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[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] okay what's going on guys and welcome to a brand new episode of energized ross introduce the guest man we have flawless nathan fletcher nathan i've heard paddy the buddy trying to call you the sale of paul strangler and i've seen a few people doing it but i just don't think it's as good as flawless what's your take so if i'm being perfectly honest i'm not keen on either really [Laughter] sorry to shoot yours down like that i'm def i definitely favor flawless over the southport strangler i am not into that at all and i don't want it to stick what everyone's calling at me now and uh yeah it's not good it's not good flawless is definitely the better option of the two but i still i still it just doesn't feel quite right i don't know maybe when you get that belt strapped around your way so it's a little bit better yeah i'll probably feel a little bit more flawless then i don't know it's it's good but i just flawless flex it does roll off the tongue as well the alliteration's there yeah as well undefeated as well undefeated all finishes so we are flawless really but i just don't know if i don't think any nickname i'm gonna hear it and like it don't mean i'm gonna have to just take one of them eventually because every every one i'm getting just making me cringe oh just like the sailplus driver has like murderous stones to it exactly the other day i've been on this other podcast called super necessary and they made like a little post it was like a wanted poster for the southport strangler it was funny like but it's just so cringy like yeah i don't want to be known as the southport strangler it's definitely like serial killer vibes in it we'll know in the comments now like if if for people who want to vote they'll go down to the comments and vote but nate like we obviously had you on last time before your your flight um where you went you're now 4-0 you're you're taking on braun bouland now next friday on cage warriors one two four oh yeah okay so nate obviously like how did this fight come about uh well basically the last trilogy my teammate liam gettings for brian to me and so and obviously that fight i don't know if he's seen it but it was pretty early stoppage like liam was putting it on him and then got caught with a good shot fair play to brian but i think the fight was stopped a little bit early however once i knew they weren't running that one back i thought it was probably going to be me that ended up fighting brian next being that he just fought me teammate uh i'd just beat martin joney who obviously was like another talked about bantamweight in the division so it made sense that our paths were going to align next so um i knew pretty much sort of the week after the last fight i was going to be fighting brian yeah would you say this one's definitely a number one contender fight now then yeah i think it is personally i haven't actually been told that it's going to be a number one contender fight but who else is doing the division really i mean boolean's fought for the belt he's been around for a long time he's got a good record i think he's like ten and three or eleven and three or something so he's got a lot of experience and he's coming off a win over liam gettings obviously using another big name in the division so and then with my last performance and the fact that i've finished everyone and all my fights have been on cage warriors i think that with a win over brian it's kind of like undeniable that i'll i'll be getting the title shot next yeah definitely if i was great boiling i'd just be like you know what one of our own homegrown guys roads through the ranks and cage warriors and you know what i think you versus jack cartwright would be a great fight as well i don't know if this is bad sayers no because jack's never been on the job but judging your last performance and then jack's last performance and i know mma matt doesn't work out i think you'd have your way with him and that's just my personal opinion i wasn't that impressed with his last performance i think you were one of the performances of the conte of the trilogy series mike schwann i appreciate you saying that and i do agree with you i think i know you can't do uh mma math but like styles make fights you say don't mean if you look at my last performance and you look at his last performance like he started to fade and he was getting it put on him in the wrestling and grappling department which is obviously my strong suit so i think definitely it's good it's a good fight for me that one yeah do you do you think he was sort of saved by the rules in that last fight one might say i wouldn't say saved by the bell but yeah his opponent got done for a lot of headbutts yeah definitely it was a it was a weird fight i think jackpot won the first round just about and then after that i'd say i don't know what round they got stopped him but i think he was probably losing every other round after that and it's mad i've never seen anything like that really the fact he was getting worn so many times i don't know if it's because he's like foreign ed putting him yeah yeah he was like he was like no headboarding yeah yeah he was like you can't make it any clearer it was a guy extra headbutts literally yeah it was a mad one i've never seen anything like that before to be honest it was a very strange headboarding technique because it wasn't obviously a big stitch stitch went on on me it was sort of uh sort of slamming them on the ground while recording but he was throwing like all his weight into the shots but he was doing that he was like throwing his head down onto jack as well so and yeah he needs to change something up there with his ground and plan technique because if he's going to keep going on like that he's going to keep getting disqualified so yeah i thought he was a bit of a flyweight to be honest with that yeah yeah he was a small kid him i seen him even in the hotel walking past him on that side obviously your size of everybody else on the card everyone you know is fighting at your weight class you like to just stand near them and kind of test out you know easy match up against him and he was he was quite a small kid as well you probably look at their neck nice dude you're like yeah how quick could they get around that yeah that's exactly what i'm thinking nate obviously