Bellator/WSOF/One FC etc events Thread

Whelo79

Anyone going to TEF tonight on the National Stadium? Decent amount of fights on.

Mellor

His comment with that pic was somethings along the lines of "it won't be long, I'm already the champ".
I don't he was saying it was an actual match.
I'd be surprised if his opponent is announced before his last BAMMA fight

Devastator

Mellor wrote: »

His comment with that pic was somethings along the lines of "it won't be long, I'm already the champ".

It was just a retweet, he made no comment

https://twitter.com/Caolan16/status/718578045498601472

Mellor

Sorry I was talking about Facebook,

https://www.facebook.com/james.gallagher.16547008/posts/539459616239504

dulux99

James Gallagher is staggeringly unlikeable. A blatant McGregor ripoff, tattoos and all. It's charming when McGregor did it, but when a 2-0 completely mirrors his character it's all very transparent.

Depp

dulux99 wrote: »

James Gallagher is staggeringly unlikeable. A blatant McGregor ripoff, tattoos and all. It's charming when McGregor did it, but when a 2-0 completely mirrors his character it's all very transparent.

so just cause he has tattoos hes copying mcgregor? gallaghers a great fighter in his own right wait till you see him fight and then judge

Dtp1979

Depp wrote: »

so just cause he has tattoos hes copying mcgregor? gallaghers a great fighter in his own right wait till you see him fight and then judge

He wasn't criticising his fighting ability. A lot of people don't like Gallagher. No doubt he's something special as a fighter and I've no doubt he'll be top 3 in the world within 5 years

darced

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dulux99

Please have a look at Gallaghers social media or interviews. He steals direct lines from McGregor aswell as copying his mannerisms, it's bizarre. He even copies Mcgregors smirk! It's weird. Aswell as the constant gloating about money. People are going to see straight through all that nonsense. Look at Dylan Tuke as a comparison, he's making a name for himself not only as a fighter but as a character, and it's all very organic and individual.

You can't outwardly say he's a great fighter either. He's a 2-0, 19 year old pro. Nobody is a great fighter at that stage. His jiu jitsu is excellent, some of the best in Irish mma, but he's nowhere near the complete package yet.

themandan6611

when Gallagher meets someone who can wrestle and keep it standing he will be murdered, the guy, like so many (gunnar, daly, houlihan, pendred, ward, byrne, crosbie) in sbg are just above useless when it comes to` standup.

tuke to be fair has nice stand up, he must have learnt that in his old local club cause Kavanagh knows fu ck all when it comes to stand up.

Dtp1979

themandan6611 wrote: »

when Gallagher meets someone who can wrestle and keep it standing he will be murdered, the guy, like so many (gunnar, daly, houlihan, pendred, ward, byrne, crosbie) in sbg are just above useless when it comes to` standup.

tuke to be fair has nice stand up, he must have learnt that in his old local club cause Kavanagh knows fu ck all when it comes to stand up.

I'd like to see you stand in front of ward.

dulux99

By the way, to the lad who said to me to "wait until you see him fight"

I've been at both Bamma events where James fought aswell as cage warriors 70 where he had an amateur fight, I'm seen him plenty

themandan6611

Dtp1979 wrote: »

I'd like to see you stand in front of ward.

he's a fighter, I am not, so as a fighter one can say his stand up is **** e like many of the SBG gang.

You tell me outside McGregor and Tuke who has decent mma stand up ?

Devastator

dulux99 wrote: »

Please have a look at Gallaghers social media or interviews. He steals direct lines from McGregor aswell as copying his mannerisms, it's bizarre. He even copies Mcgregors smirk! It's weird. Aswell as the constant gloating about money. People are going to see straight through all that nonsense. Look at Dylan Tuke as a comparison, he's making a name for himself not only as a fighter but as a character, and it's all very organic and individual.

You can't outwardly say he's a great fighter either. He's a 2-0, 19 year old pro. Nobody is a great fighter at that stage. His jiu jitsu is excellent, some of the best in Irish mma, but he's nowhere near the complete package yet.

But you can say he's a McGregor clone :rolleyes: FFS lads will ya ****ing wise up to yourselves. Give the kid a break and don't let your dislike for McG turn you bitter against anyone connected with him.

RonanP77

Devastator wrote:

But you can say he's a McGregor clone FFS lads will ya ****ing wise up to yourselves. Give the kid a break and don't let your dislike for McG turn you bitter against anyone connected with him.

I had never heard of this kid until a few days ago. I read an interview with him where he keeps mentioning how well paid he'll be and how he wants to win all the belts. It sounded like he was trying very hard to be like Conor. I'm saying this as a big fan of McGregor and numerous other SBG fighters so I'm not bitter against anyone.

Devastator

RonanP77 wrote: »

I had never heard of this kid until a few days ago. I read an interview with him where he keeps mentioning how well paid he'll be and how he wants to win all the belts. It sounded like he was trying very hard to be like Conor. I'm saying this as a big fan of McGregor and numerous other SBG fighters so I'm not bitter against anyone.

hang on.....you hadn't even posted in this thread but you're replying like I was talking to you? :eek:

Good for you though, a few days ago you hadn't heard of him, you read 1 interview and your mind is made up. Awesome! :rolleyes:

Does nobody even consider he's just a kid who has signed a contract for 1 of the biggest global MMA organisations and he's probably pulling the plums off himself with excitment? I'm glad to hear everyone here was really mature and wouldn't have said or done anything dumb when they were 19

themandan6611

he talks like a 19 year old, he has fuc k all stand up, a very good ground game he will at best be a top 20 ufc fighter. look at gunni - Maia murdered him, what the fu cj will j gallagher do ? straus would kill him

RonanP77

Devastator wrote:

hang on.....you hadn't even posted in this thread but you're replying like I was talking to you?

