Eddie Duggan midlands Mma

cowzerp

Could anyone get in touch with Eddie Duggan from midlands mma as his phone seems to be unanswerable and he has a lad fighting on the rumble in rush on Saturday, I need to contact him about the weigh ins etc

cowzerp

Ok, i have been ringing, E mailing, Texting, publicly writing on here and writing on Facebook to Eddie, I'm still hanging onto the idea that he will ring me to find out weigh in details but it's not looking good.

If he does not i am going to ask all Promoters to Black list this club and Coach as this is most unprofessional thing you could do on any promotion

This is the type of thing that the community needs to stick together on,
and its an awful thing to do to a fighter who bothered his hole to get in shape for a fight and make weight etc

I am currently trying to get a late replacement for a fight that i don't even know is off.

I will be updating this later on how this pans out and will be making it very public, if he decides to just not show up.

To try end on a positive I'm still hoping that he gets onto me and this is a bad misunderstanding.

Legends MMA Gym

I have to agree with Paul here, I have been trying to contact Eddie for some time now but to no avail. As a promoter and coach I can understand how frustrating this can be. I have a couple of Eddies guys booked on my next show and unless Eddie can come up with a valid and reasonable explanation as to the lack of contact with myself/Paul I will have no choice but to cut them from the event. This is unfair on his fighters but he has to realise the amount of effort promoters go through and not to mention the opposing fighters. I really do hope there is a positive outcome from this as at the moment there are plenty of reputable Irish shows out there and we could always do with some more fighters in the pool!

cowzerp

Text From Eddie Duggan while we where at the weigh in

Hi sorry cant be there.someone passed away in my fam'y

1st off, Sorry for your loss.
in saying that
My club won't be on any show that puts this club on, their is nothing stopping the fighter been brought by another coach and it only takes 1 minute to call to pull out or to explain issues, or just answering instead of letting it run out every call

My fighter had sold many tickets and they are all been refunded and potentially I may lose money on the show, I have been trying to contact Eddie for a week now and could have been told to search for a new opponent, now it is too late.

To say my fighter is disappointed is an understatement.

arybvtcw0eolkf

This sucks for everyone Paul, I hope you're supported by other clubs and promotions throughout the country too.

I can't imagine Tommys disappointment, see you all at the show tonight.

00benski

Before anyone jumps on me here, i dont know anything about anyone on here and anything about the situation, but in fairness im just looking at it from an outside point of view.

If it was the guys, child, wife, mother/father brother or sister, which i pray it was neither that passed away im sure the last thing on his mind was to ring and try to organise something else. So i think to come on a public website and stay stuff like that without knowing who it was that passed away is unfair.

It might of affected the rest of the club hence why nobody got a phone call. Im just throwing that out there, and certainly dont want to offend anybody.

Performance Martial Arts

I don't think Paul is being insensitive to the issue but in fairness a simple txt to say what happened would have made the situation very easy but the fact that there was no contact at all for the whole week after numerous calls and txts were made. The fighter in question trained his ass off and cut weight etc and that could have been saved or replaced if a simple txt was made. To be honest I find it a bit disrespectful and I think if things like this are allowed to continue it will only cause problems on shows. The club in question are booked for a show in 5 weeks and I no if it was my fighter in involved I would have concerns.

Snappy the Moose

I'm sure there was a reason why he sent you a text and not the boards.ie mma forum Cowzer.

It was unprofessional behaviour from the gentleman in question but you are equally as bad with this.

Performance Martial Arts

Snappy the Moose wrote: »

I'm sure there was a reason why he sent you a text and not the boards.ie mma forum Cowzer.

It was unprofessional behaviour from the gentleman in question but you are equally as bad with this.

Have you read the whole thread above?? To be honest it's a good thing this subject was brought to attention so that possible further problems like this can be avoided in the future. No matter what there should have been some sort of communication like a simple txt to explain things and as this is the biggest MMA forum I'm sure Paul was more trying to get his attention more than anything else

Snappy the Moose

Performance Martial Arts wrote: »

Have you read the whole thread above?? To be honest it's a good thing this subject was brought to attention so that possible further problems like this can be avoided in the future. No matter what there should have been some sort of communication like a simple txt to explain things and as this is the biggest MMA forum I'm sure Paul was more trying to get his attention more than anything else

Yes, I have already highlighted his behaviour was unprofessional.

Paul attempted to get his attention in the first post, the subsequent thanks mission with his mma buddies was unnecessary.

