Mantvydas Vosylius interview, Fansviewmma

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Mantvydas comes in to face Jess Paulo foe the welterweight belt this weekend at IUR FC, we take a look at his career to date

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[Music] foreign [Music] ER for this week and your uh yeah at your fighting championship against Jess Palo we have mantos from SBG Tullamore wanna care and Daven students if you look at his record it's all submissions why would that is obviously a character soon how are you thank you very much for joining me and obviously it was the fight that fell through with himself and Dara and this opportunity has come around to you how like how did you feel when you got the call to to fight for the best yeah I felt felt great to be honest like I'm just happy to happy to be in the position to to take the opportunities like that you know um I'm uh training all the time I'm in the gym all the time and that's why I'm that's why I'm able to take the the opportunity like that you know what I mean um I don't need no no no four weeks or six weeks to prepare for anybody you know what I mean I I do my thing and we have systems in place that we believe works you know and uh I'm going to show it on Sunday night for everybody else to see do you know what I mean um I'm I'm still an amateur and like I said as an amateur I don't believe you should need any time to prepare for for fights do you know what I mean unless you are injured or coming off an injury you know but other than that I think opportunity is there and if you don't take it somebody else will you know like like like khabib said there's going to be Champions better without you so it's not your choice yeah you know and if you're not ready and if you're not ready it's it's that the tutorial is complete now out of your hand you know so this is why we stay ready we train all the time and uh like two other last talk fight so I'm sure and all as well like one of the last there from from from our team took his [ __ ] fight literally this week do you know what I mean and and hats off to that you know what I mean that's just the way it goes yeah you have to be ready like I said when uh when a promotion comes calling to a gym and a gym puts forward a fighter and like you said that like the fighter does take it on a week's notice if it's a debut or something that people might not know about all of a sudden boom you're on the scene you've come in yeah exactly you've competed I like I like what you said about answer you should always be right because I think amateur is just about experience experience experience like I said unless you're 100 yeah or just a massive skill discrepancy if you're like a debut against a fight over 10 fights okay maybe not take that fight but yeah different levels you should be ready to go and I find you don't see that as much anymore like you're ready to go I've seen that Jordan Scully took a fight on a day's notice before like Ron was taking fortnite fights Andrew you've all taken Sean all the fights what is it about SBG Tullamore like is that just here and the average mentality and obviously you've got Shane and and whoever has coaching as well is that just their mentality is you ready to 365 days a year if someone says there's a fight coming you're ready yeah it's like for me really like you know I mean if they're like like promotions promotions like fight promotions that has texted me before and like I might have a fight for you like in like eight weeks and I was like [ __ ] text me text me four weeks ago do you know what I mean like why are you right like you know I mean because so many times has happened like I've been I've been matched with this person and this person and I've been matched for like six weeks and two weeks out of the fight they're gone they've injured they got an injury or whatever life you know what I mean so now I'm like just thinking like I don't need I don't need too much time like you know I mean as long as I'm uh on weight and I'm not injured I'll be there do you know what I mean and um coming back to the to the team is we have uh we we have selected a small team of of people that's that trains with us in our uh competition team do you know what I mean and those are the people those people are selected Honestly by like by by Kieran and and and and the team and there is no [ __ ] around there you know what I mean you're either into fights or you're not you're you're a fighter or you're not you know what I mean and you're some some young girl that's coming through like you know what I mean and they have to they have to kind of like live into the into the group and kind of fit into the culture like you know but that's the culture you know what I mean you come in you train every day and then opportunity but an opportunity comes in you either rise to that or or or you don't you know so it's your choice like you know what I mean but um yeah like I said as long as there is something coming up for me like I'm happy and uh the shorter no is the better yeah I'm just going to touch on obviously what you said you like people I actually love that I'm going to clip that little bit of you say [ __ ] it break me in four weeks um well like that when you're a match like that eight weeks or six