MC No More

mark.leonard

It is with some regret that have decided to leave Ring Announcing behind me. My appearance at the Battle of Antrim on the 2nd of August will be my final MC gig, barring the Galway shows.

I wish to thank, John Kavanagh for giving me my start, Davy Patterson, Marty Walker, Jonny Burrowes and all the promoters who booked me in the last 4 years. I loved every minute of it, as I am sure everyone knew

Nothing lasts forever though, and with the current demands on my time, something has to give. I will always be available to any MC for advice or any help of any kind, and I wish the very best of luck to whomever my replacements will be.

Perfect fit

best of luck mark:D

PADRAIC.M

so if we want to hear "lets give it up for these two warriors" we'll have to go to tribal warfare?

Tim_Murphy

If this doesn't fill the seats at the next Tribal Warfare i don't know what will!

Seriously though, Mark will be missed, he was IMO by far the best MC I've seen at an Irish event.

FiannaGym.com

Bruce Buffer and Lenne Hardt are breathing a sighs of relief.

Enjoy your "retirement" Mark you always did a deadly job!

Peace

The Shane

I'll miss you Mark. You were always the best.

Boom!!!!

wayne1

. I will always be available to any MC for advice or any help of any kind, and I wish the very best of luck to whomever my replacements will be.[/QUOTE]
WELL DONE

I think the new one is richie ur oid flame mark

Kent Brockman

Well if the company car and the perks are good.......

Uhh..lets get readdddddddyyy to errrrrrrrrr rumbleee!!!!!

Roper

BOOM!

If you have one regret Mark, it's that you've never had the opportunity to announce me.

My 2 Cents

Fair well to Mark 'The Exaggerator' Leonard,
Believe it or not, not everyone had the ego busting opinion of your MC'n abilities as the usuall posters on here. How ever we will miss your blatant over promoting of fighters with fight records you can write on the back of a stamp and about a much experience as a blind man in a game of 'I Spy' as warriors who have been through wars. Your ability to announce everyone with an entrance that would make Couture or Liddell blush is unrivaled.


And now. . . . . .Roll on the defensive hatred filled replies of the handfull who will not allow another person to have an opinion contrary to the usual posters here.

Kent Brockman

Well done Mark, its not an easy job

(and always remember...... even Pamela Anderson had her Knockers:D )

Kent Brockman

My 2 Cents wrote: »

Fair well to Mark 'The Exaggerator' Leonard,
Believe it or not, not everyone had the ego busting opinion of your MC'n abilities as the usuall posters on here. How ever we will miss your blatant over promoting of fighters with fight records you can write on the back of a stamp and about a much experience as a blind man in a game of 'I Spy' as warriors who have been threw wars. Your ability to announce everyone with an entrance that would make Couture or Liddell blush is unrivaled.
Oh and in closing, i'm sure Ron Burgandy would be greatfull if you could stop plagiarising him now.



And now. . . . . .Roll on the defensive hatered filled replies of the handfull who will not allow another person to have an opinion contrary to the usual posters here.

Its one thing to have a point of view which may differ from the majority on this thread..... but it is another to be able to put that point across in a manner which does not offend or insult people.

Although the last part of your post sometimes rings true on this forum , I think the manner of your post is inviting a hostile response.

I also dont feel there is any need to defend Marks MCing:D

Tim_Murphy

And now. . . . . .Roll on the defensive hatered filled replies of the handfull who will not allow another person to have an opinion contrary to the usual posters here.

Man, I hate those hatered filled replies! :rolleyes:

Dragan

My 2 Cents wrote: »

Fair well to Mark 'The Exaggerator' Leonard,
Believe it or not, not everyone had the ego busting opinion of your MC'n abilities as the usuall posters on here. How ever we will miss your blatant over promoting of fighters with fight records you can write on the back of a stamp and about a much experience as a blind man in a game of 'I Spy' as warriors who have been threw wars. Your ability to announce everyone with an entrance that would make Couture or Liddell blush is unrivaled.
Oh and in closing, i'm sure Ron Burgandy would be greatfull if you could stop plagiarising him now.



And now. . . . . .Roll on the defensive hatered filled replies of the handfull who will not allow another person to have an opinion contrary to the usual posters here.

Translation : Mark you did exactly what an MC should do. Hype the fight.

