Paid Members Scott Malbranque Posted February 19, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted February 19, 2020 I'd say the reasoning behind McCourt headlining is to put eyes on Bellator within the mainstream media on these islands. She was on Breakfast TV in Ireland when I was getting ready for work this morning and she was mentioned on the sports news bulletins during drives to and from work, which wouldn't have happened had say - Redmond (who's not SBG, though) - been given that spot. From a marketing standpoint, it makes perfect sense as she's a very attractive, media savvy, charismatic individual who's being pushed as a role model for women everywhere and - if she mows through Ruis - whose star should start shining a bit brighter and bring a few more eyes to the product. Also, John Kavanagh. The card layout is nonsense though. I'd have had Chalmers on the 240 portion and Crosbie on the European portion, and Malambo and Bandejas promises to be an absolute belter, yet that'll be probably up on YouTube at 5 or 6pm. And surely the only reason Ward is main card is because of who they expect to show up on the broadcast to bring more eyes to the show? In saying all that though, I'm looking forward to a whole day and night of it on Saturday, and hopefully the TV cameras won't catch me fixing my hair while pouting into my phone like last time out. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted February 20, 2020 Author Paid Members Share Posted February 20, 2020 http://severemma.com/2020/02/this-weekends-warriors-bellator-dublin-mccourt-vs-ruis/ thats about as good a write preview as you're gonna get for this show? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted February 20, 2020 Author Paid Members Share Posted February 20, 2020 On 2/19/2020 at 10:44 AM, Scott Malbranque said: I'd say the reasoning behind McCourt headlining is to put eyes on Bellator within the mainstream media on these islands. She was on Breakfast TV in Ireland when I was getting ready for work this morning and she was mentioned on the sports news bulletins during drives to and from work, which wouldn't have happened had say - Redmond (who's not SBG, though) - been given that spot. From a marketing standpoint, it makes perfect sense as she's a very attractive, media savvy, charismatic individual who's being pushed as a role model for women everywhere and - if she mows through Ruis - whose star should start shining a bit brighter and bring a few more eyes to the product. Also, John Kavanagh. The card layout is nonsense though. I'd have had Chalmers on the 240 portion and Crosbie on the European portion, and Malambo and Bandejas promises to be an absolute belter, yet that'll be probably up on YouTube at 5 or 6pm. And surely the only reason Ward is main card is because of who they expect to show up on the broadcast to bring more eyes to the show? Â Â Bandejas/Mlambo is on the 240 portion so will be on Sky. Aaron Chalmers is always gonns be on Channel 5 though. That live, late night slot is made for him. The McCourt thing does make sense, interested to see how she looks though. She may just be a pretty face Bellator are pushing into the spotlight, wouldnt he be the first time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted February 22, 2020 Author Paid Members Share Posted February 22, 2020 link to the prelims on youtube, starting at 4:30pm, the Redmond fight will be part of this... Â Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Scott Malbranque Posted February 22, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted February 22, 2020 I know there's no live chat - so "soz" lads - but me wee lad just got a pic with Royce Gracie. Me pots were gone. Such a firm handshake and smells wonderful... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poetofthedeed Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 2 hours ago, Scott Malbranque said: I know there's no live chat - so "soz" lads - but me wee lad just got a pic with Royce Gracie. Me pots were gone. Such a firm handshake and smells wonderful... Wee??? Cunt looks about 6'7..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Scott Malbranque Posted February 24, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted February 24, 2020 I've no idea how it came off on d'telly, but it was an awful atmosphere from pretty much after the Crosbie/Furtado fight, onwards. There was so much fighting in the stands, and during the Charlie Ward fight, some junkie looking toerag jumped the rail right in front of us and started swinging Millhouse-esque haymakers at a load of Fabian Edwards' Yardie looking crew. Poor Leah McCourt though, she really was tasked with something she had no control over and by the time her fight was on, the arena was genuinely only about 1/3 full. Sinead Kavanagh though. The fucking charisma that women oozes in person, without even having to lift her head, is unreal. Every time she walked past to