James Gallagher Staying at 145lbs. Says He Will Be First To Do 1 mill PPV Buys In Bellator

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On Monday morning, an Instagram post from unbeaten Irish fighter James Gallagher suggested that he would stay in the featherweight ranks, just a month after he stated he would make his bantamweight debut in Dublin.

According to the SBG submission specialist, the decision to stay at 145 was made after a discussion with his head coach, John Kavanagh.

“I was talking to John (Kavanagh) about it and he just thought it would be better for me to stay at 145 at the moment,” Gallagher told MMAFighting.com.

“When you think about it, I’ve never been overpowered at 145. The guys might look bigger than me, but they have never had a huge strength advantage on me. I feel like my attributes are better than anyone’s in the division.”

Although he is ruling out dropping down now, he said he would look to move to bantamweight in the future.

Bantamweight can come later, but right now I’m focusing on featherweight,” he said.

“For the next while, I’m staying here because there are still a lot of fights here for me. There are still a lot of guys that I want to go out and get.

“When I’m done at 145, then I’ll go to 135.”

Gallagher claims that he already has an opponent for his first Bellator main event, which takes place at Dublin’s 3 Arena on Nov. 10.

Coming off the biggest win of his career at Madison Square Garden against Chinzo Machida, ‘The Strabanimal’ is out to prove another point to Bellator.

The 20-year-old believes the Dublin date will propel him to even bigger things, and in the future, he believes that he can become the first man to generate a million pay-per-view buys for the promotion.

“This will be the real ‘Jimmy Show’. It’s going to be next level s**t,” he said.

“The whole show is going to be bigger. There are a lot of things that we’re going to do in the lead up that will make this a much bigger show than the last Bellator events that we had in Ireland.

“It’s all about me. The VIP tickets for this show sold out in two hours.

“What other 20-year-old can they do this with? I bet they wished they picked me up when I was 17 and pumped all that cash into me like they did with some other guys. Those other guys failed when they walked out, they couldn’t handle that pressure.

“In New York, I proved that I’m the fighter that they should invest in. I’m going to be the one who eventually breaks a million pay-per-view buys for Bellator.

“That’s the promotion’s goal, and I’m going to be the one who gets them there.”
 
Good luck with that.
 
Lets first see if you can break 100K.
 
I'm not saying it's outside the realm of posibility, but Bellator is year YEARS away from anything like that. They need more brand recognition, and work out the many kinks they have. They'll need a strong cbs lead in. Not only that, they actually need to you know, promote the ppv after the free portion of the card. Timing was brutal last time out.


I understand though. Kid is young and is reaching for the stars.
 
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basically unless Bellator signed Ronda or Conor they will never do a million buys. EVER.

Even if they signed Brock and did Brock vs Fedor that still wouldnt do a million buys.

the UFC brand matters, it may not matter like it did years ago when any PPV with UFC name on it was good for 300-400k but it still matters.

Bellator's brand doesnt. Take that same Bellator PPV and make it a UFC PPV promoted as international fight week and it probably does 3-4x the buys.

They arent able to build anyone big enough to get close to that number.

Even if say Gallagher smashed dudes,won bellator title, promoted himself as a star the question will always be how does he do in UFC. Can he beat those guys.

Just like if Conor had signed to Bellator instead of UFC years ago he woudlnt be anywhere near as big a star as he is.
 
Do we have like any word on the NYC #'s yet?

Nothing yet.

Metzler was saying less than 100K and more than 50k in a round about way and seem to lean more to that 60k to 70K area. Some reports are saying about 100K.
 
Wonder who he fights next in that main event slot in Nov.

Seems like most of the top FW are booked, probably another gimmie fight for him.
 
Does he realize he's NOT Conor, he's NOT popular and NOT doing a million?
 
So Pitbull/Weichel should happen.

Curran, Macapa, Straus, Georgi, Lahat, AJ are all booked.

But its possible AJ,Georgi or Lahat who fight on same card in Aug could turn around and fight again in Nov.

Aj or Georgi would be good just not sure they want to knock one of the prospects off. So Georgi would be a great test for him.

Lahat isnt a big name but he'd be a step up from past opponents but not the kind of step up most want to see Gallagher take.
 
Will he smash a watermelon for this show, or is that his brother?

gallaghersmash.jpg
 
Chael couldn't even break 150 and Ghallagher isn't even a half of the draw Chael is.

He is trying so hard to be Conor it's embarrassing.
 
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