Armand Herczeg and Denis Frimpong interview

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The two lads joined me for a catch up and a chit chat

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[Music] okay so I've got two people fighting tomorrow thank you very much for taking this interview the night before the fight um he about together how are you both feeling uh the night before fight obviously you both chilling by the time when I H jumped on at first I go first yeah you go first I'm chilling big time man I'm just uh obviously getting through the refuel and that obviously looking nice and full now um just had a good weight cut uh got the weight down nicely made weight and I'm just enjoying the food that was the thing that got me through thinking about all the food that I'm going to have and and I've accomplished that I've eaten a lot today and I've drank a lot of water so I'm happy you look happy you're beaming from ear to ear looking at you here and so is Dennis as well but denn Dennis could be for some mad dark reason he's thinking in his head um how are you feeling H I was speaking to earlier and you were saying you didn't have that much weight what is this fight actually at is this for you yourself Dennis mate listen there's been a lot of complications I said i' I'd wait till we were on before I I let you know uh basically I was meant to fight this guy Thiago def freus who to be fair excited me a little bit the fight excited me uh being that like he's a fourth degree black belt which means he would have been a black belt at least 10 years minimum like I think even more maybe even 12 or 13 years and uh he's got a lot of accomplishments in Jiu-Jitsu he's from a big Jiu-Jitsu family his brother's like a world champion black belt and stuff he's a black belt under high and Gracie um so you know he didn't just get that black belt easy they don't give black belt so easy there um and it was a good fight you know I was looking to go out there and submit him unfortunately he hurt his Vina last night and decided to pull out uh so I don't know who I'm fighting we're going to look for a placement I've had a few names thrown at me we'll see who shows up I'm not AR so I'm going to be there anyway I'm just going to show up on the night with me gear and fight whoever the [ __ ] gets in the cage in there with me um I was told obviously last night so I just weighed in at whatever I [ __ ] weighed I was already like half cutting weight for a different fight that's coming up um I've already got a couple more fights booked in for uh the next few months so I just wait I didn't not really have to cut any we I just like woke up went to the gym wait in I'm ready to go fight whoever tomorrow you know hopefully they can get someone for you if Arman wasn't fighting at Banton we arm's the ti that jump in on a day's notice or on the day but not many people are built like that anymore I'm sorry to hear that because you've had a frustra frustrating year it's it's a year that we myself and other people people in the media and Fighters and fans alike would have thought this was going to be your your big breakout year after everything that went on last night so or last last year so um how frustrating is it that it happened this close to the fight though um well I mean look to be honest two weeks ago I wasn't even expecting the hover a fight I was just looking to be going down and cornering me two me two uh students so my little prot Spencer and Lou so they're both making their uh junior debuts um early on in the card I was just going down to Corner them I was going to Corner arm as well and see support the lads from the gym that are fighting help out a bit do a bit of commentary you know what I mean um and then princey said there's a fight there um one guy could make the weight and time he was too big and I got offered this guy like last week so you know I was a bit frustrated obviously that like you you've taken the fight on like or eight days notice and then you've pulled out two days before the fight so it's like what's Chang in that four or five days do what I mean um but look it is what it is you know uh it was a bonus to even get to fight another time this year as he said like i' had a good start to the year in January beat srai good name beat Kum Mullen in April I thought I'd get another at least two more fights by the end of the year and uh get two nice names under the scalp as well but it is what it is you know as I said I have bigger plans there for next year next year is going to be the real big year um lot a lot of big things happening next year you know even just outside of fighting so um yeah I can't really complain you know what I mean like fighting's one thing like there's bigger things in life than than fighting as well so um I can't I can't complain too much about the Euro HUD uh so yeah yeah no hopefully there will be there will be the the big year next year I know just by yourself and you're going to make things happen if they don't happen because it has been a stop kind of year and you're someone that we all wanted to see we all love your antics we all love this but just getting you back in the cage now was the [ __ ] main thing um now for yourself Arman you're coming in you've got your like you said you're refueled you're ready how you feeling for this fight what do you make of your opponent um have you studied them much or are you just going to go out and do your thing I have studied them I I feel like I watched him a bit last night after I done a bit of the bats and that and discussed with the the boys that are helping me obviously big shout out to Lou lightning who helped me do the way cut and um yeah we kind of discussing some things that he does and and some mistakes and and hes i' I've already noticed about his game but truthfully I think he he fully believes he's an anime character in the real real life world so there there he's just a bit of an odd fell but you know him him and his team know what they're coming up against and they know he can't prepare for it like I can't lie I keep an eye on my opponent and I've seen who he's sping with and all all these lades are little small midgets I'm I'm a six foot