James Gallagher | Bellator Dublin Countdown | Energized Show

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[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] energize show up the irish okay what's going on guys and welcome to a brand new episode of energized ross introduce the guest this man has headlined the three arena more times than bono he is the strobe animals he is james gallagher the jimmy's show on the energy show yeah that was funny more times than bono that was actually a gold one that was a good one well look it it's not far from the truth anyway james how are you getting on hell's live in kansas city it's great man so it is just back to the groin today as james always says you take the the weekend they laugh or cry you take it and you get her and everything's all good maybe you're winning maybe you're on top or maybe you're not maybe you're on bottom and you're crying but no matter what when monday morning comes you don't be left there you know what i mean so i'm just getting up on a monday morning back to the grind and here we go james it's actually incredible to see how you've taken to life over in kansas city and i know things back home here weren't the best and you decided to take the move i think it was in december to go out there and uh go head for pasture is new and uh i don't think ireland seen you since um what is the biggest difference in training and in gloria may versus trading in the spg the monster yeah it's just also jeremy and john and james are two very different kind of coaches so they are they're very they're very different into two of the best in the whole game in my opinion i don't really see that there's uh i don't think there's many other guys out there with a technical kind of technical kind of mindset and kind of like numbers you know what i mean so they're kind of like the guys that you focus on stuff that worked 90 percent of the time 90 do you know what i mean and you focus on the stuff that works 10 of the time with 10 percent of your time do you know what i mean so it's kind of like a it's kind of like that and i noticed like here is kind of jim's beginning to drill in do you know what it means to every day you're going in you're doing at least today i'm going to do two hours of drilling so this and that's not even include my rounds do you know what i mean that's just repetitions going over it going over and making sure to beat into your heads you know what i mean and then uh yeah that's really the difference i mean it's just nice to get a change up and best to have best of both worlds i'm gonna try to be on strike and on grappling james mma so it is you don't you don't you don't drill for me over here you fight mma and that that's this kind of thing it's why why do you two when you're doing mma do you know what i mean it's maybe there is duty in mma but you know i mean why do you kickboxing when you're planning on fighting mma it's very like mma pacific if you want to learn how to fight then you should fight do you know what i mean if you want to fight a kickboxing much then train kickboxing but if you want to train mma there's no point leaving aspects out you know what i'm saying yeah james james i saw i saw your interview uh with mma junkie um just on the fight with kiefer and brian and like the one thing i noticed straight away was how much you've actually matured in the last what like since moving abroad i know you've been ross mentioned you've been quiet greasy but seeing you in that interview you almost look like you've like like grown into a man your dog would say like put it this way you're 24. well some people want to say something no but like you're basically like you've been in the game about 10 years now and you're still only 24 which is crazy to believe but like you look like you've grown a lot like what what like you yourself like what do you feel you've grown the most in the last six months just everything you know but as you say i've had this e 24 or not uh 11 years ago i had my first fight my first amateur fight over 11 years ago actually is it it's going on august yeah in september i think it is i'm not sure if the exactly is but i was 13 years old so it was when i had my first fight so it's coming up to 11 years now so my i've been around the block do you know what i mean i've seen it all been on the highs being on the lows i've seen it all and and right now is i i don't got really i i don't really got nothing to lose and i it's i'm kind of the position where it's like i'm living my dreams so i don't really got much i don't want to be a world champion i said stream of mine but i'm just doing what i love every day and every day is just to get better now do you know what i mean it's the grow i've had running the cards i made some nice money i've i haven't won a world title yet you know what i mean so that that's really just the goals to improve myself to grow as a person to grow my skill set and just do what i love every day you know what i mean i'm so grateful to be able to be in a position where i can just train every day and i don't have to do anything else you know what i'm saying and it's kind of doing all that there just to become a world champion and be the number one in the game someday yeah james just to continue on and follow on tonight you're actually such a unique character in the game because you're 24 you've i'm gonna say you've headlined four shows because uh that one against auntie taylor i'm going to give you the headline there because i think forcing the fans left out king mo king was walking out yeah but like you've headlined four shows in your hometown you're only 24. you're like a veteran of the game already and then within your division you know i mean like you're the biggest fight in the division hey like i know some people might say you have a big ego but how do you keep that ego in check it's just a it's kind of like yeah people can say that all they want and it's kind of like when i walk out in the in the in the three arena i've got me robots full of diamonds