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[Music] ener sh up the Irish it's time okay what's going on guys and welcome to a brand new episode of V Jo brought to you by Forge D Stone Ross are you intoxicated or something introduce the guest man today we have the one and only king of cage Warriors it's the one and only Paul Hughes and we also have the main man it's PTY Mari lad how are we doing the older King you should have reversed them I would have been way sure I would have aced the interview it's an F special baby yeah it is it is it is uh Patty I'm going to come to you first how good is it to have Paul home from Florida classmate class he brings a good energy about the gym and he's pushing everyone on you know what I mean yeah the hard work in the room I are are you raging now you don't no longer are the biggest head in the gym now hey is close behind me like true p carer is the biggest dome in the game like for sure yeah yeah yeah pone for pone like inch for inch you know like the S them and all oh stop stop the lights uh Paul tell us this obviously we saw you cff uh you've been there few times now what's that like and also uh we see you randomly getting tweets out uh from certain people saying you know you're the real deal and all this uh I think Jared Gordon was one of the last ones what's it like to get get get get that prize and what's it like to train out there oh yeah I mean it's always nice to hear that especially someone like jar Who I Really respect has got such an unbelievable story um and is a bit of a veteran himself like so that's always nice I mean of course I know I'm the [ __ ] man so you don't need many people tell me but it is nice to to hear a veteran say that and yeah kill Cliff's always fantastic it's always nice to get working with different bodies and to be out in the sun and yeah it's always nice to mix it up but it's always nice to be home as well yeah absolutely uh you know anytime I see the the bodies on the f m like it's it's like an army Pat and Chando are building up there it's very very very impressive to see uh Patty what's it like the atmosphere in the gym H leading up to your fight uh it's very good at the minute because uh there's like cage conflict it's like three or four weeks after cage War so everyone's just getting after at the minute everyone's in Good Ship the spawn runs are all hard runs lots of people at every wi so there's a variety for all of us so suppos not the minute yeah Patty was just talking about cage conflict nine oh sorry cage conflict 11 on the 4th of November that one's going to be an absolute cracker ass yeah hopefully hopefully Pat sended the Revol for that show out there she pulled up in the Ferrari outside but obviously this show is an fi special cuz the two Lads are going to be competing at cage Warriors 161 in Dublin's ORS Arena on the 14th of October it's going to be live in UFC fir pass as well but myself and Ross will be doing a competition for four tickets to the event so make sure to keep an eye on their Instagram page because uh who wouldn't be there for such an iconic night LS yeah absolutely uh I didn't get paid for that either by the way no you didn't he didn't uh well if you did I want half uh obviously uh Paul you're going to be headlining the event what's it mean to you to F on home soil in Dublin because obviously your last fight was over in London uh I know it's a bit down the road but are you expecting to bring a big crowd are are the big news crews uh H come down here oh for sure for sure they are um and it's it's good to be home again you know it's been years at this point um I didn't know when the hell I would get the fight at home again to be honest um cuz I thought like I'd be State Side and stuff soon as well so it's nice to have this is a perfect opportunity for me you know I need to get more fights on the board right now clearly and we're better to have that than in home so and Dublin you know it's easy for people to travel to they don't have to spend as much traveling away to London which is where I have been having my title fight so no it's nice to be at home and I'm definitely going to bring that energy with me yeah because Paul every time we've seen you it's been Ling every time so uh it's gonna be great to see you back in dubl but uh someone who stole the show last time Mr McCurry PTY uh like first of all that knockout you got last time in cage Wars was Unreal but uh the afterward the aftermath of like you're getting so emotional man I didn't think you were able to cry now did I now did I [ __ ] sake [ __ ] that's terrible stairs py only when you're running up down them stairs up in by the gym that's when you cry for sure for sure uh Eden dablin put up right today he put up a story and said that them stabs every Tuesday make dreams but they break hearts and that that that's actually absolutely 100% true like baz always goes on about the FAO steps now like they're probably don't own by the gym now but like that's that's what they're known for um it's incredible to see uh Paul I'm sure you probably sick of people asking you when when you're fighting next when you're fighting next and I'm not going to lie like if me and bz ever went out anywhere together people went any news on Paul use any news on PA use yeah there's big news come on H and then uh obviously you spoke with PT during the week and I saw one of the clips and you got to sort of tell your truth and like we'd actually spoken to shando before about like you know fighting Lon Murphy going on The Ultimate Fighter etc etc are you just glad to actually get back and do your do your thing and get back in the cage oh yeah I mean all of this you know this all happened is behind me know the situation was just what it was at the time we tried to to hold out we had good reason to believe that we were going to get the opportunity as I stated in the interview the the entire processes and and my thought process behind it all but now like that's that's all in the back burner that doesn't mean anything and to be honest it's been like that for months we told cage Warriors we were available for this