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What is up and welcome to Energized's "The Face Off" Show! On this episode Taylor Quinn (Team Ryano) & Elvis Luko (Full Power MMA) join us to discuss the Countdown to their Cage Legacy Bantamweight Title Fight on Sunday the 12th of December. We discuss Titles, Fighting & More…

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Pre-fight Face Off on the Energized Show ahead of Taylor Quinn versus Elvis Luko for the Cage Legacy Fighting Championship bantamweight title on Sunday 12 December 2021 at the Pillow Hotel in Ashbourne, also on pay-per-view. Hosts Ross and Basma sit down with both Irish amateur prospects: Quinn from Team Rhino and Luko from Team Full Power MMA. Quinn reflects on a recent back-and-forth title fight, says he wanted an immediate rematch, and argues his greater amateur experience—including high-level sparring at Team Rhino with Lewis, Paddy, Jamie and others—gives him an edge despite Luko’s boxing and K-1 background. He says 2021 has been his eighth fight of the year and he wants to stay active into January. Luko enters 3-0 after his latest win, previously fought at flyweight, and says he is cutting from 59 kg; he credits head coach Declan and brotherly support at Full Power MMA, where he hopes to become the gym’s first pro after a few more amateur bouts. Both trade pre-fight predictions—Luko by fourth-round submission, Quinn by finish to reclaim the belt—and Luko says he expects takedowns while questioning Quinn’s striking. Quinn says he does not tailor camps to individual opponents at amateur level and praises retired Paul Redmond’s coaching presence at Team Rhino. The piece closes with fight promotion, Instagram handles, and sponsor shout-outs.

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[Music] energize show up the irish okay what's going on guys welcome to a brand new episode of the face off ross introduce the guest man today we have the caged legacy bantamweight title fight between two of ireland's top amateur mma prospects from team rhino we have mr taylor queen and from team full power mma we have elvis luco lads pleasure to have you on how are you getting on thank you for having us boys very good keeping well no worries guys i'm going to go straight into it i'm going to go to your first self first tailor taylor you had an epic back and forth fight there for for the your championship um belt how are you feeling after that fight and do you have any injuries coming out of that fight no freshers daisy that's what the minute i jumped out of the cage i wanted to go back in straight away that's what i said when i was walking i was walking down the venue i just said come on go again i'll do it i'll do it again it's a good fight yeah i think i think the fans want the five rounds yeah definitely put it on five rounds put it on twenty and uh one thing i will say taylor is you have more amateur more amateur mma fights than elvis do you feel like you have an experienced advantage going into this fight well being over at the only masters is a huge experience eh for me like and so i think i think i have the advantage table he has he's boxing years k1 years you know what i mean so i tell you i'll tell you what we're quite unplayed and elvis obviously you're on the feet of going into this fight your confidence must be riding high you're 3-0 and you just picked up a win over feel for you in your last fight how do you feel going into this fight i feel very good i know taylor is a good chaplain now he's a good name and i know if i'm gonna fight i'm obviously gonna bring up whatever i have to get me so i think we're about gonna put on a good show for all the boys okay it's like seeing that and taylor that's why that's why you can't miss queen versus luco for the cage there's a bantamweight title it's gonna be live on sunday december 12th in the pillow hotel ashburn and on pay-per-view so if you can't go you can tune in and support all your champagne yeah basma i think we're actually going to attend this one live in person uh we at the return of energize the amateur may seem for the first time uh since the pandemic so pulls wasn't for that i actually think our last fight was caged legacy as well wasn't it yeah and bella a few ufc's that's it for avoiding there ross you know let's let's see if elvis is the game yeah taylor one thing i don't think it will one thing i will say is um obviously elvis has fought down a flyweight before do you think you'll have a soyuz advantage going in here i'm a big boy in the i'm a i'm walking around a big boy anyway stuff yeah definitely um yeah i don't want the big boys i'm already with them get me definitely definitely i'm taking off from 59. uh elvis obviously yeah your brother is also a mixed martial artist we had the shelley brothers on last week and they said how much they drove each other on does that work with you and your brother as well are you very competitive amongst each other yeah of course he's me trying to find me he appears me training apparently he comes down he helps me out whatever i need stretching out and kickboxing whatever it is he always helps me out when that's the way it is and then then taylor obviously you know uh you have lewis fighting on clown wars uh this week he said he was buzzing for after you're a fight and he's buzzing to get back in there again it would he be your main training partner and your partner and crying for this camp yeah we look good look at friends all the all the boys there's not just louis there's louder than that everybody opens up killers there's a gold level of of uh over the americans especially between 61 66 and 70 looking through so paddy jamie lewis gang's room that's what's so handy for me like so and they're literally obviously like the last eight foot i've had this my eighth foot now this year that's all i've been trying to train with everybody and ruin our next and known like the even day of the weekend a lot of lads got purple vests in the industry too and stuff like that so this is the level you're trying to it's very very high level one day it's what you need if you look to um excel in the sport teda what do i compete in so much this year as well after coming off the pandemic with basically like i mean just being so active like how like how beneficial has that been for your development i love it it's just it's just put me in that routine now i feel like i'm going right every two weeks or three weeks i'm having them for you or i'm flatting himself i'm just gonna keep that ball rolling and well again i completely max again in january and then after that i'm going to try to get another couple weeks after that as well so you're going to have to get this experience especially if you want to go to the property to the proper er like some stuff so you gotta do all right i was what about yourself like obviously like you and your brother like you like what was it like for yourselves just like living together and like were you just training together and non-stop and keep pushing yourself yeah yeah of course we started when since we were eight years of age so we've all been doing we've been doing the same things yet me so we know what it's like we [ __ ] will fly out