and there's gold and i got my tri-color and my music's on i am the man that is unreal when that happens by the way like we've been there so many times and like the whole arena is unbelievable at that moment i'm the man there's no one better than me in this planet when i walk out there jeremy of course i've got an eagle bigger than me the bigger than the tree arena because i've got ten and a half thousand people standing up on their feet shout me on you know what i mean of course i'm gonna walk out there and thinking i'm the dog's bollocks because the simple fact i am i'm the one doing it i am the dog's bollocks you know what i mean so but then it's kind of like it as you do you take your weekend they laugh or cry usually i'm laughing you say i'm just the amazing you know what i mean as soon as monday comes you're back to it you know i mean i'm doing i'm doing this too for growth i'm not doing this for one singular moment i'm doing this to become the the best version of me and for people to look back and leave like a legacy behind and you got to get back on that monday morning if your ego gets the better of you on monday you're going to fall behind when you are the man in the arena do you know what i mean so it's up to you to catch your ego before it gets too big but you see when i walk out naturally arena there's no stopping my ego it's going i'm going to walk straight up in my opponent's face how am i going to [ __ ] him up and it's my night because it is my time to shine i mean no one's going to take that away from me but come monday morning it'll be whipped straight off me and you'll get a big his humble pie soon as you walk straight back into the gym and working on the next thing james james there's a few things i like seeing when when like you're fighting as well another thing at the end obviously it's the best part when you get up on the cage but the way you bring your family in as well that's something that like a lot of people will never be able to do like whether it be in any sport whatever sport it is but be having the whole arena chanting for you getting your parents involved as well yeah he's like connor because yeah yeah yeah yeah don't touch me as well or even even where your dad i think your dad got a degree as well and you brought you you prayed with him as well just how proud i'm only here because of my parents you know what i mean i wouldn't be anywhere if it wasn't for them they guided me kept me away from everything me dad never allowed me to become a big man when i was younger wouldn't allow me to get and if ever got in trouble he admit corrected it do you know what i mean if i was fighting on the street he would have brought me down to the people's if i'm in the right or wrong if i was just having a fight in the street maybe i was defending myself it didn't matter he brought me straight down to the person's door shake hands which i mean i'm known about young fellas at school he's [ __ ] 12 or 13 i mean sticking my chest out and having a few scraps or whatever and he'd have brought you down into the dragon neck shake his hand knowing that's it boom no more you know i mean don't care if you see him with your friends whatever that's it done yeah i mean so then you just learn to you know i mean that's how you handle situations you handle them all head-ons you know what i mean i've been in it and it's carried through and the support that they have given me throughout the way and just now i'm sitting here you know i mean sometimes you're a little selfish i'm like oh i'm all the way over here and spend moments with them and they've done x y and z but they're the ones who ring me every day and tell me that they're just so happy to see me in a good place see me working hard chasing my dreams and hopefully someday i might be able to give them something because they don't they won't ever take anything from me they don't want them for me don't expect anything from me and just want me to do good and as long as i get them my dad's always in the corner when i fight in dublin and me mum's always sitting cage site and as long as i keep doing that and keep making them happy then this the streams keep going yeah you better believe it hey man how many doors would say you and your dad knocked on give him some real fast because it's my fault never because the poor fellow the poor fellow james like another thing is like obviously you've been fighting for so long you're almost a veteran now like but like first when you were announced to headline the tree arena like what sort of pressure comes with that like obviously you have to make the way you have to like also promote the event like there's a lot of pressure especially being so young what was that like and then like obviously you've gotten used to it over headline a few times but like does that pressure ever change or you just get used to it nah that was a bit mad because it was coming off a loss you know what i mean and it was funny because i remember when i came off the last and i was kind of like trying to get over the next day at a car so meet my mum i just went for a coffee you know i mean i was about dying and whatever so i get up try to get up with good spirits whatever go for a coffee with my mom and i'm like fine then one of the belter guys ring me is like oh yo you have to come by the hotel you have to grab the xbox zed or whatever so just come up when you see we're like oh what's going on he was like well you do know your fight's got 29 million views in over one night and i'm like what the [ __ ] get out of me so i'm just sitting there going well that's a record you know to me i got 29 million views in one night in like [ __ ] worlds are one of these sites that it was released on and it was just like hard to like i mean it was a hard hard pill to swallow or whatever and then it was kind of i went off i got straight back into the gym and then i was like nah i need to take some time so it is so i went straight back i was training for a few weeks like hard i was still in shape and then i