Paul Mcveigh and TUF

theboxingclinic

Paul mcveigh confirmed for TUF try outs, fully sponsored by warrior promotions. Good luck Paul.

John Ferguson

Great to see a lad as decent as Paul getting the chance that he deserves!!! Mega talent and a top bloke with it...... Good luck McVeigh

Hail 2 Da Thief

Awesome. Best of luck to him, hope he does well!

Tones69

This for TUF 14 flys and bantams? Keep this thread updated with pics and vids Best of luck to Paul, im sure he'l do very well!!

Niall0

Good Luck to Paul, he would make TUF alot more entertaining to watch.

ShagNastii

I know very little about the national scene and its fighters, but from what information and news I read here Paul really does seem the business.

Good luck to the guy it shall hopefully make great viewing both TUF and the fights he will probably get in the octagon afterwards.

Oh_Noes

Any further news on this?

scudzilla

Quite a few are flying over for the try-outs, makes me wonder if it wouldn't have been easier holding a session in UK and getting the real contendors fly out to U.S

Mellor

When could we expect results on this?
i know its a big spoiler, but I'd like to know tbh

fedor.2.

Niall0 wrote: »

Good Luck to Paul, he would make TUF alot more entertaining to watch.

In what way exactly?

SDTimeout

fedor.2. wrote: »

In what way exactly?

If you have ever been around Paul, seen an interview, you would know he is a character.

Mellor

Character aside, you can't see how an irish fighter on the show makes it more interesting?

Mrs Lynch

Mellor wrote: »

Character aside, you can't see how an irish fighter on the show makes it more interesting?

Charater aside he has great talent too and is a total asset to Ireland/ Scotland. Id say the Americans will really take to him big time

He is brill fun too and to have him on the show wud really jazz it up imo

TUF trails are today so I wana wish him all the best because frankly he deserves it and works hard at MMA. So everything crossed for him and candles lit lol

Urs
xxxx

p.s. Grraham Turner ther also so Good Luck to him also

Niall0

http://www.mmafighting.com/2011/03/21/the-mma-hour-with-phil-davis-frank-shamrock-dan-hardy-sean-mc/
On the MMA Hour today:

British bantamweight fighter Paul McVeigh, who will be calling from the TUF 14 tryouts in New Jersey.

John Ferguson

McVeigh through to next stage!!

DamoUp

Cool, can definitelty see Paul making it all the way!

_oveless

SDTimeout wrote: »

If you have ever been around Paul, seen an interview, you would know he is a character.

I really don't want to be "that guy" but does being "a character" mean we can expect the same juvenile behavior from him that pretty much makes TUF unwatchable?

Oh_Noes

_oveless wrote: »

I really don't want to be "that guy" but does being "a character" mean we can expect the same juvenile behavior from him that pretty much makes TUF unwatchable?

No, he's actually a fairly clever and articulate type of guy as opposed to the usual jocks throwing each other in the pool or whatever on TUF.

Will be nice to have a tuffer to cheer for if he gets through. Weirdly enough though, I heard Dana White state definitively that Cruz and Faber won't be the coaches for the next series of TUF.

Mellor

Oh_Noes wrote: »

Weirdly enough though, I heard Dana White state definitively that Cruz and Faber won't be the coaches for the next series of TUF.

Really?
Just watch the presser and he said that he isn't sure. But Faber would make sense

theboxingclinic

Paul has made it through to the next round. Congrats

David Jones

Paul has made it through to the next round. Congrats

Great news.

Also keep an eye out for a Next Generation original Ian McCall, has already fought WEC and I would expect him to get to the fight to get in the house stage. Ian was a regular when I was training over there every summer, awesome Muay Thai and crazy wrestling skills and brown belt Jiu Jitsu.

theboxingclinic

He is alsoP through the interview stage and has been short listed, is waiting on the call in the next 2 weeks. Looking good

PerrinV2

Not sure if this is relevant but some TUF tryouts for the 145 pounders on dana blog towards the end

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqA1b9XcLeU

Mellor

Guy in the yellow has serious Jits

:eek: 6'2" Sweede, 180lbs, thinks he can make 145, GTFO not a hope.

Oh_Noes

Ah the beauty of TUF.

Kenny Florian originally competed at middleweight and now he's likely to be fighting at featherweight. 40 lbs of a difference!

Mellor

Kenny was a tiny MW, in actualy fact he was never a real MW it was jsut the weight class availible. He cut to WW just straight after the finale.
After a while training at WW he got in better shape and was able to dropped to LW.
He now think he can cut to 145

This is over 6 years maybe.



You can't see the different with a guy trying to do it in a few weeks?

kainer2

Mellor wrote: »

Guy in the yellow has serious Jits

:eek: 6'2" Sweede, 180lbs, thinks he can make 145, GTFO not a hope.

