IUR Fighting Championship XIV - Decky Mcaleenan

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IUR Fighting Championship XIV - Decky Mcaleenan Solid chat with Decky Mcaleenan the match making guru and proprietor IÚR Fighting Championships. We talk about running smooth events, dealing with last-minute fight pullouts, and balancing life as a fighter and promoter. We also…

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[Music] [Applause] everyone uh I are fighting championships uh Dey M awesome show today thanks very much thank you yeah um as usual U It's A Clockwork that's my biggest um this thing I love about coming up here um is it just it starts on time and everything is just smooth smooth the whole way no was freaking out there's no chaos behind the scenes um and like he even left early today um thinking okay maybe uh sorry I I left to early to try to get here on time thinking um showing up right on time is okay to set up not really because um by the time I got done like I think the second fight was already starting so like kudos to you cuz like I said this is a very tight ship um and really thanks for that and then I think on perhaps uh the fighters and everything thanks for that thanks very much no it's it's a great team around me that uh makes sure everything runs the Clockwork and it's just getting them all organized getting everyone here and then after that the team gets gets everything going and can once once it starts it just keeps TR to get just one thing rolls into another and it just goes a clock for me so I'm lucky on up that's what of have absolutely um tell me about the night tonight what was your what was your did you have a any upsets for yourself uh no not so much no no upsets the team teams uh sorry the team done very well so did I think we got three out of four okay the biggest upset was sh cleland's opponent yesterday yeah I saw that he he missed we I think by just under 2 kilo but he had we and he weigh himself at maybe 1:00 in the morning and then the next the next morning the round the time of whenever I told sh uh it was a case of I text and said look what's the story about the fight and he sent me back he was weing by the time we had come around he was weighing like 68.9 or 68 point something he's meant to be fighting at 60 Miss we and then a big discrepancy as well but he still wasn't fit he still said that he was he was like having to go to the doctors to get checked just just to be sure so that stage then you can't uh the fight was off pretty much told me without telling me that J he's not in a good place he's not he's not ready to fight and your health comes first at the amateur level so it's just now trying to push to get sh match for for any other show whether it be conflict they've opted they're going to put the Bel on the line uh then who else is on the ukfc is on the same day as cage conflict but obviously we would rather stay at home because we have ones on yeah on the show so uh hopefully someone out there with fight Tred uh someone in Germany someone in France someone uh someone in Portugal Spain is there like a WhatsApp group with all the promoters around the continent there's there's a WhatsApp group around Ireland now is with with a few of us that try work together a bit like I think the communication still could could be a way bit better but at least now we're trying and starting to work together so we can only go up from here and that we're starting to make the effort you know so it it will go in the right direction and helps everyone helps helps us running shows means if the shows can run well then that means the the fighters get fights more opportunity if they don't get this weekend they might be one like for toxic what happen sh cage conflict being on two weeks later that's going to give them time now to try and push to get him someon for show like John and and in in the future I'll do the same in return if they get a pull out two or three weeks before me I I'll try and get them on my show then you know uh like when you get you know those messages kind of saying like look more or less saying look I'm I'm not going to be able to fight in the fight it's tomorrow like like what's going through your head for sh it was sicking like it does for everyone it's sicking obviously I'm a fighter myself and I have what I've had a fight counsel me the day before Lions I've had I went over during Co to fight over in cage Warriors in the trilogy series okay and had just cleared the covid test and then they out my room to be called to the office to say the other Fell's team had failed the covid test the fight was off so I know firsthand how sign it is to get right to the finish line and make weight and be told like there's no fight here for you so I know the feeling and it's just it's sickening you have to it's a business that I'm running the promotion is J is a business has to do well which you have to take into consideration like you're a fighter as well and you only want to do what's right for the other one's fighting you know absolutely so it's second just for like as a fighter how do you kind of cope with that especially like if you're a pro I I don't know it's it's I don't know how to deal with it because it's something that I would never do myself it's something that I've never done myself and it's kind of like if you sign up the fight you sign up the fight J and that said whatever day you say you're free you do what you told J don't get me wrong you must we had a couple man here and there H and some things happens but Jo like other things is just down to bation yeah absolutely they taking sh notice if you miss we that it happens you know like but um feels a bit more reasonable yeah but take four or five four or five weeks no it's just how you have your full fight camp and the fall so that's just something that's not prepared yeah excellent um look uh I know you got to get back out there um just just uh give give us a quick one like what do you have scheduled for the rest of the year for the rest of the year I unfortunately broke my cheekbone there at the start of the year so had surgery I was planned to fighting cage Warriors in Dublin so I'm going to get pushed back night fight in June or July on cage Warriors so I'm going to get the 25th of May is the next free weekend in the canal course so that's when cool your 15 will be on awesome and after that I would get that out of the way and get me ready then a couple weeks out from a fight and then maybe just depending on what's on with the rest of the shows towards the end of the year I they get one or two more then just to finish the finish the year off then because we usually run three to four shows okay um and then just just to be weird and asking an odd question um like I I recently kind of got back into shoes right or sneakers or Runners um like do you have a favorite pair of shoes or like a favorite style of shoes night T yeah I like them so I be begging my owners massage so I like like next year so we get a sponsorship a it even like a a lifestyle lifestyle is that the or J yeah yeah um anyway awesome uh look man I I appreciate it thank you very much for your time thank you for letting me come out here and you know do this um I I really enjoy it um yeah but until next time yes sir [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] n [Applause]