Jake Hadley | Dana White's Contender Series Winner | Energized Show

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What is up and welcome to the Energized Show! On this episode Jake Hadley joins fresh from winning his UFC contract on Dana White's Contender Series. We discuss World Titles, Fighting & More MMA craic. Like, Comment and Subscribe for more Energized videos! Follow us on…

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[Music] [Applause] okay what's going on guys and welcome to a brand new episode of energize russ introduced a guest today we have undefeated flyweight cage warriors at efc flyweight champion dater white contender series sensation jake hadley jake how are you doing i'm good man man never better look at that dating wig contender serious t-shirt how many of them did you get what do you say sorry how many of those danny boy contenders uh series t-shirts did you get about five or six of them to be fair lovely lovely and come here um that's what you get when they get everyone to tune in and watch you win like that's that's what happens you know and then shout out to the money guys as well the their noise guys over there yeah man they support me so i gotta support them you get me oh absolutely absolutely jake obviously you're fresh off your uh second round rear naked choke win on then white contender series what was that moment like when it was announced you got the contract from dana white well obviously you know um i knew i was eventually gonna be in the ufc that was just like i knew that was gonna happen but uh i kind of like didn't expect to get signed after the fight because of obviously the white miss um you know and and i guess being you know in the bit of trouble with the ufc as well i didn't expect to get signed i might be expecting another shot on contender series because the end of the day i knew my my win was uh impressive and i know what i've done before i signed to the ufc was even more than impressive so um you know i knew my pedigree would would be maybe enough to give me another shot but um to get the contracts you know just shows how much uh dana white thinks of me you know because he obviously went against his matchmakers his business partners um and signed me and he said how much of a true talent i am he spoke to me in the back as well said how much of a special fighter i am um you know that is something i already know i already know i'm a special fighter um you know but t from the the boss man he knows the best let's be real like he's the best in the fight business any fight business uh including like boxing or anything he's the he's the best and he don't know why he knows he knows that someone's gonna be a star um and he's never wrong is he let's be real so um you know he knows i'm gonna be a star and um he went against his business partners and and and picked me up so that was quite a shock so make sure to check out jake's instagram to check out that moment as well that was an unbelievable moment jay tell us a bit about that um what's called obviously sean shelby and mcmayner seem to have some sort of issue against you was that just the way cut or did something else happen during the week that they they seem to think that you know you weren't a noise guy or something throughout the week that's sort of the feeling i got from dana white's words can you tell us anything give us any insight to that well i i've never even spoke to mcmahon or sean shelby to be honest so if i've upset them uh well i definitely don't know what i've done to upset them because i haven't even spoke to them you know what i mean so yeah i wouldn't say i've done anything to them from not to want to pick me up or the only thing you could say is obviously i've missed the weight so they're not what happened with the weight with terry jake well obviously because you've never done it before no i've never missed the weight before i've always made weight i've always when i say i've always the last you know three or four years i've really grown into the weight and i'm i'm a big flyweight now like um you know i'm a very big fly away and obviously i was meant to fight i was in camp for like eight nine weeks the fight got pulled because of my visa and i was told directly by my manager who was speaking directly to the ufc that i would not fight on contender series and not to get my hopes up i will not be fighting um so i was completely out of camp for three weeks when i say i was completely at a camp i still trained twice a day six days a week but as far as you know my weight it went back up you know what i mean i was not i was not training for a fight um i was at a camp for three three and a half weeks the hitti on me short notice two and a half weeks no estimate you know fight you know i believed i could make the weight and i was making the weight um and it was going successful successfully basically i've what i believe you know i can't 100 put my my you know hand on it and say this is definitely what happened but um basically i was in vegas i was sweating all the time i was training hard sweating and that and then i must have at something or drank something was held onto water onto my body imagine i'm doing extra sessions than i'd normally do this close to a fight and i'm not even sweating in the with the heating on and everything in the room and it's red up vegas weather i'm not getting up in the night and having a wheel or anything like that which is usually something what would happen when you're trying to you know when you're losing the weight and that the waterways i actually said that the barry during the week because obviously you made championship way in the efc and championship way in cage wire so i was like you know he normally has to make 125 on the button so i was like it must be something to do with maybe the food you ate in america salty or something like that as opposed to you know all your previous fights well by the efc one was in africa was in the uk it was like he probably has brought his own food with him so he's more controlled so do you think it was maybe that you weren't as incred in control of the field as you normally would be if you're avoiding the uk yeah i i honestly believe it's something to do with the water i can't 100 say it was but i know like i'd happen to drink these waters and i'd like water loaded on these waters um it just said purified water on it and then i picked up the box which was on the floor and then i've read sodium uh enough [ __ ] you know i thought [ __ ] and um you know obviously soldier models onto water so like i was a bit panicking then i was like oh [ __ ] and then i've stopped sweating and stuff like that a couple days later and i was like i already knew i was in problem so i started putting weight early because i already knew i would like i i knew by not sweating and trying like wrapping up layers and layers of clothing and hitting pads hard which i normally wouldn't do that um and not even sweating i was thinking [ __ ] i mean i