Aiden Lee | Bellator 260 Countdown | Energized Show

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What is up and welcome to the latest Energized Show! Aiden Lee competes this Friday vs Aaron Pico at Bellator 260. We discuss his upcoming fight, Team Renegade & Leon Edwards vs Nate Diaz this Saturday. Make sure to Like, Comment and Subscribe for more Energized videos. Follow…

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[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] okay what's going on guys welcome to a brand new episode of energizer ross introduce the guest man from the mean streets of birmingham england we've got mr aiden lee aidan how are you doing i'm good thank you how are you guys go man you're looking absolutely shredded i was checking out your instagram is this the best shape you've ever been gone into a fight yeah i think it is you know like uh i think every every fight i have i'm a i'm a little bit in better shape you know i'm uh i'm i'm still young i'm i'm not in my prime yet and uh every fight when i'm in better shape so you know i'm always working i i think that must be a thing in team renegade because i know in leon's last fight that we saw him the best shape his life for the little mohammed fight so uh you know i think obviously as time goes on as you get that bit more on your career you probably just pick up these things nutritionally and that strength condition and moisture definitely always always learning always improving yeah we were actually just saying off air aiden we were saying like team renegade is probably d team to follow in england right now ross what you do you want to go and tell explain to people why that could we believe that to be true well like they i think they have the most amount of top level pros obviously aiden joy herbert and latoya's fredericks uh leon edwards fabian edwards tom breeze like the list goes on they are probably the best gym in the uk and i'm sure aiden will definitely agree with that hundred percent hundred percent we're gonna have a lot of people playing this team in the world they very well could be you know i mean it doesn't actually get much better than that and that's a matter of time you know like obviously we're all climbing the ranks right now you know rocky rocky will have that ufc about soon and uh you know me and fab's coming for them bellator about it so i love the ufc about time like everyone everyone's coming for the bouts man so you know it's only a matter of time before they get that kind of that kind of recognition um obviously tom was meant for it uh at the weekend do you know what happened there because it seems to be just called off very strange um yeah it was to do with uh i don't know the details but um i think he was ill to do with uh to do the weight cut um yeah i'm not sure in the details no that's fine just uh well i was actually looking forward to it i think it was like announcing the broadcast that it was canceled and i was like i was like well no way because uh tom sort of is he's had a sort of strange last few years but he's sort of sporadically fought but like when he does fight there's massive leaps and bounds and improvements and and i think he's actually one of the most underrated fighters out of the uk cabbage man cabbage aidan obviously you're on a two-fold win streak now and you're fighting aaron pico one of the one of bellator's like hottest prospects hottest prospects people would say how did this fight come about and then how quick how quickly did you sign that contract uh instantly yeah after the fight i signed the contract i got offered the fight in february so to be honest i've been i've been training for this fight since webb uh got offered the fight in it was meant to be april originally um signed a contract to a training and then uh he pulled out um so got pushed back to me and then i think i don't know what happened there they pushed it back again to june and uh now here we are man i'm ready to go 12 week count ready to go this this this is a really really big fight for you wait and this is oh oh i'm not even too sure if i'd say this is your hardest fight but i'd say this is a one that could catapult you into the next realm of your career yeah very very high profile and on american soil as well yeah so um look the way i looked at it with our pico uh throughout his career bellator i've tried to give him points he can win every single time and then this time they're after giving them this is the first one where i go you know what they're after giving someone who's going to give him all he can handle and you're very very well-rounded and you have you know knockout finishes plenty of submission finishes is there a certain aspect of this fight where you want to take it do you want to take it to the ground or are you happy to stand and trade i'm i'm happy everywhere man i i really know uh i'm i'm like i i see people as uh you know he's uh he's got aspects of the game that he's good at but i'm i'm an mma fighter you know i'm not new to mma you know um i've been doing mma 10 years you know before that i was doing kickboxing whatever but i've been doing mma a long time you know i'm not new to this so i train everything i take all my boxing and uh yeah wherever the fight goes wherever the fight was and that that's the thing what i think people respect and love about you and that like you're dangerous in all spots yeah okay we're back and yeah you're dangerous in all spots and that's something that aaron's gonna have to be ready for because he obviously came in i think i think he was a gold growth champion i think he was obviously uh an olympic wrestler and he was like bellator's number one blue chip prospect but uh you're someone who grew up uh trying to mix martial arts and you train with the best boys in the world and that's what makes this fight all you think for me this is my co-main event