Shauna Bannon | SBG D24 | Energized "One-2-Watch"

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What is up and welcome to the latest Energized " One-2-Watch" Show! Shauna competes on Meltdown MMA in England on July 24th and is one of the brightest Irish amateur MMA talents. Like, Comment and Subscribe for more Energized videos & Hit the link below to get the PPV to…

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[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] energize show up the irish okay what's going on guys welcome to a brand new episode of energize one two watch roscoe introduced a guest man we have fighting out of spg dublin 24. it's the one and only it's jason's mom it's shawna bannon shawna how are you doing i'm great how are you ah fantastic fantastic i have to have to kick off with jason's mom he's an absolute beauty fella yeah that's that's going to be that's going to be uh you know the ring announcer next sunday is it have his name when we fight shorts now oh love it yeah so so shawna like we're just going to get into it like obviously it's like multiple fights after being announced but you are fighting this saturday in bristol can you can you tell us exactly what's going on you're getting all these fights here like the most popular irish women's fighter going how was it how's it going tell us what the [ __ ] she she is the chasma she's the cosmonaut of ours i love the irish cosmos it literally went from nothing to everything and there's lots of opportunities came up when i was like yeah finally so i'm fighting charlie burke next week in meltdown i think it's called the show yeah and then three weeks after i'm fighting on the fail actually for them um i'm fighting a girl called carry on some then three weeks after that and gone to prague for the world cup and then three weeks after that i'm fighting for a title in england as well russ it's a fitting show one to watch yeah hurry is uh sean you've got an absolutely fantastic uh extensive stroke and background whatever i know if you have paddy hoola in your corner that jits is on point as well um are you looking to go over here and prove a point over these fights to show that you are a well-rounded mixed martial artist because i know i've seen you on shows before and they introduced you as this strike and wonder kid and you don't like her no i'm just well not that i don't like obviously my roots are striking and i've done that since i'm afraid but i just think like i'm like no like i do mma now i'm a mixed martial artist and i don't want people to think i'm just a striker because i actually put so much time and effort into all the other side of it as well so it just kind of frustrates me a little bit when people say that because i'm like that's all right you're a little bit frustrated yeah but now like obviously striking is my background but i am a well-rounded writer and i have an answer for any situation again and then saying that you have an answer for every situation obviously you have multiple voices lined up like more than chasmat has ever had lined up at one time right and you know obviously you're just gonna have to go in and be the best version of yourself you can't really be preparing for each individual person when two weeks down the road you could be pointing different style is that your game plan just to constantly improve yourself and then you know your skill set will prove its own point exactly that's what it is i'm constantly trying to just get better at every single aspect of mma but like obviously then like my focus now is charlie and then after that i'll be focusing on carry on then after that the imax you don't know so like that's kind of a different scenario as well because that's tournament based so that would be something i would be used to in any ways with kickboxing because i fight in tournaments all the time but in the kickboxing circuit you kind of get used to people because it's always the same whereas with the imax they're not on as regular and like i probably will have a completely different division than i would have the last time like some people could be proud some people could have left like it all changes so often so that's kind of different as well so i think focusing too much on what the person can do or what they normally do isn't good either because they're trying to progress and get better as well so you could be like oh that person is really good at a guillotine or really good at an eyebrow or something and then at the fight it doesn't even get into them scenarios so i think focusing too much on a certain thing is bad as well do you know uh definitely a definite agree and especially in your amateur career as well you mean when the record doesn't matter as much until you turn pro i think you mean concentrate on yourself get yourself to be the best mixed martial artist you can and obviously oh you see it on your instagram all the time johnny you're a student of the game you're constantly watching fights all the time you're you're hooked on it you're even watching them yeah no characters yeah he probably prefers it as well i'll have to get theo on that he tries to get me in the arm bar every now and then but you know i mean he's got better jits than i do it is what it is but tell us this you're fighting carry on not this this time but the next time she's on the same imaf team as you are isn't she yes that's actually