A SCOTS gym owner found himself on the receiving end of vicious mockery after talking about life in early 2000s Glasgow on a podcast.
David Galbraith, owner of NewLife Gym in Glasgow, appeared on the Development By David podcast to share his experience of “the reality of Glasgow in the early 00s”.
The MMA coach made a series of claims about life in Scotland’s largest city that attracted doubts from viewers – including that he once knocked out a group of seven men who were attacking him with knives.
A clip from the podcast shows David as he recounts: “Glasgow, early 2000s, it was stab capital and murder capital of Europe.
“Growing up, see by the time I was 23 I’d lost like 17 or 18 pals, dead. Either drowning, drink, drugs, getting run over, that’s like war statistics.
“Getting stabbed, murdered, you know what I mean? These things were just like normal to us.
“I’d be going out, I’d be dancing in nightclubs, stuff like that. One night I had seven guys attack me with knives and all that.
“I knocked most of them out, and it was a targeted attack.
“They didn’t know who we were they were just targeting somebody for the sake of targeting somebody, they didn’t know who I was.
“My pals knew I could fight, people knew that I could fight, that I could handle myself and one thing I will say is I never intended ever to start a fight. I didn’t like starting fights.
“But I wouldn’t back down, from anybody, I’d take on 10, 20, 30 guys and I just had that mentality.”
The clip of David’s outrageous claims was shared to social media on Wednesday with the caption: “‘Glasgow had war statistics’ – the reality of schemes / council estates in Scotland that led David Galbraith to turn his life into pro-MMA.”
It has since received over 3,290 likes and more than 265 comments from social media users mocking David for his unfounded boasts.
One user said: “These podcasts are just getting worse by the week.”
Another wrote: “Absolute nonsense, 17 or 18 pals.”
A third replied: “Anyone calling this bulls**t is clearly too young to know. The young teams used to run amok it was mental.”
Another commented: “Did ye mate aye?”
A fifth added: “There’s a major resurgence in scheme fighting and the blades boys carry these days are terrifying, big, serrated murder weapons.”