uh obviously there's a toilet flight on the car as well so like bellator 260 is must see tv this weekend yeah but it's on it's on june 11th in the movie concern so that's this friday and uh hey and obviously europe kicking off this weekend with a load of other british fighters this is a massive weekend for british mma obviously sam texas fighting i think paul craig's fighting yeah um joanne caldwood's fighting yeah then obviously uh ufc 263 as well your boy leon's in a in a big scrap versus nate diaz how did you see that fight going in i see leon smashing him to be honest with you um yeah actually i see leon smashing him uh i i don't really think that there's anything for him um i think he's getting an old-school wave you know and uh it's just different levels man there's uh the levels the levels gone up and you know did you you didn't happen to see the ufc 263 countdown video did you i did man yo ufc are slacking a little bit there up the name i said i was going around the group chat was it yeah why is it wise yeah you know what ed no i'm going to agree with you on that one oh he actually thinks leon's going to box um piece up hey diaz like no one's doing it in a very long time oh i just look at leon and i think he's such a disruptive um character in that cage he really stops people do implement their game plan and he puts pressure on from player to post uh i think there's a bit of a false narrative going into this foot as well that nate diaz is going to have the better cardio and he's going to be able to you know come back in the fourth and fifth round i don't see it happen i don't see it going that far i think i think he's just talking you know he's tough and you know he's puffed out he got he got his he got his scratch he got his voice and but you know that's all he's got really is tough you can't you can't talk about this if you're getting smashed you're getting smashed you know yeah and what's like having a leader like leon in the gym someone who's like like he's obviously having this amazing win streak better than no contest and then like having fights rearranged consistently like i thought he was basically bulletproof and then obviously on that countdown video after the believer mohammed fight i said like finally saw him break down and crying to his mormon i was like jesus like he's not a robot but like what what's it like having a leader like that in the gym no it's good i'll take a lot of inspiration from the guys in a gym you know like a i gotta ask this question the other day i gotta ask like who what kind of fight i look up to and i got fighters in my gym and like it's the guys in my gym that i look up to you know it's uh it's inspiring you know uh i learned a lot from them you know i've spent i've spent five weeks with them you know i've wondered i've learned myself how to deal with fight weeks and you know the the emotions are fighting and yeah man it's it's inspiring it's inspiring yeah and and after you pick up a win friday night uh will you fly out meet the guys uh where is it in arizona man i wish i wish where i'm i'm i think i'm booked up to fly back the next morning i was coming by bellator man but uh i'm i'm literally flying back to the uk and then i'm back in vegas a week later for uh joy so um yeah my relegated renegade on tour they really really are he's he's playing the hanato moycano was me yeah yeah yeah that that will be an absolute scrap as well you know renegades on fire at the moment it really really is and give us it gives a prediction for your fight there how how do you get aaron pico out of there um i see me finishing him um i see me finishing him actually i see a lot of surprises i see i see different ways of finishing him but i'll definitely finish him i'm confident in that well like i wouldn't be surprised he's been knocked out twice before um yeah so like i look at him and think you know he's uh definitely it's possible to put him away and no better finisher in that featherweight division give me one second one second my old tower okay so aidan after you get to win this friday like um when big john goes into into the cage too and asks you what you want next what are you going to say i'm coming for the belt man it's uh you know pico is number six um i should be somewhere in the top ten but i'm not but you know after after i take out number six i'm sure i'll be i'll be in that top tier and i'll be i'll be looking at that top five and taking out them guys um which which guy do you think if you don't get the belt uh we point next just because the belt is still to be fought out between uh aj mckee and people so you know there might be a bit of a wait or do you mind waiting yeah i'm not i'd i'd expect they probably will make me wait they'll probably want me to have another another fight or two you know but um i'm happy to fight anyone in that top five man you know i i'm confident i'll beat all these guys so i don't really care who they give me you know yeah i think like aid lee versus emmanuel sanchez people fight uh okay and leave versus that adam board should be a good fight as well so like bring them on bring them on as well stalking my insta page [Laughter] yeah well you know they know who to be looking out for in the bellator featherweight division yeah take it as a compliment exactly exactly yeah but uh obviously the fight goes down this friday and like we're all really looking forward to it you're gonna have the whole of uh the whole of birmingham checking it out but uh aim like obviously we have to let you carry on getting get that new grub into it and um we really look forward to seeing you perform this friday and uh no uh guys if you haven't watched the video make sure to head over to aiden's instagram don't worry we'll tag him in all the posts give him a follow and check out bellator 260 this weekend and make sure to like share subscribe and as always stay energized you