Craig Coakley | Starting Muay Thai, Life As A Pro & Overcoming Adversity | Energized Show

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What is up and welcome to the latest Energized Show! On this episode we have Irish Muay Thai athlete Craig " Coco" Coakley on to discuss Starting Muay Thai, Life as a pro and Overcoming adversity. Check it out, enjoy, subscribe for more and as always Stay Energized! Follow us…

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okay what's going on guys welcome to a brand new episode of energized today we have a very special guest on the show we have Irish boy toy champion Kobo Craig Coakley Craig how you doing what still glad it's all good how else are you okay thanks for coming on this row man all good yeah safe healthy bits of pieces said hard to get motivated obviously with no no no no look for what they're for still trying to do a little bits and pieces there again not nature did you ever even booked him before this all happened yeah we had a boy booked for four weeks after me last week I was supposed to be able fort what's up wolf so he was hiding over Hampton that was in where was a that was post be in Scotland against a lad called brilliant aw he's good lad a before Jack can you be talking any before loading it yeah I think now or ever know was the ranking systems are not well I think for UK have them run two and three and UK in the weight class oh like I'll see their that they're decent he's ranked at 66 kilos where we for yes lower 61 to 63 oh it took me a little bit higher overweight again it's hard to get 4261 like never get 61-63 yeah it's a bit more competitive so we can get a few more terrible again we still have to look for pick up he but again what we look your ideal weight to find out like what you prepare for it not like 63.4 if it's a competitive way it was a la really go forest it's it's not hard to make well it's higher to make boots no don't sugar make and I don't have to cook water away on the day just cut down the week of for water loud and then end up on way today off so if we are looking for 63 there and Shawn Clancy then your ideal opponent so I think that's probably the biggest domestic fleet I could be made and he's one of the all-time greats of oil and oil probably one the best lawyers in the country he would wanna see you know where I think it's a forty a lot of people wanna see yeah do you think that's out that three really fans are we've a lot of fans he's probably seeing from a good Sam but reforms tickets for air the train I don't know I don't know if they're the first time I did yeah Tom Bishop for you you know it's just not recognized as much as other sports which is a P that's one thing we definitely get into that's one thing we definitely get into had like just for people like aren't aware of your work how did you start it more toys like I hope this all come about it's very Coco where the cocoa originated from hey Nancy glad where I started off box and when I was a kid as Mouse there before yours deal but mostly on flips from their flats from there ten houses I'd seen a football a box and where we grow up you know me no H I was box and yeah and couldn't really get into it but see I left his seat on a by your left hand jump on a row there's no real when I was a kid was no real structure at the classes now really raining for air then I grew a little bit had me all I brought off the roof UFC a this is when the UIC used to be on Bravo hey Mike you up in the middle of the noisy bring me downstairs watch days with me Norman and thereafter loyalists on a bit wait when I was about 16 17 he was like mom come with me go to the gym we went on [ __ ] sale for two years and there wanted a four-year MMA after Blair I'd say about a year year and a half or usually gonna be a missing some I want to start streaking again there I'm one of the lads one of your best friends James and he was willing to say am we tweet Jim around a car not Greek the way he says it seems like we've got around you want to see what I am watching 100 much you train and knock him for yah yah yah here was a Tony I heard about Frankie thank you yes a few classes their legends out boys I think Tony owns a gym over in Air Lines yeah Koh Samui here still in heart see we me and Kali why train was outgoing heart as well there we just there when Tony milk Ted Toyland just going to want to do our own thing we wanted before we make our own business no Greta that's where DCI came from after oil we destroyed it really trying to do our own thing here and make our own name for ourselves no I mean we had to make a living out that well Troy make living over who is the gym gone after my almonds it's cloud first now we're good as probably now we've a lot of the best fighters in the country out from 61 to 70 kilos we've all champion said we look at Stephanie and Stephanie issued our WBC ranked fertilizer come from the same gym ranking WBC that's that's a big team then Arden Brown who was coming true he's making a big name for himself and we've a lot of their cross our foyers we've a lot of anime lights come and I'd you now we've a couple of lads that came from what I James to I Jim McDonald Hill like we've serious tabla foyers up there now where exactly is touching bases well Tim fish bread no crossbones a pillow if you go back towards the canal just the edge just under canal he's not a part I house is just across from the anywhere after New Bern sure yeah no idea obviously you brought up your background in jujitsu as well and like I mean like we actually have Li got a lot of more time for us to follow those anime foyers as well I'm sorry he said I'm Patti gülen's podcast that it will be something you'd be interested in getting into more not read see I'm always clinic kept busy enough avoid start like we're going I know nosh I'm not delusional II if I am to call care anime and when I have to pull our walk into the ground game and grappling yeah ugly over here are your flap or air it's a it's a lot of time to be focusing on just wanting