UFC 253 Adesanya Vs Costa Breakdown | Paul Hughes | Ian Garry | Energized Show

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What is up and welcome to the latest Energized Show. On this episode we discuss all the latest MMA craic, we breakdown this weekends UFC 253 Adesanya Vs Costa and we're joined by both Paul Hughes & Ian Garry ahead of their Cage Warriors fights this weekend. Check it out, enjoy…

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okay what's going on guys and welcome to a brand new episode of energized ross you're 30 30 30. i am indeed two two of a coin the game my friends two of a kind we are both 30 now we are both in our prime we are both killing the game bosmo i am so excited for this week's show is all about ufc 253 cage warriors and bellator all give it back in action this week yeah it feels like the crown voice has gone away yeah which well hopefully it does go away very soon but yeah this is it there's actually like so many cards on this week it's ridiculous like we have uc on saturday with bellator on saturday with cage warriors on thursday friday and saturday so if you are an mma fan make sure to like and subscribe because we are here every week but uh russ like we obviously have two guests coming on the show uh we have paul hughes coming up and also in gary they're over and competing this weekend cage warriors so we thought it'd be cool to have them both on so we may as well kick on with the show and then have them on later and then uh see how they're getting on also ask them like what's like over there and then get their picks for this weekend as well but what'd you make of that anyway man i'm excited for cage warriors trilogy three nights in a row in manchester bish bash bang get it in there why not they haven't been active in a very long time i'm excited to see our mates go in there and bow pick up some knockout with victories yeah and then at the very end of the show we've previously had both lads on tell their whole stories how they even started mma so make sure to add that at the very very end that just reminded me of that but uh ross before we get into this weekend's uc 253 we have to talk about colby covington against tyron woody at uc fighting in vegas over the weekend kobe coming out to win torrent woodley just seems like a shadow of a man but uh where do you want to start here do you want to start on like kobe on hit on his win or it's hard on taking the loss well i'll cover uh tauron woodley and then i'll let you cover call colby comes in i'll go i'll cover the loser you can cover the winner uh tyrone woodley it was his one opportunity to get his career back on track this is the third loss in a row he's lost 15 rounds in a row this was his arsenal says colby comington he was ever going to get us back up for a fight it was going to be this fight and at the end of the day he couldn't do it you couldn't rise the occasion it was a slightly better performance than he put up against gilbert burns but it wasn't enough um at the age of 38 i think it's time for tyron woodley to retire do you think it's the like age of just caught up to him or do you think it's just something mental i think there's a bit of both i think he knows that he's 38 at this stage and i don't think he wants to get into an absolute slobber knocker as our friend j.r might say uh but i think he's like here look i don't need to sustain any career-ending injury at this stage or like something that will haunt him for the next 20 years so i think he's in there to take minimal damage and that's shown from a point install and i think he just needs to accept that he's hanging them up i think the only reason he's come out and said he's not going to hang them up is because i don't think any fighter who was a world champion ever wants to walk out on losing 15 rounds in a row yeah because you pulled out you went all out in this training camp as well you hadn't you obviously had mass without coming in as well like there was a no stone left unturned but like if you're looking at woody's career right now i don't think he's going to retire but what do you think was his like biggest win i mean he obviously had the knockout against robbie lauder to win the title but he also had like a great win against darren tale i would probably say the robbie lawler fight just because robbie waller was like the boogeyman at that stage and he was you know in some ways it was one of the best career surgeons in ufc history robbie lawler and maybe between himself and bisping like their road to a title was so so long and then he came in turned on woodley um made lotter look like he didn't deserve to be there to be honest it was from a challenger going in win the belt it was one of the best wins i think i've ever seen in the ufc yeah he was out for a while before that as well wasn't he yeah yeah yeah i think he was two years ago to fight at that stage yeah but look if he hangs off now i think everyone goes higher on woodley great fighter i think the longer he goes on the more damage it does to his reputation and the more damage it does to his status as a ufc future hall of famer does it really because like looking at cowboy obviously he drew over the weekend but like without the old poke that would have been five losses in a row is that really that's not really gonna hold cowboy back from going into the hall of fame well i think cowboy is you know sort of legendary statuses any place anywhere anyone i think that's his thing as opposed to woody was actually at the top of the hill and then he almost sort of was gonna whittle away i suppose cowboy is never in a boring fight also and on top of that cowboy also i think has the records for most wins in ufc history so i know but he still wasn't a different legacy i know i know but he still wasn't a uc champ though you know yeah i think there are different comparables but look at diego sanchez who i mean he's fighting his retirement fight this weekend he'll end up at the ufc hall of fame if he's not there already i think he's there because the entire tough one cast were in the hall of fame no he was he was he also want to voted it was a [ __ ] like well his floyd is in the hall of fame same as uh shogun vs dan henderson who was in the hall of fame as well um well i'm sure he'll have his own standalone hall of fame moment diego sanchez he's not too crazy character never made it to you know the top of the mountain but again he's a crazy cat yes yeah yeah never boring never boring no he's never boring but like obviously colby covington stole the headlines over the weekend as well ross also getting the phone call from donald trump like that that wasn't even it like what he said to camaro uzman just everything like he's a tornado on the micros he is you can sort of see he was trying to remember his loins at the at the start i think he said this my biggest worst defeat ever i was like what's that even mean speak english pal uh but also like just to see the sort of salmon suit as he's sitting there with no shirt on i was like he is an absolute character he's wwe at its finest really in terms of the ufc and i think him versus loose but i'm ready for give me cummington versus husband too over usman versus burns um you know he's almost gone full child solomon