card months ago and this has been my date and this is what I've been preparing for we only got a match up a couple of weeks ago now but this has been the date and this has been my focus and this will continue to be my focus until I get the job done next week until I finish this guy and and put on another [ __ ] show you know and then this will all make sense you know and then just a follow up on that obviously you known this day for a little while now uh how's the body uh coming into this one CU obviously there was a few injuries in the past that maybe stopped one or two opportunities how is the body in the build I'm perfect I was out the first quarter of the year as as I talked about in the other interview and a lot of people didn't didn't know that um people had maybe heard that I had got some talks with the UFC but they didn't know the reasons and that was kind of my strategy was to keep everything close close to close um because people can say what they want but the truth always prevails so I had the first quarter out but apart from that I've been absolutely fine and that's like people will be thinking and and of course it has been hard at times but see if I can be in the gym and I can improve every single day and that's what I've been doing and I can see my improvements every week then everything else does really matter because I just see how [ __ ] damn good I'm getting and I just see this is going to come to the Forefront very soon and as I say the truth always rals unev you'll be hearing that next week absolutely Paul and look we're glad you have finally have some books as well cuz like in terms of like people like asking all the questions stuff that like we were privy to quite quite a bit of what was going on obviously not as up to date as you were but uh you know people were telling us you know about some of the offers that and it wasn't our information to share so like we sat and said nothing on it but at least that's all sorry to interrupt you but I'd love to hear what you hear because there's so many different stories that were untrue you know that I just heard and I just let them go so I'd be curious to know but uh people said you were going to evict no we we were told toer lone Murphy on really short notice we were told you were offer at The Ultimate Fighter like two or three days before filming uh our sources were very reliable uh when we were when we were told but uh again like that's new Paul told us that to Paul told us that when we were at cage compy class oh was it yeah you know what you know I take that back very unreliable then uh and then look obviously we knew we knew Paris was was the was the deadline for something to get booked and like we would love seeing you on that card and didn't happen but look this this is this is this is one for fans to definitely make sure they check out cuz this is H this is going to be the last one the next has to be the UFC Paul have you had any confirmation from the UFC that that's that's the case no absolutely not I mean that's just not how the game works um and I'm not going into this fight even if I finish this guy most spectacular way possible I'm still not expecting a UFC contract I'm not expecting anything anymore you know whatever happens happens and as I said as long as I can [ __ ] get better every single week yes competition is important next week as long as I'm getting better the truth always prevails and I will explode onto the scene and whenever I do then they'll see the level MH Paul do you think like obviously you're not looking Beyond Yan but um do like surely now you must be like thinking about becoming champ champ cage Warriors as well like yeah well I mean that was my of course that was what I wanted to do initially um George har what happened there part we're really surprised they don't there's no title fight for the main event and it's only three rounds as well it's not five yeah I mean you tell me I mean turns out George Hardwick's actually a [ __ ] um he was talking all this [ __ ] in interviews and believe it or not it was by pure chance an interview came up with my suggested feed one time on Instagram it was just him saying oh I'm an active champ I'm an active champ and then you've got unactive Champs people who don't want to fight like Paul Hughes he's like I take fights in three or four weeks notice and I was like oh well this is perfect ammunition for me I was like let's go then let's go in a few weeks time let's go in a month's time let's do it and of course didn't reply to any DMs as I say it turns out he is a [ __ ] um and then they offered us Yan and we were like yeah of course we'll do Yan I mean as as cage Warriors St it was number one Contender fight so of course to us that's when an intern belt is on whenever a champion can't defend uh and was refusing to defend so they decided that it wasn't for an inter belt we still tried to get it for five rounds they decided it was only for free and that's just what it was unfortunately we pushed for it but it is what it is it's still a fight and I'm going to smash this come yeah there was no opportunity to fight for your title against Harry Hardwick was there oh I mean yeah cage Warriors would have liked me to defend featherweight but I'm moving up to lightweight now so that's all feather behind me now Look okay so you're you're AB you finished with featherweight you're just moving on right ways the rest of your career yeah and then heavyweight obviously and of course any Bel once someone has a shiny belt Paul use want and then obviously Paul like we we did see uh H having a lovely meal with uh Conor McGregor and Ian Gary he's obviously someone who's done cage work champ champ status H what was that conversation like yeah I mean surreal man surreal I mean when it comes to the double jump thing like McGregor was [ __ ] buzzing for it you know he was saying oh you got to come down right after you get the two belts get down in the black Forge but at the time we had good reason to believe that it would have been George because he was talking all this [ __ ] yeah but it didn't happen um but no it was a surreal