Martin Svensson made 65.8 on Feb 26th at The Zone and fights Paul Reed in April for the Featherweight Title. And he's very, very, very good

Yeah unless he can cut weight like Anderson Silva he's fcuked.
Why even bother showing up, the cut in weight is going to deplete him so bad that he might not even be able to grapple like that against guys who normally fight at that weight.

Maldini2706

Had a look at his record and he seems to flit between 145 and 155, it's not outside the realms of possibility for him to cut to 155 and then get rid of the rest in water weight on arrival. They're not doing the instant elimination fights any more are they?

Richy06

http://www.mmafighting.com/2011/03/24/inside-look-at-tuf-14-tryouts/

A longer look at the tryouts. Paul crops up to introduce himself and he talks a bit more later on too!

Richy06

Richy06 wrote: »

http://www.mmafighting.com/2011/03/24/inside-look-at-tuf-14-tryouts/

A longer look at the tryouts. Paul crops up to introduce himself and he talks a bit more later on too!

About what time does he be on camera at? I've watched about 4 videos of this :pac:

EDIT: About a minute in :pac:

Sid_Justice

some gnarly ears in that video

David Jones

Is that artemij sitkenov about 38 seconds in? Good to see Ian is still a bad ass.

Mellor

Thanks for the name, couldn't find out who he was.
But he wasn't fighting in feburary, it was november.
We don't know if he was cutting down to 180 to get there or not. But either way its impressive.
I hope he makes it now. Just to see the look on Danas face when he weighs in at 145

35lbs is a huge cut, for anyone. For a FW its massive
november fight here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4xtwciJGmo

ollieo

Does anyone one have more info on whether Paul got in or not?

Sid_Justice

he's through the next phase - the interviews. don't think that process has begun yet.

theboxingclinic

Hes through the interview phase as well. Just waiting for the call now

SBG Ireland

theboxingclinic wrote: »

Hes through the interview phase as well. Just waiting for the call now

i never wouldve guessed he'd get thru the interview stage lol
i think paul is the most deserviing 'irish' fighter to be in the UFC at this stage

Nanoc

David Jones wrote: »

Is that artemij sitkenov about 38 seconds in?.

Yup sure is, anybody know how he got on?

kainer2

Nanoc wrote: »

Yup sure is, anybody know how he got on?

I heard sitkenov didnt get past the first grappling stage

leeds87

lads just wondering am i missing something, i dont know anything about paul mcveigh but in the video he says he is from scotland.

Sid_Justice

I think he was born and bred in Belfast but moved to Scotland as a young adult and has lived there for ... hmm... 7 years? Longer?

So when he says he's from Scotland I guess he means that's where he lives, where his club is (dinky ninjas) and where he fights out of.

Mellor

When he comes into the ring/octagon he would be refered to as "from ireland, fighting out of Scotland"
The from part might even get dropped sometimes

kainer2

Mellor wrote: »

When he comes into the ring/octagon he would be refered to as "from ireland, fighting out of Scotland"
The from part might even get dropped sometimes

If he makes the UFC

On the Tape of the Tape i guess it would say he was Irish

And based in Glasgow by way of Ireland

But also, does it really matter?

HellsAngel

kainer2 wrote: »

If he makes the UFC

On the Tape of the Tape i guess it would say he was Irish

And based in Glasgow by way of Ireland

But also, does it really matter?

Well if he's successful we'll claim him as one of our own, it he's not we'll throw him to the Jocks

What format is this TUF taking, USA v Rest of the World or what ??

cowzerp

HellsAngel wrote: »

Well if he's successful we'll claim him as one of our own, it he's not we'll throw him to the Jocks

What format is this TUF taking, USA v Rest of the World or what ??

He's 1 ours either way.

Mellor

HellsAngel wrote: »

Well if he's successful we'll claim him as one of our own, it he's not we'll throw him to the Jocks

What format is this TUF taking, USA v Rest of the World or what ??

There's not USA vrs UK was a one off.
This is a regualr season like all the others

MrStuffins

Anyone got an update on this?

Mellor

TUF 14 airs in the US in mid-september. It's the featherweight division, and the bantamweight division.
It'd back to the usual format, 32 fighters (16 in each div) have to fight to make into the house. They skipped this last time and it was nearly as good.
The wild card picks are gone, its just old fashioned fight to win. 3 wins gets you to the finale (inc the fight into the house).
Being the first ever time for BWs and FWs the standard was pretty high I imagine. Former UFC and WEC fighters tried out afaik.

Spoiler regarding Paul Mc Veigh

He made it through try outs and was chosen to be one of the 16 bantumweights fighting to get into the house

MrStuffins

Mellor wrote: »

Spoiler regarding Paul Mc Veigh

He made it through try outs and was chosen to be one of the 16 bantumweights fighting to get into the house

Awesome

fightireland

Wow - thats amazing!