as if the first fight never happened and i'm excited to see it there was that issue that he did say uh go back to your tribe in africa sort of along those lines comments probably oversets the mark well no definitely duels over set to mark he seems to just get away with saying whatever he wants really doesn't he yeah what do you think like colby goblins like behind closed doors and he's just sort of looking in the mirror like he just seems like someone who hasn't gotten any friends yeah i would say he probably doesn't have many friends he's probably very insecure like it's all a facade really you know i mean yeah like anyone ever knows what's inside yeah so who knows what the real kobe is like well he he has a you know kobe ko uh covent incorporated now uh his own team he's been kicked out of att look when he was a draw you're always going to watch kobe coming to fight and it's not even for his fighting style which all you think is drastically improved but it's actually for the character he's the ultimate heel in ufc what mike yeah he's just the bad the baddie in a film isn't he yeah oh he definitely is yeah it's going to be very interesting to see how much further he can push this like if you give him a press conference like uh you don't know what he's going to say on the mic do you think the phone for him next is mazda yes that's what i think about i think like i know they were talking about doing diaz versus mazda doll too scrap that i want to see copenhagen versus miles as well no that's what it's covering the master that is way better oh definitely definitely and also like it means something as well to the division yeah that's that's the fight though nah that's the fight make that fight please and then basma we cannot go on to next week's card we're able to just discuss the main man morectv.com 66 days three victims and that's what i'm going to call them today on victims i feel like it is i don't have to stop you know i feel i feel bad the way you're calling like rhys or victim manuel i know but that's the hard reality of it i mean rhys knows that but this guy everyone who's thought so far has been a victim and that's just that's what they have he is undeniable um you know knocking out gerald mieshkart in what 17 seconds um he landed four strikes but only one of them was like the knockout blow the rest the first was a body kick and the two after that were just you know off just because the ref wasn't quick enough get in there it was i'm working one might say yeah he should have had another fight lined up that night as well man this guy i love that his things had two fights lined up at any one stage barry tell me loan me open another fight in the middleweight division blowing me up pointing the uh welterweight division in the welterweight division if if this might sound a bit bad now but if tyron woodley does want to stick around i think that's the guy to fight kaz much more of i think like woodley could be like here john i have to beat this guy i have to derail and like get back on it also i want to see each maya fight like like someone who was he's going to stand up but also can wrestle as well you know yeah that's not bad show i want a middleweight in the middle joe would be funny yol romero you know what that's actually not a bad idea joel is what 42 now or something like that yeah and i would be interested in it it would definitely sort of test no i feel like taro moody is like the welterweight yoel romero romero is slightly more effective it's like wait wait wait pounce yeah i mean like that's their voice saw for me uh if i'm going in the middleweight division i like to see him for chris weidman i like to see him scalp a former ufc champion and i think that is a very interesting matchup and people always like get annoyed they're trying to debate me when i say this but chris wyman is one of the most skilled ufc fighters pound for pound and i'm saying he's one the best but i'm saying if you just took his skill set in terms of stroke and wrestling and jiu-jitsu it's very impressive his biggest problem is his chain and then sort of you know combined all together and then a welterweight it's 40 that a man after three ufc fights is one of the most watched fighters in ufc but the other possible number one contender for the ufc welterweight belt is leon edwards leon edwards needs cosmet shamoyev to make himself relevant to get that welterweight total shot i think he needs to derail that hype train and look at it this way if you can beat cosma you'll get that you'll get the always on you to call your shot that's exactly right leon edwards's problem is the people above him don't want to afford him because his name is not big enough so if he takes and if he takes out moya if he's below him that that will put his name like above other exactly it would be like if you were sort of ranked fourth at bantamweight and you were like i'm gonna fight john o'malley because that's what's gonna get you most boys that's where that's where your fan base gonna grow you're robbing someone else's fans yeah that admit that makes perfect sense i wonder who who people thinks are the better options so one was woodley at welterweight and then joelle romero and middleweight and then you have uh leon edwards and chris wieben we'll do a poem yeah yeah remember remember that remember that yeah yeah uh also just looking at the car before going into this weekend you see 253 uh johnny walker got the win over the weekend mackenzie durham got the win as well and kevin holland got to win as well they were great voices as well weren't they oh man it was uh it was absolutely brilliant to be honest it was something yeah congrats johnny walker ireland's own brazilian johnny oh walker um right russ we're going to get into this weekend's car what do you want to sort of look at first um all i want to talk about is the main event and the co-main event ufc 253 battle of the undefeated middleweight superstars this is the first time i've seen ever where they have both people's record on the poster 19-0 israel style bender ada senia versus polo bologina the eraser man i love this one i know i love this fight the way you even say it i can't even take you seriously oh you're not the most passionate man in mma may only the one part where ariel wanted for it i was actually slowly disappointed that these guys like shook hands backstage and were noise to each other i wanted to see that he like call me into the octagon this is a bottle of two men who have never attempted to take down in their ufc tenure baruchina paolo acosta is mr walk you down and beat you until you are there no more yeah they don't call him the eraser for nothing apparently in his training sessions he is knocking his sparring partners out which is a terrible etiquette by by the way i might add but it doesn't matter if you're called the eraser on the other hand is like mr creativity mr flair mister make you miss i am dying to see this contest in fairness to you for this and then before i get to picking the winners let me bring it on to the co-main event you have polish power jan blakovich versus dominic reyes dominic reyes for me you could almost class him as undefeated a lot of people say he beat jon jones this is going to crown a new light heavyweight