lanky strong massive bantom weight and and when he sees me tomorrow he'll know you know um what can I there's not much I can say about him because I feel like this fights more for in favor of me to show off another level of my skills and that's that's what I'm going to do tomorrow so I'll finish him quick stay healthy and get back in early next year and that's that's the goal get the stuff rolling and you mentioned obviously your your height there as well at Banton weight at feder weight you you weren't too small either but at Banton weight do you think that's going to be a problem for people to deal with is is your reach because if you look at just the bantamweights in in any kind of division they're not really they don't have the the length and the reaches you do you think that's going to cause huge problems within the division there's pros and cons that come into my style you know um obviously I need to be aware of what advantages people have against me as well and lucky enough I have some very very good high level uh spying Partners who bring them holes of my game out of me very very often and that's why I'm developing so quick because I'm always able to build them holes really quick I'm like a carpenter man I'm able to rebuild myself every time and thankfully like I'm aware of what I need to do but I'm also aware of what I need to do to be even better like a Lego Master yeah there you go I said Carpenter because I don't think of Lego I enjoy staying but build and yeah I feel like my style is going to when I when I complete my style and then I get to that level that I want to get to um it's going to be a very difficult game to to beat so it's it's one of them ones where right now I'm still learning things and playing with things and trying different things out but when I get all the pieces fitting together of the puzzle it' be a nice picture yeah and and we've seen that obviously with your your last performance and we talked on that and I I've been told you're not allowed to talk about that again so we won't talk about that knockout again I can see he I can see by the way Dennis is smiling he's heard that so many times and he's like Dave don't bring that up but I want to talk about you were on the show together and uh armed went over to join you and like how he seem to get on quite well have you seen and grow since he he's gone to the gym and and are you keeping him like disciplined is is he keeping you discipling do you work well together how's how's have you just has it been good to see him improve over time since he joined you yeah like obviously I knew that if he was going to grow even from Slovakia I knew if he was going to grow he had the talent there he had the potential there um but I knew if he was really going to grow into himself and grow into a world class fighter he just needed to move Jim you know it's it's very easy and comfortable to be sort of the top dog in a small gym um you know you're the guy winning all the rounds and stuff like that um you know it's comfortable it becomes very comfortable but um to step outside of that move to a different country um go to a gym where you're now no longer the top dog and you're getting it put on You by other guys that are of a high level it's uh it's a hard decision to make you know what I mean like obviously he was he was only 23 when he moved over here so um yeah it was it it would have been difficult I imagine because like I I I moved over when I was 26 or 27 so probably a little bit more sure of myself a little bit more like grown and mature and seen a bit more life and it was even hard for me then so I can imagine how hard it was um obviously when he moved over uh there was some stuff we had to like fix about his his mentality towards training definitely [Music] um yeah but I I've been on this case a lot you know I don't want to say like took him under my wing because that's a bit like I know he's going to be a bit offended by that but um yeah like I've tried to I tried to just [ __ ] guide him a little bit you know um obviously he's probably a bit more experienced than me in the MMA game but I think in life like I'm a bit older than him and a a bit more experienced so I just try tried to impart what experience I've gained in life on him and he's grown through that and obviously not just myself but priny as well and and other guys in the gym so I think it's been a good growing uh nearly year now for him and he's he's developed well from that and like you said he's we've seen it in his last fight um when he knocked out mat and we'll see another bit development now in this fight a few months later so from where he's come compared to where he fought Jake in January there's a massive level difference you know what I mean yeah and and you can visibly see that and and you said about his attitude to training um and this is something I I was talk about this to someone the other day I felt when I worked for a maner in my previous job if I had a manager that left me to my own devices because I was good at what I done I take the piss but if I had a manager that was on me like when when she walked out of the office and went Dave I [ __ ] myself but I knew I had to be on my game is that kind of a sort of a same thing with you arm that you kind of a little bit of tough love will bring the best out is you I'll be honest like there there's times where where Dennis says things to me and I don't really listen to him but then there'll be times where like princey says the same thing and I kind of look at him like I should have listened to you before priny says it because when priny says something that's when like [ __ ] that's when you when I when I [ __ ] the most obviously he's the coach in that so if if he's not impressed with what I'm doing that's when I really because even when I first came over and I wasn't really training he kept saying it to me kept saying to me and then after a spar and PR he's like you come over here to be a pro but your your output is very amateis and that's stuck in me head since even today you know what I mean so it's something that like I felt like I could have got away with not happening for him saying that if it was me listening more than thanis