BAMMA 18: Chris Fields vs Cheick Kone - Sat. 21st February

SevereMMA

Part 1 -Return of The Killing (Part 1) – “I was hung up on them three letters”

“I’ve been off for awhile as you know, but during that downtime I really fell in love with the sport again,” said Fields. “There were thoughts of quitting for some of that time, but then I kind of said to myself that I would comeback and I’d make sure that I did everything right.


“I just didn’t know what the next step was. A of people, including me, put a lot of stress on themselves to get into the UFC – that’s it – it’s your be all and end all. It’s not though, and now I feel like I’m back doing it for pure reasons. For a long time I was hung up on them three letters.


“A lot of people would tell you, Cathal and Laura (Fields’ wife), there would be a lot of ‘after this fight’ and I wasn’t really living in the moment. It’s such a cool thing that we get to do. People have to work their asses off to provide for their families, I think it’s very honourable what they do, but I really get to do something I love everyday.

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Part 2 - Return of the Killing (Part 2) – PEDs, SBG, McGregor, Coaching, Kone and Clauses

“I remember being in the TD Garden there a few weeks back and usually they have a place for us to sit and watch the fights. This time, the place was so packed there was nowhere for us to sit.


“As for Conor’s performance, I think it’s the first time I’ve ever said ‘wow’, watching one of my teammates. It was like an Anderson Silva type performance. He looked phenomenal.


“Then Joe Rogan gets into the cage and starts asking him how it feels to be fighting for a title. Until then, it never dawned on me how big this really was. I just turned to Cathal straight away and said, ‘this is surreal’.


“A guy from our gym is going to be fighting for a UFC title in a few months. We’re a little island and we’re only doing this a little while at that level. Ais, me, Cathal, Conor, Paddy and Roddy before all of us, we were the first ones to go out and do it a high level. Now one of us is going for a title,” he exclaimed.

You can watch online..

Prelims from 6pm at https://www.facebook.com/londsdale

Main card from 8.30pm at https://www.facebook.com/BAMMAUK

TimRiggins

Any way to watch this live? - Sorry, just seen you can watch on Facebook

That_Guy

It's a shame that an injury hampered Fields on TUF. Came across well anyway and have been waiting for him to get back into action for a while.

His leg kicks are vicious.

Fair play to Fields, he got some stick on TUF but it's nice to see him come back fighting again.

califano

Good to see SevereMMA stepping up covering wider mma reportage even further.

yourdeadwright

I only seen him on TUF and he didn't look great but didn't see enough of him
So how good is Fields ?

darced

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Mellor

darced wrote: »

He has some great kicks and is pretty dangerous on the ground.

I always thought he was mostly a striker, based on the reputation of his kicks I suppose. But I got the chance to train with him a bit at Christmas and it was mostly his ground game that stood out that day.

Ian Whelan

All we need now is Roddy to come back as well. I would love that.

califano

Ian Whelan wrote: »

All we need now is Roddy to come back as well. I would love that.

His missus told me at a cage warriors event he's always threatening to comeback but hard to know if hes saying it in jest. Exciting fighter and id like to see him back too but i think he achieved a lot already and probably got out at the right time. Hes also probably too involved with coaching to commit as the coaching is meant to be going well.

SevereMMA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl5LQC3R38A

Richy06

califano wrote: »

His missus told me at a cage warriors event he's always threatening to comeback but hard to know if hes saying it in jest. Exciting fighter and id like to see him back too but i think he achieved a lot already and probably got out at the right time. Hes also probably too involved with coaching to commit as the coaching is meant to be going well.

It'll never, ever happen.

He hopped in for a bit of sparring a week or so ago and got a nice cut for his troubles haha.

He's mad busy with coaching full time now - he runs the Growing Gorilla's kids & teens programmes at SBG as well as his own club in Ballymun, Primal MMA.

Dtp1979

Richy06 wrote: »

It'll never, ever happen.

He hopped in for a bit of sparring a week or so ago and got a nice cut for his troubles haha.

He's mad busy with coaching full time now - he runs the Growing Gorilla's kids & teens programmes at SBG as well as his own club in Ballymun, Primal MMA.

Roddy or fields?

Richy06

Roddy, he's retired.

SevereMMA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbiXUx8K3Os

SevereMMA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_iHKe_Uzrs

SevereMMA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-OmJuRBxfo

Dtp1979

Is this fight on TV?

dickwod1

Dtp1979 wrote: »

Is this fight on TV?

Dont know about tv but it's online ...

SevereMMA wrote: »

You can watch online..

Prelims from 6pm at https://www.facebook.com/londsdale

Main card from 8.30pm at https://www.facebook.com/BAMMAUK

Lenin Skynard

They have the worst ring announcer I've ever seen in this. An British guy who announces everything in an attempted American accent and he's so nervous his voice is shaking and he's stuttering all his lines :pac:

moneyman

How can I actually watch this? On their FB page and there's no link. Awful set-up unless I'm just missing something obvious.

EDIT: Never mind, their FB is awful. Here's a couple links to live streams:

http://www.mmafighting.com/2015/2/21/8082275/bamma-18-live-stream-online

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMSAW_eACkk#t=5049

johnpro

Can someone please post a link to the fields fight... I'm getting stressed looking through Facebook...it'd be greatly appreciated

Lenin Skynard

Your best bet is severemma.com.

scudzilla

Anybody elses stream go down?

dickwod1

johnpro wrote: »

Can someone please post a link to the fields fight... I'm getting stressed looking through Facebook...it'd be greatly appreciated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro0acRtOEY8#t=225

Lenin Skynard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro0acRtOEY8

Dtp1979

What time is Chris roughly fighting?

Lenin Skynard

Dtp1979 wrote: »

What time is Chris roughly fighting?

Now

Edit: nvm, they said the fight was gonna start but they're showing one of the earlier prelims.

Dtp1979

Lenin Skynard wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro0acRtOEY8

I can't hear anything? Anybody having the same trouble?

dickwod1

Yep, cant hear jack

Lenin Skynard

Same. Presuming they'll go live at nine sharp for tv purposes.

dickwod1

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Lenin Skynard

Well that was pitiful.

scudzilla

Oh dear :mad:

Packoman

Oh dear.

Dtp1979

Chris rock is doing a terrible job as fight announcer.
Feel bad for Chris fields

Beersmith

Very quick devasting KO there, chris was completely out of it. Ref did a good job there (actually not sure if he did now, kind of half waved it off before stopping it)

califano

All that conditioning for nowt. What was the ref doing, either your moving in to stop or you arent.

johnpro

Balls

johnpro

Can't have any complaints about the stoppage. He got caught, it happens. He looked ok when he got dropped but then when that hammer fist came down and the follow up, the ref was right to step in and prevent unnecessary damage

Zero-Cool

Ah shyte, that was some power he was hit with. Yeah, i thought wtf he went back for 2 hammer fists after the ref stopped but then realised he hadnt. Unlucky Chris

Unlucky there for Chris, everyone gets caught eventually. Hopefully see him in fight again in about 6 months.
Always feel fighters come back too early from KO's like that. Give the brain time to heal.

darced

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SevereMMA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPxWaatJsfg

crybaby

He looked way out of his depth on TUF in fairness, best of luck to him in the future I'm sure he will come back and have another crack at it

MagicIRL

The production quality on the BAMMA stream was terrible. I think I watched the two commentators introduce the card three times, and all the huge pauses in between things happening just wrecked the buzz. I'll continue to watch Chris' fights in BAMMA but I won't be watching the entire cards again.