weeks out how frustrating is it then for a fight to fall out fall out two weeks before it's annoying because like even when I mean it's annoying because like even when I was there at the four nations I was I was supposed to fight a fella do you know what I mean I was supposed to fight a fella and the way the way the way I'm thinking now is I don't really look past anybody do you know because maybe I didn't before and it worked worked against me do you know but I've learned from that now and I don't look past anybody anybody that steps into the case I want to do the same I have the same Authority for our place you know I mean I look the same style of fighting and out and I got my 100 upstairs like you know what I mean because I was like I was in the middleweight division there and uh talking two hours before that comes up to me and he's like your opponent is gone man I laughed at him because I had my headphones on and I was just kind of laying down I was just kind of lying down chilling I was like you know what I mean just before I kind of get ready to warm up and down and he comes up to me he touched me on the shoulder he's like your opponent's pulled out and I laughed at him and I turned away and I closed my eyes and then and then he pumps me and shoulder again he's like I'm serious I'm like what you mean like he's [ __ ] local ad he lives he lives in Wales do you know I mean Jim is five minutes away from from there from the arena we were competing what you mean he pulled out like it doesn't make any sense I think I was pretty sure I seen him there at the way and you know what I mean so he was there and it's like just just to show you like you know I mean the people [ __ ] psychology or whatever it is like you know I mean it's just maybe it's not for everybody you know what I mean and um comes back to like so let's say if I was prepared let's say If I Was preparing for him for like six weeks I've been I've been kind of getting maybe like my training Partners to throw a high kick if you like to try I try to throw a high kick I know next thing you know this Fella's gone and we didn't [ __ ] an hour or or 24 hours I need to find somebody else that's completely different style so it doesn't really make sense to me to they're like you know I mean prepare for a specific style or whatever like you know what I mean because I just wanna rather than doing that I prefer to kind of fix holes in my own game you know so that way when I am challenged by regardless of what it is because like I said I'm going to be professional at some stage so all those holes has to be exposed and then fixed you know and and and the faster that happens the better like you know what I mean like and um yeah that just comes down to that you know what I mean because like if you're preparing for one person like when I fall on that Arena as well I found battery you know I landed in England up one and pulls out yeah get another opponent yeah yeah I'm like [ __ ] what am I going to do do I have to go back now to Ireland like without without a fight they gave me another report in the morning they text me that point is gone too luckily I got allowed to fight like you know what I mean like a couple of hours before the show because I was like what the [ __ ] is this do you know what I mean you really want to go perfect you really want to go pro just for that alone you know because people think it's more serious you know what I mean yeah that man you haven't had a good goal of uh the day I've done a couple then the morning off and then you finally got the fight and I want to touch on something that you you kind of talk about Dan you were saying obviously you've got to fight team people come into the fight team you see if they come or go do you think a lot of people look at the likes of yourselves Ronan Dakota McCarty's Jess Palos look to them and go that'd be cool to do but they don't realize the sacrifice that actually has to go in into becoming what you are what Jess is what Conor is what Ronin is Andrew Jordan do you think people think just go to the gym take a couple of pictures do you think they don't realize it's actually a lifestyle that's like that's I think more like that's what [ __ ] that's what Instagram isn't it and and a lot of people are like that now do you know what I mean they like I've seen people that go to the gym once but then they [ __ ] put up the picture of them being in the gym for next two weeks like you know what I mean and it should be the other way around you should be living in the gym and you should only have a bit of time to put up a couple of pictures or whatever it is in those in in that space of time off of training do you know but yeah everybody wants things now isn't it everybody wants things like yeah I've seen that oh yeah I like that until until you come in on a Wednesday or on a Monday when we do positional rounds and then you you [ __ ] leave thinking like [ __ ] do I have to do that every day do you know what I mean and it's like yes guess what you might have to do that twice a day you know what I mean and then when you go home it's not like you go home and then you get to chill out no you have to you have to make sure you go and sleep on time you have to make sure you wake up on time so you show up on time you know what I mean you