just took some time off so there for like three weeks and went away with my friends or having a few drinks and eating loads of food and just took three four weeks off do you know what i mean got out of [ __ ] again do you know what i mean like a little bit and jeremy just let myself go a little bit and that's exactly what i needed you know and i just came back in and re-gripped and they're like do you wanna make an event that's really arena i was like what after do you know what i mean after a loss kind of thing like well opportunities there the genie shows the jimmy show one way or the other yeah yeah exactly and that's the kind of thing it was and that's my was my approach was like well time to show these [ __ ] when i'm a boy you know what i mean so you can uh you can pit me down but you can't keep me there you know i mean he can bruise my spirit but my spirit will never be broken i suppose that's one thing that people can't deny about james that win or lose you know you show up and you know you take you take it either way on the chain what's called no bother you i mean when you took that loss you took with social maturity and then you bounced back from it it was good on the chin i remember watching it as well i was just like oh my god because at the end of the day at the end yeah but at the end of the day we're here promoting rsma and like no matter what we want everyone to win and then like when you see something that you just knew that the backlash was going to be so big because of how much you promote yourself out there you know i mean but at the end of the day if you don't promote your fights then people aren't interested i mean it's a really really fine line that everyone has to sort of follow you have to sell the fights in order to get the big books yeah and the the best thing about it that that was [ __ ] that was what it's like four years ago yeah i was only 20. it's mad like dude it was like 20 or something at the time to be 20 years old he had that like and then there was people who haven't looked up to so i mean like idols of mine in the sport and i mean other other fighters who were like high up and they used to they were running me down like laughing at me and all i remember just went back to straban and i was staying at a state meet and they just ended me ma's house jeremy because after the fight you know i mean i didn't want to go dublin or whatever it was [ __ ] it i'll just go back into my house so i'm turning me massage after a little trip down to new york or whatever for the vmas and things were good and i remember then i got a pomona was on my phone it's been on twitter it was like such and such a fighter said this such and such said this and i was like oh bollocks you know i mean all these [ __ ] people i look up to and whatever now it's gonna go that's the mindset that you don't have do you know what i mean i'm not i'm not one of those guys i don't i don't laugh with people's defeats i look at other people's victories because not after not once after that fight did you ever hear anyone going what do you see ricky bandez what a scrap remember he went out there and starched your man no one said that at all everyone just laughed ah [ __ ] him you know i mean he got what he deserved not once did they ever say anything good about him and that just shows people's mindsets are always looking for the negative always looking for that instead i just was like yeah you're just negative i don't i don't care to hear about that under the positive what's next what's positive well back watch the fight not watching my mistakes really but watching what he did good but how did how did he beat me how did he put me into that position what he did was like wow that was some kick do i mean that was some right hook that you set that up with after the leg kicks that leg kick was coming dipped in fire direct right hook over the top i was like oh that was excellent i mean all so many good details to be taken from that not one of these dumb ass [ __ ] even took any of them and jeremy and they make you a fighter stop laughing at me think look at what he's doing good yeah because even after your voice you actually always go over and you bow as well and that's the end of it yeah i mean so of course bandai is also like i think got caught there recently which i thought was almost a bit harsh because he he took a split decision last to one arch letter he was number two ranked divisions moment and like it was razer king as well like ricky mandela is no joke one way the other very few people make a feel to him well um just to touch on your fighting style james i find your foot inside is so unique because you know or your opponent knows every time they're you're looking to strangle them that rare naked joke it's inevitable and i find it very interesting that like they they're trying their entire camp not to get rear naked choked yeah they get rear naked choke and so it's crazy i was speaking the uh another great lad that i thought cal eleanor really is you guys there is a lot of respect for him he's uh he's a killer and it was funny because every day for like was it like three months or something every day 10 till 11 a.m for one hour he had people on his but on his back so he did every day as we said after and now speaking to my but mom when i take your back it's just not as exactly as all it's just not what it looks like i mean i just bring a different kind of pressure and i've got a different kind of look for taking the back that very very few people have and there's very few people that do it very good in mma do you know what i mean and i just feel like i've got to figure it out you know i mean once i get it you're just not getting out of it or else if you do you're dead in the next round you know i mean you might survive it but you're just not getting out of it especially with the arena going bleeding nuts yeah that's quality sometimes you have to eat it i mean you're on someone's back or whatever you just relax injury i mean and then you're like cool listening to