mean for a an hard weight quit this time because you know my big i caught a lot of weight anyway but um i knew i was in for a struggle this time and then um you know i've come come to do my bath and uh you know my weight cuts and that and i'm you know getting the first bath and i'm you know i'm i'm sweating in that but i've only lost 0.3 and then that that was a panic then i was like we was like [ __ ] you know um so basically we just kick cut all night long all night long all morning all through the night all through the morning one bit and um thank god sorry i said thank god you didn't invite me i must have cut weight for 10 hours straight and uh basically i would have made the weight but i just ran out of time and then the worst thing about it is when i ran out of time for the weight um we was like all right then we all missed weight now and we might have enough time to meet the weight you know we've got one pound left and anyway we're getting there i missed the weight and um then one person told us to go away over here so we're waiting over over here for a bit 20 minutes guys passed man i can't keep waiting here i need to lose the weight so i'll get my one of my coaches to go up to the guy and he's like what are you waiting there for you go cut your weight i'm like oh man i've been waiting for nothing like you know what i mean that just took 20 minutes off me like so like it was just a bit of mess but at the end of the day i believe in in my mind i believe that it was all meant to happen for a reason i've had about a hard year this year uh in my personal life and that and stuff and i feel like in a way it was like a test from god to say to me hey bad do you want it you know what i mean like yeah i'll even i'll even make you mix weight and everything let's see if you could still perform under the pressure you know what i mean yeah and at the end of the day this is what i'd do and i went out there when i still performed either way and and you know after a hard wait i'll tell you you know what i mean so that just shows how i can perform under anything and and you know i know it was only a two-round fight but like fought at a fast fast pace and i i wouldn't even breathing out my mate you know what i mean i was still breathing out my nose and that's a guy who's just done 10 hours straight in the flipping bath you know i mean yeah you're probably fighting the best version of mitch uh raposo you'll ever see because he was fresh off the ultimate fighter as well so he was like in there trying his ass off as well so it was an absolutely incredible performance on probably one that was unnecessary did you feel that maybe you should have been straight into your seat but they were having to go to the contender series group well well um you know a bird talks of you know uh the matchmakers are gonna give him this and that and this and that name uh through i don't i don't know if they don't like me i i should imagine that they should like me because you know i'm a nice and i'm a nice enough user to anyone you know what i mean um i haven't spoke two words to any of them so well i won't have enough favors anyway you know what you know what something jake i don't i don't think i don't think anyone wants to fight you you know that i don't think anyone would be lining up to fight white kong anytime soon i think you're a real problem decision and you're right in the mix at the very top straight away i think they'll be struggling to get matches with you at the start yeah because at the end of the day they'll look at your record they'll see your champion in multiple organizations and they'll be like nah they'll want to see you get two or three fights in before they'll be forced to voice you i don't think any of these guys you know ranked 10 to 15 will want to take jay kong in the first out and barry what do you think yeah no i was going to ask i was going to try that back to your ass why why do people why can't people watch jake hadley fights for people i haven't seen her oh i just think jake's pace is relentless and he's you know he has power on the feet and also he's as dangerous on the ground as we saw in the contender series i just think when it comes to european talent jake is up there with the best you know he's undefeated in his pro career for a reason he's a champ champion to the top organizations outside of the ufc and i looked i look at the uh ufc rankings and i pulled them up and there's no reason why we couldn't see jake hadley in there with the alex perez pantoja askarov coy cara france right up there straight away and i think come closer i think he probably originally the underdog come closer to the fight and i you know you could see that a better line change and jake had the i'm shocked she's not already in the ufc to be honest at this stage exactly yeah man like i said like i was saying i should have already been in the um the ufc but the guys who they offered me on contenders played some rodriguez uh originally he was a jungle fight champion and look what he went on to do on contenders he went on to smash a geezer mitch rapozo is a big talent number one pick on um the ultimate fighter oh number one overall pick um i've heard up through the grapevine this guy is a real real talent and really expected to go far you know what i mean and uh to be honest i just you know had my way with him you know i mean as in i fought him in his own game which is the striking and i was winning that and then as soon as i thought right now it's my time now to take over now i just took him down and just choked him out as easy as anything you know what i mean and and as far as these guys in the ufc yeah i'm i'm ready for anyone you can bring in i don't care man like obviously uh they've got to discuss it with my management but i don't care man i could you know fast-track me as much as you want because i just met i'll be richer quicker that's so that's the best so the other thing which is rare in the floyd division is you're an absolute finisher you've only been in the distance once with luke shanks and i think you won that 5 50 45 across the score with zulu but um you know he was a world champion as well so i've been decision twice but two five round fights and two five round parts and i weren't even hardly even breathing and these are against guys where um especially zulu i was only three you know and he was 11 and two and he was multiple weight multiple time world champion and already fought on the ultimate fighter so this just shows you um you know i've been through in the deep end straight from the beginning of my career you know i mean and um i'm i'm a real problem he really is not this is great time and i think actually jake i know you felt like you got the short end of this draw gone on the contender series but to be honest from the outside looking in you've gotten the biggest push of the contender series i've seen since sean o'malley maybe maybe wrong there but you can think you can say i'm wrong there but uh the way