Eamon Deane interview

Summary

Eamon Deane is a professional welterweight fighter, only competing in his second MMA bout gets a chance to lift the cage conflict championship, we speak about his progression since his first fight and his preparation for this fight. He's an aggressive fighter that comes…

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Kind: captions Language: en [Music] first the first uh first two months I would say but it's just a level up there is completely different like I tried my best they fight they they like fight against it and and like I always knew they were good but I never wanted to give them the credit because I was on an gy I was like and like when we were when I was in my previous GM like we were just kind of against the world at that stage but you can't deny you just can't what they do up there and like you don't really understand the full potential of what that gym offers until you're on around it and like I said like after my first session and then especially after like being there for a month or two I was like even if I couldn't I couldn't train in an hour gym now ever again after experienceing what it's like to be up there because like not even just the people you're around like it's the coaching like I would like Pat and Shand would be nearly if not more obsessed than us which is scary like like they're more committed than us I think Pat trains like [ __ ] three times a day and chand's always training away and he's on doing grappl one classes and he's hutting the PA and he's doing X Y and Z like and that's just a top of Iceberg like and then all the stuff that goes on in the background and and then you're up every like like let's be realistic like the best fighter in Ireland are on FAA like I know people say stuff about SBG and all but I'm telling you know FAA is where like where everybody's at like it's mad it's mad like the levels is mental yeah it is and like that obviously when you get there at the weight class you're at look at the people you have to train with as well like say Paul Hugh probably trains with you uh ree mcke um Troy obviously who you You' fought previously and this there's so many there's so many people at that weight class to so so many more bodies I'd say it'd be hard to train with everyone at your way class in a week well when we when we first went they only they only recently changed The Spar now because there's so many members and there's so many fighters like the LA the last place I was on there was like you would you would look if you had five Fighters there's nobody up in FAA getting Fu they have about I'd say at least 70 fighters on the map like everybody's fighting and there's multiple Champions you have cage Wares were Champions you fighters of f in Bellator you have [ __ ] it's m like the list the list is endless you know what I mean so it got to a stage in where there were that many people on the M that they had like off the off the off the sparing time so you have I'm nearly sure it's under 70 kilos as on a certain time and then under 75 kilos is on a certain time and then and then my we then so I SP well wits M wits light heavy wits and heavy wits that's why I'm always running around my [ __ ] black eyes a couple of times where someone was offer to fight you I went a he's only one MMA fight and then they looked at your MMA fight and then they looked at your background and went you know what it's all right the the LA the last cage conflict before I think it was just before Christmas uh I think on on say one week like they are they asked me to take a short not a short notice fight on a week and uh they were asking me to fight it wel with and I would have had like 10 kilos they cut so I F just started I started cut straight away started water loading and then in the space of a week I think I had five pols five [ __ ] and it was you originally he was asked to come in on late notice and then I stepped on late notice and then there was five Po and all and most of them was from Top level gyms too and not not name no names but there is I say that is frustrating especially when you started the way you did obviously to just get on to the next one and on to the next one especially once you've moved gyms as well I say you want to get out and show everyone kind of what you've learned since then I I only I only thought I was training MMA until I went to uh fa honestly I was just bling it I was a standup fighter that could do a b a b of wrestling and a b of jitsu it's like the way the way they even their standup up there is completely different than what I'm used to but I'm well used to at no like but everybody's just so sharp like they're they can fight off both sanes like there's multiple striking coaches and then you have p in and there's just there's like a system they everything there's a system that they're grappling there's a system they that are striking like we'll do the same thing for at least for at least two months until you have that part n and then you move on to the next the next thing that comes next after that and then after that and then like you have the you have the option too as well they jump in and do the private the private training where part if you know if he let you in like uh which you're just you're learning like it's like nearly one day ones but you're learning [ __ ] serious serious am of knowledge like man is different levels so I am just happy I made the the move up like and here Senor around boys like [ __ ] Paul H and P mcy and Scott Harvey and all the rest of them like [ __ ] maot like Shing like you would it's mad like it like nearly Spurs you on it makes you want to do better and be better like so I I can't even explain the things that happens up in he it's mad I I can only imagine obiously you've got Pat you've got Adam strong Supple as well who does it who who is excellent he works a lot with I know Daven and a the other guys as well they just seem like if you put in 100% with them and you show up they're going to put in 110% with you it does and it seems like each individual gets attention from the likes of Pat and the likes of shando and Adam that it's they seem very focused on developing Fighters once you once you show you want I think tan locker since he's gone there has improved massively as well I think that's one one example there's no uh it's mad because see before I went up I was expecting like I was expecting a lot of eagles and like people like because it's such there's so many big names and there's so many big names and there's so many boys on so many paths up there and you would expect like everybody to kind of be like kind of a about testical but it's not the case like