the crowd just getting your breath back and go man i'm gonna pop your head off in a minute yeah i mean when you grab it everyone got nuts you're like ah almost got it almost it's great then another thing i always find that your opponents after they photos go oh he's way better than i thought he was going to be yeah they always say but you know why that is you know what i mean and this is people have a heart the people don't want me to be good i'm never going to be accepted in a night you know i mean all this cocky guy comes on and talk all this [ __ ] and all or whatever and people just know they just don't want to accept me do you want me to be one of these guys that's going to just come talk like [ __ ] and fall off and jump out of me so when they're looking at me they don't want to admit and this is the thing there's so many good good fighters out here and that's so every time i'm fighting with a cob like yeah i know exactly where he's good at like i know exactly but you'll never hear them say i'm good anywhere he's dirt on there i'm going ham goes to the floor if it goes anywhere they never admit to themselves like actually he is very good there but i'm going to beat him on x y and zed and i'm going to stop him on his tracks or i'm going to figure this out and do it like that way they will all just write me off he's dirt he's known he's not but a lied might he's nothing but that and i'm going happy [ __ ] days me because you're just overlooking everything that's coming your way you know i mean when i walk up in front in the cage and i go it's just me and you know let's go and touch his glove and walk back into my corner that's when they realize oh bollocks i've just overlooked all this and now i've got a fight with someone who's stone cold you know i mean because that's my whole they'll just look at me and they'll realize that very quick until i grab ahold of you and then they're going oh [ __ ] this is the whole different ball game now all together i wasn't expecting this kind of pressure yeah you're like super glue on that back james yeah my strength my strength is just something else it just doesn't look it doesn't look the way the way it feels you know and that's your body almost say every time we see you [ __ ] me and barry always turns he's gonna go oh he's actually filling out that bit more that bit more yeah or maybe it's podge maybe it's polished in them photographs maybe i'm not too sure i'm working very very hard over here obviously i'm doing all the salt james but i've got a great strength conditioning coach back home who we were mark work remotely with ryan mccluskey from focus and in a skill so it is so me and him and uh i've got my nutritionist higher minton as well so i'm very very clued in and all that and i'm only the biggest in the in the weight class you know i'm very very big so that's why i'm still here because i'm in a good position now and stuff but definitely in the future i can't see myself moving up yeah james you obviously have you're here because like bellator dublin we're like promoting it november 5th you're going to be taking on patchy mix like obviously nothing has been absolutely the location has been funny so it's signed sealed and delivered because we're still like in lockdown here but like november 5th that's exactly what you're looking towards yeah 100 so it is the jimmy show me welcome it back you know what i mean hopefully i think it's going to go ahead i've been told by like a few doctors and a few people high up and met it and like medics back home and i spoke to a few other people you know involved in the entertainment industry and stuff and i think it's going to go ahead i mean yeah maybe there's a few restrictions or whatever but it's going to happen yeah well this show is called james gallagher better throw dublin countdown james actually i'm going to call out a few names in the bell tower both white division and then you tell me what you think of them in one line or less leandro higo phil uh raphael stotz great fighter magamed magomedov he's a beast great name as well apache mix he's another clumpet one archuleta uh one's a man so it doesn't like one so this is a beast as uh yeah and sergio pettis it's okay they're they're the only fighters ranked right above you um and i suppose when it comes to bellator 270 in the tree arena on the 5th of november is this a guaranteed number one contender fight 100 now well being pitted like this i'm the biggest fight in bellator do i mean for all of those guys for sergio to fight me is bigger for him fighting for his belt you know i mean that's that's that's [ __ ] the numbers across the board there's one thing i lie used lies women lie everyone lies numbers don't numbers don't and that that's that's one thing yeah i mean so i i'm just a bigger fight for him and he knows that uh it's a dangerous fight for him so this will he he's not going to want that fight at all he's he's going he's gonna try and avoid that keep up well for a long time going to ryan trying to fight out and i don't think he's gonna come looking for it but at the stage i'm at now and i'm going to be patchy and the the fashion that i do it in i don't you know what i mean it's they can come to me then i'm gonna go in i'm gonna go in there smoke him in a fashion that is devastating and then i'm just gonna sit back and go yeah see what happens on you jeremy james when you're dealing with like the dismantle people and dismantle the interest into your fights like who exactly do you go to to be like sort of lay out a pot like would you go to john would you go to james would you go to your agency would you go to bellator like what like who do you who do you really go to usually myself so i usually do mostly all this stuff like kind of myself and my plans and stuff but obviously i speak to john and james and jeremy and james is like my head coach over here and then obviously i'm working very closely with john and stuff so i've just i'm surrounded by so many good people you know what i mean but i kind of do