{"id":283252,"date":"2018-08-20T07:45:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T14:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=283252"},"modified":"2018-08-20T07:45:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T14:45:10","slug":"bellator-champ-darrion-caldwell-reacts-to-james-gallagher-ko-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/darrion-caldwell\/bellator-champ-darrion-caldwell-reacts-to-james-gallagher-ko-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Bellator champ Darrion Caldwell reacts to James Gallagher getting knocked out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, on the main card of Bellator 204, outspoken Bellator bantamweight prospect James Gallagher suffered his first defeat. The polarizing young Irishman was abruptly snuffed by former CFFC champ\u00a0Ricky Bandejas.<\/p>\n<p>Later that same night, Bellator bantamweight champion Darrion Caldwell picked up a big TKO win in a featherweight showdown with streaking UFC veteran Noad Lahat.<\/p>\n<p>After the card, Caldwell commented on Gallagher&#8217;s loss. Bellator had already been hinting at a future bantamweight championship showdown between Caldwell and Gallagher, so the champion&#8217;s take on Gallagher&#8217;s loss is particularly interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, he wasn&#8217;t surprised, and hopes the loss serves to humble the cocky Gallagher.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t surprised [by Gallagher&#8217;s loss],\u201d Caldwell told the media post-fight (via <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2018\/08\/darrion-caldwell-james-gallagher-knockout-loss-humble-bellator-204\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAjunkie<\/a>). \u201cIt didn\u2019t come as a shock to me. The kid still has room to grow. He\u2019s an up-and-comer; let him do what he\u2019s going to do. But you\u2019ve got to stay humble. Hopefully that was a humbling experience for him to realize you\u2019re really with some killers out here. We\u2019re not playing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for that potential fight with James Gallagher? Darrion Caldwell is currently focused on winning gold in the Bellator featherweight division. Now that Gallagher has lost, the fight is even less of a priority for the champ than it was before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy goal is to be a two-division champ,\u201d Caldwell said. \u201cSo Gallagher can suck a [expletive], 135 can wait \u2013 that 145-pound strap is on my hit list.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For what it&#8217;s worth, Gallagher seems to be taking the loss in stride. Post-fight, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/james-gallagher\/cocky-mother-fer-james-gallagher-reacts-to-ko-loss\/\">he assured his cocky attitude isn&#8217;t going anywhere, and that the best is yet to come.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you think we&#8217;ll ever see James Gallagher and Darrion Caldwell fight?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 8\/20\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, on the main card of Bellator 204, outspoken Bellator bantamweight prospect James Gallagher suffered his first defeat. The polarizing young Irishman was abruptly snuffed by former CFFC champ\u00a0Ricky Bandejas. Later that same night, Bellator bantamweight champion Darrion Caldwell picked up a big TKO win in a featherweight showdown with streaking UFC veteran [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":283253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[39472,39567],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bellator champ Darrion Caldwell reacts to James Gallagher getting knocked out | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bellator bantamweight champion Darrion Caldwell reacts to James Gallagher getting knocked out by Ricky Bandejas at Bellator 204.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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