experience it was it was I don't even know where it again it was it was unbelievable um paty were you a bit upset you didn't get the nod it doesn't f inside the black [Laughter] for Patty obviously uh you know fo Academy Ireland has created what three cage Warrior Champions now uh and like also none of them were ever beaten for the belt either um so that's uh something to look at as well how how save hands do you feel of of uh being in under uh Pat and Chanda open fight Academy Ireland because uh they just keep on creating champion after champion at the moment yeah yeah I feel like I'm in very safe hands even from the start of my career I've had like so much trust in the team you know like I always trust the process like whenever I got up uh at the start the best people had all always been doing it for years and uh so whenever I started training and started fighting I always knew like I was like I'll give myself 10 years of training consistently up here and I'll see where I'm at because the scene that they were constantly producing like world class Fighters so I've always trusted the process and trusted in my team and uh I think things are going to plan now at this point M you know how many years in are you now PTY seven so three more and we'll see what's up and Patty uh obviously Paul us as one of the leaders in that gym um what sort of H attributes do he have or what sort of things do you look at and look up and be like I want to emulate thatan Paul is like one probably the most well-rounded fighter that I know or have shared the mats with like sometimes you're on the mats and there's like phenomenal wrestlers or phenomenal Strikers or like but Paul is literally world class in every aspect like there's no one who can come and Tra a Paul and say like oh got him l or uh if you do this to him it works like there's literally nothing like that and I think it's just because he's so obsessed like if someone was to get him with something in the gym I have no doubt that he would be in the house thinking why that happened and coming up straight away trying to correct it you know what I mean it just comes down the B obsess like he's the hardest worker on the M he's consistent and even like um way back in the day whenever I remember he would be going in the academy one like chain McDonald he was still [ __ ] Workhorse then so he's just always been a Workhorse and obsessed that you know what I mean it's inevitable for him to be or for him to get to where he wants to be you know what I mean but um he's oh that's all that's all the all the credit you're getting there Paul yeah just so well you were you also over you were also over in Toyland as well in the build up for in during this training camp uh how'd you got on over there as well yeah it got on very well I mean it was good like getting to move about with different bodies and uh different styles and uh uh it actually gave me a lot of confidence like sharing the sharing them out with different people because sometimes whenever you're training with the same guys all the time you kind of like know um like what the other person's going to do or what they're best at you know so and then everyone in our gym is actually tough as [ __ ] so you think that you're not capable of some things that you are whenever you go with people in other gyms you know what I mean so there were some things that wouldn't work in a million years in our gym and they were working very well against people you know like who I hadn't trained with before but uh yeah it was just good to get out there and uh start building the fitness before I came back and finished off m c home yeah absolutely like it's it's always good to mix up I think we saw over there with John Mitchell as well so he W to John Mitchell John Mitchell is a [ __ ] beast to be fair like when I went over there thinking oh [ __ ] hopefully there's there'll be a couple of big wrestlers you know all these Russians and all they just just go over and see what the crack is but John Mitchell was one off if not the hardest C on the mat like he was just there going the [ __ ] War every day with like top level UFC fighters and he was just GNA FL at them like I have a lot of time for John Mitchell he's a legend and I think that he'll clean up in this pfl final here in December the cork horse box cork horse box don't get it don't get it wrong don't get it wrong don't get don't get it wrong uh Paul I just like moment as well around the gym with Reese also shout out Reese's M fo project is on this Saturday the 7th was that to me sorry yeah sorry po oh I mean come on reace is my boy like you know reace is the man an inspiration for me his story I mean to come back from where he came from with the UFC to come back and his run obviously we didn't get the result the last time but I mean we're only we're back in there you know we're back and he's going to make the adjustments and it could be coming in hot for the next fight and yeah re is a man you know everybody loves re like he's just a great guy and it's it's so good to just have him fulltime in fight fight Academy like it's it's amazing yeah he's easily one of my favorite Fighters anyway I love the chap the bit and obviously has a Bambino on the way as well so shout out Rees he's called py what about yourself having a big body there as well like Reese yeah man it's been unbelievable having having Reese in the gym like uh Reese has forced me to level up so much because I'll be doing uh a lot of runs with him and the Pace that he can hold over five minutes like I really feel like I'm going to go in and put a pace on this guy and a lot of it is down to my rounds with race like it took me a lot of time to build like uh the engine for three FS um before maybe it would have been only like going really hard on the fitness whenever I had fights but the James web fight made me understand that you need to be Building engines whenever you don't have fights lined up and then picking you know like whenever you start training for fights and uh I know that if I can keep up the p of re re sorry that I can push the pace with anyone because the guy just does