king we haven't seen a light heavyweight champion not named daniel cormier or jon jones for 10 years that's a really long time we're gonna have a new king on that division i am very much looking for this one this will be fireworks 10 years 10 years geez i didn't know it was that long there you have well jon jones was 22 when you won the belt mauricio shogun hua also hopefully pelo costa did not knock out logan paul too hard so he can't find floyd mayweather but bosmo come on now give me the predictions ufc 253 he was walking out with the win uh sorry which one we're starting off we'll do the call main event first light heavyweight okay call main event first um john blackfish used to fight in middleweight yeah like dominic dominic reyes is like definitely heavyweight could potentially move up to everybody later on i think dominic reyes is the more of a is more of an athlete but like as you can see he did almost go to the nfl as well yeah whereas jan has that polish power you know i think because dominic reyes when he was fighting jon jones like you could have won it well like i just i'd have to go with dominic reyes but uh the polish power like who knows if that's if he sparks him out in the chin you know what are you yeah all i'm going for dominic reyes i actually re-watched the jones fight there two days ago because i wanted to see what it was all about uh i actually did slowly score for jones um but it was extraordinary toy dominic reyes that left hand is so dangerous it comes straight down the pipe and i think that's what's going to get yeah yeah i'm blackovich out there i'm going to say second round tko dominic reyes but like like how confident are you in the dominicans call oh i'm very confident i've seen jan blackwish been knocked out i've seen dominic reyes knock people out he is very much gonna be looking to make that statement and you know crown himself the new ufc live headway champion dominic reyes the dominator it's funny how things work out if he gets the win now if like it works out like he felt like he was absolutely robbed and then now he has this potential to lift at all this weekend but um ross is there to sign you're taking on paulo costa you may as well go first man yeah uh a lot of people are going to be back in the easy hope train and by the way fair play to izzy he's now one of the faces of puma which is is great he he's a great ambassador for them to have as well he fits in with their brand perfectly but for me it's borussia israel sagna is going to be erased is an absolute animal of a man this guy is one of the best looking and has one of the best physiques i've ever seen but it's not all about that he stood there toe to toe joel romero and he out yoel romero'd yo romero that's when you know you have someone to be worried about and the only issue i have a parallel costa is if it does go to around four and five i think he is likely to get ass out as opposed to israel out of sane has had plenty of five round practice so that is my one concern but i think paulo costa is going to get in there get the knockout the only thing that gives me confidence in saying that is that we saw kelvin gaslum hit israel out of sanya a lot of times and i think if pedal costs it can hit at a time as many times as kelvin gaston did i think paulo costa is going to be your new ufc middleweight champion like paulo costa he doesn't really like knock people clean out he sort of makes them their body just fold yeah that's what he's gonna do to israel out of sanya i feel like it's gonna be a left hook and he's just gonna catch him and that's it yeah it's gonna be it's to be reminiscent of all sort of uh do you ever see carlos conda catch dan hardy with the left hook it's not ringing a bell a bit better than um bisping catching uh rock hold okay okay yeah a bit more vigorous behind them that's costa everything's thrown with violence oh yeah you're telling me um yeah but pedal castle is going to have to catch them i think he will i don't i think he's not going to be able to avoid him for the whole 25 minutes yeah like i'm going out of sanya and like like forcing enough we're not both agreeing on both fights because i thought we were gonna but uh i think arasana is going to win just because like obviously dwight yoel romero he's he's fighting differently now since he he's now fighting as the champ looking to not lose the belt we'll have a bet bet on it yeah i definitely yeah what would you like to bet um you're a ufc glove are you wearing it no i'm not wearing that but if if if i lose you get my uh ufc glove if i win you owe me two cans of monster not really a fair bit but i'm confident i'm gonna win you you're not you are coming yeah yeah but that that sort of sums up ufc 253 uh also on the card uh coy car france is pointing brandon royvel that could be for uh flyweight number one contendership especially considering how strong ufc is in the sort of austral asia market they might want to give koi car france a shot there and then also as we said earlier on the show diego sanchez is fighting for his ufc retirement fight against jake matthews so best look diego on that one exactly anyone else want to shout out in the car about as well no i wanna who do you think's gonna win on the main card here at hakeem that would do he's taking on zubara two two two two gov yeah well i think he was involved in mcgregor brawl you know and then uh hacking is a spg lab so i'm gonna go for hakeem yeah i'll agree with you with that put it here russ this car is to be off the rails it's i think like uc 254 is going to be on like in a better time for us but like yeah israel out of sight versus pelo costa that's going to be on around five if not like like after 5 a.m over here but um that's i just can't wait for it somebody's oh has to go someone's oh does have to go and i can't wait for it exactly and that's the draw like hey boys for only versus nico price unless this is a draw someone will lose but um like i mean that's not even the beginning of it like obviously that's going to be the last event there's going to be bellator on before it as well uh that's being headlined by rma fabian edwards taking on kosovo vanstinus as well like i mean fabian's nine at all fanciness is 12 and two uh who do you expect me to win on that one i like fabian to win that stay on the field i think he's better all around and then also you have uh will flour your fault in that car as well yeah bill needs a we'll need to win he's coming off the last there he lost reasoning well guys um we do appreciate you watching the show but we're actually now about to be joined by our first guest of the day mr paul yields about to come in on the show okay so here we go we have the main man himself paul hughes on the show russ you are hello we previously had paul in the show right and ross you gave him one of the best nicknames ever and it went viral yeah it is handsome paul hughes i cannot wait to see you guys you come out on the weekends and be called handsome paul hughes i think i've actually met you like three times on this and the last week being like are you coming in handsome paul used or what all will be revealed on saturday we'll see so what's your mate's name in the corner again patty henderson paddy what do you think of that