Craig O’Brien isn’t one for being attentive to spoiler alert warnings.
The Internal Metropolis Dub says he’s totally conscious of how his combat with Edward Donovan will play out on the 3Arena this weekend – and is more than pleased to share with those that will watch in individual or reside on UFC Battle Go all over the world.
‘The Iron’ says he’s filmed the pilot, seen the trailer, and is adamant the combat between the Limerick man and himself will make for an entertaining watch.
Amazingly, the previous Irish champion sparred his opponent within the build-up to their BUI Celtic gentle middleweight title combat. The Celtic Warrior Health club success story was initially penciled in to combat invoice topper Callum Walsh on the cardboard and used southpaw Donovan in prep for that proposed match-up.
Nevertheless, he couldn’t get sanctioned for the Cork fundamental occasion fighter’s WBC Worldwide title and consequently needed to search for a distinct opponent.
He discovered one in European underage medal winner ‘The Dominator’ who he is aware of his model gels with.
“It’s humorous as a result of Edward got here as much as spar me to assist me prepare for Callum earlier than that fell by,” he mentioned. “You wish to combat good fights on an enormous card like this. You wish to be in a combat with a little bit of curiosity and that means, so I’m delighted with it. He’s an important fighter. We shared the ring sparring lately, so I do know already and he is aware of it’s going to be an important combat. The gang are in for a deal with. I do know what he does, he is aware of what I do. Persons are in for a cracking combat one hundred pc. It’s going to be a cracking eight spherical combat.
The current College graduate doesn’t simply wish to simply ship leisure for his loyal Internal Metropolis following, the 34-year-old plans to ship a win to arrange an enormous end to his profession.
“The plan is to get in there get the win and push on from there.”Like stablemate Thomas Carty, Emmet Brennan and debutant Gareth Dowling, O’Brien hails from Dublin’s Internal Metropolis, so combating on the 3Arena has actual significance.
“It’s a little bit of a dream come true to be trustworthy. I’ve fought within the stadium and plenty of a great venue round Eire and the UK however that is totally different it’s an enormous one and at dwelling. I’m buzzing to combating at dwelling in Dublin and on the 3Arena,” he provides earlier than explaining he was near headlining on the venue.
“Paschal [Collins] textual content me and requested me if I knew something about Callum Walsh. I mentioned ‘I do know of him in fact’ and he requested if I’d combat him. I mentioned and we agreed to combat for his [WBC] Worldwide title over 10 rounds. We agreed every thing and it was all good to go. Then there was a little bit of stall, issues went quiet and it turned out I couldn’t get sanctioned for the his title, so we’ve got a distinct combat.”