Tartan Blood interview

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Adam Wallace makes his professional debut at Chaos fighting championship after spending 5 years away from the cage and competing in influencer boxing the past few years as well as set up his own boxing promotion. We speak about how this opportunity came about, how he feels…

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Okay, so I'm here at one half of the main event for Chaos Fighting Championship this weekend. He's after taking the fight on short notice. So, fair play to him for coming in. Adam Wallace aka Tartan Blood. I absolutely love that name. I love the energy. I love everything coming out of this guy coming over and especially to come in someone's backyard. Thank you very much for joining me. How are you as Fight Week? How you feeling? >> I'm good to go. Cutting the last bit of weight. Feeling a bit nervous obviously, but be silly not to. I feel like that if I wasn't nervous, I would be in the wrong head space. So, I'm in the right head space. I'm ready to go. I'm ready to rock. >> Yeah. I I get quite curious about people who say, "Oh, you know, I'm calm. There's no nerves." Cuz for me, no matter what you do, if I go for a job interview and there's no nerves, the job or whatever, the thing that you're about to do obviously doesn't mean as much to you as you you you would think it would if you don't have nerves. That's just my opinion. Some people are different, some people are cold. But I like to hear that from fighters saying obviously there's a bit nerves cuz if there wasn't a bit nerves like you said you're not in the right head space and maybe you shouldn't be going in there but you've taken the fight on a couple of weeks notice as well. What was it like to get the call to come over and fight in the main event in Ireland? >> Uh to start with I wasn't actually main event. It was going to be coming. I think obviously the main event then pulled out when I found out I was main event. Buzzing. Absolutely buzzing. There's not many people that could probably say that they've traveled over to to Scotland headline chaos in their their professional MMA debut. So I believe Conor McGregor's also fought in the show twice. So to headline a card of that that magnitude is is fantastic. >> Yeah, it's the longest running MMA promotion in Ireland like that. It's had the likes of Conor McGregor, James Gallagher, all these guys have fought on this show to propel them into to where they are today. But um you're going to be coming over like I said you're going to be coming into his backyard. We had a brief chat all three of us together there. You kind of you kind of feed off that energy don't because you said you're usually away. And you prefer that you like feed off the energy, feed off the crowd and use that then when you get into the cage against your opponent. >> I don't I wouldn't say I use it against my opponent. I'd say it wakes me up a bit more. you know, it's you don't you don't want to go there and get knocked out, especially in front of, you know, so many people that are there to see you get knocked out. You'd rather be the guy that delivers that knockout blow, but you know, I prefer it. It It's I don't know. It makes it more energetic for me. I think I I prefer it definitely. I could feed off the crowd, you know? I could just pretend that everybody in that crowd is in that ring with me. >> Yeah. It's is the energy of a of a booing crowd or something. A lot of people say they they take that energy, take it, and then use it then to their advantage going in. Whereas on home shows, like Daniel said, he doesn't feel the pressure. But I think on a home show, you're always going to feel pressure. And especially coming to fight week if people still asking you for I don't know why they wait till fight week to ask you for tickets cuz that really I I I go mad. I'm on do not be asking fighters on fight week. They cut weight. They have a million things to do. You're supposed to be their friend and you [ __ ] wait to six days before the fight. You could have bought it six months ago. It's another sort of way. Um, so obviously there's going to be the added pressure, but uh this is your first MMA professional bout. You said you haven't fought in about five years. What kind of was it just this opportunity that brought you back? >> Yeah, it was opportunity. As I say, I've not trained MMA in five years. I've been solely focused on the the boxing side of things, not been to a grappling class in five years. So it was it was playing the opportunity. It's the opportunity. Win or lose for me does good things. Like I don't I if I go in there and lose this weekend, I don't see how it does any bad for me. I took the fight three weeks notice, saved the boys fight, I don't think there's many people that would have took it. So yeah. >> Yeah. And fair place cuz like I said, not many people would take it, especially if it's for a home show, if it was a neutral venue, maybe, but on that shorter notice for a pro debut, a lot of people aren't going to take it on 3 weeks notice because you'd need more time. But you just seem like a very game character. You've talked about you've been doing a lot of instruments or boxing lately. Talk to us about that and kind of the social media game that goes with that cuz that's kind of you've built yourself a bit on social media. So talk to us about the influencer boxing social media and how that kind of all links together for yourself. >> Uh I've been on social media probably for about a year. Uh the reason why I went over it is, you know, I'd lost I'd lost my last MMA fight and then I lost my my first two boxing books. I was like, you know, maybe I'm not at this sort of level, so maybe I'll go and give the social media boxing a try. So I went over there and obviously started to win a couple of fights. So and then when I started to grow a following it started to get more exciting for me. I've obviously started my own promotion as well. I run my own promotion now. H we do do social media boxing events. We've got one in December. So it's opening a lot of a lot of gates for me. I truly believe as well that if I was in the on social media I probably wouldn't have got this fight. I think that's why he's came to me. Uh, so yeah. >> Yeah. Because because like that because you haven't fought in so long on tapology, you'd probably way down the list, but like that social media is good too. I I'll flick through and there'll be fighters even from my own country that I've not that I've never heard of, but you don't see much of they get their thing. They build their social media and all of a sudden like, oh, that's so and so from here. All of a sudden he's gone from >> not knowing him so much to he's everywhere. Do you know the sort way? It's a huge part to play and like we were talking about earlier, I think >> it is something that needs to be prioritized