nickname it doesn't suit that could work well here come here paul like obviously we've had you on the show before and i said that i said it earlier on the show that uh we're gonna put our full show we have with you at the very end of this video for people who want to check it out but um in the payload to this fight you've been putting out videos with your boyfriend ross and the stuff you've been putting out has been absolutely brilliant thank you well thank roscoe for that thank roscoe he's an absolute wizard of what he does do i mean he's i need he he really wants to get into that sort of sports style well he is in that sports style documentary but like he's going to be he's going to be huge so i mean you can just see even even every couple we do you can see the quality of his work getting like times and every time and it's very exciting do i mean it's an amazing thing for me to have as well um is rosco just document their hour and so that's a good really good relationship no worries i i'm here for you all the time 2.0 yeah guys if you haven't checked that make sure to head over paul use instagram check out uh one percent which i do like the garyvee quote that you get in there on that one and then sweat uh no guess what that's about it's about sweat we've got two more coming this week as well so stay posted and they're they're good ones we will do here paul tell us exactly what it's like over there because obviously like manchester's in lockdown at the moment uh you're over there you're just trying to make weight and then dude do the business on saturday like what's it all like in the bubble um to be honest man it's been a breeze like as much as i've been sort of going on an instagram like i'm locked up for 24 hours it's actually been a breeze we got here do we we had to get an early flight which is pretty [ __ ] because we had to be here early for a covet test yeah um but we didn't what was that like what was that the test it was fine i actually expected a lot worse it wasn't like the ones you've seen in the ufc where they stick it right up your nose like until it almost goes in your brain you know i mean well that likes a patty it will go all the way through because there's not much up there we got a couple of hours to go out and grab supplies before we get got into the hotel and as soon as we got our test then we got our keys and we weren't allowed to leave until until basically half an hour ago there yeah oh well so you're actually confined to your room proper isolation until then yeah not like that i'm going to get room we could get room service but um with fight week and stuff like it's very specific what you eat and what you do so we had a pack and how to do a lot of i literally had a suitcase full of stuff i had a full shopping with me and on the player just in case i had everything sort of covered before i got here so as i say it's been it's been playing soon uh so like who do you have over there witcher so my teammate kevin mclaren is also fighting he's making his case for his debut he's an absolute animal um excited for everyone to see him and then i have my coach liam shannon and not so handsome patty henderson over in the corner there so call it on your coach or both in another room then yeah they're in another room yeah so we couldn't even we couldn't even see them until about half an hour ago there we had a reunion but to be honest i'm sort of was sick of them anyway so i'm like what were you doing what were we doing in the room would be able to hit pads in the room or and not to be honest i haven't done anything i've just done my mobility and my stretching um i've been chilling i mean the hard work's done now that we're allowed out we've got a training facility or like a training room yeah um so i'll be able to get a couple of assassins in today and tomorrow so everyone's good i'm like um when the fighter on thursday and friday are you able to go to them where you're just gonna chill out and no we're not we're not allowed to leave the hotel at all um there's like a specific part of the hotel that's cordoned off just for cage warriors like we're not like there's no access to the outside world like and is it like is there is it real tense in the hotel like have if you met your opponent yet like like what's this what's happening i met him yesterday as we were coming in seems like you know i did i mean i don't really i don't really have beef with any any any faders really apart from morgan choppa but [Music] did he mention your videos i'm sure he's a nice guy she hasn't seen him driven as me so that's the problem i'm not too emotional at this at this point but when it comes to fight day i'm i'm there to kill him like yeah that's the problem like you're about just chasing your dream you know i mean like yeah someone someone has to be derailed and uh paul this is what's most important come saturday night are we expecting another hey kick knockout and then also are you calling your shot for the cage warriors featherweight toil because i would love to see you versus morgan chappa and i'd love to see you do another head kick knock out on him because obviously a lot of hype around this guy i just don't buy it morgan sherry yes so as always like i don't really have a specific specific like i have to do this in the fight or i have to do that and if i like i'm going in there with with no thoughts basically and wherever it goes it goes like if the ko comes then it comes but i could submit them again like my previous fighters could get the sub i could get the tko it it really doesn't matter mate i'm just sort of i keep my options open in there because i know that i have that killer instinct as i've proved to me all of my fights have been finished so i sort of rely on that i just take it as it comes and if i smell the finish then i'm taking it do you feel like there's like extra pressure on you now just because of like what the height your last one was such a massive highlight and like it went viral and it brought like extra attention to it you feel like you're you almost have to like beat that every time or you're just like here like i'm just taking one step at a time i'm just going to go well of course people seeing that a lot more people are going to be tuning in and a lot more people are sort of going to be looking out for oh what's he going to do this time so there is like an added pressure to get like a finish but ultimately as i said like if i if there's a smell of finish i'll be taking it i mean and ultimately pressure pressure is what i want i want more ice at the end of the day that's how i build my career that's how i build my ground and that's how i get these tail shots yeah because aiden stephen he's a he has a bit of hype around him as well i've been uh yeah peter kyle's been talking about him there's no float here you're getting you're getting you gotta throw him in there right yeah as i say he's a good opponent almost doubled my fates um it's only losses became a good guy so it's a perfect fight just to catapult me paul does he have that one percent i don't know if he has that one percent i don't know that one percent makes all the difference doesn't it it doesn't admit it doesn't date and you will see that on saturday night yeah also like how's the