um there's a real solid team leon leon hill really good at the moment looking great you know there's a really there's a great atmosphere there's a great vibe there's a great camaraderie within the team um everyone's looking sharp and and and everyone looks sharp and everyone's doing well because i think everyone is everyone's got each other's best interests you know everyone's like their work we're all working hard for each other we all if we all put this working together like we all get the results and that's what you're seeing like i'm i'm every time up i'm in oil like i said 16 weeks i've done an island now and i've been every session i've been out every session i've joined with the team like the the positional session the wednesday night shoot box say same faces same people you know and that's what you expect like that's the consistency and for a pro team you need to be consistent and that's what chris has dropped into him you know the consistencies is paid off the consistency is what is giving us results um and the consistency is what's going to push us to the next level as a team you know absolutely it's um it's incredible to see that the effort the guys come in i i do just want to touch on your actual flights coming up uh ufc or sorry cage warriors colchester only on ufc fight pass kate is 137 and 138 and omran what do you know about your opponent uh jack dead dedhams on how do you think you shape up against him he's undefeated a pro on the amateur so uh let's be honest i haven't like like i saw a couple of this fight and seems like a gt guy in his purple belt so so basically what he's gonna try to do is take down and yeah so i'm pretty comfortable right because you know i'm gonna be honest with you he's not gonna bring anything different but like my last opponents my training partners i think like yeah just like right around different level you know wherever it goes and i'm just different level than this guy like i don't like i'm gonna be honest with you now i'm on different levels and of details in like weather weight because it's just different here man it is so yeah omran's coming straight for all the dogs in the welterweight and uh james again no easy out for you uh hopefully i say his name right leon elio uh he's knowing him one he's coming into this fight uh with a bit of a bit of a rep he's got quite a few finishes on on his record as well what do you make from as an opponent um i mean yeah like a solid opponent um mentally i'm probably in the best place i've ever been so i'm not really gonna play into like anything that he he wants to do like i'm i'm purely focused on me and what i'm gonna do what i've been looking to do throughout the camp i've been doing um i've been feeling great in my training and i've like i've said this a few times like for me um i feel like everything's sort of caught up my my head my body has finally aligned itself um my fight iq has improved i've maybe matured now i'm a father i don't know i've matured as a guy as a man shall we say um i just feel i just feel very good and i feel very dangerous right now and i feel i feel like um you know obviously i don't ever underestimate anyone but i just feel like i've got a definite few more ways to finish him than he can catch me you know um for me i feel like i'm just gonna be watching out for the big shots um i'm i'm i'm not concerned if he wants to take me down um i'm i'm not worried about his submission threats um i'm just gonna do me and he'll do him and let's go [Music] there we have a buzz no absolutely love it from both guys uh team kf won the best gyms in the country and obviously uh big shout out to chris fields tom king and then let's not forget ash the bash there she's doing incredible things especially uh the women's classes that she runs she's not sure the legend of the game and nothing but all for ash bash also um guys any part words before you wrap things up uh for me i just want to thank everyone that's been involved in this camp um and let's go [ __ ] do it that's it let's do it i'm on anything better than let's go [ __ ] do it pretty simple let's [ __ ] do it friday and saturday so you see you're there that's it that's it friday and saturday live on cage uh sorry live on ufc fly past ross take this away but guys if you haven't watched this episode make sure to like share subscribe hit the bell notifications never missing it energized the irish and sussing 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