UFC 306 Countdown: Sean O'Malley vs Merab Dvalishvili - Full Episode

highly anticipated UFC no card September 14th at the sphere in Las Vegas the main event the bantamweight title fight shauni versus morab sha Ali is returning to make his second title defense against the very tough Morra crazy yeah we're at my old house where I grew up I think we moved in parents built it three and I moved out when I was I think 19 moved to Arizona just grew up here lived here my entire life uh someone else bought it and re renovated it and they're letting us come and do an interview with ESPN in here trippy brother trippy everyone always ask me where I got the name sugar from okay here I'm I'm going to drop the truth on everybody so I'm going to set the record straight I had never once named him spider okay when he first started with me I gave him the name sha the Fighting Irish om Ali okay he trained with me for a little bit under that name then he left my team and went cross town to train with another team so he was there for like 6 months then he hits me up and he says coach they're not letting me train MMA I I really want to do MMA not just kickboxing can I come back I said hey that door's always been open for you you know there's there's no question about it so he came back he trained a couple weeks and he said listen coach I I don't feel good about that name anymore since I quit and now I'm back I said all right I'll think of another name so I washed him you know for month month and a half and uh the only thing I could come up with was sugar and and then he asked me why sugar I said you're so [ __ ] sweet to watch and that name stuck and I'm so proud of you for taking that in the UFC too no when I went I figured I figured you'd change it or something once you got there but I saw the OG tpg sugar have in that picture you said off to Miami and you're wearing that yeah I still have it still throw it on that's cool hell yeah yeah so that's how he got the name sugar and it was never spider it was Sean the Fighting Irish in the beginning all there you go the W straight more that I've been working with Mor Rob it's it's a lot of fun you know my job like I said as a coach is to not change what what got people to the dance he was very good got to the UFC before he was ever at this gym so I want to keep those things on track I want to keep his craziness keep his weirdness keep what has got him wins there I don't like to start structuring too much stuff where people start to lose themselves so it's about keeping his hurricane style and just sharpening it up a little bit the what wears the winds the wise hey don't do this don't dive in on something so crazy add a punch here do a little bit of this any fight in the UFC is going to be tough every fighter is tough they all are on their thing but you're going up against a legend you're going up against a living legend you've got to go in you got to go in all respect you have to go in and know that the what this guy has done and respect it but don't fear it you know you have to still go in and do you you still have to go in and do like I said earlier what got you to where you're at plug in my ax first things first I'm the real is H first thing I'm not a rapper second off we're not the same Jam girls ain't no [ __ ] $10 card what I5 20,000 miles not even car really is it fast as [ __ ] dude it's loud there the regular mode and there sport mode I flicked it into sport mode it was crazy bro dude that's sexy we are here at hotel and make sure we have a Georgian plaque Georgian power I feel good just um I was cting waight uh and U yeah I still don't trust this uh water load weight cut so and then I have to stop taking drinking water and food and I'm going to do my way again otherwise uh I feel great um yeah I just have to make way on my own way because uh it's like it's risky for me if I risk the I mean I cannot risk I I have to make sure I cut my own way we just came and I'm little tired um but uh I'm going to training a little later and I'll be fine I'm going to rest tonight and tomorrow I have a lot of interviews and media and yeah so many things to do yeah so the breathing stuff that we do that we've been doing for a while is is about controlling and regulating the nervous system so we we the breath is always a tool that we have to ramp up or ramp down and at another level or through another lens it's also cultivating presence cultivating um intention being right where you're at the breath is always there so we use that to to get beyond the mind to tune into or to tap into our higher that's something that suar doesn't well cardio having great cardio is always an advantage for anybody if you know that you can keep going and even everybody gets tired it's how they perform and what they do when they're tired you know there's guys that get tired and get still push there's guys that get tired get sloppy and quit you know Mor is a guy that just I don't know that he even gets tired but he just keeps going and going and going so knowing that you can push that pace is a phenomenal thing to have in your back pocket especially as a coach you know you want to have guys that can just go go go go and then you've got to match the technique with that cardio and make sure that we're coming out ahead of every scramble we're coming out ahead every you know exchange and it it's just it's it's going to be uh it's going to be a fun one and I expect Mor Rob to go out there push that pace and do him and come out with his hands rais good good good ex through the wall he spot on the wall [Music] now go down on the all right now it's a Wednesday so this is like the real last hard day of working out uh Thursday is more of like a just dehydration kind of day so today we're going to focus on just some technical things just going through the motion letting morab burn as much calories as he can sweat as much as he can um hydrate back up a little bit tonight not too much uh we still want to try to trick the body and make it feel like we're still eating still drinking tons of water this way the body starts to release what it needs to release and uh Wednesday for me is always that hump day um even though every day every Wednesday is a hump day but this one for a fight week is definitely the hump day because it's one of the harder days to get through your low on calories and then you got to get through that Thursday and then uh for me I like to try to do two days of kind of rest at Thursday and Friday and then Thursday is more of just a weight cut so your body gets time to recover so I think morab right now is just trying to get in that mental state um just one more workout got to get through today one more day and then go refuel feel good and get ready to go some Fighters being jealous I do see that that's just a natural human tendency it's also you know to it's a mental weakness when you're jealous of someone else's success you know that's just a mental weakness really um but I see it I mean these guys fighting tougher guys than me and they're driving [ __ ] Toyota Priuses you know driving to their little house and I'm sitting in a mansion with a Lambo three Tes two Teslas out in the garage and you know a couple acres just chilling so I can see why they're jealous but I'm also I I do do a lot of work as far as social media YouTube um you know I I take a lot of business calls throughout the week I do a lot of stuff that's not captured on camera what are you doing prin why you mom mommy my [Music] daddy do daddy working Melena working 100% in the middle you're so good at smoking people floating backwards that's why in the cage it's like you can't float backwards yeah even those long shots every time I took a one twoo every time I took one those long shots it was boom boom and your hips were still good on me boom you know P I wasn't expecting to shoot I really wasn't like that's just a Learning lesson like he never [ __ ] assume anything but I really wasn't expecting that [ __ ] to shoot but when you [ __ ] crack someone a few times you know what I mean understand like all right let's take it here and find out if we're going to do better here or at least slow it down I'm feeling so much more confident on the ground too though action was right at the beginning with the wrestling are so much better than they used to be compared to they wrestling now you got to think about what to do well even just these last [ __ ] 5 months since I fought just [ __ ] feel like I've gotten so much better since then in your in your in your cage work and your training you know show me the address I feel great amazing just doing my thing here at the hotel and enjoying from tomorrow morning I'm going to start lots of interview it's going to be big day hard day I hate this Zoom calls interviews but I have to do it this is part the my job but let's do it I'm here I came to win [Music] life outside I can't find [Music] my mind [Music] Stone [Music] mind my [Music] [Music] [Music] my l l my [Music] [Music] I I find 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