Promising Irish star Keith Keogh will make his third walk in to the Cage Warriors cage this Saturday at the RDS Arena.
The featherweight has spent some of his camp in Thailand ahead of his third Cage Warriors bout in the infamous Bangtao Muay Thai gym. One of the most well known gyms over in Asia, Bangtao has welcomed countless UFC fighters through their doors and onto the mats for elite sparring and training with a large presence of ONE championship fighters in the gym as well. Champions like Petr Yan and Alexander Volkanovski have spent portions of training camps out there quite regularly.
Keith Keogh on Training at the bangtao Gym
Speaking on the Brandon Talks Fighting Podcast, the 145lbs prospect spoke about his training over in Thailand and the benefits of it also mentioning the number of Irish fighters currently over there.
“There’s probably more Irish than anybody, like coaches James and Connor…. It’s just it is different lifestyle like you want to get up and train in the mornings like and I know obviously it’s discipline of motivation but the bit of motivation getting up in the in the mornings do help like when you know when you’re getting up and it’s sunny and you’re on the moped going to the gym and stuff like that. It makes you like really be a little bit more appreciative of appreciative of your life when you’re over there.” The weather seemed to be a positive factor in the Irishman’s training regime.
Keogh followed up stating ” You’re just a little bit happier I suppose I think is the main difference … then obviously like having the variety of different bodies gives you that little bit of confidence then for when you come home.”
Keith Keogh will be facing Brazilian Gabriel Ramos making his debut on Cage Warriors. The Brazilian has a 100% finish rate across all 6 professional victories and hopes to silence a the crowd in Dublin this weekend. Keogh is 3-0 with all wins coming via first round stoppage, his amateur career is very impressive with a 14-1 record before turning pro in 2024.