have to make sure you're getting in your food and your water to recover because if you don't you're you're steps behind it because that's what everybody else is doing you know what I mean so any type of an edge you can get you have to take it and you can see very clearly for those that come in and they think oh I'll have a good run and they have one or two fights and they and they look good but they just can't adapt the habits of of a fighter or of an athlete you know what I mean because it's not easy it is it is not easy it's a it's it's a hard game you know yeah it's a hard game and I don't think the people like ordinary people who watch fighting obviously I I wouldn't have an idea fighting but I have an idea of what you go to because speaking to so many people I've been in the presence of way cuts and how hard they were I've been with people fight week and seeing how they have to die or or whatever like just name a couple of the sacrifices that you have to give up that people like myself or ordinary people wouldn't understand obviously food would be a big one like how bad you miss not being able to just eat whatever you want whenever you want uh to be honest like I I'm looking at baby because uh I've I've um I've worked in like restaurants before before becoming a coach in a gym and then before before they become not a fighter so I worked in a restaurant and and I understand food and I'm able to put food together like you know what I mean so I I actually made it quite nice food but again that takes time do you know what I mean you have to you have to go do shopping yourself like you know what I mean you come home like I cook my meals myself three or four times a day I cook my meals fresh like you know what I mean I'm whipping out the pan and the pots like you know what I mean and I'm doing all that myself and that's because like I enjoy it like you know what I mean and and it kind of kills time where I could be just [ __ ] sitting scrolling or I could be doing getting distracted you know what I mean so I suppose I kind of I I have habits I have habits built in my day that that helped me to towards where I want to go you know and I try to keep building on that you know what I mean I try to keep building on that like cooking and cooking is one of them and eating eating healthy is one of them you know I mean a lot of people think like if you're eating healthy you have to be [ __ ] eating boring food like which is not you do if you don't know what you're doing like you know what I mean so that's why I spend a good bit of time in in cooking and and trying to learn it like you see like you see it's on fire it's like he's into it as well like you know what I mean he's big into dig into cooking and he enjoys it like you know I mean all right and I I like pride in that like you know what I mean like hey I'm in black belt and I'm not cooking now like you know what I mean so so wow so so you know what I mean and that just comes from from from [ __ ] doing it every day you know what I mean yeah see because like that when I would have first went go oh I'm gonna go on a tiger I would have taught our chicken and broccoli and all this bollocks but there is nice Foods out there like I said you have to put it in to learn about what I learn about the macros learn about nutrition and learn about stuff like that I think people want things too quick and easy yeah yeah 100 that's like we were talking about like whatever you want if you want to be able to cook like beer to uh feed yourself with nutritious delicious food you have to put the work in to find out how to do that otherwise you are gonna be just eating chicken and [ __ ] rice coming up to a fight yeah I don't know long enough [Laughter] take me back to obviously obviously you're in MMA copy because you're fighting for a title now so I want to know where this all began um it's um jump into like kickboxing sessions you know what I mean maybe like before or after jiu jitsu because like we were traveling we were traveling for an hour to get to the gym like so sometimes you can when you travel for someone you're only there nowhere it feels like [ __ ] that's like three hours wasted all my life like I don't know they feel like you know it's gone so I used to jump in at the Double session even though you might you didn't want to do like kickboxing or the boxing whatever session was done we kind of jump into it anyway like you know what I mean just uh just to get a little bit more out of there out of the journey and um I uh I left I left more than after maybe after a year or three of training and because I went there I went to athlone I went into the college went studying there and then maybe two years two years after because of training a few years as well with Martinique I'm stranded there while I was in uh in college and uh but then uh after I finished my college then I I I got the car going and I still live in athon and then I started traveling to Tullamore just this just to train because I remember the sessions that you used to have there was was great so I went back training into the more and um I said why don't I like give it give it a shot and start start training lemonade and Kieran and back I think if you start doing it maybe like maybe like twice a week or three times a week we're