training campaign in the build up to this because obviously this is a like uncharted territory feel great for i've actually had an opponent the same opponent for the first time in my career for like maybe eight weeks ago the fight was done so i've been sure training specifically for aiden stevens which has never happened before my career like which is which is awesome too i mean having that time to prepare and no no switching up of opponents no switching up of shows no switching up of dates it's been great man and as i say like it it'll all come to fruition here on saturday i'm excited to show everyone some some new stuff i've got my arsenal as well i don't know every time i say it i always go to barry go oh i was watching the two latest videos that we were talking earlier i was like i've got my pause fixed i can't wait for this weekend realistically yourself um maybe you ain't gary by far the two most exciting prospects out of ireland in a very very long time i can't wait to see you guys go in there this weekend and do your business and i think both are absolutely ufc bound both are going to be future cage warriors champion i think please just call your shot this weekend after you win i want to see you call for the featherweight belt and boy always you're already the cage warriors featherweight champion the own crowned the handsome paul hughes what an intro made holy well not an intro i thoroughly enjoyed that my eagles [ __ ] my head busting out that's hot here to be honest you know now that's sick man i appreciate that and i absolutely agree ian's a [ __ ] stud as well and an absolute animal and there's not a lot of people that have that mindset that we have do i mean that's why i've got so much time for you and why i'm such a big fan of his as well is because i just see that's the similarities in the mindset and it's and it's basically world champion or nothing don't mean that's just all that is all that's in our mind so i recognize that thank you for the words that's don't worry about that i'll just call it a c you know what i mean yeah and that's it yeah obviously ever since we had to last in the shower i was like we've been like obviously messing with a good bit and like your top top man like if this is the only time i get to see it face to face like best look this weekend because like we're all rooting for you man you know thank you very much appreciate it i will definitely do the business handsome nickname will come out on saturday but we'll see really we'll let you two let's get back to jumping on top of the beds right best look let's look at that that's so exciting okay and then we have the main man ian gary on the show russ you're you're you're all their favorite the future the future is here uh just to give you guys the insight we actually just have paul hughes on camera aliens room and look what logan paul is gifted in his very own paul hughes jersey i hope it's very nice the future yeah of my training top center over so there'll be a i'll give him one of them in the next couple of days he told me about this and he gave it to me so happy days no it was fast do you wish the wish perries were on the same card yeah this where i agree we said it last time swipe right hill is here and the boss man just got here chris fields christmas one they won't be able to hear they said house for him okay leon's leon's been lashing tinder over uh and chris has been asking the xbox out of it so they're uh they're loving life who's better or what well seeing this bit but pop down after at leon's boys leon's been staying with me he's um just interested that's leon so he joined our gym in in january and me and him have just been punching the head obviously over the last couple of months i've been working him hard and he's been every day i've been coming with the train and he's basically been probably the biggest the biggest jump in my training has been having him down as well so obviously i have killers in my camp and like chris james adam shelley like all the other lads in the gym the list goes on oh man but leon joined our team and neon's young he's 21 he's hungry like me he's he's there to prove how good he is basically and he just he joined our team wanting to get better with the with the mindset of wanting to learn and i don't know what it was meaning just clicked her in the camp and i told him look here's the way this camp is going to go we've about eight weeks now you're going to get a [ __ ] hiding right i'm not lying here i said i said i know it sounds bad i said but i i can i promise you right come the eight weeks of this of this camp your level will jump so much because every day you come down here i'm gonna be ready and raring to go so you have to show up ready if you come down here first you're going to get ran through and every day he came to training and he was ready to go ready never didn't show up like some lives going for a couple of drinks he was there he nearly took the camp the way i took the camp every day ready to go training hard sending me a text i'll see you tomorrow bro ready to go so he's he's been a massive help for this camp so i asked him do you want to come over with me because he deserves to be here so um we were quarantined together for the last 26 hours and they're just left free so i think they're just going out to relax and and chill and talk to the rest of the lads that are downstairs in the final lobby that's class is it just the fouriers yourselves leon chris and james it is indeed yeah so obviously um i'd like to have all the lads over here i'd like to have everyone over i'd like to have you guys and i'd have my family i'd like to have everyone here but it's a weird time so um sometimes business is business you know exactly yeah a couple of like we had to kind of keep the numbers small because of travel and and uh cage warriors have certain guidelines in place that you're only allowed certain amount of fighters you're only like they're only doing this so they're trying to limit the amount of people they can have in one space at any time so i just said to him i like i asked adam shelley do you want to come over with me first because adam has been there from day one like he's since i've met i've gone pro he's been there beside me adam said he couldn't come and because he runs a gym back home and he couldn't commit the time so i said right no that's no stress i just said tell me if it ain't broke don't fix it so i i gave him for his choice and then but leon was right there and i said to him yeah let's go we're going he was like yeah bro let's do it so we're ready to go we've done a nice training session last night me and him slash some pads over now uh now we're just ready to relax and weigh in get the weight uh down for tomorrow morning and then refuel and then fight friday yeah i suppose the other thing is that probably it's not this goes much it's the time on the other side of the fight when you come back to ireland you're going to have to sort of self-hit always stay for that bit of time so anyone who is willing to go over to manchester witcher is actually taking that sacrifice that they're gonna obviously and you know it's great to see chris over there you know what i mean like you mean new facility open uh there for you guys and like