Blaine O'Driscoll | Brave CF 49 Countdown | Energized Show

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What is up and welcome to the latest Energized Show! On this episode Irish Flyweight Blaine O'Driscoll joins us ahead of his upcoming Brave CF debut to discuss signing with Brave CF, SBG Ireland & What the main thing he's learned from John Kavanagh. Check it out, enjoy…

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[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] okay what's going on guys and welcome to a brand new episode of energized roughs introduce the guests man we have one of the most talented flyweights in the world he holds a record of nine wins and three losses it's mr blaine o'driscoll blaine how are you doing how's it going guys i'm i'm great i'm doing good i'm nearly waiting for tomorrow's while i was waiting yeah blaine like we were we were looking on instagram and then all of a sudden we saw like a notification from yourself saying that like you're going to bahrain in such short notice can you tell us like how that happened because uh from like from the outside looking in we like everyone thought you were still with bellator so like how did this all come about yeah yeah well i'm i was only ever like on one flight deals with bellator because they don't have like a flyweight division so it was only it was never really going to go anywhere you know unless they opened the division but i don't think they will so i was always kind of looking at something for something else and i knew this this floorbait tournament was going on and and i obviously brave as having the best flyweight division and they're probably like the main promotion that promotes flybase the most likely they seem to really get behind them so it was always a kind of goal of mine to get to get into this kind of flow rate tournament and it wasn't really happening and then we got a call on a tuesday on john like it's tuesday afternoon asking oh do you want to jump in joe victoria is uh and i know so you get yeah definitely but like i don't know if i can make floyd in a week because floyd's a very low weight you know yeah closely you need a comforter well i'll look on fit i'm ready to fight but if you can do that 61 definitely i'm 100 in and they went off and talked about it for a while and they came back to me that night and um yeah and it was it was a goal and but see i had i had a couple of things to sort out like bloods and things and it turned out that the next day happened with paddy's day so it was working very hard okay sort of i wouldn't get it done before the flight because the flight was on sunday like so i had to have them maybe thursday and friday to get blood sword back and get all the tests as well ireland so closed off that maybe some of the doctors stayed open for paddy's day instead and tell us tell us a bit about this floyd away tournament how many fighters are in and how many rounds do you have to go to capture the belt yeah so um there's one two so there's eight eight people still left in it and this is the quarter final match and then the winner of me and taurus fight the winner of them ali fagetinov and dust in our case so that's going to be the semi-final then me against one of them and then we have the final whichever is in it and all the fights are i suppose actually the main the final is probably a five or five minute well all your runs are three fives so yeah so this is a three five minute for you now on thursday against tara's and i i think conor taurus is probably the favorite of the tournament so i get through this i'd say i'm gonna get that belt but this is the hard one hard one first easy two second oh i wouldn't call you back in the t november or i'm not done either easy easy for playing now like yeah there's some ufc absolute veterans in in this one uh like dust ortiz must have about seven or eight fly away fights i think uh jose's shorty tours i think went one-on-one um bagutino i've actually fought for the belt so yeah i mean like these are the best floyd weights in the world and you're right brave i've really taken a focus on this and they're really personal man i suppose nothing more shows that than the co-main event slot that you have how do you feel about being in the car main event yeah it's great it's awesome and that's what i felt i needed you know like i fought on a couple of big shows and i said this before like i fought on some big shows but i've always been there to start and you know it's a different different story then when you're near the end like it's a lot of waiting around a lot of a lot of mental kind of stuff and i'm actually pretty good at all that stuff so i think this might suit me a bit better putting near the end like i never really liked fighting at the very start i always felt like it was too early during the day and stuff you know when i fought um i thought jake hadley in in the tree arena and like i thought like four o'clock in the day like it was just so weird didn't feel like a fight you know i felt it just felt weird we were at that um even as fans like you're like because you sort of look through the car and you're like which fight am i going to go first and we're like all right well blaine's fine we'll make sure at that and i can't remember who was before you but we were there i think from three o'clock yeah and then you're there to like 11 o'clock at night and it's a long time and you're just like [ __ ] hell and then when bellator were putting on fight 12 like they were doing 19 fights on a card you know it was it was crazy carry on so like and like favorite that early it's hard yeah oh yeah i like him i like eating like my last thing before i leave for the venue like so at like one o'clock but then i fought like four like it's only a couple hours after like i'd rather eat at one o'clock and then have a good few hours to let that all go down and then feel like light in the foot instead of feeling like i'm still digesting in the fight you know so that kind of this way i think this would suit me a lot better you know we'll be fighting early you know in ireland which is great because everyone can watch but i'll actually be fighting play over here yeah ross one thing like i was like surprised about that bellator never introduced the flyweight division because like obviously blaine got a massive reaction when he gets into the tree arena and also uh ryan chaos curtis as well so like when you have when people have that much of a cold following it's it's hard to believe that they wouldn't introduce another weight class yeah especially considering ufc certain almost neglect their flyweight division as well that you know i mean you almost want to give the flyweights a chance to fight