not stop for five minutes so he has forced me to level up massively and uh it is unreal to have Reese around the gym to be honest shout out to reys Big Race tell us this uh I want you both uh sself Paul to tell us someone in the gym who's maybe the onong hero of the gym uh whether it be a coach or on the match who's not getting the credit they deserve in Flight Academy Ireland um I'm just going to be honest with the first one that came to mind and it's because I just spent two weeks with him in uh South Florida is cor mclin I mean this guy is this guy was pieing up everybody in America like like genuinely condition as he is he is the next big thing like he is I'm telling you he was pieing up UFC guys in the gym and the man still fighting at he is an absolute Phenom a fell fellow Dairy man like myself so that was the first name that came the mind so that's the one I'm going to give some in the water there what about yourself paty uh I think Jam h i a lot of a lot of rounds and a lot of work with James Hughes uh and the just how how quickly he picks things up and how eager he is to learn he also has a great body type um for MMA but yeah I think James Hughes and Cory mclin are definitely going to be two stars in the future and they'll doubt yeah bad will be on cage conflict 11 right so make sure to tune into that yeah absolutely actually saw I remember seeing James he was a cage conflict I think whatever one here and fought Max L on can't remember what that is probably probably knowing it h and uh my God he looked great in that fight I was watching my Reese and Reese as well so uh yeah definitely definitely uh two amongst many two amongst many and oh for sure there's many more you need to get you need to get a bigger bigger gy set up there that's that's probably on the way as well Lads like how many people are you going to be bringing down to Dublin on the 14th of October to the ODS because uh when you Lads are 49 cards people come out to watch I have no idea to me honestly people like but I can't tell everyone everyone I mean how much do you know how much the RS holds I think it's or 3,000 or something I think okay yeah yeah B come from Derry and there's buses from uh fo Academy as well oh yeah no I mean we're going to have a crowd we're going to have a damn good crowd don't be worrying about that for sure nor normally normally the civilians don't get a shout out on the on the podcast but shout out to Johnny he's a so man for ranging parties we been to party so uh big time yeah there'll be there'll be another one there'll be another big pre party beforehand in a bar close by so keep posted for that and afterwards as well hopefully this time with it being at home I can join the after party so yeah you want to see you want to see your last party that we were at B sign autographs and everything me and Ross are getting photographs with people so shout shout out to the the phot no like with the posters everything it was Unreal no here we did a different bro and we're only beginning as well so yeah excited to see where that goes in the next few years absolutely it's it's going it's going to be insane um guys what do you expect come for night um cuz obviously you're going to expect to win but what sort of performance are you guys looking to put on a come fight night go ahead P I'm expecting to put this guy away you know every fight that I'm going into I'm training to take people out I don't want to go in there and win a decision I want to go in there and set traps make reads and take people out and that's exactly what I plan on doing in this French gu I think it's another um step up for me but with that my training has stepped up and I'm ready to go in and put a pace on him until he breaks so expect a finish from me yeah just sorry just where we get your Paul PTY do you expect to get get out again this year or would this be the last fight of the Year well we'll see how uh clean I get out of this one you know I'm not looking past this fight though there is no tomorrow from the 14th and what about yourself Paul is we see you early next year or you see you again no I want to be back in there again for sure at the end of the year I want activity now so I'm going to go straight [ __ ] through this cont next week I'm going to see him I'll show him who's [ __ ] strong whenever I'm elbow his [ __ ] face through the canvas big [ __ ] Yan you know I'm actually glad that he's talking a bit of [ __ ] you know not that I need not that I need any more motivation but it just gives me something extra there you know and I just know when I'm putting a hole through his head he'll know who's [ __ ] strong then so whenever I B him next week then we'll see what's next whatever happens happens I'll take it from there yeah Paula you taking those uh those comments personally when he's when he's uh trying to insult you no I don't take getting personal um fighting is not personal to me in any way but I do use it as competition and yeah yeah that's just before we wrap things up uh Paul you usually name every fight uh you usually call it something what uh what is this what is this chapter called first round knock out yeah yeah see you're you're hardly you're hardly doing H the pods over there where Henry hoof for the good of your health you know what I mean so let's let's see some of that Henry Hof kickboxing and uh look we've seen head kicks from you before so uh who knows who knows it's going to be exciting one big news Hugh is back baby can't wait to see it Paul thanks million for joining us Patty thanks million for joining us really appreciate the time we'll see us there in Dublin uh we'll have the finest pair of En Jo glasses we have available for you don't worry about it and shando andando an McLaren as well by the way yeah yeah he loves them he loves them but uh thans million for the time we appreciate it if you are watching home make sure to like share subscribe and as always stay and Sh up the Irish been susing you guys a couple of times I've seen a couple of Clips I think you done some interviews with Dylan [ __ ] and that I saw so keep going keep up the good work guys