i mean he has itself isolated when he goes back home so like that's obviously a rough one for him yeah well i said i so when this fight got announced i sent chris the text i am and i sent him a text all right i sent him a text first and then i tried to ring him but he he i think he was busy and i said look i don't want you coming over if you got it you're gonna have to isolate and not see your kid for two weeks and he goes he goes i'm coming over i said no you're not listening to me i'm not letting you come over and he was like kid it's nice he's like i'll be there and i was like all right that's it it's like you're not coming it's like shut up yeah he's like shut your mouth he's like for like to be fair like me and we're beyond he was i don't think he'd never he'd never miss this he's just as invested into this as i am and to be honest i owe him everything for this camp because i told you this when lockdown kicked off i sent chris a text and i said look i don't feel comfortable not training anymore yeah and he said look we'll try work out whatever we can me and you no one else and we'll get in what we can do and when we could get stuff done we did and and we just kept kind of ticking over slowly but really so we've we haven't stopped which is why when i started being here now i'm going to be so much better than the last time you see me because i'm just so ready i've been practicing and ready ready for a fight since march after my injury after my my operation was ready to go and i jumped straight back in the camp and then carl would kick that i was like i don't want to stop if i stop now i'm just going to be going downhill and i'm going to lose everything and he we just we sorted it out while we could i owe him more than anyone more than anything for this one i owe him everything i have because he's he's helped me so much but um yeah no dude like this like i've i just booked a hotel around there today for when i get home because i have yeah no i'm not spending money in a hotel room all i'm gonna do is sit there and eat that's all i need i'm gonna order when i go home after this i'm gonna get myself pancakes in the morning i'm going to get myself a chipper in the afternoon i'm going to get myself a chinese at night and then because i'm still going to be hungry i'm going to order myself with the dominoes and then my mates i have a group of mates in uh swords they run this thing called golems and i'm going to get them to drop it up because i'll be staying in hotel and swords and i'm going to get them to drop me a big bag of goodies and sit there and feast on it but i have a like like my sister is pregnant so i don't want my mom and dad or any or her to come into contact with anyone i've been in contact if i stay at home and obviously my dad is a life sickness so i just don't want to flirt with hook in any any bit of danger for them so i just put myself i'm going i have to organize around the gp today and they're telling me if they ring the day i want the test so i have to ring d-doc on on saturday sort out a cover test on saturday afternoon once on land get it done and then go straight to whichever hotel i'm staying in and lock myself up there saturday sunday monday but not because i have to like i could easily just go home but i want to know if i'm if i get cover tested over here and i'm negative which i have been earlier on it's really red but red wristband saying i'm covered free and uh i go back and i get it and i get a cover test now a couple of days after i'm back and and it comes back negative damn i'm okay to see my sister and my family and i'll be all right i'll go home and i'll still keep the people i see him to a minimum but at least then i know i'm being safe and then i can do what i want really points points fair play you know i just have a couple questions for you but first of all like man you're looking you're looking like like extremely lean no he's jacked bro he's jacked yeah yeah just just just yeah just like like what's what's that been down to just like getting the rounds in like obviously you're taking up cycling now as well yeah so it's mostly been down to the fact that i kind of just cop the [ __ ] on to be absolutely honest with you lads and that's not a piss take as in everyone i think everyone knows i'm a fat boy at heart i love my field i love eating i am preaching to the choir here like yeah but like during the during the science lockdown i was and i don't i just come off the surgery and i was i was eating what i wanted and i was i got up to something ridiculous i think i got up to something like 97 kilos or something i was sitting there going holy [ __ ] so i am once we signed a contract um which was about eight eight ten or eight i think it was eight weeks out yeah but like just before that i kind of went you know what i'm gonna drop this weight down and i've kind of been walking around a lot lighter than i normally would um and i brought the walk-around weight down i stopped eating shite i've been eating a lot cleaner like i've still been having my little treats whenever i want to like if i came home from tree tree hard sessions come home i'd get myself like a camille i'd have my little bag of skittles or my big bag of skittles there and i'd happily sit there and not worry about it because i didn't care if i went up away because i treated myself yeah but i just i i've done this a lot smarter um and everything's been better so i my training's been phenomenal my body feels amazing i look better than ever um and i just my like even my energy levels today like this is my my dehydration day this is the day i'd normally like kind of cut out the food and the drink and keep it to a minimum um and like i'm just in such good energy normally you're kind of like oh you're a bit you're a bit wrecked today you're like that may be sleeping all day and you're just not asked to do anything i i want to fight the lads like we're we we booked in for a session on the maths later on and we booked two hours and two hours so an hour after each other for me and then for webby so we're just going to sit down there get loose and have a good night tonight and uh keep the body fit but uh the number one aspect was like just taking this more a more professional approach so that's and this is why i'm saying i'll wait i like that i got the picture with the good night with with a decade or a photographer now the next day or two to put up the post to put up the post and show how good i look but just because i haven't fought this year doesn't mean that like that 2020 was in my year i told evan this is going to be my year i just haven't been able to showcase it my skill set's gotten 10 times better my physique is ten times better my my mindset is ten times better and i'm just i just feel like i'm happy with the person i am now because i've got to grow and i've got to learn more like my fight iq was through the roof now i just everything just seems to click into place like i knew it would as i said it just takes time so the fact that i've had a 10 kind of 10 month hiatus away from the sport like not really fighting announcements in 10 months man that's crazy it's it's ridiculous but like the fact that i have like i've been quite quiet on instagram we're training videos and stuff