since your last win uh did you your gym next gen has chit like has changed a lot paddy's went down swimming with the ufc we're actually still waiting for the announcement who he's fighting but we won't put you on the spot for that but like like what's the buzz now next gen like ever since you're a win obviously paddy now going to the uc what's the balls now yeah the gym is flying i always say there's a good energy in the gym you've ever seen dodgeball in a white goodman voice yeah but uh yeah the gym's playing obviously we've got paddy just been signed and they'll all be fighting paddy and molly they'll both be fighting on the the ufc hopefully in london i think they think in september now for that and but obviously with the way things are covered they're not going to do one over here until you can have a full crowd so i'll have to wait and see when he'll be making his debut but then obviously you've got bonner as well fighting for the middleweight title from the next cage where he is and michelle yeah he's the main event on thursday and there's like loads of lads on the cards i mean adam cullen who was saying before when we were speaking off record adam cullen's fighting conor wilson's making his cage already his debut liam gettings is back out so like the whole team is getting ready to fight you i mean so everyone's busy and everyone's preparing well together and uh yeah like i said before there's a good energy in the gym yeah absolutely how do you be going as well because the whole squad's gone nobody's gonna feel left left out yeah i'm not sure because obviously it's a bubble again so uh i don't actually know if he's coming down i'm sure he'll be able to get his way in like if he speaks to graham but uh yeah i'm not actually sure because obviously there's no crowd coming down so it's gonna be like a bubble again mean we've got like five or six fighters on the cards across the three nights so um it's like two coaches per fighter so if you're working out that way we could have the old old jimmy coming down really couldn't we put it yeah the takeover the next gen takeover that's what it is every trilogy i've been saying this like every time we go down we've got the most fighters on the card every time you know most other gyms have got like one or two lads on we always come with like a six-man firm all ready to fight you know what i mean so next gen take over the bubble every time i know that i'm sure i'm sure you're probably the loudest in the bubble as well uh maybe yeah that's a close contender between paddy and me and gary in it so yeah absolutely and what do you make of matt's fight because obviously he's playing natoya's frederick who is an absolute monster out of team renegade and how did you see that fight going because i'm very much looking forward that one i think it's gonna be action-packed from start to finish yeah definitely i think frederick i haven't actually watched much of him but i saw his last fight and that was enough to see how dangerous he is how powerful he is he's very like wild and explosive and likes to come forward with aggressive fighter isn't he and matt's a bit more calculated and like more of a volume striker so i think for matt's just going to be avoiding the big shots and putting the pressure on him i think the longer the fight goes the more it behaves bonner and we saw his last fight against webb yeah just put on like a clinical striking performance so similar sort of thing but rather than avoiding the takedowns and putting volume on it's going to be avoided in those big shots and then crowding him with the with a volume of strikes and i think one will be able to get it done probably like third or fourth round like i say the longer it goes on the more it favors bonus style definitely yeah i think he is dangerous in there from the first moment so uh that's a great main event to start off the trilogy as well definitely yeah it's a boss fight i made up for banner as well he deserves it you know i mean like he'll say himself he didn't have the best start to his pro career he's a bit up and down that's why his record's not the best now but since he's come to us and he's got a proper coaching team behind him and and he's coming in to fight to go game plans and well prepared he's beat all the best guys in europe i mean if you look at the people he's just beating his last few fights and like the performances he's put on matingman james webb george smith all like top middleweights i mean so he definitely deserves it i made up for him no he definitely does especially that last win over james webb you know he was the cage warriors middleweight champion and that must give him great belief that he can go and get this belt now after being somebody who already held up definitely yeah 100 you beat your former champ then that gives you the confidence you need to go in done it and take out the current champion so i think he's definitely definitely ready and i believe he's going to go and get it done yeah well nate like obviously you're like you're one of the main people to watch out for in the in the rising mma scene in great britain like what what now after that went in there and you're going into this fight now what like what were you sort of looking at are you are you like looking to tailor your strengths again against your opponents or are you are you like just consistently trying to just build yourself up until like you keep raising like is it is it a faceless opponent or what were you working with the team yeah like obviously i'm aware of all my opponents i'm aware of the strengths and weaknesses you know i mean i watch them and i understand what they bring to the table but i definitely don't like to focus too much on my opponent i'm not one of them that needs a strict game plan like i'm so young i'm 23 and i'm only getting better every single fight every single week to be honest i'm improving uh so i just focus on myself really i know if i go in there and put my game on people 100 what i'm capable of no one's going to be able to hang with me and like i said i'm only getting better each fight so i don't focus too much on my opponent it's more just about evolving my own game and then obviously it's good to have the tests along the way like brian's another step up in competition i think my last fight was a good step up like martin joney was a legit competitor you know i mean he was 6-0 and i think i proved to a lot of