Bowkes Talking Bouts (w/ Dylan Bowker): Episode 32 - Gurdarshan Mangat
Gurdarshan Mangat is coming off of a unanimous decision victory over Roshan Mainam. This took place at ONE Dangal and Mangat re-entered the ONE Championship win column.
Gurdarshan Mangat came on BTB to cover several subjects including:
-Having a level of kinship with Roshan Mainam and fighting someone he has mentored
-ONE Dangal and the culturally significant event presentation for Indian MMA
-Giving a level of reprieve with this event to the people of India during the tragic COVID-19 surge
-The dynamics of being coy about the victory since ONE Dangal was a pre-recorded card
-Creating his own little world inside the ONE Championship bubble
-Demetrious Johnson playing a key role in Mangat signing with ONE Championship
-The last fight being a catchweight and Mangat's long term future at flyweight
-Vitor Belfort being an enormous inspiration for getting him out of a dark spot and saving his life
-His profound meeting with Belfort at a ONE retreat that was a quarter-century in the making
-Rich Franklin turning Gurdarshan Mangat onto the idea of competing in mixed martial arts
-The long road from the local college pankration tournaments in basketball shorts
-His drastic life switch from accounting to fighting professionally in his early twenties
-Getting in work out of Revolution Fight Team with ONE bantamweight champ Bibiano Fernandes
-Mangat's appreciation for hip hop and the recent love he's developing for EDM
Gurdarshan Mangat came on BTB to cover several subjects including:
-Having a level of kinship with Roshan Mainam and fighting someone he has mentored
-ONE Dangal and the culturally significant event presentation for Indian MMA
-Giving a level of reprieve with this event to the people of India during the tragic COVID-19 surge
-The dynamics of being coy about the victory since ONE Dangal was a pre-recorded card
-Creating his own little world inside the ONE Championship bubble
-Demetrious Johnson playing a key role in Mangat signing with ONE Championship
-The last fight being a catchweight and Mangat's long term future at flyweight
-Vitor Belfort being an enormous inspiration for getting him out of a dark spot and saving his life
-His profound meeting with Belfort at a ONE retreat that was a quarter-century in the making
-Rich Franklin turning Gurdarshan Mangat onto the idea of competing in mixed martial arts
-The long road from the local college pankration tournaments in basketball shorts
-His drastic life switch from accounting to fighting professionally in his early twenties
-Getting in work out of Revolution Fight Team with ONE bantamweight champ Bibiano Fernandes
-Mangat's appreciation for hip hop and the recent love he's developing for EDM