P.S - Ron Burgandy is not a real person, script was written by Will Ferrell.;)

My 2 Cents

Dragan wrote: »

P.S - Ron Burgandy is not a real person, script was written by Will Ferrell.;)

You forget Adam McKay!
But thats a lil off point, as was my mention of it in the first place so i've taken it out.;)

mark.leonard

Just back from a week away.
Thanks everyone for your kind words, as originally posted it was a lot of fun, and I will still dust off the mic for Tribal Warfare shows.
BOOM!

cowzerp

My 2 Cents wrote: »

Fair well to Mark 'The Exaggerator' Leonard,
Believe it or not, not everyone had the ego busting opinion of your MC'n abilities as the usuall posters on here. How ever we will miss your blatant over promoting of fighters with fight records you can write on the back of a stamp and about a much experience as a blind man in a game of 'I Spy' as warriors who have been through wars. Your ability to announce everyone with an entrance that would make Couture or Liddell blush is unrivaled.

So your criticising mark for doing a good job? its his job as an mc to big up everything and to make the atmosphere great, wheter you like mark or not you cant deny that he played an important role in making the shows entertaining. he'll be missed from the shows-end of.

Judomad

cowzerp wrote: »

So your criticising mark for doing a good job? its his job as an mc to big up everything and to make the atmosphere great, wheter you like mark or not you cant deny that he played an important role in making the shows entertaining. he'll be missed from the shows-end of.

+1

arybvtcw0eolkf

The Shane wrote: »

I'll miss you Mark. You were always the best.

Boom!!!!

There ya go, fixed.

Mark, one of my best memories of MMA in Ireland was RoT I. And not only how MMA exploded onto the Irish scene (or rather Irish MMA exploded onto the scen) but also for the entertainment value you brought to the whole thing.

Thank You.

My 2 Cents

cowzerp wrote: »

So your criticising mark for doing a good job? its his job as an mc to big up everything and to make the atmosphere great, wheter you like mark or not you cant deny that he played an important role in making the shows entertaining. he'll be missed from the shows-end of.

Not everyone thought he done a good job (You can hardly call the posters on here unbiased or Impartial so there say doesn't count for much in my book)
I'm simply having my say, i think there is a big difference between big up'n someone and flat out exagerating there abilities and I never said he didn't make it entertaining.
To say he will be missed from shows, well thats your opinion and maybe the opinion of others and you 're intitled to it but its not the opinion of everyone.
end of.

dlofnep

Mark MC'd the first MMA show in Ireland I ever went to. And now, he's leaving us. I feel used

cowzerp

My 2 Cents wrote: »

Not everyone thought he done a good job (You can hardly call the posters on here unbiased or Impartial so there say doesn't count for much in my book)

In what way am i biased towards Mark?
I am impartial and am speaking as a rival coach to mark so dont understand where your coming from, your the 1st person i've ever seen that wants mc's to play down fighters, anyone who gets in there has heart and deserves to be bigged up imo.

t-ha

LOL, I vote My 2 Cents to take over from Mark.

"...and his opponent, I used to roll with him in the gym and didn't think much of his skills, here he comes with only two MMA fights behind him and looking a bit soft between you and me..."

Dragan

t-ha wrote: »

LOL, I vote My 2 Cents to take over from Mark.

"...and his opponent, I used to roll with him in the gym and didn't think much of his skills, here he comes with only two MMA fights behind him and looking a bit soft between you and me..."

LoL.

Now then, in a more serious note,

My 2 Cents, Mark posted her to let people know he would be hanging up the mic, thats about it. You've said you didn't appreciate what he brought to the events and that fair enough, now lets leave it at that yes?

Dragan
- SDMA Moderator.

Tim_Murphy

Not everyone thought he done a good job (You can hardly call the posters on here unbiased or Impartial so there say doesn't count for much in my book)

Why?
There's a good few different people on this boards from various MMA clubs.

To say he will be missed from shows, well thats your opinion and maybe the opinion of others and you 're intitled to it but its not the opinion of everyone.

Who said it was?

FiannaGym.com

To put it another way, Mark could "big up" the writing and grammatical skills of My 2 cents.

Peace

My 2 Cents

Dragan wrote: »

LoL.

Now then, in a more serious note,

My 2 Cents, Mark posted her to let people know he would be hanging up the mic, thats about it. You've said you didn't appreciate what he brought to the events and that fair enough, now lets leave it at that yes?

Dragan
- SDMA Moderator.

100% Yes, i've had my say on this topic.

Anyway the usual suspects have proved me right by reacting the way they did, they are incapable of accepting that someone might have a different point of view to them.

Nothingcompares

My 2 Cents wrote: »

100% Yes, i've had my say on this topic.

Anyway the usual suspects have proved me right by reacting the way they did, they are incapable of accepting that someone might have a different point of view to them.

No, you don't get it. You have an opinion, almost everyone else has a differing opinion. Everyone accepts you have an opinon. No one agrees with you. What's your problem? Your opinion seems to demonstrate a complete lack of understanding of the role of MC at cage/ring events.