most of this stuff myself even like you know i promote myself from what i'm doing and interviews and i i don't get any help with any of this kind of stuff i don't got any publicist or anything there's bollocks you know what i mean i just do do it all myself and just do what i feel right dude not at that time so i mean sometimes i might even do any interviews some fight weeks to go up and just don't do them i don't feel like doing them but when i feel like doing them i just do it dude i mean just do what feels right for you and that's what i i do in my whole life you know what i mean is just do what feels right for me and if i want to do it then i'll do it if i feel like senate then i'll say it if i don't i won't yeah i mean there's no one no amount of peer pressure could force me into doing it doing something i don't want to do or saying something i don't want to say well we appreciate you coming on after you're saying that as well no no problem i'm glad to be on uh one thing i want to ask you is i'm going to play matchmaker now james bryan moore fights in uh dublin november 5th who are you putting them in there against juan archuleta that would be a scrap and a half yeah i'd be worried for brian's hands because one actually let his heart as hard as hell and he might break the bottom yeah well i'll tell you this i would much rather be brian getting a broken hand than getting one of brian's broken hands across me face i will i'm sure brian's hands wouldn't be as sore as the guy's face oh stop as a big john calls him the irish canelo yeah uh man brian's boxing something else you just seen last week it was manny's such an he's like a little underdog or something i don't know what it is about him but people just don't seem to get and then you just watch his fight you're going mid i mean he's just landed about [ __ ] 500 punches in that round it hasn't been touched once and has countered every shot that was fired at him i think he's most underrated of all the irishman fighters 100 and regardless promotion that's a that's a good thing it's always good to be someone like that because he's a grafter and he he pushes forward always so he will shine yeah james james can we also ask you just about keith for the other day like it looked like he was let go with bellator he left battle tour can you sort of like fill us in or what can you say about that because everyone knows if you're coming back to bellator dublin keith is not fighting it's just for like everyone's gonna be like where's kiefer you know yeah it just doesn't it doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever but um it's the fight business you know what i mean it's a it's a ruthless game to see someone though i mean her as a good friend yeah and as a teammate and a family so it's [ __ ] it's heartbreaking i mean it's a big big change in direction for his career and stuff like that but yeah it's a tough one obviously they it's coming off as like two two losses well like one was a a doctor stoppage having yeah votes or something i know and just to see that that kind of going on that way it's like just all right give him the dublin give him another big test and you know what i mean that's what us in my head's like all right lovely well what they'll do now is they'll give them someone who's really really good someone on the come up do you know what i mean all right noise you're making brick you know i didn't feel like they give them that chance you know what i mean and it's the fight business man it's ruthless and i'm absolutely good for him but it's just you know i mean he'll keep his head up and he'll show the type of character that he is and he'll get back on the horse and he'll shine through and he'll get his opportunity wherever wherever he wants to take it jeremy is not the balls in his court i mean so he'll go and create the opportunities that he wants for himself and i've no doubt in my mind that he'll go and do that yeah shadow keeper and brian as well the big big fans and friends shows up james who else can we look forward to seeing on this battle tour dublin card like i know obviously is still an old bellator let go of a few orders for it but i know yourself be on it uh brian uh liam mccord peter schneider i don't know about brian being on that card you know i don't i don't know if brian's going to be on it and liam accords in london okay so she is she's she announced that she's fighting london on october 1st i was more talking about irish roster they still sort of have uh the irish roster yeah charlie charlie it is i think he's still there i'm not i'm not really too sure i've kind of like took myself out of the loop so i have i've just been watching my own division and uh i'm hitting my focus on me can i just say this one thing because i know someone from bellator will be watching will they please put an irish photo on every card and then the whole country be watching every time please do that well they have the virgin media deal now yeah yeah yeah i heard they put that on the other we didn't forget that yeah yeah they extended it yes that's [ __ ] i mean that's great that the the irish media is getting behind everyone and that's what we need yeah i mean that's what we deserve yeah i mean we deserve that kind of support we deserve that we put the since i've been a kid and that i can speak for myself can't really speak for anyone else but i'm sure that everyone's had the similar kind of past you know what i'm saying and that i've been just grinding for years with no nothing do you know what i mean and the same for most people some people have been lucky that was you know what i mean but there's people grinding right up into their [ __ ] late twenties early thirties trying to look like pete do you mean pete's been doing this day and they not been getting a [ __ ] bean fur you know what i'm saying and it's just annoying recently in the last what three to four years that he's been able to get these big shots and to get that you know what i mean and people just don't see see that you know