doing an event you know what I mean and then I had my I hadn't I had an MMA I had one of the main fights out of fusion which was in in uh ballerina in England and then my uh my SPG debuts was the Nationals last year and uh and a lot of stuff like the first fight I lost in in the Nationals yeah I thought I'm going to do good but I obviously didn't you know I lost that fight and that and I think and uh the fire in my Village you know what I mean I was like I need to get it back like you know what I mean I need to win and then I set it to Kieran like after I lost for me it was like instantly like what can I do to improve like where where can I where can I how can I make this better and then I remember like talking to Kieran I said is there any way we can try in five days a week and then like Karen like didn't even hesitate it's like yep we can't do you know what I mean um I don't think I've ever gotten that from any coach like you know what I mean and that would be hard to get out of any coach because that's that's no time as well like you know what I mean so Kieran opened up the MMA session for the calm team five days a week and once I I think once once he gave me that kind of commitment from his side I was like okay from now on I want to do everything like and I'm not gonna I'm not going to leave nothing behind you know what I mean so whatever whatever I think I need to do like like I said the drink enough water again your electrolytes eating the right food sleeping right fine waking up till I find doing your Australian condition whatever it is like you know what I mean I'm on that no I'm on top of all that you know what I mean so I suppose it was from that yes from that loss that uh that I said I'm gonna give it my own now and see what happens yeah I like that sometimes people need something like that to to push them on the spur them on and you've done fantastically well like I said all your fights have been finished so except for obviously all your wins have been finishes but all your fights bar one has been a decision so this is what makes this fight really intriguing for me as well because a lot of Justice fights go into decisions he's got a couple of finishes himself via sub or ground and pounds so how do you think you match up against yes yeah I think it's going to be a good match I think it's going to be a good fight yeah I'm going to put on a show for everybody um I think it's gonna be uh I think it's a great match you know what I mean he's uh he's big he's obviously strong like you know what I mean he he comes to fight and he's a fighter you know what I mean you see him stepping in the short short uh short notices and he's an active he's an active fighter like you know what I mean he's well known he has a couple of belts under his or under his name like do you know what I mean so he's obviously somebody that I would be aiming the fights do you know what I mean sooner or later so I I'm I'm glad that I got the opportunity to fight him do you know what I mean because um I knew it was kind of like I knew it yeah it's gonna have to happen at some stage you know what I mean so this Sunday is the time yeah and it just shows in the short time what kind of a level you've got up because I remember Karen Daven talking to me and going like because obviously I would have known Ronan Andrew and Jordan he goes you should see who's coming next and he was talking about you and I watched one of your fights and I was like [ __ ] it hell here on this guy is good and and like that you've traded wins and losses but that's all experiencing but it makes your fights exciting as well and what I liked what you said is the first thing you said was rather feel sorry for yourself what do I need to do to get better yeah yeah I think martial arts has like kind of gave me that that type of uh that type of a mindset it's like instead of instead of staying there and feeling sorry for yourself it's like what's next and that's that literally that's I I adapted that in my life now something if something happens do you know what I mean whatever happens in life do you know what I mean rather than sitting there and dwelling on oh I'm so unfortunate so unlucky and whatever like you know what I mean it's like what is the next step I can take where can I look like who can I ring like you know what I mean if it's a if it's if I have to make a phone call but it starts with that do you know what I mean it's it's never sitting there feeling sorry for yourself because that's time wasted isn't it yeah because like it's okay if if you get a loss maybe okay feel sorry for yourself for an hour or two hours I also the coach gives their Fighters 24 hours and then after that so you've got until the Sunday get over it back in the gym one day don't want to hear about it and that's the way that's the way Hebrews German and like that yeah that could be your own like if you want to be a fighter if you want to if you want to like not necessarily if I if you want to achieve like or if you want to yeah if you want to achieve anything in life like that should be your personality to look apart because you just don't you don't go away people that don't go away yeah because if you look at any like you look at I'm trying to think off top my head Gordon Ramsay failed this first couple of