Denis Frimpong interview

Summary

With finding it hard to get match Denis joined me to talk about getting matched in the immediate future

Transcript (youtube_captions)

[Music] again I have my old friend Mr Dennis ring pong um we spoke just before the last fight obviously you won that fight um and there's been not much else it seems like from looking at your stories and looking at some some pages related to octagon that cover the sport the sport or the the promotion nothing's happening well let me let me go into this little bit so in February I I remember specifically in February just after fighting srai couple weeks after fighting srai I'm on me holidays tenar Reef sipping sipping a a Mojito on the beach you know um loving the weather enjoying myself Canary Islands equator all that and uh I'm still I'm trying to get matches for the next fight I'm saying shm's fighting on Birmingham me and him have never fought on the same card as much as you know we we fought in around the same time we've been mates for a while I said birmingham's a good one he's on it already get me on I want one of these check boys want to go on a run just smoking a few checks or slow boox whichever happens first they octagon have turned around me said we don't have any slovaks or checks I said okay that's fine I'll take anyone they've offered me Kum Mullen I said ah I don't really want to fight an English guy I'd rather a German or whatever I said nah KH mullen's the only guy we've got I said cool I'll take KH Mullen but if that's the case then I want to fight on the Eden card which is in two weeks from now it would have been six or seven weeks after my fight in Birmingham um and I wanted against Andre petrac Andre petrac agreed this is all in February by the way Andre petrac agreed in February he said cool I said right if I'm fresh after the fight with Callum I'm good to go I'll keep me weight down and uh I'll go on uh on Eden if I beat Callum they said yeah no worries made that agreement we seen what happened smoked Callum easy work came out fresh little bit of a sore Shin nothing that I'm not used to after a fight and um I made it look easy against a six and2 guy so obviously straight after the fight I've said Eden what we saying Andre petek we have we have a score to settle Andre Petra went missing Andre petek deleted his whole Instagram account what deleted his whole in I tried tag him in a post couldn't find him thought he blocked me everyone said he couldn't find him he [ __ ] deleted his whole Instagram yeah um went missing so now we're looking for an opponent we're looking for an opponent no one around call out all these check guys you know [ __ ] called out banic called out Dono called out BL Fran fold called out everyone everyone in the Czech Republic that's a lightweight none of them wanted to accept the fight so here we were like three four weeks from Eden I'm thinking I'm probably not going to be fighting on this card okay cool they have another card in Bratislava outdoor Arena summer party in Bratislava yeah in July I start asking okay what about July is I'm going to be ready in July crickets crickets crickets I'm calling out all these people crickets again crickets again Peter gabal said he'd fight me in my DMs said he'd ask his manager to to make the fight his uh his coach to make the fight wait at a week crickets so now here we are two weeks before Eden I'm definitely not fighting on Eden by the looks of it um they've said July is full and so they said their next card is until September I said right okay I'm happy to fight outside the promotion they said no I said right well I'm not waiting till September so we be going back and forth now and here we are leading us to present day now yesterday I got offered a fight on PML it's a sister promotion of octagon Aaron McDonald's actually fighting on it on Friday so I got offered a fight I was asked what weight can I make by Thursday this is yesterday yeah so Tuesday I just spared that morning by the way hard spars helping the guys in my gym and Manchester top team prepare for their fights coming up so hard spares like I'm went in I had a few knocks yeah I needed to get some of my fight aggression out because said no no Tippy toppy sparring yesterday yeah we had we had knocks so I asked I got asked do want to fight on Friday walk away can I make Thursday I said I'm heavy at the moment I'm like 86 85 whatever so I could make maybe like 81 given that I've not been a water load maybe 81 82 waited a few hours and then comes back whoever it was they offered me I wasn't given a name but whoever it was they offered me on three days noce wait 10 11 12 kilos heavy than what I normally fight said no to me so at this point I've got into a stage where I've had to ask Octon listen I want to fight I'm ready to fight you know I'm ready to jump in the camp um it's at the stage now where I've had to say look let me fight elsewhere and now they've agreed so I guess for the summertime I'm free until they start putting shows on again in September to fight outside the promotion get me record up get my itchy Knuckles scratched with someone's jaw so here we are okay so that's that's that's not the kind of news I would have been expecting coming from you I would have thought that I know obviously you said that there was crickets but eventually at some stage a fighter should have to fight you within the promotion because the promotion not everyone can turn down the promotion has to do something at some stage but obviously that's not the case and octagon have like they brought theyve done you the the Octagon Challenge and they've they've been promoting you and like how does it feel for you to have to go outside and fight on another promotion now and not be able to get onto one of their cards like that must be frustrating as [ __ ] I just feel a bit I feel a bit hard d by by the fact that I've joined octagon seeing what octagon we're doing in Europe big stadium shows 20,000 seater sold that Arenas 18,000 seater sold that Arenas 15,000 sold that Arenas I've been to their shows big Arenas in Europe I fought three times for