like obviously paddy pimley's blown up the way they wanted the whole uk card coming over next time you're gonna be on that like you're only a couple of fights away from the toilet show i believe so like this is actually the perfect push i think for yourself whether i know you missed the way i know nothing's exactly perfect perfect but it's the best push i've seen in a while yeah well in a way it was kind of um i know it's it's never going to happen again i'm never going to miss the right again or or upset anyone again or you know or anything like that but if any of you hates help my profile you know what i mean are you going to change your nickname they're not white kong there but anyway i don't know what that is jake tell us this um obviously you went viral after the fight and it wasn't actually for the fight it was can you tell us what birthday it was where you know you blew out the candles and you you wish you were going to be ufc fighter made that happen i think that was shared on the ufc instagram they didn't avoid instagram probably your own instagram as well wha wha what was your phone like after that video went up and what age were you in that video my phone went absolutely crazy um you know i went from i think i was like on maybe 8 000 instagram followers after my win and then up that video i'll put that video on the internet and i've gone up to 25 000 on instagram um you supposed to [ __ ] pay in a couple days you know um so yeah it went went absolutely crazy but yeah that was my ninth birthday but even before then i was wishing i'd to be a a ufc fighter i hadn't even started training them i hadn't even started training and i was already wishing to be a ufc fighter so that's nothing but that was what 2007 14 years ago and here you are now so into the ufc one of the most exciting prospects out of europe and on the on the road to a toil really you know i mean like uh i i rarely say it and i rarely come out and sort of you know put my sort of hat on someone and be like that's one to watch but like when it comes to you jake i'm like he can really get in there and compete with the very best in the world right away especially the floyd way fly away weight class as well i'm like you know i mean like the water is much shallower in terms of talent i think the top five are brilliant and past that i think you know there's a quite a drop off i don't know if you view it the same way um obviously the top five guys are very good but i also view what i've looked myself i don't think the guys are that far off like i don't really think like if i went in the full i don't know let's just say number 13. i don't think number 13 is any better or any worse than an unranked fighter um we're gonna leave a comment here by the way uh leave a comment saying who you think jake should point next yeah yeah um i don't think you know i think the more well i think all of them are good i think when you you talk about flyweights fly away it's the best skill level of any weight division you know what i mean like the more the best skilled skilled opponents um you know and the flyweights are getting you know better better as in them knocking people out nowadays as well it weren't like five years ago when they weren't knocking people like forwards are knocking each other out now you know what i mean um you know so there's a lot of talent in the florida division i think it's the art it's the hardest division in my opinion to win a belting because they're the most skilled um i'm gonna win a belt but like dana says i'm a special talent you know what i mean so um yeah there you go it's also the way you add a bit of swag the way you went after you won the fight the way you walked off that was a viral reel as well and i was like that's exactly what they need and that's what um this sort of the world needs as well like and you can be the face of that in that division as well and then like obviously figuerato is taking on brandon moreno for the territory what he's going to make of that fight and who who do you think is going to take to take the win um you know they're both good good fighters um i think mourinho's got his number now i think as our figurator you know he probably cuts too much weight as well you know or puts too much weight wrong because you know he's you know he's a big fly away um it kind of you don't like like it when you fight him back you know what i mean he likes it when when you back up from him and i think i think moreno noticed that in the last fight and stuck it on him a little bit more stayed with him in the pocket a bit more and um day like that so i think mourinho's got his number to be honest um but i wouldn't be surprised to figure it out waxing and finishes him but um you know i gotta go with moreno but they're both great for us at the end of the day yeah i think figuereto got that champ at that champ check and he was like right and going out and enjoying this that's the thing uh for people watching right now i don't know for us to come back i think he's doing something more fun is he but uh jake like what's the story for the rest of the year now obviously like your phone's blowing up i'm sure it's hard to get back to people but like are you just sort of are you just keeping your eyes focused on the division or like like are you trying to get in again for before the rest of the year well well um if i'm gonna fight before the end of the the year it's gonna it's gonna be really on the last show here um you know i've been talking already with diana and stuff about getting a fight but uh i know all the shows are full till february um you know obviously if i can't get on late december then you know february is probably the best for me obviously over the christmas period it's hard to get training partners and stuff so yeah if not the last show of the year the last show of the year december i think it's december the 18th then um then february i'd like to get back in and verse 11 wherever we really um you know i did mention little figurado after the fight i think that's that's a nice nice um [Music] fight to have um you know but i don't really give a [ __ ] so the cassendo ever ross we were just talking about figurator before you went off uh figured first moreno and uh what jake would like to do next is right now do you want to say to jay before we uh wrap things up it just paul just goes all the power went to my entire state and everything just went shut off so uh i don't know about that jake um yeah i didn't just like say he is there was i wasn't trying to be running like i'm actually sitting here in the darkness who knows what i'm going to do without uh television and wi-fi for the next couple hours but i want to talk to my family but uh no big o really appreciate the time uh you i hope everyone follows your journey it's going to be an epic one and as always stay energy stay energized energy up the irish been 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 that i i saw so keep going keep up the good workers you