people there the level i met how i was able to dominate him even with like the issues out on fight day with food poisoning and all that was still able to go in and put on that performance so um yeah i'm so confident for this next one and i think i'm going to shock on a lot of people again who obviously hold brian in high regards i'm going to prove that i'm just levels above him as well so i'm excited to get in there and do that do you uh feel that you'll again try and implement your will on this guy and you use your ground game to your advantage or are you happy to stand with him knowing that he does hold some power in his hands yeah i mean i'm wherever the fight goes i'm ready i mean i train for everything but i'm not an idiot i know where my strengths are and not many people can handle the pace i put on and the wrestling and the wrestling heavy and grappling heavy attack and don't get me wrong i see me getting to his back similar to the last fight and there and finishing him with another being like that's that's what i do you know what i mean so not much changes really and i'm happy to say that because i can let him know i could tell him right to his face that's what i'm going to do and let's see him try and stop it you know i mean i'm confident that no matter what happens in there i'm gonna be able to get to that position and finish him at some point in the 15 minutes you know what there's been many fighters who have had similar game plans as in you know when you've been asking or damien moye you know you know what they're going to do but that doesn't mean you can necessarily stop but i think nathan you're someone who is like that you know he's looking to sink in that rear naked choke at some stage you know he's looking to get your back it takes a very good man to stop it and no one's been able to do it so far exactly and even the last guy i thought i could tell he was very well drilled like he prepared a lot for someone taking his back and he was defending well and i fell off a few times i made a few mistakes in there and obviously i wasn't 100 and like i said with all the food poisoning stuff i had going on but uh it didn't deter me from from getting to that position eventually you know what i mean i just kept going kept going relentless attacks and i'm willing to go non-stop for the 15 minutes to get your back and get that choke in so um yeah like you say you can be you can be ready for a bit you can be ready for it and you can be expecting that but stop and it's another thing you know what i mean yeah it's obviously it's close to so you're fighting on the fraud it's like basically 10 days away now what what does the what does the 10 days countdown look like for yourself and so pretty much all the hard training's done now to be honest like these next few days i'm just ticking over i've got i've got one more hard like sort of strength conditioning workout but it's not going to be any sort of resistance or anything it's more just about getting the heart rate through the roof and it'll probably involve things like assault bike rowers skis all the ergs and stuff like that and homie sparring's done did my last sparring rounds today and i felt really really sharp felt probably the best i felt to be honest before any fight so it's a good sign i'm peaking and a few little pad sessions i'm going to go for a run after this now tonight yeah me too but yeah yeah oh nice job fair enough that's a nice night for it so i'm definitely going to get out and do i'll probably only do about three miles but like a nice good pace run but yeah it's just ticking over now i mean i'm ready the way it's slow i feel fitter than ever i feel sharp and it's just about ticking over now and getting there getting the last few pounds off and then getting ready to kill next friday obviously uh nathan if anyone's at our last last interview we actually spoke about how your brothers do crossfit and stuff like that do you find that because you surround yourself with so many people who have like fitness and strength and conditioning like at the core of of what they do as well do you find that that's such an advantage that other people might not have yeah because i honestly think some fighters are delusional like they might think the fit but they're just not and i know if any fighter on the cage rory's roster comes into peak performance for me and tries to keep up with me in a workout they're just going to have absolutely no chance i'm going to flatten them all um yeah adam colin might have something to say about that but i definitely the first guy next year i'd say hey come on where are you at i don't call them in the comments listen that adam calling the scores speak for themselves he knows what goes on in peak you know i mean he wins some workouts but i'm still ahead on the leaderboard definitely so for now i can say confidently i'm the fittest yeah i think that's why me and ross like really enjoy watching what you're doing it's just you can see it like in the cage out of the cage you're just like just fully driven yeah definitely it's my whole life like i mean there's nothing else i'd rather be doing yeah it's like a hobby i'm saying last time he is like i don't really have any hobbies outside the fight in my hobbies doing crossfit i mean so after this fight now when in between now and the next fight like my time off i'll be going to the crossfit gym and doing a lot of the workouts i'm staying in shape i'm getting fitter if anything in between fights you out of camp and yeah you have it a lot you have to think that gives you sort of a massive advantage over the other competition uh i was only trying to pass today it was like like padding him that the midfield that fella puts away in in his off peak time i was like nathan fletcher's there in the crossfit gym doing all the workouts and uh donuts and pizzas uh isn't it i wish i could break through this party yeah he's on another level i've never seen anyone eat as much as him and it's actually quite impressive to be honest the amount of food he can put away and he's no joke partly after a fight like and it helps as well with him because you've got such a big following on instagram all these like cake places and all that cookie places just sending free stuff so it's easy for you to go buy all my cakes and stuff like that after the fight but he just gets it all sent to him for free so i need to already open get in the ufc get