octagon now um all three times were in the UK calling a spade a spade the UK shows weren't doing the numbers in terms of tickets that they were doing in Europe so I still as long as I've been an octagon as many fights I've done in octagon I've not got to experience that real octagon feel of fighting and having a big crowd even if they're [ __ ] booing me you know even if they're boing me they don't want me to win but having that big crowd when I walk out that that energy you know um so it's super frustrating for me uh more so I'm just frustrated that I'm not getting the fight and but yeah it is what it is you know um they've given me the open door now to go out and uh fight elsewhere uh until they start putting shows on again and they can get me matched I don't blame the promotion in a way because they can't force someone to sign a contract okay you know they can offer my name people see my name and they must see like they must read my name as Dennis Fang amov or something you know what I mean because they're they're they're Running Scared you know and I'm not a [ __ ] dagestani I'm not a crotch sniffer I'm not going to come there and just bore you to death like Al Germaine or one of these other wrestlers I'm going to come there I'm going to have a knock you're going to have 15 minutes to try and knock me out anything can happen in a fight you might clip me you know you might clip me and I might get knocked out and then you might take my hype but all these guys are too scared to take the risk um you know may maybe uh maybe it's partially because you know octagon don't want their Superstars or Czech guys or Slovak guys to come up against a three and2 fighter Brash talk [ __ ] about all their all their Fighters they know for the whole Camp I'm going to be talking [ __ ] about them to come into their Hometown and silence their crowd and jump on the cage and be like sh maybe they don't want that I think it would help build the promotion a little bit but it is what it is I'm not the promoter my job is to get in there and fight and as I said I'm just frustrated that I'm not being allowed to do that but where we are now as I said open door policy I'm going to go out there and I'm going to get a couple fights elsewhere um you know it just means that maybe some of these guys that have been chatting [ __ ] about me on the regional scene you know there's a few names I could mention in Ireland in the UK I've been chatting [ __ ] about me from the background seeing what I'm doing seeing my rise and hating on it um so maybe I could go out there and smoke a couple of these guys and then jump back into the Octagon pool and you know it'll help build my record get a couple easier fights you know back on the regional scene back on the regional shows sell a few tickets you know cheaper tickets as well for any of my fans that want to come down and watch get a ticket off me so yeah now we're just in uh in the process of seeing where we can get a fight and who wants to have me on and I don't think I'll have any shortage of offers I don't think so either and um one do you want to divulge any names or will we leave that for no I I will do James when have I ever been known to uh to not speak with chest so there's a certain guy Jess poo on the Irish scene a little rat snake weave yeah there's there's no wonder there's no wonder he calls himself the Cobra cuz he is a little snake and I know a lot about him yeah I know a lot about him from his previous gym I know a lot about him because I live with Armand his previous gym teammate yeah from Sand and uh I've heard a lot of rumors from him and from other people that he's going down to lightweight and he's going professional soon he's been chatting [ __ ] about me you know maybe not in public one thing I will say about myself I always chat [ __ ] about someone in the public I don't give a [ __ ] he's been chatting [ __ ] whispering in people's ears you know behind the scenes when he's all in front of me when he's in public he acts all respectful he acts blessed because he knows I tum the head off him but back doors he's chatting [ __ ] about me saying my striking is not all that you know I'm overrated all these kind of things he's coming to Newcastle with Arman and he's sizing me up when I'm cutting weight I said listen mate you could you call make you you make 70 kilo in fact don't don't make 70 kilo make 74 kilo I'll happily smoke you I'll take your training wheels off you and I'll beat you over the head with them it's that simple um as for the UK scene um obviously there's a few other names that people out mention me and stuff like that some of them are in cage Warriors I'm not going to mention them because I can't fight on cage Warriors that's one of the promotions that's ruled out for me yeah oh bless myself um that's you thank you um yeah it must be all the [ __ ] from Jess getting into me nostrils you know I'm allergic to that [ __ ] but um yeah there's a few names that that are on the scene in the UK that you know maybe just gone pro you know early days Pro that could be potential names um but yeah at this stage I'm just I'm I just want to get out there and fight you know what I mean I just want to get out there and get get the rounds in get the get the cage time in um get a knockout on my Pro record because like I have Knockouts I have a knockout at Pro rules but as we know they've been omitted from my record for whatever reason and but yeah I want to get a knockout on my record so that a find myself that's okay that was that was I I'd obviously seen something on Instagram but that wasn't the name that I expecting uh I'm not going to get in the middle of this I like you I like Jess separately whatever's happened between y'all is between y okay but in terms of getting a match I don't think you're going to be short of any offers there is really good promotions in obviously the UK there's a lot on Fight Pass there's even uh obviously said cage warri isn't one so I'm thinking any kind of semi big promotions might be out of the question as well across Europe yeah I don't think I can do cage Warriors pfl or any