the bar, with her big long jacket on, people stopped and looked. She has this ludicrous almost gunslinger like aura you can't buy and I can't explain, but Bellator need to pull the trigger and market her in Ireland because she just looks like someone that would shove your bollocks down your japs eye. The Ilias Bulaid / Diego Freitas fight was probably my favourite fight of the night, and that was a postlim in front of about 100 of us in the arena as they were pulling down the lighting and rigging around us. So yeah, pretty much a damp squib and not a patch on Septembers' show. And I kept getting mistaken for James Webb again so either I really need to change my look or a fair few people know an awful lot about 1960s NASA. Had one cunt chant "You're fucking shite" at me when I was walking to the jacks. So either he assumed I was Webb too, or he didn't like that I'd left my seat to go wee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted February 24, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted February 24, 2020 I didn’t see this in the end. Just too much to watch with Fury vs Wilder, the UFC etc. I love your recaps for these shows though Scotty. More entertaining than the shows themselves usually. Oh and Charlie Ward is arse. Can’t stand the scrote. Best thing he ever did was get thrown on his face and knocked out that time in the UFC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnum Milano Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 I only watched the McCourt fight on Five, but that had to be one of the worst, as in quality of the two fighters, main events ever put on in a mainstream MMA card. Judith Ruis didn't know how to punch and McCourt threw some of the feeblest looking kicks going. She did show great composure whilst trapped in the armbar before calmly escaping it, as I thought she was done for at that point and that Ruis was going to spoil the party. On the plus side, Aaron Chalmers lost again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members ElCece Posted February 24, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted February 24, 2020 4 hours ago, Magnum Milano said: I only watched the McCourt fight on Five, but that had to be one of the worst, as in quality of the two fighters, main events ever put on in a mainstream MMA card. Judith Ruis didn't know how to punch and McCourt threw some of the feeblest looking kicks going. She did show great composure whilst trapped in the armbar before calmly escaping it, as I thought she was done for at that point and that Ruis was going to spoil the party. On the plus side, Aaron Chalmers lost again! I was getting breakfast in Thyme Square Cafe and some one came in and big leagued the staff there. Me nor the wife had any idea who it was but later I though it may have been Aaron Chalmers.  So really don't like the guy as a result. Now that being said it could perfectly well not of been him but just some Joe Smo dickhead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted February 26, 2020 Author Paid Members Share Posted February 26, 2020 its a shane to read Malbranque's report there. I saw most of the show by skipped the main event...for the best by the sounds of it. The thing about these domestic cards is that a lot of tickets are sold by specific fighters so you have people filtering in and out of the Arena all night depending on who's fighting, and on card as stupidly long as this you probably had big pockets of fans leaving throughout the night. Such a long show It happened on a smaller scale at the Cage Warriors show i saw in Cardiff last year. It was sold out, but by the time Jack Shore fought it in the main event the arena was only around half full. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimufctna24 Posted February 27, 2020 Share Posted February 27, 2020 On 2/26/2020 at 5:47 AM, Egg Shen said: its a shane to read Malbranque's report there. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Paid Members Scott Malbranque Posted February 27, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted February 27, 2020 Never forget meeting Alex Shane in the old TWC offices for the first time. Quite a presence, and to look at him you'd think he'd talk like Ray Winstone in the morning time, but then the lad opened his mouth, shook me hand with his little weak four finger handshake, and sounded like Spongebob. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted February 27, 2020 Author Paid Members Share Posted February 27, 2020 On 2/24/2020 at 3:36 PM, Magnum Milano said: Â On the plus side, Aaron Chalmers lost again! Chalmers got dominated. I aint really against Chalmers being in MMA, he's earned his place at this point, his takedown defence is pitiful though. Ricky Bandejas took down another SBG prospect, i see Brian Moore wants to fight him now. SBG Killer. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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