what i mean they only see you know but we should be having this years ago i mean and to be so many more stars because the end of the day when it kind of just falls off you know i mean especially teenagers they're grinding they're getting going and they're just getting nothing back i mean and now we coveted shows are hard it's hard to get fights as an amateur it's hard to get fights as we get on pro and that kind of thing so it's absolutely amazing that these kind of tv channels that get behind us and we get this kind of support knowing it's starting to get recognized you know what i mean we're getting recognized for the athletes that we are and well deserved as well like like mma is one of the hardest sports in the world like to actually get dedicate that much time to all these disciplines and then roll them together into one out and then putting your body on the line like that it's absolutely incredible well that's why we love covering yeah absolutely and you never know what you're gonna get every single time you watch either ufc or a bellator card you're probably gonna see something you've never seen before which is oh yeah there's no there's no two fights to see that's for sure absolutely james just james just touching on irish amazing obviously um conor sponsored the the juniors that went over to bulgaria last week and then max lally came up with gold medal uh shadow man then he's a beast yeah he's a young killer coming up like what do you think you could have done definitely weird career having those sort of that that sort of um opportunities excuse me yeah well like how definitely do you think your career could have went with those opportunities well you see for me it was a lot a lot different because i ruined it for them guys essentially so it is so the reason why they get to go and compete against teenagers is because when i was 13 years old i was fighting for i was fighting grown-ass men in a bar in a cage with pro gloves do you know what it means to then after a while when i got up to about 15 john was like meh this is this is not happening no more that means all you're like it's going to get because i can't get lost or whatever i mean i just got beat like whatever and it was like this just this just can't be happening do you know what i mean is you're a 15 year old kid going against bro man he's like now you're [ __ ] i was like eating one or something crazy you know what i mean i was fighting every week i fought up as high as light with easy weight like 65 kilo fought seven kilo no problem against people who are cutting weight you know what i mean i just didn't care i just wanted to fight and so it's good that these guys are getting them opportunities not in a good safe environment but i wouldn't change a thing for a while i've done it you know i mean i [ __ ] i i've seen that thought in every kind of level of what before it was cool i did it when it was cool and now it's just a regular kind of thing you know what i mean every everyone's doing it and i've been through all the stages and i feel like now it's going to be uh it's going to be soon i'm going to be at the i'm going to be like number one in the whole game at least you don't have to explain what you do anymore just wear the it was just what i do do you know what i mean so we used to get into it at school but i just [ __ ] that and left him i know i don't know how long into this interview we are in airport i can't believe barry hasn't asked you what's the biebs like bieber yeah i was just when i had a meeting in beverly hills with my management management and then a partner and then uh connor and justin were there having breakfast they just got hung up by the pillar for half an hour so so you know i was just talking whatever it was all good yeah so i saw you put an instagram post up after saying like these two are like like don't quote me worthwhile but you're sure like that they over cheat uh overcame like obstacles in their lives and they're the high achievers like like what would you say if there is any similarities between conor and justin what would you say it is apart from being world superstars uh it's just kind of like the mindset of being out there so much that you can't do anything right anymore you like you know i mean the conor can't do anything right and then justin was the same for a while john mean i think it was about four years ago jimmy remember anything people are just people like pestering him to do something wrong when he would eventually do it because you pestered him to do it for 20 minutes and he's telling you to go and [ __ ] yourself then it's viral it's like me he should have lifted his hand and cluttered you never mind just holding the [ __ ] off you know what i mean so stop asking for it when you get it act shocked and oh this is so wrong you should be conducting yourself this kind of way do you know what i mean it's different kind of connor connor's a bit more of a [ __ ] attitude towards it all well yeah that reminds me of conor you remember you got your man's phone smashed on the ground do you know what i mean you just can't do that you can't do that to people and obviously then it's kind of like you get into a way and it's like all right so you can say whatever you want about me but i can't do it i want about you do i mean you you can't lift your hand and touch me because you know what [ __ ] you yeah you've just said you've the same issue obviously on a smaller scale of people like probably coming over asking for photos yadda yadda yeah i mean but you just i just keep me my shut me and grin just bite me hung on grin and just give them a look with me i'd make eye contact and just let them know that i would kill you in a minute if you if you tried it and then usually i never really get i don't fight i haven't fought in trying to conduct myself in the best way possible but there's other people like me yeah i mean i've got plenty of friends right there so you talk [ __ ] about me you just better watch your back and kiss he jumps up behind you but nothing