of them like you know they're obviously comp compet competing promotions um but yeah I mean 971 971 might be one you know um might have to get on to John Mitchell to get me uh get in touch with manir and get me on there you know I'd like to fight in Dubai again that would be nice um but yeah there's there'll be offers there there'll be offers there and people know what I bring to the table now in terms of a fight people know what I bring to the table in terms of skill set and people know what I bring to the table in terms of promoting so yeah and like that you you you you're just a self-promotion machine just in your demeanor the way you act and it's mad obviously you talked about octagon there that these guys are saying they're going to fight you and I can see obviously when you're like one and two two and two you're talking all this [ __ ] to these guys they see that as a huge risk if they beat you they were supposed to beat you if they lose to you then when they lose to me when they lose to you is and then so for them it's a lose lose whereas I think on the UK and Irish SE or or maybe somewhere across Europe um like that a lot of people will be looking at you they'll want to cuz the way I look at it is you someone smokes you right for example they take your hype that's it maybe they're looking at me going oh maybe if I if I beat Dennis I'll get signed to octagon so let me just lay The Gauntlet down now any lightweights in Ireland England Scotland Wales anywhere else El in Europe anyone that wants to try and come see what the Menace is really about share the cage with me come try and take my hype I put the challenge out now and um let's see how many take up the offer because a lot of people want to chat [ __ ] about you know he's only where he is because he talks [ __ ] and all that come prove me wrong come prove me wrong and come get your name out there that's that's my challenge we can fight on ukfc FCC Almighty fight championship fight star whatever the [ __ ] else we can fight on any of these shows on the regional scene budo I don't care yeah let's just get it done get me a fight 70 kilos 74 kilos 75 kilos 77 kilos if it's short notice and let's get it done let's let's have have a scrap and let's see who takes up the challenge okay so this is very interesting obviously that's going to be put out in a clip and that's going to be shared everywhere so we're going to see what comes back from it um did octagon give you like a Lim of how many fights you could have in that time until September or as long as I'm good to go in September I think I can have three four fights in summer if I once as listen as long as the weight as long as the weight's all good you know if we I'll have a few fights at 74 75 I can make weight really rapid for that and um what if I win three fights between now and September what's that record then six and two yeah then a lot of these guys that are claiming ah your record's not good enough you're three and two I'm not going to fight you now what you're going to say when I come back to oan with that record you know I mean yeah it's it's like that then you have the experience and you experienced that at amateur as well wasn't it when you had like two fights you con out L had six seven and they said you don't have enough fights and then you eventually met them in the end and how'd that work out for them I don't want to go into that cuz I like his bow but listen it it didn't work out well it didn't work out well for people they should have just talk took me when they had the chance a lot of these guys will realize that soon as well at Pro that they should have just fought me now before you you know maybe had a chance of beating me holding me down the longer they leave it the better I'm going to get you know what I mean the longer they leave I'm only doing the game less than three years the longer they leave it the better I'm going to get the harder it's going to be the worse the loss is going to look for them you know so it is what it is yeah and I was going to ask something obviously you said Fighters have agreed in principle they said they go to their coach to manage or whatever do you think it is the fighter then pulling out or do you think it is people around them maybe managers coaches saying this is isn't a good a good fight for you this is this could go bad if you lose oh oh 100% I know for a fact that with hauka I think he look I say a lot of [ __ ] about him I think he has ball I don't think he's scared to fight me I don't think most Fighters are scared to fight each other I think his manager's hiding him I think his manager because his manager said to me in private in the elevator when it was just me and his manager in the elevator he turned around and said to me look me and you both know hini needs to work on his striking his grappling Elite he needs to work on a striking now I don't think his grappling Elite to to be honest yeah I think his grappling is okay not good enough to take me down and submit me and the Striking is really really bad to the point that like every round starts on the feet and the first half of that round I'm peppering him up and uh we score on damage here in octagon and in the rules the new rules we score on damage right so you can't just hold on to my legs and expect to win and every part of that fight I'm going to be butchering him so I think his manager knows I think a lot of these guys managers know it's not a good fight for him you know what I mean they might not even tell it tell them like that they might just tell them look uh don't bother with this guy he's just a talker blah blah blah they might tell them whatever they need to tell them to give them confidence and not you know kill their kill their ego but deep down inside they all know what would happen if they fought me they all know um and I'm not even going to come out here and say oh I'm a big KO machine but it's 15 minutes of getting peppered in there and it's it's almost worse you know what I mean it's almost worse cuz you're not just getting chinned in the first round recover for a couple weeks in your back your