whether the fighter does it themselves or they have someone that manages for them. I think it has to be there at the minute and the influencer boxing shows that when you merge two them together you get absolute madness. Talk to us about your own promotion. I'm quite curious about is this going to be your first event or is or have you had ones before? Talk tell us about it. >> H this is our second event. It's tart blood promotion Scottish Tik Tok winter showdown uh December 20th. We had on 19th of August we done our first event the no 16th the Scottish tick to talk to Tim showdown h we had 14 fights on it a very good event actually well well played few hiccups h this time round we've actually got Jason E who is our main event he's a ex-professional world champion with Scotland he's not fought in seven years I think I've managed to get him so he's main event and he's going to be fighting DBZ head who is a big influencer from downtown. So yeah, it's going to lead to big things. I feel uh we we didn't have any social media boxing events up this way in Scotland. They were all down south obviously. H so I seen a gap in the market and I thought let's go. >> Yeah. Cuz like that especially in the UK a lot of stuff is f focused in the in the center. It's like in Ireland, you've got Dublin and kind of Belfast is where most of the things happen and and like that there is gaps in the market and fair play to you for going out and doing that because that's another brave step in a different direction. Obviously, you fought, but how how did you find that transition to to promoting as well? Was there a lot of things that you you thought you knew you didn't or there was a or did you have a head start and were able to get hold on it straight away? What were the difficulties and positives of starting the first one? >> Well, I think I've I've been in the game for about seven years now. I feel I know quite a lot. I've got a good IQ when it comes to the fight game. I've got a lot of connections. I speak to a lot of people. So, just felt it was the right time. You know, it was it's not easy. I'm still learning. Like, I'd probably rather get in the cage in the ring and fight. It's that's better. But, you know, it's it's good to have something I know that I could leave behind in the future for my kids when I'm no longer here. And that's what I'm aiming to build. >> Yeah. you know, and congratulations and fair play. It's quite brave to go out and try something new. Uh, no matter what you've like said, you get in and you fight people in your underpants. Uh, basically, but like it's to go from that like that sounds crazy to people, but then to be able to shift over and then become a showrunner as well takes a lot of guts and there's a lot that goes on in it. There's always the constant is this going to be right? Is that going to be right? But you've done it. You've seen the gap in the market and like I said, you can't fight forever as well. So, this will be something, like you said, to leave for your kids, to leave a legacy up where you're from as well. So, I just want to say congratulations on starting that as well. Me and you will have a little talk after this and I'll give you a little dig out with a couple of interviews with some of your fighters if you're interested in that to help build a bit of promotion if if that's something you're interested in. >> But, >> yeah, 100%. >> With this fight, obviously, you both have been out a while. You said you're both just going to go bring uh what your own style. What would you describe your style as going into a fight? Wild. It's wild. There's no steps. There's no thinking about that. I don't plan. I don't I just go in there. Whatever happens happens >> and that's what I'm really looking forward to this weekend. Especially like I said, I'll be commentating on it. It'll be my first time to commentate on chaos, which is for me is a big deal. Like you said, the people that have been on it before, but um after this, are you you depending on the is it going to be depending on the outcome? Are you going to try and do MMA a bit more as a professional or you >> I think after this fight, I'm going to get right back into MMA training. Uh, and I'm going to carry on with both avenues. You know, I'm going to promote as well. I'm going to continue on with MMA. I need to train. Obviously, I'll probably take a bit a gap in between this fight because I'm not going to bounce in there with another professional. I took this solely because I've got the the opportunity. So, after this, I'm going to go train maybe six months to a year MMA and then I'll I'll fight MMA again, but I'm going to focus obviously on all them. I want to do them all. I've only got I'd say about seven year left in the game. Seven year worth of fighting. So, let's go. >> Yeah. Know and like that you've got the opportunity and then obviously it'll lead to more opportunities after no matter what the outcome of of this coming weekend is. And like that you've between the influencer boxing this promotions. You're going to have your hands full. You're going to be a busy busy man next year I'm assuming. What's your obviously there is no fights or things or there might be set in stone but what are you looking for your your 2026 to be you looking for it to be active as both a promoter and a fighter? >> I want it to be a big year for Tart promotions and I want it be to be a big year for myself h in the summer I want to do a massive event. I want to do an a Scotland versus England influencer event. So, I want to link up with another English I want to link up with an English influence influencer and we'll do a a joint collab and we'll find out who's better between England and Scotland when it comes to the influencer boxing scene. Uh, but as for fights, I would happily fight every week if the opportunity came. Uh, yeah, I want to be very active next year. Very active. >> Yeah. So, it it's looking like a big year for you. I can't wait to see how the year unfolds. like from now I'm going to follow you you and your career, your promotion and stuff you do because obviously you were very good to give me your time here. You're very good to come and save this this fight for Daniel as well cuz you know yourself it's your pro debut as well but you can imagine if you were in Scotland your opponent pulls out three weeks before the fact that you answered the call like I said fair play. We on the outside appreciate it. We know Daniel appreciate it and the show appreciate it. But I got to let you go. You've been an absolute fantastic talk person talks. I can't wait to see you and meet you on Saturday. Is there anything you want to say before you go or anyone you want to shout out? >> Back up to everybody. Tune in Saturday night. >> Let's go. >> Perfect. I can't wait to see it and I will see you then. Thank you very much for your time and enjoy your evening. All right. See you in a bit, bro.