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