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Will Fleury

Will Fleury

Irish mixed martial artist

Jun 15, 2026

speaker_1HOST
1:12
And you started playing rugby from a young age?
1:13
Yeah, about nine.
1:15
I played with Cashland.
1:16
We played, like, under 11s was the first year.
1:18
But I think I played under 11s for two years, so it must have been nine.
1:21
That was the first real, like, proper sport.
1:24
Like, I played a bit of ga and I played a...

23 MINS LATER

speaker_1HOST
24:50
It would help greatly.
25:08
Yeah.
25:08
Then it became, like, it was a bit harder to get him down, and when you did, it was like, oh, he can counter stuff quite well.
25:15
So he'd be, like, looking to sweep, looking to, like, play a bit of bottom jujitsu back and, like, kind of threaten you with it, and then get out very easily.
25:26
So a couple of times you'd feel like you wasted massive energy taking him down.
25:30
It wasn't just like, oh, you took him down and then he got back up, but you kind of won the exchange overall.
25:35
Then it became like, oh, when he would attack this guy wrestling, he really punishes you for it.
25:41
Um, and that was over the space of maybe, like, two years-ish.

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46:37
Yeah.

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