somewhere um i think the narrative about the flyweights is like i suppose they always you say oh the layman but i would say you know they'd be able to beat a flyaway because they look at soils and but like i think someone like the medius mighty mouse johnson really changed that up forever like with his unique uh fight iq but but i knew probably gives a better insight on that and do you think that the flyweights aren't marketable is a non-argument anymore yeah like like we're we are the lawyers but that then that translates that we end up becoming the most skilled because we don't get away with just using brute force to do things in training you know we need to have our technique down we need to do everything precise if it's going to work and and you know we have we have some of the like most exciting fights you know and nearly like if you look at in the in and say bellator for example like my my three fights even one that i lost was a finish and chaos chorus his fight was a finish first round finished as well like there's loads of finishes in the floyd division so i don't i don't see like it's just because somebody said it once and got it into their head you know and now it's like everyone's following the kind of crowd like sheep but you know i think you like once once that kind of narrative breaks then yeah the flow rates will be back in full course yeah uh playing also like training with spg ireland there's like a lot of like lighter weight um athletes there is that is that like the most ideal thing for you yeah yeah it's great like well exactly like there's no kind of flow rates you know so i'm always training that's why i don't like walking around to like because you know we start brian a lot it's where friends a lot spy parallel they're all big enough phantom weights you know so if i'm walking around like too light like i'm just going to get smashed all day like i need to have i need to walk around a bit heavier so i can get the good training you know yeah so um yeah that's that's why like there's no way i'm making it on a week's notice because i don't walk around close my way it's just not beneficial for me in any way and um just for those who are watching airplane where do we actually catch your flight over in ireland where do you watch it i think it's on the brave website isn't it yeah so it's on uh www.bravecftv.com and it's free it's streams for free i think you just have to put in your email or something and and then um the shell starts at like 2 30. and there is a couple of other irish people on it so if you want to catch them as well there's a matisse yeah and he's fighting a good boy and they're glenn he's fighting someone else as well not sure who's playing well so there's two other irish people on the card you know what to tune in for so starts i have to and i'd say my fight will probably be about 6 p.m well maybe we'll do a swipe up on the day but to let people know that they can watch playing fight yeah definitely definitely yeah blaine like um like obviously like when you when you started out was your goal to one day reach the ufc because um like obviously you've heard dean barry he's signed through fighting on it was fighting on brave got the knockout and then he got signed to the ufc so like it's funny how how everyone's journey is different and this could like all of a sudden if you ended up winning this win in the same phone and win the final then you could get that caught up to the ufc as well is that like a dream of yours yeah yeah well what kind of mainstream is like i want to be like top five in the world you know and inside the top five in the world and i know taurus is like ranked 25th so he and him will move me up a little bit but yeah i think it's like bravo really really financially sorting me out as well so i'm happy here for now you know and if we if i get a couple of fights here win this belt and then a couple of defenses and then and then so we'll see what happens you know see how you things go in the ufc with the floyd division if it looks like it's kind of staying then yeah definitely would love to fight there and that would be nearly all the main kind of organizations i fought and then i'll mark that one off as well but um yeah for now i'm very happy with brave you know they they're doing great for the floyd rates so i'm more than happy to stay here and be a part of this i just like you like highly recommend that to everyone else as well yeah definitely yeah yeah they've even like the brave kind of people and the people over here in bahrain have been very welcoming and nice to me yeah and especially you considering if you actually go and win this flow away tournament i mean obviously it'd be a bigger payday for you but als obviously your stock will rise and you'll command a bigger payday going forward whether you decide to stick with brave or move on elsewhere and test free agency so you know i mean we'll we'll definitely be cheering you on making sure that that bank balance looks a bit healthier yeah yeah that definitely goes yeah i think this one this is my biggest weight this is my biggest weight ever probably it's most most kind of oils are on this weight so good performance here and i think i'll really blow up after this and let's get into the void then blaine where do you see your advantages over jose shorty taurus um well i i think i definitely got better striking than him he's probably got he's probably got an advantage in the wrestling but um he doesn't really wrestle you know and if you lose if you if you don't use it you lose it you know you can't just turn on his wrestling background now that he hasn't used and been 10 fights you know so i think he's going to try and strike he's probably gonna i'm going to get the better of him in the striking and then he'll start shooting and if you know if you're not used to shooting he's going to end up getting tired and then when i stuff a couple of them or get up whatever and let's see i see him breaking then and and then me getting a tko finish i'd say late in the fleet yeah i think i think he's a pressure for her and i know that for me because i'm a pressure for her i don't like when people pressure me you know so i know he's not gonna lie when i pressure him i think i'm gonna be able to pressure him a lot more and then that will that will break him you know he won't be able to get his game off for them yeah so my advantage is definitely in the stroking i'd say the cardio and the fact that i'm coming into the fight a lot fresher him you know a camp is great yeah but we we're also as far as we naturally always overdo it in the camp and pick up injuries and stress ourselves out like so we end up times are actually worse you know it's better not knowing i'm