restaurants look at them now look at any part like Richard Branson uh billionaire failed his first couple of business if you just keep I and it was actually Karen Davin who said this to me he goes it's not who's the best it's who's left because yeah exactly you'll have people come and go that might be super talented but have they got the commitment and drive as someone else and eventually for that person who might not be entire as handed but they have that driver and motivation they will get there it will turn for them yeah if they just stay consistent but um 100 100 like dude this was a great example of that as well because sometimes like you see people coming into the gym and it's like [ __ ] like I don't think that this person is going to last year at all like and then you meet that person four years there and their blue belt or a purple belt and they're on fire and it's like holy [ __ ] like uh I didn't think that was possible do you know what I mean but it is like you know all you have to do is show up you know just show up stay consistent it's the main thing but I know you're not looking at a past yes because you you obviously just said that you don't look past an opponent because sometimes it might not go well for you but have you have your plans to fight for the rest you have you anything booked or are you just gonna tell them I have um sorry yeah I have my tie fight now in October as well as in the courage my time so that's the three class my time fight at uh at 80 kilograms so you're gonna do that because um the reason I booked that fight because I have nothing going on do you know what I mean so I was I was asking gear and secure is there anything coming up because I've done the ADCC and I do have developing competitions in between like you know what I mean and uh I was saying to Karen is there anything anything coming up for me and he's like yeah I'm keeping an eye out and there was nothing coming up like because like because I because I was supposed to do the the Europeans here in September and that was the iMac so that was kind of canceled do you know yeah so uh I was like is there any way we can replace that with something else like something just to keep keeping me going and he was obviously keep an eye out uh and there was nothing happening so I I'm obviously uh co-watching in Relentless as well and feel the few The Lads were fighting at uh at the courage My Thai at the end of October and I said to Adam have a look you might be able to find me an opponent there as well just I'm going there anyway so I might as well fight and uh see how that goes and then obviously the words in Albania in November so I'm gonna do that as well so that's good good few competition is now coming up so happy happy with that yeah good it's good you got like that you want to stay active uh so you're gonna take the Muay Thai and then obviously the world's coming up as well I'm gonna let you go because I know you're pressed for a time but I want to thank you very much for joining me today I can't wait to see you fight in person again and I can't wait for this matchup stylistically I think it's quite interesting um and it's going to be an absolute Banger of a fight is there anything you want to say before you go or anyone you want to shout out before you go yeah just uh I want to shout out big thanks there obviously the team and the family and um the team is working really hard and it's going to be exciting really exciting the weekend for us today or sorry this weekend Charlie's obviously flying in Bellator we have a few Lads fighting like across the novice and professional and and and amateur scenes or picked big weekend for us uh keep an eye out because it's going to be explaining a few matches you know what I mean um and yeah just uh I want to say thanks to yourself as well obviously for promoting all of us likes you know I mean yeah because I think it needs that you know what I mean it needs to because because you meet a lot of great people in the nationalized community like you know what I mean and and and it might not look like that from the side people distinguish this part of being dead being days of each other but it's not the way it is like you know I mean people are really passionate about it and honestly like you know like in in future it might provide job opportunities to a lot of people you know what I mean like even like interviewers like like yourself like you know I mean the media next weekend so the sport is growing and it's great to see like you know what I mean so yeah thanks very much uh foreign uh the coaches the team and the family perfect thank you for those nice words I just enjoyed watching all you young guys on this journey that you're all on from amateur into into Pro and young ladies as well obviously uh because the the female side is actually starting to boom boom especially with Shawna going to the UFC you're going to see a pick up more and more so I'm just glad to be a part of it I've been in many different circles in my life and I think the match the last one I've been more welcomed and accepted and it's been the nicest bunch of people I've ever been around in my life so I want to thank you uh for joining me today and good luck this weekend and I can't wait to see you fight 100 thanks very much perfect thanks