all the time the boys up in the gym are all helping us out and it's good you know you know i mean like with the way good and all he always helped me and come here um obviously you know declan is very key part to full power mma he'll be your head coach i'm like does he has he been in the gym the whole time or has he been distracted promoting the fights as well no no he always has time for his photos all the time no matter what he's doing he always asks to him for his footage even if he's there on media cage like you see whatever he always has going for his tunes and that's a good thing about a couch that's why i like him for him yeah he's always he's power okay he's like he's a fair player today he's flat out he's all the time he's walking always yeah he's a legend he really is he really really is like anyone who grabs their heart like deserves respect yeah exactly and come here elvis there's as far as i'm aware there's no pros uh in the full power mma gym do you think you could be one of the first pros out of the gym yeah of course of course i can't sure if i have a few more amateur fights and then i can go into the program no problem so i'm training like a pro anyway so it doesn't matter exactly you you could be flying that full power mantle yeah of course cause i can hopefully i get this belt and then i'll finish off the christmas what yeah yeah that's my belt yeah now yeah now this is factor but that's movement and fact yeah yeah sure look we have to find out there's no point to talking and they will see each other on the age and that's that 200 percent that's why coming on the show that's promoted like like everyone who's tuning in now is obviously enjoying this it's just this is how you promote the fights this is how he gives the last the the option yeah come on let the people know them yeah yeah everyone wants a shower everyone see a good flea so that's what we had to bring and i think me and taylor is going to be a good friend so whoever's watching it make sure you tune in and elvis just just to touch on your relationship with dexter what way have you broke down taylor conan hello and now he's i've seen his last photo watch this cna is he's a lot of grappling he does a little bit of strike and i seen the strike and it wasn't that it wasn't dr moy stan that's but we seen the jiu jitsu game and it was louis it was lovely and taylor um i'll go on no no i'm just saying it's a it's good he has a lot of grappling and i don't know about striking i see in the straight combo it's not up to my standards for him yeah we'll see i'm expecting a lot of takedowns and a lot less than that and taylor and what way have you and andy broke down at elvis and also has the retirement of paul redmond actually helped the foreigners in the gym is he there um more often now as a coach than he was previously even though he did a lot of code from before yeah well like it's just not our bodies like i don't train specifically for for a any any person or individual we're trying to avoid everybody like that's what we do in the gym yes kickboxer doesn't matter like um and uh yeah even like rhetoric he's been flying training with us as well he had to stop and he's pushing us as well he was coaching me there oh you are did a great job coach me probably didn't listen to him in the 12 round as much but he did a great job and well yeah like bodies it doesn't really matter like what body you're trying to fight against i don't break down any sort of uh for you because they could pull out the week before or something like that it's it's an it's an amateur level so it's no way no hair taylor yeah yeah i'm happy you made that for you i'm happy you think you're injured and that would have been bad yeah i want to give a shout out to redder as well he was competing on grapple king six on the fifth uh the fifth of december as well see that on the energetic show here we miss nothing we miss nothing if you're if you fly the irish flag and you're bleeding in the tiddlywinks competition we know about her yeah that's it boys that's it i love to see the walk boys uh and taylor do you think elvis here is underestimating your striking ah you can do what you want so i finished it for you i knew it was regardless that's i've already beaten i've already i've already been out of this moonscale with me only when i'm when i took the voice off or weeks ago or whatever it is hands up turn down keep the hands up hands exact personalities we need in irish mma as well like i mean look like you're keeping a civil but also you're putting all on the line now next weekend on sunday december the 12th i'm like that's that's exactly what the people want to see yeah absolutely yeah guys i'm going to finish off by asking you i'll start with yourself elvis how did you get the job done come fight night yeah i think it's going to be a fourth round submission like i knew it after i had and that's going to be and what about yourself taylor i'm going to finish that for you that's it no ways of telling i'm going to do it get the job done that's my belt it's coming home with me i'm going to sleep with it right here get them or that nobody let's go for the people listening as well as i said do not miss queen versus luco for the cage legacy bantamweight title live on sunday december 12th in the pillow hotel ashburn and on pay-per-view uh also to avoid the pay-per-view make sure you go on to either taylor's instagram uh taylor queen mma or else elves instagram all week this is exactly why we do this stuff this is why we want to promote our channel and this is why we do the face-offs and like this is what we love doing yeah boys do you have anyone you need to shout out before we go away uh taylor you go first there i just i almost wanted to talk on instagram there there's there's a good feeling to look at me for everybody in the gym as well if you ever need to tour around ireland check out vantage tours they do business and uh yeah just a big shout out to me sponsors i'm going to put up a big picture thanking them now after this and then me family army training apartment partners me coach everyone who set up the show on that me friends my girlfriend especially and that's it oh yeah of course he knows himself are there well we're feeling grateful uh thank my saying yes even though she never watches the show and then i also like to uh thank bosmo because he's relationships here he's he's bringing us the whole way to the top i'm just here along for the ride so uh basma is congratulations we actually made sure to wish congratulations to ross for getting engaged at the beginning of the show but like uh ross like with all the lads have to call him the winner of this point gets avoided to ross as well here we go i love it guys so guys and if you haven't enjoyed the show which i'm trying to help see you then right oh just one second now just one second you know how the show goes hold on yeah he's running away he's running away hold on there one second so guys if you have enjoyed the show make sure to like share subscribe hit the notification bell for more enjoy shows they're the best this is probably the best one we've done over the last week and as always 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