and especially at the age of mat now I'm 27 I'm coming into prime no fair I need to hold it folks if we aren't able short money their settlement do it straight away boy it is a lot going to be given at this edge or you think anyways yeah I'm sure like a lot of people would ask us to ask you that anyway is also here number one they do what makes you from watching you play I think you're most sort of brown for anything is like your killer kids be killed soil and can you tell us a bit about why you chose to fight the way they'll because you're in there for the win yeah every single point well it's probably a comb front to be honest which I'm gonna see glad your gravel coined a scrapping with people when we're dealing from anyways there it's a it's cannot be killed down there as well as if you know we walk around the flats to give you CPR you keep your head down you probably end up just campoli general remain if someone comes over and starts on your sound okay I said probably won't start on you again I think that we regard from so again when I went at the foiling it was just a claw be killed there obviously obviously recent like you brought Yoko to Dublin and it was a song occasion like a like myself and Ross weren't actually it was making it a but I strained it live and they're like Oh see okay you came and like you didn't you didn't win force need for like during the slow extreme I saw like seventy percent the people said you want and like what were you taught us about the event I know else he didn't commit with whimper like like you really like brought massive attention to more toy in are probably one the best events that was ever held hmm the basketball arena the atmosphere was played for me was was special it's not more I always remember never forget you're a headline there and everything under some great 4000 points on that car as well yeah pointing someone an all-time great who's still faint and you know I'm and I'm fighting someone that that's forgive you seen his last hill 44 lamb hire some fast annoy him the Dublin card Christian and night easy walk him then he fought another Italian like Christians I hear maybe nothing out what a head kick mean or I mean we walked an alpha five rounds and we proved to myself that I'm up there with the best of the best like he's be Sancho he's fought no no we far played everyone you know and he is an all-time great singing I'm is I fought young lad from Dublin where Rick will not now I'm far good more you know a man well known to be scrappy and have a lot of heart for a young lad from Dublin to go in at the old I tear one of the are going great is some special my opinion areas you know no no definitely is my I think it's actually awsome tane interpretive like for you don't know how folks are signed some boy toy but like you edit that for you what about what 21 22 prophytes and then he went about were like 350 what's for you I was like I was a guy cranes been those like Craig's asked me winner then then I was like and the winner is sing down it's like oh I wonder if if you were he was worried and there was no sort of prospective element to the fight would you but the knob did he win on um reputation I think we see toy in Toyland toy is scarred it's based on effect okay so whatever you were shot shower fit so if you kick soul and toys and safety show no effect you just take her on the arms march forward march truly shot it shouldn't score coin but if you kicks it over a little bit already go off violent a little bit that scores okay hands don't necessarily score because they don't think that it's a good technique deals poor Westerners requests and my koi hand I used a lot because hands are effective we've good boxing on this oiled award you know I mean yeah so we're the way that was supposed to be scored WBC have a different sanctioning so very real set is not the same they score every shot equally wants it's a fair so if it's a punch I'm snap someone's head back that effect if you kick someone look so the way that should have been scored or you should have warned we sure got an oddball in Toyland went the way he fought just kick and he would have won so that's why it was a little bit controversial boy again if the sanctioning body came in to me to check me hand wraps there give me a rundown on it the heat how me show ya when he was like okay you know the real say went over the real say yeah so he was like this is a mood failure or just box you know I mean a good go now we're going like a LAN hand I know I kind of sit on the back from kick one he's just got to make a feel let me do or again we've no regret and what happened there would have been noise how a world oil or we say on the peoples champ first I think you guys been really looking at last to put its close when your football was I like you were like one beat the brakes off oh yeah well he was more more looking because you both wear for a spin technique and then he he got you know you know I think was more it was probably in some way for me the other way around you know me and two engine could have been him asleep all again without begin in my mind go down bring looking tiny for yeah you hear that people saying I look he shot looking show like they're in my opinion it was well toy become you wanna be free I think of me last for you he was brought completely wrong with the sing ma'am we can understand again Moy boy versus play dumb bebe cereal in the gorge for the car was completely robbed there I don't see how I lost halfway and I need a nice corset I need to forget real set designer kicks always ran elbows lineman ears or sweeping I'm all my toys all big scarred things in mojito yeah arm we shot an effect no no his shots had a faith there so that one left it a little bit of a bad hastily mail after that I always leave dose and colleague would just call boxing try anime but it was not different I was like [ __ ] this [ __ ] and train around Italy last Hill for you could very very controversial and then that one their booty we're trying to get that review and