More importantly your "point of view" is obsure and anonymous. Therefore it carries little weight. Who are you and what exactly is your greivance?

SorGan

whats an mc? and can we replaces one if it goes wonky?:mad:

SorGan

SorGan wrote: »

whats an mc? and can we replaces one if it goes wonky?:mad:

well drunk:D

Tim_Murphy

Anyway the usual suspects have proved me right by reacting the way they did, they are incapable of accepting that someone might have a different point of view to them.

Have you actually read any of the posts? You do know that not liking an MC isn't a particularly controvesial position to take. nobody really cares. Mark can be a bit over the top at times, and whilst I think he does a great job I can see how others might think differently.

Dragan

My 2 Cents wrote: »

100% Yes, i've had my say on this topic.

Anyway the usual suspects have proved me right by reacting the way they did, they are incapable of accepting that someone might have a different point of view to them.

Awesome. So let me put it another way. Mark posted to let people know he was giving up the game, not for critique on his style.

Keep it up and i'll just lock you down for a while for personal abuse.

You don't seem to like ( from what i can take of your posts ) a few of the users on this forum. I would suggest you post here a bit more positively in future.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Dragan wrote: »

Awesome. So let me put it another way. Mark posted to let people know he was giving up the game, not for critique on his style.

Keep it up and i'll just lock you down for a while for personal abuse.

You don't seem to like ( from what i can take of your posts ) a few of the users on this forum. I would suggest you post here a bit more positively in future.

Show 'em the rib kick D

My 2 Cents

Dragan wrote: »

Awesome. So let me put it another way. Mark posted to let people know he was giving up the game, not for critique on his style.

Keep it up and i'll just lock you down for a while for personal abuse.

You don't seem to like ( from what i can take of your posts ) a few of the users on this forum. I would suggest you post here a bit more positively in future.

Whatever, lock me down if you want!
I haven't said a single thing about mark personally, i merely had my say on his ability to MC an event. Surely you can differentiate between personal and professional critiscism.
As to the other posters, i've nothing against any of them, most of them are part of a sport i love and want to see grow but i just don't like the way some of them seem to refuse to acknowledge anything negitive about the local/National scene. (and not just on this topic obviously)

Dragan

Mairt wrote: »

Show 'em the rib kick D

Quiet you!! I'll tell you the story behind that sometime. Tis funny!!!

My 2 Cents

My 2 Cents wrote: »

Fair well to Mark '' Leonard,
Believe it or not, not everyone had the ego busting opinion of your MC'n abilities as thhttp://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=857
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=857e usuall posters on here. How ever we will miss your blatant over promoting of fighters with fight records you can write on the back of a stamp and about a much experience as a blind man in a game of 'I Spy' as warriors who have been through wars. Your ability to announce everyone with an entrance that would make Couture or Liddell blush is unrivaled.


And now. . . . . .Roll on the defensive hatred filled replies of the handfull who will not allow another person to have an opinion contrary to the usual posters here.

Advice: simple punctuation (that means commas, full stops etc) would have saved me about 30 seconds of re-reading your post so that I could understand what it was you were trying to say.


More advice: MC's are supposed to make the crowd believe theyre watching two high level guys so if he over exaggerates guys thats him doing his job. I watched both Bruce and Michael Buffer over the weeksens, both generally regarded as the 2 best in that field, and I never once heard them say "and in the red corner, here as a human punching bag to make the other guy look good". :rolleyes:



We get it. You are bitter about something or other, and you don't like Mark. Great. What I don't understand is how you felt you had nothing better to do with your time than to come on the internet and start trying to belittle a guy who does a lot of work for the MMA scene in Ireland and who never claimed to be a professional MC. It's sad that you felt that doing this merited taking enough of your time to come on here and frankly make a complete tit of yourself while trying to have a cheap go at another poster here.

ch252

Look, it's not that we are saying you can't have an opinion, and we can all see where you're coming from, we're just trying to show you where we're coming from. It all boils down to this, you say He over exaggerates things, we say he does that as it is his job and we're trying to show you that it is his job to do this but you aren't listening, take it like a man and move on, this thread shouldn't be a fight, its about Mark announcing his (partial) retirement as a MC.

crokester

My 2 cents faulty reasoning runs a little like

"I have an opinion. I have a right to that opinion. Nobody else has a right to an opinion on my opinion. Especially on a discussion board"

My 2 Cents

crokester wrote: »

My 2 cents faulty reasoning runs a little like

"I have an opinion. I have a right to that opinion. Nobody else has a right to an opinion on my opinion. Especially on a discussion board"

Finally someone gets it!:rolleyes:

Colm_OReilly

Quite enough of this. Thread closed.