Gary Rooney & Mario Di Tofano | Shock N' Awe 33 Countdown | Energized Show

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What is up and welcome to the Energized Show! On this episode SBG Ireland's Gary Rooney & Mario Di Tofano join us to discuss their Shock N' Awe 33 matchups on Saturday the 22nd of October, Training under Head Coach John Kavanagh & More MMA craic. Like, Comment, Subscribe & Hit…

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[Music] I show up the Irish okay what's going on guys welcome to a brand new episode of energize Ross introduced a guest man today we have two of SPG Ireland's finest amateur Fighters we have Gary Rooney and Mario dafano Lads how are we doing oh fantastic Matt welcome to the show welcome welcome to show was right the Lord's about to do a bit of an Irish takeaway or take over a bit of a smash and grab over in the UK takeaway after yeah they're coming for all the belts uh Gary I'm gonna start with yourself and pretty impressive but um you're gonna headline the show when there's probouts underneath you that's sort of unheard of isn't it yeah yeah it is yeah I was surprising yourself to be honest but it's obviously a big for you it's a big reason for you it's for the number one UK in Orleans bus so yeah it's a big deal let's say yeah I don't think it happens too often no it definitely doesn't uh Mario obviously uh you're the current cage Legacy lawyer Champions moment you're going over to add a couple of UK belts uh is there any rivalry between yourself and Gary over who can collect most mental belts uh let Gary have that one I'm sure they already have it yeah he has them he has them so I can't argue there yeah I I suppose you're trying to like obviously you went to Premiere and pick up the belt there you're trying to pick up the the belts in your organization scary hasn't fought in to catch up belts and that's it like you know I mean I'm just taking from taking what I can In fairness Mario fights before Gary so he'll pick up a belt beforehand as well just for people uh for people tuning in the lads compete in shocking art on October 22nd if you want to on if you want to get a link for the flight make sure to jump on the Gary's Instagram make sure to jump on the Mario's Instagram and uh make sure to tune in because the lads are going with the Portsmouth Guild Hall and this was one not to be Miss Ross yeah absolutely it really is it's going to be an absolute uh cracker before uh fun fact for you uh Portsmouth was the first location in the UK and Ireland to ever host uh mixed martial art show and that's a fact so uh there you have that one ads um Gary tells us what's the balls look in SPG in Ireland at the moment because obviously like you know Bellator went off there the last one day and won like the James on an absolute terrible everybody's just kind of like yeah everyone's just saying they're different that everyone's like willing to live and put themselves in bad positions and just you know what I mean like get Get Better Together rather than individually you know what I mean it's a great Vibe at the moment yeah Mario anything that I thought is there anything that you've noticed that's uh changed in the gym because that that switch has changed in there like the like SPG Ireland is on fire at the moment yeah like it's just so many good bodies um everyone should stare to to do well um and everyone's just putting the work in what I love about it is like even when you're spraying or doing hard rounds everyone's just killing each other then after you're just joking and laughing with each other like you know what I mean it's the boys on another level at the moment no it definitely is uh Gary I do want to talk on your Foley uh as you said it is the main event and you're fighting for the number one spot in UK and Ireland what have you actually left to achieve in your amateur career before you turn pro and load your [ __ ] Bro still not only about gold medal Anonymous as in all amateurs want to achieve I think at the moment there well just feeling uncomfortable in myself to be honest is the main thing like uh that's that's what I want to do you know what I mean what I feel like I'm into the GoPro and Richie feels like I'm ready to go proud and I'm ready now I mean it doesn't again like you can have all the belts in the world you can have this in that pool if you're still going in there and you're still aren't happy with your performance and not I mean you're still a bit uh doesn't matter if I have four belts or whatever I still believe I'm not there yet so the belts are just like the the cherry and the cake it doesn't really show how we're feeling so you know what I mean it just shows that I feed these guys yeah no a fair Affair and like no better man than to have than the double champ pretty small one uh yeah last name recently saw him with Bellator where'd that relationship stand from Gary obviously you're in the same gym but how has YouTube become so close uh we became so close because it I was doing footlocks in the teens class I was there on foot locks and they originally came over to me and he said yeah the only damn wrong they're straight the way I did on them and he said I'll show you how to do them because people think people are gonna think oh he showed you how to do them show you so he said I might as well show you how to build them correctly I don't know it's not a person pick up be like that's one another man like I know now and it was probably a character for him I don't know I guess you just saying so maybe and that was it then we started to do trying a little bit together he used to coach the sub Samurai program would be like a for the competition the comp the competitors in the teens class he used to coach that class like after that after um what he would coach it'd be like a half an hour 45 minutes and we just became