Will Fleury: McGregor's Effect on Irish MMA Sentiment, Aspinall Eye Poke, Buday Title Bout

Описание: Will Fleury will defend his OKMMA heavyweight championship against former champ Martin Buday at OKTAGON 81 on December 28th.

Fleury appeared on Bowks Talking Bouts to discuss: -having a big win in late-December last year in Prague, capturing the OKMMA light heavyweight title, and how he reflects on that big moment this time last year

-hoping for a similarly passionate crowd reaction in this Buday fight that he had in Prague last year

-fighting a former UFC vet and Oktagon MMA heavyweight champion who will be around fifty pounds bigger than him on fight night

-having some big road blocks in his MMA career, being close to hanging up the gloves at certain points, and how gratifying it feels to be where he's at now

-moments he felt like he fell short in like his big Bellator MMA foray that saw him sustain his first pro mixed martial arts defeat

-trying to secure fights with Vosgrone as well as Poppeck and why that's been frustrating

-feeling like Oktagon MMA doesn't want an Irish double champ

-hoping that his work can bolster the Irish MMA media scene more which he thinks has waned in the post-McGregor boom era

-how you can, to a degree, blame McGregor for Irish mixed martial arts not having a good public image in Ireland these days

-being there live in attendance the night where McGregor lost to Joe Duffy for the first time in Cage Warriors

-eyeing a future goal of becoming a three-division Oktagon MMA titleholder with a peripheral focus on their middleweight strap

-sparring Ateba Gautier in the context of his thoughts on Gautier's UFC 324 fight in January

-calling out the KSW champion who is on Tom Aspinall's team, breaking his hand sparring Sean Strickland, Strickland insulting Aspinall's UFC 321 behaviour, and Fleury's thoughts on the errant eye poke no contest scenario

-Buday's methodology informing whether or not this contest ends in an earlier finish