what's that like now is that gonna make it slightly awkward or is it just the irish scene and that's it no like i've only married what you saw at the trial she was there for the two things and she was saying like that's hard to get a fight and i was like i'm saying i was like and then we kind of matched it that way you know what i mean so like there's no kind of heart like i would never when i'm fighting people i don't it's not like i hate you blah blah that one fight that that was supposed to be people who made comments about me looks and that pissed me off but like normally when i'm fighting someone it's just a fight and then asking with like your friends from the air if you don't see it yeah you get grab a gin and tonic yeah you know what i mean i don't have any hair feelings for people that i'm fighting so and we'll be going to the i'm just a few weeks later i'm sure we'll be grand then you know what i mean sean it's almost like a good training for two years yeah exactly it's prepped for the image we vote wants to get something in so that was planned first and then the one with charlie came with like a couple of days after so and like some people think that's too close but like it's amateur and like i'll take as many fights as i can get i'm catching up on last time like i've only had really a year of active point and i had february 2019 to february 2020 that was like when i was active and i had seven fights in that period of time but then i got pregnant so i couldn't fight for a year so since my first fight i was trying to get more fights and i had a broken hand in that year as well so i still had like two months off that i couldn't fight and i still managed to get seven so i just want more like the time doesn't matter to me i'm just like keep them coming if you are looking before you get in get in shauna's dms go on anybody obviously this is like the one to watch like what tell us a bit about how you sort of got into martial arts and no i know it's i think it's for your dad if i'm correct but like tell us like how you sort of got into it and also like how much or you love it yeah so i started kickboxing when i was three and telemarketing that's my dad's gym yeah and the first couple of years down i was probably really just a master in the class and kind of just there doing whatever but then when i was like 10 11 i kind of started taking a serious and traveling international and gone to all the tournaments i always went to national tournaments but then i kind of started getting serious going to worlds in europeans when i was like 10 11. and then one of your former teammates well i don't know if these continuous teammates has actually gone to the olympics he's gone off to tokyo isn't he yeah yeah so in 2017 i switched from kickbox well i didn't stop don't kickbox actually i was still doing a little bit of boxing and i switched to taekwondo because i always wanted to go to the olympics and kickboxing kept telling us oh it's going to be in the next one it's going to be in the next one for years and years and i just knew it wasn't going to be in my time of fighting so i was like i'm going to give taekwondo so in 2017 i switched and i was literally like i don't know even how many times i can be it's like we were away like every second because obviously jack was going away as well to build smacking points for the olympics and for me to qualify because i started so late in the cycle i would have only really qualified from the trials for the olympics so in europe two people get to go from the that tournament that sound close before whereas he would have probably like well he did qualify from the ranking points because he had so much previous fights so we were both traveling lows to try and get to our goal because obviously then the ranking for that tournament would have been based off my ranking points so it was flat for like a year and a half in taekwondo i just missed punching and i don't know just like at the start like i really enjoyed it and then there's just like little knick-knack things that like i would have had in kickboxing from the years of experience that i was just that little bit behind in taekwondo i was always good at kicking but it was different type of kick and like not really textbook kicks or such like it wouldn't be like a plane psychic it'd be like weird-wise because there's magnets on your body armor and your fee pads so once they connect it doesn't have to actually look like it's just whatever way it happens so it was just a bit weird and i enjoyed it for the time that i don't and i got great experience like i got to go to loads of countries and i went and represented ireland in the world and the europeans and like i had great experience and loads of fights but it just wasn't for me so i was like i just then i was like what do i do so i was like i actually might just take a year off not competing in anything and try and just do something different so then i was like i'm gonna do jiu jitsu because paddy had been trying and when they were switching gyms they had nowhere to train in the middle so they used to train in the same place that i was doing taekwondo and they'd be doing it like before or after the class and i'd be watching i'm like what the hell is going on there like that's mad looking and i never really got it but it was like i'd like to be able to understand this so when i was like had in my head