like for example last night like I was rolling with like py mcui and like he show me things on the ground they help me and they like get me out by positions you know what I mean like and it's like If he if if he had an ego he wouldn't be showing me these things he wouldn't be trying to help me improve but that that was i i c on there from day that I thought I was going up there with a Target on my back and I wasn't see as long as you go up there way about respect and you be respectful and you're W to learn and as you said you go up and you're only put the time and effort on on the the gym and on your teammates you get it all back like and uh that is one thing about up there like even like even Paul who is probably one of the most humble people you can meet like straight away off a bat hugging you shaking your hand he go was an all day L up and all you know what I mean like it's like you would expect everybody they have an egole but they don't P it's just like one tight family and everybody looks after each other you know what I mean and like if something one boy doing something wrong he he helps them out and helps him fix his mistakes and stuff which I was blew away by like so I everybody knows like because if you're in FAA you want the fa to do well not just yourself do you know what I mean because it's say at the it's just the fa against the you know what I mean so that really is and like Pat even said himself he goes as soon as as soon as fa even mentioned the promoters like the all the gyms just don't want to don't want to take with cage conflict how does it feel to be the main event actually because obviously the main event there's a title on all the pro fights now as well Cher on top how do they feel now he uh how does it feel be Main Event yeah honestly I I've never fought I've never fought in a show wasn't main event on that's the truth I've never I never have had a fight so do do I want to be ment I it's an honor and and I'm grateful and I will put on a show and I and I will give everybody the main event fight that they want to see always like you know a crack I'm coming out there like I will be highly surprised if this boy here gets out of the first round I don't I don't know nothing about him but the way I treat everybody is it's just going on and just absolute destruction from my B so I just want to go on and [ __ ] I need that e Man soul and that's it and he will look under my eyes and he will [ __ ] F sh on his spine and I'll just run at him and I'll H himing the kit in sink so and then I and then I'll just get my first uh first pro MMA belt which is mad that means I'll have seven belts in K1 and then I'll have a one on MMA straight away like the second fight which is another thing I don't think it's been done yet I don't think so I don't think so I'd have to look into that but I don't think so um but like that you said you've been the main event everywhere case conflict you've been to is an absolutely crazy crazy atmosphere I'm actually bringing three of my friends up because they were like cage Legacy or cage conflict I here we go to Belfast for ton night and we go to cage conflict because it's mad but Derry obviously there is your hometown um with chaos there is that something like like obviously like said you've headlined loads of shows there before would you like to headline one it may be a chaos or if real fighting championship came back to have that crowd for Pro MMA or is that kind of pass you now uh it's always nice to fight in front the day you'll never like I cage conflict is up one of the best shoes I've ever been there but there's just something about the M bastards and there you know what I mean it's just for you've seen it yourself it's just [ __ ] it's different like but I case conflict top as a top show as well and it always like it's always always cracking [ __ ] scraps B on it like so I'm proper G to be a part of but I don't know about chaos if it was like it's probably up to like you know me I just say I but the way Pat and Shand and the way they run things is they have their head screwed on man they don't just [ __ ] they don't just go boom W through any fight you know what I mean and like that's one thing that I respect it massively is like when I up like pulled me aside may had a meeting and he was like talking to me and he goes la like I know he goes I know you've only had one MMA fight and it was a pro fight and he goes he just jumped on and then he goes I know I know you're willing to jump on it anything he goes but for us we just want to make sure that it's the right fights at the right time he goes we know you'll fight anybody but it's the fights just have to make sense and he goes goes we want you on the bike showes we want you to the we want your [ __ ] career to head in the right direction which is which I respected them a lot for that because they do the research like they're not just like coach and they don't just get a name and go right like them boys sty like we're I'm on like three or four different group chats with fa there's like a I don't it's it's like a secret like they research everything they research every like that's what I'm that's what you said like it's there's no favoritism everybody gets the same treatment so like it doesn't matter who it is they research everybody you're fighting and they pick up flaws or and then they work on stuff and like it's mad like it's a full-time job for it's a full-time job for M coaches like hats off them like they do so much for the gym and the and the boys on the gym like and it shows it really does show like do you know what I mean yeah it does like said you've got Jared Burns who's just after siding with h Brave on the multi fight deal after knocking out you've got boys cage warriors uh cage Warriors Champions you've got you've got LS everywhere now Bellator is coming I don't know if they're going to get FAA Boys on that show I think I think it'd be a good move to get Lads on that show even if it on that and try and Pi them from [ __ ] SBG and such more less just the sh run for SBG isn't I'm obviously there's a merge and pfl has a nice mix as well pfl has Lads from different gyms so we're hoping we're going to see more of the same of that and it's not that I have anything against SBG I think every I think cage warre suffers because it doesn't have SBG Lads on it sometimes as well and I think Bellator suffers because it's only SBG I think there needs to be a good mix from the because you know yourself there's a lot of gyms and a lot of really good Fighters around that need opportunities like I think what he call all M should fight that what he call Bo [ __ ] Bo sh the mic that McGregor press