Tom Mallin | IÚR Fighting Championship XVI

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Tom Mallin | IÚR Fighting Championship XVI Tom Mallin reflects on a impressive first round submission win via armbar. Originally planning to keep the fight standing, Tom quickly adapted to his opponent’s grappling heavy approach and used his long legs and BJJ skills to secure…

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Go back. >> Okay, everyone. Welcome back. >> You are fighting champ. I have here Mr. Tom Ma Min. >> Min. >> Min. Um, congratulations, dude. >> Thank you. >> Um, awesome submission. >> Yeah. >> Um, via armbar. Yeah. >> Uh, he nearly rolled out of it, but uh, prevented it. >> Yeah. Cut the leg. >> All right. So, talk talk to me about it. Like, well, just, you know, walk me through the the the maps there. >> Um, well, to be honest, I was feeling a lot more calm than usual. Normally, I'm quite anti. >> Yeah. >> But I came out and um I know Kelsey starts quite quick. I didn't expect him to be as grappling heavy. Uh, but yeah, I knew he started quick. Um, to be honest, he had me earlier on. He caught me on a nice knee and uh good few shots he caught me a good calf kick but once I uh sort of got him into the position wand in he wasn't getting out of it. So >> sorry. >> All right. Sorry about that. Um so where were we? Okay. Yeah. So you got your submission. Um like what was it like kind of coming in? Did was that your plan? Did you want to keep it on the ground or like how to talk to me about I was actually more looking to strike with him. Um because >> what I had noticed in a few of his fights is he doesn't really move his head much. I was sort of hoping to go straight down the middle, but I think I came out a bit too relaxed that time and he sort of caught me early on. He caught me a nice knee to the body and I was like a bit tense after that. So >> he got a few takedowns, but >> once he uh ended up my guard, I've got these long legs. >> Yes. >> They're not just for show. Uh I can do a bit of harm with them as well. So just threw my hips up. I'd seen he'd been armed barred once before in a similar situation where he was sort of just getting a bit wild on the ground and ended up in one. So, I'm happy enough with it. Uh definitely a few improvements to make. I think my mindset going in was a bit too relaxed. >> Okay. >> Um but I've got another one in October. So, >> it's better than being very anxious going into it, you know. >> Yeah. Well, in some ways, yeah. Um, but I think the anxiety gives you a bit of edge to you, you know, so you're ready to go in there and sort of you're on >> you're a bit more ready for stuff, whereas I was sort of just going with the flow and he caught me with a few good shots, but like I said, >> happy enough with the performance. Uh, first amateur finish, so it's good feeling. Um, >> how many fights is this for you now? >> This is my fourth one. So, >> back in the Wcom, I had a loss last time out to Logan Peters, who's another good grappler. So, I think maybe that went into his game plan a bit to try and grapple with me, but he didn't realize that I do know my way around a we bit. So, >> heck yeah. Um, okay. Like, what what what um what's the main thing you're taking away from this that you want to use, you know, next time >> from this fight in particular? probably just uh bit more urgency, okay, >> when you get in there because I I don't like starting slow. I normally like to have a good back and forth match whereas that was sort of just him all over me and then I got a submission. So, I'm sure some people think it was lucky. Maybe my next opponent will think it was lucky, but to me it was just a bit of a mistake at the start of the fight, but I made up for it anyway. I'm happy I got a first round finish. Uh sometimes I don't like to end it in the first round. I like a, like I said, I like a back and forth fight, but you know, you can't can't get much better than that, you know. So, >> yeah, >> suppose I'll be grateful for it. And, uh, into the next fight, we'll probably just try and be a little bit more aware of what's going on and be a bit more on edge because you can end up getting caught. That's not not what I'm here to do. >> Yeah. No, it it is tough. Uh, because like I myself um like when I do my jiu-jitsu, I like to u I'm I'm very like defensive, you know what I mean? I got like them to come to me and tire themselves out. In an MMA that you can't really do that points-wise, uh it doesn't help you out at all. >> Um so yeah, it's definitely tough to uh u you know, try and make that switch to be a bit more proactive. >> I I think it's hard for me as well because I'm so used to sparring. I'm normally very relaxed, so I try to, >> you know, try not to rush in too much and try to be very calculated with stuff, but when you're in a cage, it's completely different ball game. you know, when you're in sparring, everyone's nice and relaxed, but obviously your opponent's going to come out ready, so you just have to >> adapt to it, which I think I did pretty well, but like I said, >> only thing is just bit more awareness, >> right? What's uh what's on the cards for you for the rest of the year? Are you trying to fight again? I know there's a few promotions uh that have events on. >> Yeah. Well, I'm trying to go Cade Conflict in October and then I believe >> everyone's trying to get on that one. >> Yeah. Yeah. I'm already on it, so >> Oh, okay, good. >> But I believe Wrath is doing another show in November. That's my gym show. So >> definitely want to be on that. And then I'm hoping I'll be in the Ireland squad for the Gamas in December. >> Awesome. >> So hopefully it all pans out like that. That would be six or seven fights this year. So I'd say that's pretty good. You know, >> that's very good. It's very