Sean Clancy Jr has issued a stark warning for the rest of the Welterweight division, following his second round submission against Lucas Rodrigues at Cage Warriors 171.
‘The One’ extended his unbeaten run to four, in what was a busy night in the Breahead Arena, which saw Dumitru Girlean cause yet another hometown upset when he stopped Chris Bungard in the main event.
For the first time in his professional career, Clancy was taken into the second round in his Welterweight contest at the Braehead Arena, having previously picked up three first round stoppages in his previous contests. Speaking to Edith Labelle post fight, Clancy revealed he was pleasantly surprised
I don’t feel any different, to be honest. Ah, well, I felt once I got to the second round I was like ‘Oh, f*ck, I’m in the second round.’ But as far as conditioning went, I was really surprised at how good I felt, it was a pretty high pace, I think as far as the grappling goes and stuff like that. But as soon as I went to the second round, I felt great.
I feel like I had done better than five of them, pretty easily. I felt very, very, very good.
Ever since joining the professional ranks, there has been a lot of hype surrounding the Higher Level man, with many believing he could be the next star of the Scottish mixed martial arts scene. Taking it all in his stride, Clancy sees the vast amount of experience he has had with top athletes, ever since he was a child, will stand him in good stead for whatever is to come.
“No, not a lot of weight to carry at all. I'm a lot bigger than just the future of Scottish MMA. I post videos, my dad posts videos all the time of me training when I was such a young boy, like ages of six and stuff like I've trained even since before then. I remember I’ve been getting PT’s off people like Paul McVeigh, the first double champ in cage warriors since I was like six.
“My first PT with Paul McVeigh was at six, I’ve done this for so, so, so long. And no, I wouldn't it carries any sort of a weight or anything like that. It's just something that's going to happen.”
Looking ahead, Clancy is targeting the promotion’s return to Glasgow on September 7 as the next time he will make the walk to the cage. Cage Warriors president Graham Boylan also confirmed that the show will play home to one of the Prize Fighter tournaments, with the winner taking home $50,000. As a new father, Clancy would relish the opportunity to compete in the one night tournament.
“I want to make sure I'm on the next Glasgow show. I would also want to be that Prizefighter. I want to get onto that Prize Fighter. I just have a baby so I've got a lot to provide for now. I need money so that as a big, big, incentive for me, something like that would be just life changing, to be honest, for the stage that I'm at. So yeah, get me on that.”