body is going to be hurting you for weeks afterwards you're going to be thinking 15 minutes I had to do something and I couldn't do anything I didn't just get hit with a lucky shot I got hit with several several well-placed well timed well aimed shots you know and it's a scary Prospect I get it I kind of half get it but for me it could never be me you know I I I I would never run from any any man my own weight division yeah no it's it's strange and and like that you said like it's less than three years and you've had five Pro fights you had all your am fights like that's that's a crazy crazy amount of fights in a short space of time so like how frustration frustrating is this time right now for you because you must be like obviously like I said you went on show the the challenge was the success you've backed up what you've done um and now you're here like are you like cuz obviously you like obviously and I'm not saying you're old but you're like like you said you came into it late at an older age the most into it yeah exactly time like you need activity exactly I come in to late I'm 29 years old I don't have time to be waiting around on the sideline I just want to [ __ ] I just want to burn through everyone you know what I mean I want to burn through everyone show everyone how good I am um I still think I've got another solid eight you know nine 10 years of balls to the wall fighting but I want to get like 30 40 fights you know what I mean like and that means three four fights a year minimum um I've had two this year I want to try and get five this year maybe even six my plan was to try and break the Octagon record for most fights in the year which was seven wow that is a lot of fights you know um but this is a bit of an obstacle put my in my way but I've always had obstacles put in my way not just an MMA in life and um I've always hurdled them with Precision um landed on my feet and kept going um to the next obstacle so I'm going to do it with this I'm going to smoke a few guys this year and uh let's see what happens by the end of the year maybe they'll put me on Frankfurt to you know to apologize for keeping me on the sidelines all this time well I hope you get a fight and there something obviously that's curious to me is when You' have no fight booked obviously that's kind of your motivation is when you're aiming towards something how do you keep motivated to keep getting better when obviously not that there just no fight because there is there is breaks in in between fighting where you know you're not going to fight for a while but yeah it's just the kind of limbo like how like what do that like how do you keep stay motivated just to keep go showing up even though at the minute you're not sure where you're going to get the fight from well uh you know I'll be honest yeah I'm I'm pretty much all All or Nothing kind of guy um at the moment I've just been focusing on my strength and conditioning getting really strong and building a good base cuz a lot of the time in Camp I can't really do that I'm dieting I'm trying to lose weight I'm not trying to gain weight so at the moment just getting strong as [ __ ] just getting you know staying fit taking over um implementing new aspects to my MMA game because as I say in Camp I'm working on specifics I'm working on a guy you know that I'm going to a game plan I'm going to work out with now I can just focus on myself I can just build my own skill set and um I'll be honest mate I'm the kind of guy that like I we do camps and all that [ __ ] but I'm the kind of guy that's ready to go at the drop of a hat you know like if someone if someone pushed me in a bar I wouldn't turn around to him and say oh yeah I'll meet you in eight weeks mate we'll make this weight I'll train for you and you train for me like we're going then and there so I'm ready to go I'm ready to go this [ __ ] weekend bro I was ready to go on Friday yesterday you know what I mean a weit 10 11 kilos heavier than what I normally fight at probably against a much bigger guy I don't give a [ __ ] so yeah I'm just I just I just know that at some point I'm going to be very active so I'm enjoying the in activity now you know I'm getting to enjoy a bit of a social life a little bit um enjoy some rest recover my body a bit and just get strong just lifting loads of Weights yeah yeah and it sounds like you're doing the right things as well and like that I've heard a lot of Fighters say on the am scene when I talked it that when they're active active active like that you're concentrating on a guy or a fight whereas their skill improves during the time that they're actually not fighting so we're potentially going to see a much much better version than the last time which is very very exciting um I'm going to let you go I want to thank you so much for coming on is there anything you want to say before you go or anyone you want to shout out call out you can make your clip here yeah I think I've called everyone out anyway I haven't even called anyone out I've just said I've laid the gaunlet down I'm waiting for them to call me out now I'm the aide now you know I just beat a big Prospect in colum Mullen just beat another guy just before that with 30 30 fights nearly um so yeah it's on it's on the rest of these guys now it's an open it's an open table now you know um now you don't just have to get into octagon to fight me let's get a fight made cage Legacy Clan Wars um you know you KFC FCC Almighty whatever the [ __ ] it is we get a fight made and um let's see who wants it um also Jess Polo's a little snake rra Okay right um hopefully that call out will get you someone i' I would love to see you fight back sorry back here [ __ ] right one second man I don't know what's happened there [ __ ] hell je how long was the C there's something stuck in me troll that's what it is I don't know what it is but anyways I would like to see I have not [ __ ] not even cut out um I would like to see you f fight back here because I've only seen you fight once but we'll see I GNA let you go thank you so much for your time I love yeah it was a pleasure again as always