that i didn't want to do taekwondo anymore i was like i'm gonna do jiu jitsu and just learn and maybe not be competitive and just do a sport for fun well sure i don't like one or two classes and obviously then i went to the mma class i'm sure i was like i want to do this there's no way i can't not do something not be competitive i like in my head i wanted to but then as soon as i started doing i was like no i knew as soon as i started doing the mma classes that that was something i wanted to do for the rest of my life like it's just like i love it even more than i love kickboxing there you go there you have it that's actually so great here that's actually so great to hear like i mean it's great to see like that the ambition and the passion and the drive you know i mean i think like a lot of people are like i was talking to some of the lads there yes a lot of people are going through life lost and they don't know what they want to do like forcing myself from russia and yourself obviously like like we love doing this you love fighting like you mean like like we know what to do and some people just are lost and just going through day by day not known but hearing that i'm just like you could be an inspiration to a lot of people not just men but women as well everyone but um yes like so like what what's what's the what's the drive now like obviously you're you're a new like not new new mother but you're you're new from what they're like what what's what what now is just like the drive and like what were you looking at the next couple of years now as well yeah so obviously i want to make pro debut before the end of this year that's kind of what i want to do and then the ufc is the goal so i'm not going to say any certain organizations that i want to fight in beforehand but there's obviously ones that's going to help lead to the ufc so whatever opportunities come up um with the ufc is the end goal so i'd like to get like five or six points and then hopefully the usa if we call them um and make a good life for jace yeah oh definitely and like i suppose two things you could take great inspiration from uh this weekend uh the first being ian gary saw into the ufc so there's another irish person in the ufc and then mita tate obviously retired became a mother took five years off and is now back this weekend and she is in sleep condition she's the best condition i've ever seen i was like [ __ ] hell we should take a shred it's mad like i'm walking around lighter now than i am before i had chase but also but also she's got that mom's strength now yeah also funny enough she took five years off and she's fighting marion renaud but marion renault was 10 years older than her which i thought was funny after taking five years off cupcake uh she's an absolute legend yeah yeah uh charlotte just before we let you go um can you tell us exactly what time you think you're gonna be fighting this saturday and uh where can people exactly check it out yeah so i'll have the link in my video once they give it to me and i'm on actually kind of early in the card because paddy's getting a flight home that night and so they're putting me on earlier around the character she'll be on around 6 fish and then yeah you can let us know the following points as they come along and we'll we'll just send them an ldm and we'll repost them for you yes i'll post it on my page and anyways yeah make sure to send it send me link and i'll put the link down in the boil to make sure to hit to check out shauna's fight this weekend but shawna that we are going to wrap things up it's probably the hottest day i haven't seen in a long long time i'm here sweating put out we're absolutely we're we're buzzing the cfo next week especially because we had you on the face-to-face and you never thought we were like jesus it's great to have you on there as well uh shawna do you want to tell the people where they can check you out as well yeah yes on the instagram it's sean abandon underscore and that's kind of really the only social media user don't use twitter or anything really um i know you have a good few sponsors normally you ask for a prediction but you have like four points lined up so we won't ask you predict them all i know you're going to say you're going to win them all but uh but uh do you want to give any uh sponsors any shout outs yes so and healthy kitchen for all my milk uh male preps tristan kennedy for doing my diet and kerry hansey um west park gym top 10 martial arts and no playing no game and then all my teammates and everyone that helps me yeah shadow tristan as well he's a legend oh and the hot y'all give them drums to let me use their facilities all the time oh fantastic yeah there you have a boss mom she's got the she's she got more sponsors than only have friends yeah you heard of hot yoga and you're always expanded there i was like i was like you know what it gave me a flashback me and bastard like yoga and the whole time and like it was absolutely miserable i didn't even bring a tail or a drink i was a rookie i was like i was like that well here look if you are new to the energy show make sure to like make sure to share make sure to subscribe make sure to check out shauna the next artic and as always [Applause] you guys a couple of times i've seen a couple of clips i think you're doing some interviews with dylan moore and that i i saw so keep going keep up the good work guys