active. It's very active. >> Yeah. Well, that's what I'm here to do. Say yes to everything. I don't really say no to many people. My first fight, I was a bit worried about it because I thought the guy was going to bother me and it did better than I expected. still came away with a loss, but I just say yes to everyone. That's sort I don't really >> think at this level especially, I don't think you should be cherry-picking opponents, saying no to people are saying yes. >> I think you should just be going for it. Um, you know, it's amateur at the end of the day, >> you're not going to come away with massive injuries unless something freakish happens. So, you may as well just do as many as you can, get it in because you have to pay for your medical. >> Yeah, absolutely. >> So, you're putting money effective. You're putting money in. You want to get as much out as you can. So, like I said, hopefully about seven fights this year, maybe more than that. So, we'll see what happens, but I sit quite close to my fight weight, so I can jump in on short notice ones as well. And >> right on, >> that works out well for me. So, >> so, uh, like what's like what's one thing that kind of like really drives you to keep doing this? >> Well, uh, this I've been training it for I think about five years, maybe coming up to six. And like, >> how old are you now? >> Uh, 18. >> 18. >> So, I was training I'm turning 19. So, I was training from when I was about 14, 15. But this has been my dream since, you know, like this. This is like seven years of work that I've put into this. Even before I was training properly at a gym, I was still going around >> trying to put, you know, put to work some stuff. To be it's pretty funny. I actually started playing the UFC games and then was like, I could probably do this. So that's how I got into it. But for me, I really want to just keep cracking and keep getting to work and hopefully one day go pro. UFC is the dream cuz I want to fight the best of the best. It's a good bit away for now. Um, but hopefully that'll change quite soon. Who knows? Maybe you'll see my name on a bigger screen soon. >> Right on. I hope so. Um, if you can give kind of like one So, one of the things I like to do is really just like to spread the awareness of the gospel of combat sports jiu-jitsu and all that. Um, like what what would you if you can give one piece of advice uh to someone who's maybe they're interested but they're just nervous or you know they don't know what to expect so they're not going to try. Like what would you do? What would you say to them to try to get them to make that next step? I don't want to be cliche and say just jump in because sometimes it doesn't work like that. Um for me I was able to because I was just, you know, very overconfident in my own abilities at the start. But if you want to get into it and you're nervous, the best thing to do is to be honest with you, just even start anywhere. It doesn't have to be at an MMA gym. You can start at any gym and just like a weightlifting gym, something like that. If they have a bag there, you can just hit the bag, you know, and work on stuff. not be selftaught but you know try to learn a few things and then once you feel comfortable enough you can move into a gym for me I got battered my first few few times sparring like I people were destroying me and now it's well it's not always the other way around sometimes I still get battered but you know if you if you're nervous about starting something >> you should just jump in with two feet um you're never really especially in MMA depending on what gym you are anyway um you're never really going to jump into something and people are going to be rude to you everyone at gym is always really nice. >> Some of the kindest people are in these. >> Everyone comes from gyms. Yeah. >> Everyone comes from the same sort of background. You know, everyone was nervous at the start, but when I first came to the gym, I didn't say a word to anyone. Yeah. >> I know. I'm sure a few people probably think I'm the loudest in there. So, you know, if you just jump into it, it's it does sound it's what everyone says, but it's true. If you jump into it, there's a lot less is going to go wrong for you. And MMA, although it does seem like you would get injured a lot, I've only ever had two injuries from MMA, and both of them were freak accidents. So, I'm just unlucky. If you jump into it, you can go uninjured completely. And if you don't want to compete, you don't have to. You can just train. There's loads of people just train away and just have these skills that hopefully they'll never have to put to use. But, you know, if you start it, don't like it. Doesn't matter. Just, you know, you can keep training. Or if it's just really not for you, you just don't need to. But just start something. When you start something, I think you should be committed to it. Personally, for me, I don't like ending things halfway. But if you do start something, you don't like it, just, you know, give it up. >> Dial it back even. Yeah. >> or something. Yeah. Look, man, I appreciate it. Um, thank you very much for your time and I appreciate you uh >> coming to talk to me and congratulations on your win. Um, and before we go real quick, everyone, I'm terrible at self-promotion, so I've been trying to do this at the end here. Um, check out combatconfidential.com. Um, that's my website. Buy a t-shirt or something. It helps, you know, support me coming out to these shows and doing this stuff. Um, and talking to awesome fighters like this. Um, and as you can see, there's, you know, a lot of crap here. Um, and none of it's cheap. So, um, yeah, please check it out. Um, but look, man, until next time. >> Yeah, thank you. I'll talk to you again soon. >> All right. Definitely. >> Bye-bye. >> See you. Heat. Hey, Heat.