like that i just have i've been putting the head down generally the only answer i can give you is i've been i've been more professional with this and it's gonna on the weekend it's gonna show so and george mcmanus is in for a rough night by the sound of things and it doesn't look me no disrespect to george it's anyone who had been there would be in for a rough night okay who have you we are one's got it yeah i've seen them earlier on yeah i sent you a text before all this happened before when you signed a contract i am i i think i told you about this didn't i send him a text no like i wish him all the best to look hope camp goes well and and i i just i want the best opponent i could possibly have so if he signed a contract i want the best version of him and obviously he recovered and something like that like i want him to i want i just said i wish him the best and yeah he just seems like a true martial artist he's there he's not going to give it any addition i mean of course of course he thinks he's going to win like that's he's a fighter he has to if he was coming in thinking he's not going to win but then he's already lost in his head that's that's an easy fight for me but i want the best version of him coming in and i think i've got that i think he's probably ready to go we weigh in now tomorrow we're going to get a face off shake hands and then we're fighting friday that's it there's no there's no how before they go in i don't really know to be honest like i was actually actually you're asking your last few photos after going like they've gone viral definitely anyway and like yeah it's apollo as well do you feel like um there's a bit of pressure on you know to like get like that sort of like blockbuster knockout or huge like a huge win or maybe like a submission just to yeah i got what you mean yeah no never i told you this before that the only person that can put pressure on me is me and i don't feel pressure i like i expect the best version of me to be anyone and going in here i just have to do me all i want to do in this fight is have fun and once i have fun i'm too dangerous because when i get into that cage and i i i start letting my hands go i start getting into the grappling exchanges you'll just see a smile on my face that like it's it's completely focused but you know i'm in my zone and i'm just happy and there's a couple of things that i have i have like a couple of ways in my head that i've taught out you know what i always like to think out of what's going on i haven't been wrong yet i haven't i haven't i haven't been wrong with um my predictions yeah so i'll keep my predictions to myself i might tell you off here but uh i do see the finish coming that's that's just the way it is but if it doesn't like i'm not in a rush like i want to have fun if this fight goes 15 minutes it goes 15 minutes i'm not gonna complain like as i said it's been 10 months since so far i'll have to go now in five or 15 minutes yeah just want to come out looking looking good obviously we've had you on like a good few times and they build up to like with all the big ufc cards and uh like the more i told him we spend that like like obviously chatting like picking flights and all it's like the more invested it i think everyone becomes and everything again it's just like yeah i'm not gonna lie like like obviously this is probably mess you again before you go in there but man i know certainly i am i'm sure ross is just like really excited for you to go in there and like do what you love doing you know and like and we know how many hours your days and weeks you put into this and like yeah we're just excited like we just said paul as well it does the great thing about like covering sports ideas and having guests on that you build up a relationship and then you become better friends you follow the career and we're just saying oh i'm just [ __ ] excited for this you know like always as excited for you and paul going in and fighting this weekend as the author had to sign your first costume cause i know you lads you know yeah oh go on and call me it just means more because you're invested in i mean like yeah you look at me you want us to do better because we're we're we're from the the same country you want us you want the irish mma to be traveling and like me and paul are on this weekend and like we have all the hype in ireland at the moment and the better we do the better irish mma does for everyone whether it's all the guys in bellator fighting whether it's the guys in the ufc fight doesn't matter once we have a good night the whole sport just goes up a little bit more in ireland and that's all it needs so like i look it's the same with me i want all the other sides to do well as i said i don't want them to do better than me you're chasing connor you're chasing connor oh yeah we're getting there yeah over the weekend obviously donald trump gave kobe compton a phone call after his fight conor might have given you a call after you're winning this weekend so make sure the phone's turned off [Laughter] i saw you now how are we doing how are you doing ian is there is there one eye on saturday's main event mason jones versus adam proctor and will you be calling let the winner after this fight no i'm counting out the winner after the site no it's i'm not i'm not that close i've talked as i told this is before um firstly i i've said i've seen the lads there down in the lobby you said hide the boat and they both look like they're they're in great shape they both look happy um which is great because it means you're gonna get a good fight and a good performance off both of them and look i i still like i still don't know how it's gonna go like i like both lads and i wish them both the best and at the end of the day it's a fight one one person has to win so and like let leave them do the fight and then everyone else to do the talking for them um but no i'm not like i've said this before like i held myself to a very high standard and i do so because i know how good i am and i know the guy how good the good good the guys the train where and i know when i compare myself to everyone i look at i know how good i am well for me there's no rush like i've said this before cage warriors is great at what they do they build fighters they take them they give them the right the right test at the right time they don't rush them and excuse me um if they if they throw me in there and they do allow me to go in there and fight say proctor think great cool but i'm in no rush and i'm not going to be calling out the title right now because it's been 10 months since my last fight if i was to fight 10 months later from now from this fight i'm just going to jump so many levels again because that's where i am i take i'm young i want to learn i'm willing to put the hard work in and the more time i have in the sport the better i'm going to be and the more time it takes me to get to the ufc i'm in no rush but i want to get there as i've said i want to get that built as fast as i can so that i can compete against the last or the the top top tier of welterweight talent and middleweight because remember i'm going to be going up to middleweight so i don't want to put myself against the top middleweight and well it's in in europe so