more of a following and then maybe i'll get some free stuff as well after the fight maybe maybe a few more shout outs from uh paddy maybe maybe uh some could send you some more crossfit gear i know well yeah i'd prefer that actually yeah the thing is nate obviously we we saw you fighting that he was like two or possibly three fights ago we got in contact and we've had john since it's just there you're you're fighting next friday it's going to be the same night england are taking on scotland and the thing is i saw as well you're going to be shown on live tv in certain bars now like like what i'm thinking is i think they're going to show a lot of these lads scottish and english are going to see you fight before they actually watch that game that you're going to be in front of a huge audience like and uh i think this is really really where a lot of people are really going to get to know nathan fletcher as well sorry i lost stupid then the signal yeah i was saying a lot of people are going to be out watching you go you compete you're going to be on the big screen before like a lot of people are going to get out watch the england scotland game they're going to see you first and then like that's going to put your name out there in front of like the hundreds of thousands of people i think like i think this this next friday is going to be your big step yeah well hopefully i think it's definitely a good uh everything's like the right time internet for me now you know i mean like with being on the main card with the opponent in brian i don't you know with the footy what time is that going to be on because they don't get on the main card i don't know i won't be fighting until about nine bill probably half nine or nine because the main card starts eight that could be perfect you could be the half time show yeah often like well you better yeah but you better have the whole cage where he's ruined i don't want them like playing the foot here they're just getting me up quickly in the after break is that definitely next right is it not this friday the football or is it next fellaini england scotland england scotland 18th oh no sorry it's this weekend sorry it's this friday yeah everyone yeah he sacked nathan no no you're clear 261 as well on pfl but it'll be yeah it'd be arcade warriors that we can so nathan let's finish it up here uh how do you get the job done how do i get the job done i'm gonna predict for use right now second round real naked joke yeah exactly well i said the same thing about me last one i wrote it in my little journal before i went down to fight week i wrote second round being a could choke and then i'll come home and obviously i've done it in the third round so i wasn't quite spot on but this one i'm confident second round i won't have any food poisoning so i'll be able to push harder at the start of the fight i think by the second round i'll have him done and it'll be another rear naked joke finish for me six and a half six finishes we are seeing gary and we knew we was going to say beforehand that he was he said second round tko one give us a prediction for his void actually for ian's fight yeah i won't argue with him i think second round kl or tko and don't be too much for jack on the beat definitely so ian gets it done question that nathan actually you know when you put it on the trilogy series do you ever prefer what day you'd actually fight on would you almost rather fight on the thursday and then you can watch friday saturday or rather fight on saturday and like you know you feel the boards i think friday's the nice day to be honest i thought on the friday and i thought on the saturday and saturday you're like waiting around a little bit because i had to get into the bubble on like the tuesday of the wednesday so i was there for so much longer and fighting on the friday's nice because obviously it's a lot easier for all my friends and family to make plans to watch it on a friday night rather than a thursday night and uh and then i get home on saturday and i can enjoy watching the saturday night then after after me when i can be enjoying a bit of food then so friday's the nice middle ground do us all a favor and uh get in the mic after and say you want a toilet shot in san diego that'd be nice or the thing is with that right i really i'd obviously love to fight on the california car but i just think we're going to do all american fighters on that i don't reckon they're going to send anyone over from europe so do you reckon so all right the opposite i reckon they're going to get their absolute best guys um put on the show over there i don't see the point i don't see the point of them getting these new guys in why don't they take the best guys and i've actually said this three or four times now dana white's going to deal with dana white looking for a fight and go to the cage show yeah it doesn't make sense i just don't know what with the covert and all that how it's going to be are we going to get the athletes over and obviously there's all visas and that you have to sort to fight in america so we'll see but listen if any european fighters are getting on that card i'm gonna have a big win on the uh friday the 25th so i'll be shouting definitely if any european fighters get on that card get me on it yeah oh i think that's the perfect uh chance for you to blow yourself up further get on that card batman what do you think yeah and also the way i scott i underplay in england no no no england aren't playing scotland that day so it's just okay yeah it just be all you but it'd just be all right okay but here nate um like it thanks man for coming on again and um yeah we look forward to seeing you perform as well and like the the driving determination you have as well it's like it's one of the main reasons why myself and ross love doing the show and getting getting athletes on like yourself that i just have that passion and like talk to talk and walk the walk is like boys i appreciate you having me on definitely because you've got a good platform and it's it's all good exposure for me i mean getting my name out there and speaking to you guys and getting me out there with your audience as well you know what i mean so i really appreciate that always ma'am will you keep doing you will keep doing us if you are watching this video absolutely smash that subscribe button give that like button a real naked choke and as always stay energized you