conference one time what's n Kelly n Kelly that would be a good fight to get on that b fard if we the ticket against I don't see it like in chaos so you know what I mean yeah no it would be because obviously Nate Kelly's a bit a bit of a name a bit of about and then Owen is one of the top man of so many good flyweights from your gym even amateur you look Daman McAn who's fighting Shay Cleland which is probably one of my favorite amateur fights uh Kieran kougan looks like he's coming back soon uh Miss Oliver Pablo there's just and then you look at J jar Burns not a Flav too isn't he yeah he's best these were just the amateurs I was naming as well he's he's the hardest H fly with I've ever felt my life that boy yeah I see Star the man in round one and brave stars like everybody in the gym says it he's the hardest H and fly with on the on the country man has concrete blocks in his hands yeah no he's he's good like that just that's just that's just four flyweights alone off top of my head sh of my amateurs there's much more at Pro what's your plan going forward obviously you're hoping on winning this belt do you think that hope that the belt will get you more fights do you think more people will want to fight if you have a belt or do you think You' be going on to maybe something bigger if you have a really good performance here um I just I don't know I'll just pick a fight fight at a time but I reckon if I go out and which I will do I have no doubt that I'm going to absolutely dust this Bo under in under two minutes like I'm I don't even it's mad like I really I just have that much confidence myself I just feel like I'm going to H him many shots he's never he's never felt or seen in his life and uh like what you seen on my last fight I don't even like talking about it cuz I'm so I'm so close to they trit you know what I mean it was just one of them things that had to be done I F most me and all like at M bastard uh but I I reckon like the level I was at whenever I had my first MMA fight they the level I'm at now training with the people that I'm training with like I'll never fight anybody that gives me a harder round than on that gym the rounds that I have on that gym is [ __ ] shocking like you can't like it's you would pay money they watch the they watch the spars that's how good they are you know what I mean p MC by James who GTH mcer GTH McCormick Sean McCormick like you can't big [ __ ] Mark if you see his boy Mark he's a bman your boy Mark Polish boy he's [ __ ] Savage that he is a scary human being like he is like he is the kabib belf like scary scary everybody scary it's all scary individuals but like you just the level is the shotgun as you said like you to name how many play with who's [ __ ] popular game like it's but like I so like the performance I'm going to put on now next next Saturday is going to be elate hopefully I get to show more of the stuff that I've put the together but like I I never got my a game plan because I know as soon as I [ __ ] cage door closes behind me how just I just zone out and just swinging until somebody's in the ground or me or him it's not gonna be me but it's is kill or be kill but obviously what's your the aggression of you I think is overwhelming for people I think that's what's going to be the issue H for people is your aggression but like I said you've probably since we've last seen you you've probably added so many more facets to your game that we don't even know about that we could be like is this even the same a and Dean you could be [ __ ] like you could be going shoting takedowns I'm not saying you will but like it's going to be like you said you're going to be a more rounded fighter now so it might be different even watching it like from one to the next like as I said like I don't even see like I don't want to look I don't want to overlook anybody because I just treat everybody as if it's the same fight like I treat every fight as if it's a world title you know what I mean train like it's a world title like but uh I the improvements I've made the improvements I made up there is shot like especially from the ground like we were we were we heavy Jitsu like we would have just started off doing Jitsu and grapple and going for Subs we're up here it's like as soon as you hit the ground you [ __ ] explode your feet you do this you do that like it's it's like proper dog rounds like had to see that [ __ ] wrestling class we had last night Jesus Christ you be gasping for your [ __ ] your lungs are on fire and it's just constantly B bom it's [ __ ] mad it's mad but it's Leal it's beautiful like it's [ __ ] you're driving home from Bast you're like what the [ __ ] happened but it's it's unbelievable like and that's what saying like the [ __ ] every everything it's just it's just it's [ __ ] it's a dream come true to be a part of a gy like there something I've always wanted to be be a part of me whole life like it's just a prop it's a proper it's like one of it's like one of them feelings is if you've walked on like a UFC performance on the it's it's got that Vibe you just know it's world class coaching world class [ __ ] and Fighters and everybody's on the same mind path and on the same path as you like so you can't really you're not really [ __ ] getting distracted with anything else because everybody just wants to be the best like and it's [ __ ] brilliant it's brilliant shout out to stuff is that's all I trained on anyway and I was like blame is getting sponsored fight here I'm [ __ ] ask this boy here [ __ ] sponsor me because I'm fed bu stuff all time so we're in a process of getting the new the new uh the new glitch stuff sound like so I'm looking forward to it yeah no he's really nice he's got he always has different lines and stuff come now you see if you actually go to a show on Island I'd say a lot of Fighters maybe TW 30 40% are actually have some form of his clothing on so he's obviously doing well I'm Gonna Let You Go I want to thank you so much for joining me I can't wait to actually see you fight it'll be my first time to see you fight in person as well so I'm really excited for that and so hopefully we'll be a to do a post fight interview after the fight uh with the belt so is there anything you want to say before you go or anyone you want to shout out and thank you again for your time uh just shout out all my sponsors H [ __ ] I can't remember them all shout out all my sponsors all my teammates all my coaches and uh get your ticket B case conflict next Saturday don't miss it I am going to absolutely wreck this boy in under 60 seconds he will not be going back the the way he came and that's a [ __ ] promise thank you so much Eno rest