close then he'd bring me out for dinner to let us like a little cafe like uh just up the road from the gym we pay for me [ __ ] and know what I mean look it's just couldn't stand off and do it to be honest yeah I've got powder opposites like he's such a cool yeah he does the same voice and I'm blade never should look none of it so it's it's a funny it's a funny friendship yeah yeah it's that definitely got that uh good feel uh Big Brother little brother Vibes I do I do see Amara's family are you sure your toilet Hypno were working working with your fingers horrible Fort locks up Fort locks on your lunch break look maybe if you have a few uh chicken fingers for you first off yeah absolutely yeah and so usual so you should uh Mario tell us this obviously you know the body's floating between sort of featherweight and lightweight in SPG Ireland at the moment are absolutely insane you know you have your Dara Kelly um Kenny Moko noana and Nathan Kelly you have uh home ready like what's a lawyer training with those guys I mean that's such a good litmus test to feel where you are having surgical bodies on the mat ah yeah it's [ __ ] it's Daddy like you know man it's just constant constant hard work every day no easy rounds I can't see getting pushed in bad positions and so I'm just I feel like I'm growing a lot and training with all them boys constantly every day and really jumping levels very quick and tell us this whatever whatever causing any controversy who gives you the 12th rounds in the gym Mario yeah um to be honest with you Gregory yeah [ __ ] bracketona like wait that's the kind that like we just partner up and at the start I've been learning a lot of him lately and then we always do like usually first and last round and he just mauls me like to be honest with you um so that's going to be hardest round uh most days like does he with the Bell table afterwards and like parade around the Octagon that's a humble guy Brad's a nice guy dude competing on Brave this Wednesday the 19th as well he's defending this title yeah absolutely he's not actually gentle and what about yourself who's giving you the trouble in the in the gym on the smallest dog yeah I'd be trying to let Mario would be trying to make Richie or be trained in like uh but mainly like I chose trying but Richie a lot to be honest you know what I mean I just try to pick his brain all the time by trying to kill him I don't know look blessed you know what I mean I'm just playing with everybody bro we'll sleep like a train with Will fluid you know what I mean a train with all the boys it's and I put myself in bad positions if I'm but I didn't uh we built then I let them put me in an Iron Man and it doesn't like I've realized the last while and when I opened up my own gym for a small bit flash Fujitsu like I realized like okay I have to get good training how do you get good training you put yourself in bad positions if they can't put you put you in a bad position so I'm in a I'm in a solid space mentally where you don't need to be trained with black belt world champions you just you'll need to have the point of a black belt world champion you know but that for SVG it does have the black belt world champions oh man it does have their the best of the best one I mean Lee happened as well like I can't forget lean I mean I haven't seen him when I've already trained them but he'd be another good trainer Gary you're obviously number one in Ireland at the moment uh you're you're a TV star as well yeah yeah well you're at the walls anyway and you're taking on the number one in the UK Tommy the cheese clerk he's 9-2 what do you know about this guy Barry that he's a big fan of cheese I know that all his wins of Convoy submission so uh that's going to it to be honest uh Mario what about yourself you're obviously competing for the lightweight title and you're taking on charity Hatton he's three in one as well uh what do you what you know about the man who's known as handsome there's no way he's more handsome you Mario is he oh Chancey Matt my face no way Mario the Italian Stallion okay that's it um I don't know like I watched a few of his videos he's just he's got a few submissions rear naked jokes on the the resume but that's about it like you know um all in all of them he's from Portsmouth so we'll have the he'll have the home crowd well yeah it wasn't wasn't to walk out Detroit collar and just [ __ ] shut them up yeah we can't wait to watch so Jordan Fury will be competing for the welterware total and also Andy walders will be on the card as well so make sure to tune in as I said get on to Gary's Instagram get onto Mario's Instagram for the links this one's not going to be missed on October 22nd yeah it's definitely gonna it's definitely gonna be one to keep an eye out for because um it's gonna be very interesting to see uh Mario have you ever fought in like a hostile environment like you're probably going to enter uh come Saturday night no no never and but I like the minute because Richie smallen got me the fight obviously and he was you know he actually got uh before the Solomon fight it was like he gave me an m and I was buzzing straight away they're like yeah they're flying over the ports me blah blah everything pay for and then [ __ ] you get the fight and I was like yeah [ __ ] deadly I can't wait like just to experience that to walk out in a hostile crowd should I mean to feed off that I think it'd be yeah to it's a cool experience definitely I know we touched earlier saying what have you left achieve in your amateur career but is something like that something that like you relished and something that you think that the experience of being in that hostile environment would like really stand here when you do turn proud yeah of course it's kind of like a little taste of being pro without being prohibited just for sale yeah and