so hopefully after all this I thought those are all this we can get that revealed got a taunt yeah obviously obviously the like we we've been friends online last wall and then no see like showing you out him to me about a fight because like I know as we said before I'm following people who follow us back and it with them we like it so invested and I was really was doing a great team we were behind the scenes that appealed for as she grants like that was really good well like am after the fight like like what was the sort of calm down like that like did you really get to enjoy because you brought those people that arena and like that was your eternal joy and then if a lot of people felt like it was just hey from you figured what was the calm down like after that and like yeah yeah well what what did you have to do to like like focus again you know because some people could just say sit there and be like oh I could have been a champ one time you know I mean it would you would like go again you know focus it's not something my dear dear where badly to be honest with your finest or my law pointless on like they all of the process or move do gone into trying every day and a little point itself illegal look a look than a big people crumble or not and so I look there's a luthier mountain do we get on Friday so it's always something gonna do it's forever gonna be something gonna do whether its box and whether it's MMA whether it's toy whether it's playing point me woman whatever to be aware so never lose focus on that book it was hard was a hard it was I think a week off and then I shape I can be Jimbo I just wanted to reassess things I wanted to add stuff in or wanted there get a little bit more creative start using kicks a little bit more get back to the old store where right now I think let me last couple of for you to fell in love with me hands a little much so we've just been using boxing and elbows now look it's effective book it supposedly doesn't scar motox are where it gave me something to look forward to as in maybe need to change a few things you know what I mean so that gave me something to look forward there so you're saying basically like coming back over that you're like right I need to improve even more so maybe maybe it's like making you a better for it or after after all you know it was a bad thing can turn into a voting manually viewings but Leo's in a for you and blade little string a bad look now bought to change that really sill yeah you look hungry is over anyway yeah it has been any talks as well about what they like after coming forage maybe bring in a bring an air from laboring Yoko back to Dublin as well as Ross hair maybe in the tree arena that would be amazing actually spoke too much to them after the last week could copy hello could be our organization who knows we have a good put the interest of coming over as well so oh no no I you know I mean just looking for Bigfoot go for it say I want to fight the best any division or divisions okay that's all you want there I don't dare discriminate on any organization yeah it's a like more like as you can see you sorry Emily yeah go on Ross and time d sorry from days like a saint you call themselves the capital and the biggest County and [ __ ] Overland Allah [ __ ] there's no real water where we just think this couplet Jim clash a little bit between Dublin and carpel again the friendly competition in everything taking period best retain water best let's go and pearl who is the best our affair Nefario nurse I know I wasn't sure whether there was some behind scenes off that we needs to know or whether it's your usual the usual core first album banter you know like Ozzy like like yourself thank you I mean following your journeys been with a class I know obviously like you were like on a lake you're like a rocketship and now now you're taking on to reflect them now it's like after this I bet you're hungry as ever you know will be darling that's the only thing I really want to do now Jordan Arliss is try and get back in there and wait the wrongs get back the winning ways get back to being vicious well I suppose they say Tom bees are made in the downtime so you know I mean this is their time to you know pulling for in the hardware you know older people might be sitting out sitting on their couches Ben and Jerry's well the only bit as well yeah you're doing all the 5k that's fine yeah it's nice but a fast mile in the inner city Cokie births keeper Crosby and the kickboxing boy toy background I think originally okay Tinky train we can over our warriors for this my boy I'm not I'm sure I think he had cry in kickboxing background when you buy my glue to be honest look when you can learn from anybody you know I mean and anyone can learn from me what to get no spoils and and new faces in so I'd never count it out but I just wanted to ask our two inner city boys you know yeah and these from cloth where did you mean isn't close enough to where we live from grief speak that's where my girlfriends from yeah yeah that's called supporters not you can't be roof gets blamed salted here papers well now we have a bad rep so important pub people just paper by everywhere sure yeah off the dorms night you know I mean so you're one's gonna go your one's gonna throw up around there as soon as well you put my name on the flats under the flats ah well Craig like I just want to say thanks man for coming on the show like following you calling your path has been it's really cool to see because like I'll see myself and Russell like always like oh can I roll be football like MMA and then like to like watch it like you just special oh as moratoria is just like it's like broaden our low for the sport leagues right go down in the bill to your next fight we're gonna have to get you back on the show you know and then let us know like what exactly you're looking to do you know yeah won't you be same time timeframe which I have me no worries all the best a shake make sure to LIKE subscribe and as always stay and enjoy stay energized