or me yeah i mean but that's that's that's how it is you know what i'm saying and but usually it's kind of yeah you get the odd feel but usually their friends will stop them yeah are we going to get the exclusive now is justin bieber going to be walking yeah on the 5th of november in dublin i've been marching warming straight in there walk up the apache and look at him dead now and tell me he's [ __ ] getting it i'm walk straight back to my corner and get ready to go so it is that's my mindset every time i'm not there's no it's a big song and there's a big dance and it's everything until i walk into the cage you know what i mean so i like that i like to march and they were by myself yeah it's a jimmy show he's not sharing it yeah no offense beeps no offense peeps you know what they say there's no show like a jimmy show exactly exactly yeah um there's obviously a few things happened over the weekend uh kelly harrington became won the gold medal for our which is absolutely unbelievable carry on like i mean like the whole town unbelievable stuff did you manage to check that out as well and like like what did you make of that i haven't they haven't seen an actual fight but i just looked online this morning and i've seen everything i've been kind of staying offline all weekend and stuff haven't been on my phone which and uh i've just seen it this morning that's absolutely amazing to get a [ __ ] irish olympic olympic champion again and bring that gold home you know i mean she heard she's a good friend the key first date they've trained together and they live around the world i don't know her personally and myself so i don't but um it's absolutely inspiring to see someone like that and she she's tried for olympics a few times right is that correct and i think i think i think she tried last time out and she's making it she's 31 and but uh she i think she did well in the world i think she got silver at the world's last time out as well you know what i mean just to see that crying to see that hard work shine and man it's nothing nothing short of inspiring and hopefully i can do something similar for the country someday the same way she did it yeah hopefully i'd love to go pro and like maybe get a get a few big money fights in there uh i like katie taylor stuff and then you know make some make some serious bread for all those punches of the hedges after taking yeah you know what i mean as they say life is like a sandwich mitt no matter what way you flip it the bread comes first i've never heard that one before oh my rob i know another thing james what do you when are you when you're made to our tomorrow he retired last week as well like what a career he's had like artem's the man when's his movie coming out yeah man that's gonna be some movie so it isn't do you know the thing i remember when we were in vegas years ago i think there's only about 17 at the time remember one of the mornings i was just working out and having stretches getting into the hot tub it was everyone was in bed so it was just me and artem and man i started like speaking that was just talking all different things do you know artem's like like a borderline genius so he is like he can speak like four different languages got like so many different degrees like he's like a like he's something else you know i mean like not only can he go out there and have a fight like someone like i don't know what but he's actually like so smart it's crazy and to go and have a career like that and do the way he's doing it man our time is only short of a legend what would you say what would you say your favorite moment of arthur was yeah uh how'd you be the ultimate fighter are you saying with the shake the chin or something is it no just this whole though just watching him mean that that series of fights the way he [ __ ] uh oh yeah i know the clip you're on yeah you'll get double the tapes or something shaking the chin you have to know you know what i'm talking about now yeah you're her favorite yeah yeah yeah that was that was funny that was funny i think he got gold starters after that like yeah he definitely did definitely he's nothing not deserves nothing you know what i mean but you go to be put out in the first and then they come back and not be touchers pink cleaning people keeping it flowing i'm telling you one thing his opponents weren't too flippy after you clipped them or right hand on the chin and there's another man who's uh whose record doesn't reflect the skill level as well because if you think about it i think before he retired he was thinking to go down to 135 and like he i think his last fight was 135. yeah exactly so like i think he probably fought because as middleweight he has some like random names well they're like welter welterweight was his highest so yeah he embarrassed he'd show up any time he'd fight any man no bother to him he was an animal everyone says that you know what i mean it's a fighter saying i'll show up anywhere anytime there is absolutely no one in this planet that will show up anywhere in any time but artem loboff so it is just just also this week if you want to give it a [ __ ] oh we're going to want to give a shout out to cage conflicts it's on this thursday and also bellator 264 is on this week as well so yeah that's up in uh in belfast yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah one defender was all weekend as well mikey conan winning mcgregor yeah there was a few good fights that night sean uh sean mccomb as well yeah so he was fighting as well yeah it's good to see all them boys killed man it's [ __ ] nothing short of inspiring you know what i mean in a packed arena james yeah yeah so it is it belter belter need to go that route yeah imagine they come to strabane do an open open air show in stravan or surrounding areas so i mean i would sell like that no problem it put on a show bring a world title back to county challenge you know i mean that that would be an absolute dream that's some belter bellator need to start looking at and yeah i mean i would