{"id":332831,"date":"2019-11-21T13:05:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T21:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=332831"},"modified":"2019-11-21T13:06:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T21:06:15","slug":"james-gallagher-says-he-punched-mike-kimbel-in-backstage-altercation-explains-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/james-gallagher-says-he-punched-mike-kimbel-in-backstage-altercation-explains-why\/","title":{"rendered":"James Gallagher says he punched Mike Kimbel in backstage altercation, explains why"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning, Bellator bantamweight prospects James Gallagher and Mike Kimbel came to blows backstage<\/a> at Bellator London media day.<\/p>\n

Speaking to MMA Junkie<\/a> shortly thereafter, Gallagher gave his take on how this chaotic scene was sparked.<\/p>\n

Apparently, it all started with some comments about Gallagher’s mother.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s 2-4 or something like this, but he was talking a lot of (expletive) about me,\u201d Gallagher said. \u201cHe was saying my name all the time, running me down, saying a lot of hateful, annoying things. But that\u2019s cool. Say what you want about me. I understand the fight game.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026 Then he took it a bit too far and took a screenshot of a picture off of my Instagram. I posted up a picture of me and my mum coming to visit me in Dublin. I brought her out for dinner, and we got a picture outside the restaurant. I was like, \u2018Such a good weekend seeing my mother.\u2019 And he screenshotted it and put it up and goes, \u2018She should have swallowed the sperm cells that have made this.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Gallagher said this comment was reason enough for him to clock Kimbel backstage.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me as a young man, I don\u2019t disrespect women like that,\u201d Gallagher said. \u201cThat\u2019s the lowest of the lowest. I would never disrespect any grown woman, nevermind my mother. Not only has he disrespected a woman that I know, he disrespected a woman that I love to bits. A woman that has made me the man I am.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that was it. I didn\u2019t say nothing else. I just left it at that. And he asked last month, could he come to Dublin. I said, \u2018Yeah, of course you can come to Dublin. You might not get back out, though. You might not.\u2019 Might\u2019ve, might not, whatever. But when I saw him today for the first time, I didn\u2019t say nothing else to him. I just walked up and smacked him with a left hook on the chin, and that was that. Don\u2019t speak about my mother again.\u201d<\/p>\n

If this all sounds like it might lead to a fight between Gallagher and Kimbel in the future, think again.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will never ever fight Mike Kimbel in an MMA contest \u2013 ever,\u201d Gallagher said. \u201cWe can leave it at that now. \u2026 If I\u2019m somewhere, don\u2019t come. Don\u2019t come. Don\u2019t be around me. Don\u2019t say nothing about me. Get on your way, do your thing, and that\u2019s it. There is no revenge that can satisfy me about what he said about my mother.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026 The biggest (regret) is that I didn\u2019t get him in a room on my own and that there was people here able to hold him back and hold me back. That\u2019s the only regret that I\u2019ve got. Nothing else. He\u2019s a lucky, lucky man \u2013 a kid. A stupid little kid. He\u2019s lucky.\u201d<\/p>\n

What do you think of these comments from James Gallagher?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 11\/21\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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