just coming in fresh stay ready as a as most as a famous person once said are you there just with john cavanaugh or uh who else is going to be in your corner no yeah it's just just the two of us because we had to keep the numbers low because of the whole culver thing you can only bring bring one over so and like it's ground like me me and john will still brand yeah you know because another thing was you mentioned oh sorry yeah that's what i was gonna say because you're mentioned like this is probably one of your biggest fights ever and then you have one of the most experienced coaches like going to be in your corner as well like that you couldn't you couldn't pick a more ideal situation really quick and i don't think yeah but uh yeah like yeah the cover thing is just a bit mad isn't it like the way it's all going on it's crazy what can you do absolutely but i suppose if you i suppose if you actually think about it sometimes i look at the corner and i know for like championship points you got four people in your corner and but like i suppose if all four people are shouting instructions after you you might not hear or be able to implement what's been done at least you have one voice you're just hearing that one voice and listening that one voice for instruction and everyone knows john kavanagh in the corner is very calm collected and concise with his instructions so i think if you can only have one corner man he's the guy to have yeah and definitely like an example of that is the the ufc for the last week but sterling and and uh here young like oh i'll treat him shouting at him and he obviously got confused and then need him in the head you know i've gotta have one person there maybe sheldon something clearly probably would be yeah especially in two different languages yeah exactly yeah also you you've had john's on the fighter detention now tomorrow uh thursday thursday because like usually when he when he's um corning and bellator he's like like he's like they're nearly every fight he waits in the cage yeah exactly i've had a lot more attention from we've never discussed the fight a lot more and kind of get on the same page about the game plan and everything and yeah i feel like we've got a lot closer as well over over the trip so it's been it's been good and that way too yeah definitely and then what's your plan then for after the fight uh would you remain in bahrain for a few days you come straight home what's the plan for after yeah well they they they're flying a straight well john's gonna stay because he's gonna go on abroad next week um tough life yeah well there i am they throw me straight out well not straight up but i get caught over test the next day and then they fly me out basically friday friday night at one am i have a flight so saturday morning when i am so i fly straight from the home there because they don't want me here when the other car gets here on sunday because they have a car next door you know so i'm basically trying straight outside playing like obviously like john is like a world-renowned coach and like like he's his book is even unbelievable as well like what's the one like if you could pick one thing it's pretty hard to do but if you pick one thing what's the one thing that you you've learned the most often i think you look he he kind of leads by example you know like he he works hard like he like you know like the way he's staying on an extra week here he flew well with me and throwing all this as well you know i'm not the only one who wants to run out and like there's a couple of times where um you know he'd be straight off a flight from new york and he'd make it to air train you know come straight from the airport to air train the coaches you know and like so so that kind of um hard work that he shows shows what you have to put in if you want to be the best you know and i think that's what i like the best one you know leads for example yeah he's also a new father as well so that's that's unbelievable carry on as well uh sorry one thing i do want to explain is uh mohammed makhiyev in this tournament is he no no he's not in the tournament well he's here as well he's fighting a good boy as well i think it's your man's from finland or something looks good looks like a tough boyfriend yeah that's one i think that'd be interesting for you down the line because he he's a hot prospect and i feel like i'm not too sure if he's being posted or he's been protected by uh brave but uh they they definitely have um a good eye on him as well he he's an exciting prospect in euro division yeah yeah definitely yeah it would be a noise for you maybe if we get through this um tournament then my first defense maybe could be even against him you'd love to see that one yeah yeah because uh mohammed makhiyev he's trained with uh john boy who was also a peter yan's coach as well he's archers from uh donegal it's a it's actually such a small world but uh blaine before we let you go like we know uh king county is like almost a veteran with brave has he recommended anything that you just take off the menu to take off the hotel menu after the fight no no he didn't he talked to you yeah he just you know wish me looking all over here but he didn't them tell me anything about them anyone be honest it doesn't look it doesn't look very great to me doesn't look like it's going to be anything released after a win is sweet enough there there we have it blend look thanks so much for coming on i know you're going to start your way cutting process probably very very soon and we will definitely tune in to cheer you on we'll provide a link and on one of our instagram stories to swipe up and watch our fight on the day we wish you all the very best look thank you so much for representing our country over in bahrain and we hope you have an unbelievable performance on the night yeah let's just go over that again brave 49 super fights blaine who just goes in the homemade event against jose turrets is in the catchweight 61 kilos he'll be fighting roughly around just after 4 p.m in ireland so make sure to check it out we'll be posting on our instagram make sure to make sure to check it out that's on thursday playing massive fight we're really looking forward to seeing you in action and uh that like he gave the plane gives a tour around the hotel room he has the iron flag there iron and everything perfectly perfectly ironed so uh playing best of scale on thursday we look forward to it man thanks very much coisin well i'll do the country proud and hopefully add a bit of inspiration to a couple of people during these kind of times so thanks guys yeah so if you are new to the show make sure to like make sure to share make sure to subscribe and as always stay energized