if i get the belt and i fight two times a month away and then i move up and i fight once once at midway but i'm finding the best lads that europe has to offer well then there's no like that's that's all i want to do so it's just been a matter of time it's a matter of getting there in no rush and just doing me and improving every step of the way but like i'd absolutely love to fight that for that title on my next side but it's just not not the right move because we're going to get there and when we do there's no one taking it off me you know what i mean and then the ufc will contact us they'll say we want you i'd be like i know you do let's go come on i'm ready to go who will be giving me i want a big name and that's it yeah i think i think looking at looking at you now and i think like when you see dopamine was announced i said like you're like i have to be on that happy and i cannot miss this i know since that's canceled i think you you know you sat down and you're like you know what like it all works out in the end you know like you're gonna be there someone might say the future is inevitable [Laughter] i mean i mean i mean i i heard i don't know who said that but like i remember thinking jesus that guy knows what he's talking about he was superman or something but uh i think so yeah well i originally rubbed it off tunnels so he said i am inevitable me and thanos yeah no no thanos would also be like come on you can't like let's be honest come on like superman's just op dc dc dc [ __ ] superheroes are always just op except batman like he's just yeah he's just batman you're obviously obviously mentioned you're you eventually you're going to move off to middleweight and we have a huge middleweight fight this weekend uh ufc 253 israel yeah against pelo costa what way you see this going down because we we both made our choices earlier on the show we're going to see what happens in the field as well can i ask who's with you first no no no no no definitely not no no that's players so yeah okay well so i'll give you two two scenarios of what i think is going to happen from both guys perspective and then i think i'll tell you who i think is going to win right and then and then i wanted to guess who who we guessed all right all right sweet um so for me if i was in costa's position i both tried us both obviously on defeat i think it's well 13 now is it it's it's 17 and i'm 12 over 13 though 19 19 no water sign yet 13 no costa okay so first time in a while we've had two undefeated fighters fighting uh [Music] you know that's that's that's ridiculous right so we've got two guys at the height of their career who are undefeated have never tasted defeat so if one of them does start losing this fight they're gonna something's gonna come out in them that we haven't seen before and we don't know what that is right so we've got to always keep that in the back of the head so for me if i was costa i'm backing out of sanyo i'm backing him up and not giving him a second to relax i don't care what he's throwing at me he could be literally throwing fridges and sinks at me i don't care here closing them down make pushing back to that cage and make them feel uncomfortable and worried and and then the shots will start to open for addisonia addison you just have to to fight the fight he does the normal kind of hands out start picking out a stick picking custard apart basically and i think comes out dude i make this a very very tough fight a very because arasanya everyone talks about arasanya as if he's like leveldown or better than addis or dan um anderson silva now anderson silva wasn't getting hit in those exchanges when he was doing all that flashy head movement and leaning we've seen addis or alexander get cracked by multiple people and we in trouble but like he he's pushed through that adversity and he's kept fighting kept fighting and moving that he is the champion he's got keep going kos is a big lab so what i mean cost us a toe to toe and ran out yuel romero and took everything he had so i think i think costa has the better has the better potential to win the fight in more areas as in i think he has more more options i mean if the fight goes around i'd be fairly confident that yeah i'll see you down a minute i've been fair fair thought that costa would be better on the deck in the grappling exchange that's just he's brazilian he i think he's a brazilian black belt isn't not he sure i think he's brown about but also he's definitely physically stronger by looks anyway well well he's he's a bit like he's still thicker than the snickers his jitsu is going to be going to be top-notch like he might not use it that much but he's gonna have it um but i don't i just think arasanya he's on one of those superstar kind of levels that you can't really doubt him i mean no one dealt with conor when he was on the rise no one doubted jon jones when he was on the rise and he's on that level um so for me i think no it's all it's just a hard fight for me to pick because i want to sit i want to say out of sanya that's what my body wants is that's what i want to my mind wants to say but there's something in me that feels that costa if costa goes in and pushes the pace on and out of samuel he could do it so i'm going to stick with my head and i'm going to be the smarter option here and i'm going to think i'm going to pick out a sagna and i'm going to i'm going to say arasani will we'll just pick him apart i think it'll be a five round or a five round fight i don't see a finish um i think costa took everything you well romero had to throw them and i don't think arasana hits as hard as a while romero does he kicks harder but i don't think he'll catch a kick because if you if if costa puts the right game plan on and he won't be able to kick kick high so i'm gonna go with adasanya and he'll just be picking him apart with the hands and kosta will just kind of get thrusted so for me i'm gonna go out of sanya but look right away it's going to be a great fight and i'm going to reckon that i'm going to wreck him buzz went out of sanya and russ went with costa yeah and we actually gave the exact like what scenario yeah we gave it the exact breakdown so you're looking everyone here got to listen to me break down boy and boss break down for you and then ian rebreak down the fight but you know what that's just the way people see the fight it's going to be an unbelievable contest this weekend we have freud and i in gary saturday paul use and then suddenly ufc and you know what we're gonna have three people stay undefeated one person's gonna lose and it's gonna be in the ufc yeah that's it and that's the plan baby we're as connor said right i don't mean to steal a quote but we're here to take part we're not here to take over i mean you said that backwards we're here to take power we're not here to take over ian gary quote the show now i just look like now i just look like a [ __ ] [ __ ] oh my god really even here look it's the dehydration the way cool investment i leave not even dehydrated i'm just [ __ ] talking [ __ ] like i usually do here and i'm just rambling on though i love it right we love your board make sure to look after yourself can't wait to see your friday night and as always stay energized stay energized boys