stuff like that and I mean face to face like so it's something that I think helped me as a as a I don't know a novice amateur I guess I would say was big being in the back rooms in the showers before it even before like I remember being in the the cage Legacy when Pete the queen and I remember being the warm-up early and I think being in things like that it was like yeah you're aware of the voye you know what I mean and then when you're draw 24 you're going to you're already clothing it's not it's nothing familiar to you know so this is kind of like a little taste of problems with another man talking to them things it's it's just like a little stepping stone towards the main goal you know yeah exactly and then obviously a massive boost is fighting on UK so it's the day before weigh-ins and how much do you love the day before away and as opposed to the day always the same to be honest bro yeah I still have to stab me so far it's the same day so it's [ __ ] making wait and anyway no I would love to just step on the scales like five minutes before I walk in and that'd be it that's that's the way we think we should be going but that's my opinion Mario you probably don't agree you want to take away oh [ __ ] that give me day before [Laughter] no way too much too I'm putting too much weight for a day off uh yeah it's a it's an interesting one because I think the idea of it is to get people to fully closer to their natural way but it's not actually in any way then they just put it back on so why not just stepping the scales out like let's say Mario's I don't know what wait therefore I'm already 66. 70. 70 so and then what you walk in the cage probably about 76. so why not just have the belt at 76 and you both step on the scale or 77 and no that's just not everybody they were not available [Music] all the boys are looking forward to it yeah I'm sure there's loads of matches that haven't been announced at that I'm not usually who's fighting on the ball I'm sure there will be smoking a good folks being announced very short yeah who knows it might ask another belt maybe yeah this will be Supreme bar seven and then what I mean so it might take a little break I've had as many fruits this year as I have in all the rest of the year so like this will be I'll have 16 foot uh after kyogan and it'll be okay will be number eight this year so no no four the same amount of times this year as I have the rest of my career in London so it's been a busy year so I might get fat for Christmas and just chill out and enjoy it and help Richie prepare for his point and help the boys prepared Fighters active as the kids on the street say Buzz yeah exactly yeah I fight against Karen Coogan will be in the final of the virtuous uh Grand Prix I know I'll speak for the chaos title as well so it'll be two titles one night winner takes off uh but do you think that'll be the final fight yeah yeah I believe it's all not I mean tell me how can I say in the cage Legacy Champion League it's one of them things like I don't know that's the way we're seeing anyway you know it's like if you have one belt and you're free for another organization about to be okay and it's not a shock about that champ as well I mean it's it's always all all or nothing you know yeah will that be your final float the year then as well on at that event as well or do you have anything else low enough for the rest of the year okay now kilogram's gonna be me last week this year yeah and then Mario this is going to be your final for the year as well yeah yeah I reckon so I got a few offered in December but I was like four four times this year four to four this before two fights and like white corn as well you know what I mean I want to take time yeah I take time to get better you know what I mean um just like when you're in Conti training for four you're constantly doing heavy rounds firing just making sure you're fit and ready for the fight but I want to actually take time and like I haven't been gentlemen I haven't been doing that much like Jujitsu because you're progressing in that and stuff like I want to work on other stuff as well so I'll take time off for the rest of the year what does John say I think uh work on the software without damaging the hardware I think that's important damage in the hardware last year anyways Freud's coming up in the bleeding cage every week like yeah so yeah that's what you have to make sure to tune in for Mario's final fight of 2022. Gary this will be your final flight abroad of 2022 as well before we see you compete for the final of the Grand Prix FlyAway tournament which is definitely not going to be missed as well Russell absolutely not um so don't miss any Gary Rooney or Mario D2 final thoughts they're always lethal so uh make sure to check them out uh Gary do you have a prediction for us come the weekend from Wi-Fi yeah a decision I'll probably get me back taken at the last round about me yeah and uh Mario what about yourself how did you see yourself getting hand raised um I don't know but I'm [ __ ] I have a chip Michelle from the last one I was just didn't get going at all so like um I'm coming for this coming to this fellow election I mean like um whatever lasts for the year I'm just leaving it all out there and just yeah knocking lloydo the picture of you eating Harry belt with the Bell yeah Factory again yeah yeah yeah yeah I like a bit of a bit of Sarah yeah beers needs Cuts pajamas um we'll say tax million for jumping on us we really appreciate it we wish you all the best there it was it was great fun to have you on I hope he will have his arm again soon and if you haven't watched this on YouTube make sure to like share subscribe hit the Bell notification hey don't miss any energy shows and as always all right show up the Irish so many of you is Warren and that I I saw so keep going keep up the good workers