Calm yourself down, I was pointing out the fact that I had nothing against any of them and that not everyone expressing that opinion is doing it because they have a grudge. I knew you weren't replying to me.

Devastator wrote:

Good for you though, a few days ago you hadn't heard of him, you read 1 interview and your mind is made up. Awesome!

I read an interview and made my mind up about how the lad came across in that particular interview. I don't see how that's a problem.

Devastator

RonanP77 wrote: »

Calm yourself down, I was pointing out the fact that I had nothing against any of them and that not everyone expressing that opinion is doing it because they have a grudge. I knew you weren't replying to me.




I read an interview and made my mind up about how the lad came across in that particular interview. I don't see how that's a problem.

I'm extremely calm, thanks for your concern though. I find it really bizarre that nobody(or specifically me) said you had anything against them but you felt you had to point out that you didn't. No problems....as I said, thats awesome that you've made up your mind from 1 interview.

Gamebred

themandan6611 wrote: »

he talks like a 19 year old, he has fuc k all stand up, a very good ground game he will at best be a top 20 ufc fighter. look at gunni - Maia murdered him, what the fu cj will j gallagher do ? straus would kill him

Ah come on the lad is a serious prospect,hes 19 and signed to Bellator it doesnt get any better than that,hes living a good life already doing a lot better than the majority of 19 year olds I know,if he talks crap and wants money and fame let him be its his own life hasnt done him too bad so far,


Gunni was outgrappled by the best grappler arguably in mma,zero shame in that.

Depp

Gamebred wrote: »

Ah come on the lad is a serious prospect,hes 19 and signed to Bellator it doesnt get any better than that,hes living a good life already doing a lot better than the majority of 19 year olds I know,if he talks crap and wants money and fame let him be its his own life hasnt done him too bad so far,


Gunni was outgrappled by the best grappler arguably in mma,zero shame in that.

Great decision to sign with bellator aswel where the standard isnt quite as high be good experience for him! Hes a wizard on the mat and his hands are nowhere near as bad as whatever idea these lads are after getting into their heads, he keeps up the way hes going no doubt hell make it very high up in the sport

Dtp1979

themandan6611 wrote: »

he's a fighter, I am not, so as a fighter one can say his stand up is **** e like many of the SBG gang.

You tell me outside McGregor and Tuke who has decent mma stand up ?

Eh ward.

dulux99

James had a pic on his instagram of a load of money, like thousands and thousands and he was slagging off some fighter who had been calling him out. Saw a few comments on it saying he took the pic from Google and now he's deleted it. If he did take a pic from Google then that is incredibly sad and he needs some guidance in his life.

ASOT

dulux99 wrote: »

James had a pic on his instagram of a load of money, like thousands and thousands and he was slagging off some fighter who had been calling him out. Saw a few comments on it saying he took the pic from Google and now he's deleted it. If he did take a pic from Google then that is incredibly sad and he needs some guidance in his life.

It was stacks and stacks of money that was clearly from Google, seen it myself on Facebook it was cringey as ****.

Devastator

dulux99 wrote: »

James had a pic on his instagram of a load of money, like thousands and thousands and he was slagging off some fighter who had been calling him out. Saw a few comments on it saying he took the pic from Google and now he's deleted it. If he did take a pic from Google then that is incredibly sad and he needs some guidance in his life.

so f**k? "some fighter" .... so again your judging the kid without doing 2 mins of research and looking into what he was reacting to? The "some fighter" your talking about is being talked about on this forum and his posts IMO scream jealousy.

Dtp1979

Devastator wrote: »

so f**k? "some fighter" .... so again your judging the kid without doing 2 mins of research and looking into what he was reacting to? The "some fighter" your talking about is being talked about on this forum and his posts IMO scream jealousy.

So who is this " some fighter " that was calling James out and is been talked about on this forum?
Hope that dosent sound smart cause it's a genuine question.

dulux99

Devastator wrote: »

so f**k? "some fighter" .... so again your judging the kid without doing 2 mins of research and looking into what he was reacting to? The "some fighter" your talking about is being talked about on this forum and his posts IMO scream jealousy.

James didn't name the fighter by name - I have no idea who he was talking about, nor do I care about who he was talking about. Hence why I had to name him as "some fighter". I merely noticed that James Googled a photo of stacks of money and posted it on instagram passing it off as his own money, and plenty of people commented under it and it made him look like a fool. I don't need to do any research on that.

I don't really care that the fighter in question has been calling James out - it happens all the time in fight sports, of course people will be jealous of a 2-0 pro who's been signed to a huge mma promotion. That doesn't excuse posting a fake picture of money and passing it off as your own.

Do i need to know the guy personally to be able to pass comment on someone who does something like that? If you post a picture like that to your however many thousand of followers, you are going to get judged for better or for worse.

Paully D

Gallagher looks a fantastic prospect and I'll cheer him on and hope he does well, but I can completely understand people saying he seems unlikeable.

Devastator

Great KO from WFCA in Russia last night. Alfaya had 1 fight in TUF for ATT Vs Blackzillians, he got beat.

KO comes 5 mins into video

Paully D

Devastator wrote: »

Great KO from WFCA in Russia last night. Alfaya had 1 fight in TUF for ATT Vs Blackzillians, he got beat.

KO comes 5 mins into video

That's Grilo? Jesus, I had completely forgotten about him since TUF! He lost a split to Fitch in WSOF a few years ago too. He must be a decent age now.