but he's he has in a sense taken me under his wing and kind of big brothered me but and it's been good because if it wasn't for him helping me out in a lot of situations in training and even outside training just in life General be a lot more difficult moving out here so I am grateful to to be here with him even though it's a bit bad as well s you have to take the good with the bad though that's just like yeah but the parts man they're horrible I would say especially during way cutting time is probably even worse BR bro you want bro you want to smell this scff sometimes you come down like you know it's only when you leave it's when you leave to go shop or something and then you come back in and you're like wow this place actually just smells a fart like [ __ ] Mane them fiber farts in your fast that sounds like a superpower you've gained since you've gone there fiber optic bro band no that happened with me and Ron were doing in- depth and we traveled one day it was 15 hours and we got out of the car and we got back into the car and went did someone [ __ ] [ __ ] themselves in this car because ittin and then I had to smell it the whole way back down the road home but anyways obviously you've got your fight tomorrow are you going to be doing some commentary obviously you're going to be cing you talk about commentary um I'm bro I'm all day I'm [ __ ] I'm cornering I'm commentating I'm going to knock someone out I'm going to Corner again [ __ ] doing the whole lot man I'm I'm a I'm a I'm more than a one trick pony but yeah be a good card um anyone that has a bit of time tomorrow should stick on the pay-per-view I think you can get it on live MMA uh UK um if you can't make it over or whatever um yeah there's a lot of good fights on the card um good Pro fights good Pro card Dan Bayridge is fighting papoa so that's going to be that's Main Event that's going to be a sick fight it's a high level Pro fight obviously AR's fighting I'm fighting him and we got Farooq fighting as well dagani guy the boogy man in our gym at lightweight um what else we we've got loads of guys mate we got loads of guys loads of guys fighting lot lot of good amateur fights as well even some of like the Juniors like I said like the young guys you know like just Bobby you know Bobby Burgess um you got own a field house you got like loads of like young kids do you know when you like that are just starting train in the adult class 14 15 16 that kind of age and like I watched them Spire each other and just the level of like the MMA that they're putting together is insane you know they're even sticking on some of the lighter guys the lighter adult guys and you're like w like they're the future of MMA so it' be good to have a look at them and see where they are in about six to eight years you know what I mean because they'll be the guys that everyone's talk about you know when I'm [ __ ] retired at that stage and [ __ ] rote off into the sun set um but yeah everyone should give it a little watch you get to hear my my silky smooth soothing voice on the uh on the coms as well probably talking [ __ ] about people hey right there they got to have restrictions on you swearing listen mate no one can restrict me bro I'll [ __ ] do what I want you can be offensive without though that's the beauty about you yeah yeah I think I think I'm well read enough and another a wide enough vocabulary to be able to use some variety of words to offend people you know without actually cursing go getting it taken down off YouTube anyway we'll see get take it down off Sho there's gonna be some sunai quote or or whatever it is that that book of War I guarantee you're gonna have at least one quote in the night on that but look it was great talking to uh hopefully they do find an opponent for you tomorrow Dennis uh I'm devastated that you are fighting for yourself and then for obviously people want to see Arman I'm going to wish you the best of luck and the best 20125 for B it's been an absolute pleasure is there anything you want to say before you go yeah um as D 21 seconds bro yeah make sure you're ready that's one for that's one for if you know you know I just want to say uh Thiago V is a [ __ ] um and I want to say any any lightweights next year that want smoke yeah prove that you're actually a good fighter you know the people can talk about my records still but next year I'm coming for everyone you know what I mean anyone that's not already sign to a major promotion you can come and get the corn um yeah you've seen what I did to Kum Mullen Yan saki these guys Bo Gavin Hassan gesi these are all guys that have good records so come see if you can shut my mouth you know what I mean come see if you can do what George did to me but I doubt many people can so and I doubt many people will want to try so let's see let's see who has the balls yeah hopefully they I I have a feeling you're going to find how to get a fight because the mental Warfare I won't say the Fighter's name but you asked him for a fight and he said bro I couldn't deal with the the Builder and he was honest about her so um look I wish you the best of look next year with with your careers and everything going on I'm obviously going to be watching H it's been an absolute pleasure hopefully you do get someone to stand in tomorrow uh best of luck tomorrow Armand thank you very much for taking this so late and so close that we literally the night before the fight because this is gonna get out tonight as well I've been asked to do interviews today and and honestly if it wasn't you asking me I wouldn't do them but because it was you I had to you know so any time for you bro I have all the time in the work you're a dick all right Nick and this is what I got to put up with you get me like this is this is it I think it's quite for but look I'm childish though so um yeah look I really appreciate the kind words I appreciate you coming on I always have will always have time for for you too especially uh there's quite there there's a few people and you're you're two of the people I definitely would always have time for so thank you very much enjoy the rest of your night get those fiber FS out you and uh let's go yes yes brother nice one