love to really march out the war card in my flag out and pick up a world title me one area jeremy it's always nice in dublin in the street arena it's that that i the iconic three arenas you know what i mean but yeah i'd love to i'd love to venture off and get something going myself you know i mean give me my own show someday pick me up put me on the line join me see what i can do i mean put more pressure on me give me a title shot give me that one show open air stadium i mean brain [ __ ] those people put the roof over the cage the same way they do it in the boxing so you know what i mean it works great and i feel like they could do something like that and i would love to be the man in charge of doing it you know what james if they if if they did that it'd be one of those things where in 50 years time everyone would say they were there regardless like ufc dublin james i'll just ask you this question as well before we wrap things up because we're here for ages and next time we should definitely do it together in the build of the bellator dublin but obviously during the olympics there like there was um a lot of talk brought up about mental health and stuff and like simone is this money oils and yeah if it didn't butcher your name and then and then um naomi osaka as well pulled over the tennis i know you brought up briefly talking about mental health and um how it's how it affected you or how minimal or maximum it affected you but is there anything about how like mental health and how you've probably grown from it in the in the last while yeah it's it's a tough one you know i mean it's just something that you go through growing up yeah i mean as well and it hits you when you i mean it's not real i don't really have mental health or anything like that i wouldn't say is i mean i got dying before and i had a few things going on but it's just it was just one of them things and it's a very like hard subject the like speak about because everyone's different you know what i mean people deal with things in different ways or whatever but the one thing that the one thing that i will say is like that anyone you're you can't be like embarrassed about this kind of thing it's not a sign of weakness and you're not less i know for some men it's like a lot less of a man if it'd be like that it's like nah mate you're not at all you see that gob shot at the weekends he goes out to his the bar and spend all his miles money and he's trying to act like he's the gangster this and blowing all his mass money and come back and he's a they're they're [ __ ] you know what i mean who's trying to act the big man who's trying to make you feel dying about yourself they're the pieces of you be true to yourself and speak how you feel and just be you you know what i mean so then there's nothing there's nothing wrong with that and people only respect you for doing that so i've definitely advised these people to talk about it come out about it and be you do i mean be the true you don't don't try and hide things don't try and pull things back and it's kind of real the real diagonal if i can go to bed tonight and sleep well tonight i mean a guy opening my eyes going on well actually i mean somebody comes through my door do you know what i mean they have a big set of balls that they try to book but if i can go to bed at night i'm not thinking that then it's a good day you know what i mean and just don't take one day as it comes live every day like it's your last and do what you love you know i mean i i feel criticism every day people don't accept me for who i am they're always trying to compare me they always say you're not being yourself and i'm like well man i've been like this i've been in the public eye now for the last what probably eight years i was the same back then as i am now i use i mean i speak the same then as i speak my name so it's kind of like you're people are always going to find stuff not to like and as long as you like yourself as long as you're happy with jordan who gives one [ __ ] you know to me who gives a bollocks there you have it some wise words from the main man some people love them some people want to be them well you better make sure you're watching them it's the tv show [Laughter] yes james hopefully hopefully you enjoyed this as much as we did and the people tuning in as well uh next time we're gonna have to do this face to face when things open up and yeah yeah i mean like november november yeah november fifth year you'll take my job yeah november 5th james gallagher versus apache makes better dublin james durant you want to say to is there anyone you want to give a shout out to or is anyone you want to say anything to before we wrap things up yeah myself for believing in myself and working hard every day and getting to our want to be don't forget don't forget mama g and papa g yeah yeah no i just want to say a big thanks to my parents as always for uh support me i would never be here if it wasn't for them to make coaches my whole team we've got james croix here in kansas city to all the guys here at glory john kavanagh all the guys back home in svg and yeah just everyone everyone who helps me these boys for coming on taking the time and interviewing me and stuff like that but yeah man i'm just happy doing my things i mean keeping my head down keeping focused and uh i feel like it's only the beginning it's the beginning of something big something really big is going to happen soon and i'm looking forward to it i just feed it in the air every day and just getting real tuned into myself and i'm really shy very soon and it's going to be soon that i'm going to be number one in the world there we have a plasma and for anyone who is watching this show at home make sure to give it a like make sure to give it a share leave a comment below and as always stay energized energized show up the irish been sussing you guys a couple of times i've seen a couple of clips i think you're doing some interviews with dylan moore and then that i saw so keep going keep up the good workers