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25th July 2018
04:51pm BST

"Paul Daley and MVP are one dimensional. In a stand-up fight, I'd spark them. Lorenz Larkin, he already got sparked by Daley, I'd spark him as well. Rory MacDonald's a really well-rounded fighter. There's a lot of things I'd need to work on there to fight him, but a few fights in, he could get sparked as well. On the feet, I'd destroy him." "Obviously, there's Terrence Brazier as well, the hide-and-seek champion of BAMMA. If he ever comes out of hiding I'd actually bitch-slap him, I'd beat him open-handed. I'd give him the hairy side of the hand to knock him out. He was able to hide at BAMMA because he was able to call the shots. In Bellator, he won't be able to hide."
"Lorenz Larkin came over to SBG Tallaght. I got called up an hour beforehand. I was on the piss the night before, I turned up hungover. He was 100 kg and definitely on the medicinal supplements and I beat the shit out of him. I have the video to prove it. I'd knock him out as well."Kiely claimed that Larkin outweighed him by 15kg. The video he put up on social media was a few rounds into the session and he feels it didn't do the beatdown justice. However, Larkin still supposedly asked him to take it down.
"If that's the standard of the Grand Prix tournament, imagine what I'm going to do to that welterweight roster when I get in there in-shape, fight fit, no injuries and at the same weight."
Here's the video Larkin supposedly asked to be taken down. Kiely said it doesn't do it justice. pic.twitter.com/hOlxWaGF4q
— Ben Kiely (@TheJivemaster) July 25, 2018
"There were no fights in BAMMA that really interested me, to be honest. Then Bellator were sniffing around. They came along, they knew a good thing when they saw it. And I want to test myself against the best fighters in the world. There are guys there that I think I can take their chin off - Daley, MVP, Terrence Brazier... all those guys. I'd put any of them asleep. That's not just fighters' speak. I'm happy to say that my striking level is the best in Bellator. My accomplishments in kickboxing speak for themselves and then I transitioned into MMA. The guys in Bellator won't know what hit them when I get in there." "The only person out there who has a similar fighting style is MVP but he's one dimensional. He can only fight from distance, I can fight in close. He's a points fighter that's after transitioning. If you stand off him, grand, you make him look good. Put the pressure on him, mix it up with him, it would be a different story."
"I'll stick a flea collar on them, give them a fucking boot up the hole and stick them out in the fucking doghouse if they want. That's bullshit. They're just trying to allign their names with SBG. Brian Moore has called them out, James Gallagher has said that he'd fight as well. If they want to get a hiding, fair enough. They're just looking for a payday. I'm not sure if their payday would be able to cover their medical bills. I'll put manners on them."https://twitter.com/SportsJOEdotie/status/1015646359582642176 Kiely joins fellow SBG fighters James Gallagher, Dillon Danis, Will Fleury, Brian Moore and Charlie Ward on Bellator's books. He believes if the promotion had any sense, they'd be snapping up more names for the world famous gym.
"We've got world class fighters in our gym. If Bellator were in any way clever, they should sign more of them. There's Kiefer Crosbie, Cian Cowley's coming up, Dylan Tuke - we've got a load of guys and some of them haven't even hit their stride yet. They're only in their infancy."
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