There is a correct way to deal with certain issues, neither person has done that here.

cowzerp

Correct way-please explain!
I assume your advocating a dojo invasion

I exhausted all avenues of contact before I used this forum-I'm not on here to be mr nice guy-as a community we can't tolerate coaches/clubs who have no regard for their opponents or for promotions who simply are nothing without fighters.

Ps, He was downright ignoring us, it's not like he was unaware we wanted clarification-I'm quite sensitive to people's personal life hence why I'm unhappy that my lad who has his own family dedicated 2 months training at every opportunity to this and could have been at home with his Missus and child doing family stuff.

Stephen_King

Havent heard of the threat of a dojo invasion in a few years. Dark times indeed!

cowzerp

cowzerp wrote: »

My club won't be on any show that puts this club on.

Just an update on this-as there is no actual official punishment that can be given by promotions for been messed about we need to just try to work together to make sure that we as a community don't get messed about-When I 1st wrote the quote above I was intending on following this up indefinitely, what I am hoping will happen is that they are not dealt with for a period of time

I'm personally hoping nobody has any MMA dealings with these for 6 months and then after that it's forgotten and it's all starting with a clean slate, action like this should be taken more often if we feel messed about .

If any shows do put them Eddie Duggan/Midlands mma on within 6 months from now then it will be my last dealings with them but that's the individual promoters business what they do, I'd hope the promoters and clubs can show solidarity and stick together like we did for the rules changes etc...

j.ging

only reading this now.. that is wrong.. why take the fight in the 1st place.. any time i cant make it 2 a event i always have some else to take my place... we have a fighter on celtic gladiator who took a fight at 84kg 2 maybe 3 weeks ago and now he wont cut 4 kg to make weight.. said 2 nights ago i cant do it now his coach is saying that he has a flu.. not on at all.. the other fight has trained hard and for what?? for this crap...

theboxingclinic

j.ging wrote: »

only reading this now.. that is wrong.. why take the fight in the 1st place.. any time i cant make it 2 a event i always have some else to take my place... we have a fighter on celtic gladiator who took a fight at 84kg 2 maybe 3 weeks ago and now he wont cut 4 kg to make weight.. said 2 nights ago i cant do it now his coach is saying that he has a flu.. not on at all.. the other fight has trained hard and for what?? for this crap...

This kinda **** is ruining shows, I wont be dealing with midlands mma nor will i be dealing with team morceago who 2 weeks ago agreed to fight one of my lads at 84ks, then 2 days ago told john ging they wouldnt cut the 4 kgs to do so. its left john 1 fight less and my lad who has worked his ass off for this without a fight.

Patrick Quinn

theboxingclinic wrote: »

j.ging wrote: »

only reading this now.. that is wrong.. why take the fight in the 1st place.. any time i cant make it 2 a event i always have some else to take my place... we have a fighter on celtic gladiator who took a fight at 84kg 2 maybe 3 weeks ago and now he wont cut 4 kg to make weight.. said 2 nights ago i cant do it now his coach is saying that he has a flu.. not on at all.. the other fight has trained hard and for what?? for this crap...

This kinda **** is ruining shows, I wont be dealing with midlands mma nor will i be dealing with team morceago who 2 weeks ago agreed to fight one of my lads at 84ks, then 2 days ago told john ging they wouldnt cut the 4 kgs to do so. its left john 1 fight less and my lad who has worked his ass off for this without a fight.

If thae fella really wanted to fight then he should try like **** to loss the weight, by sounds of it he wasnt keen on the fight in the first place giving up saying cant loss weight

theboxingclinic

We offered to take the fight at 86 so that he didn't have to cut much, the response was he has the flu!!

Patrick Quinn wrote: »

theboxingclinic wrote: »

j.ging wrote: »

only reading this now.. that is wrong.. why take the fight in the 1st place.. any time i cant make it 2 a event i always have some else to take my place... we have a fighter on celtic gladiator who took a fight at 84kg 2 maybe 3 weeks ago and now he wont cut 4 kg to make weight.. said 2 nights ago i cant do it now his coach is saying that he has a flu.. not on at all.. the other fight has trained hard and for what?? for this crap...

This kinda **** is ruining shows, I wont be dealing with midlands mma nor will i be dealing with team morceago who 2 weeks ago agreed to fight one of my lads at 84ks, then 2 days ago told john ging they wouldnt cut the 4 kgs to do so. its left john 1 fight less and my lad who has worked his ass off for this without a fight.

If thae fella really wanted to fight then he should try like **** to loss the weight, by sounds of it he wasnt keen on the fight in the first place giving up saying cant loss weight

Barry.Oglesby

Maybe he has the flu?

theboxingclinic

whats that got to do with taking a fight at an agreed weight almost a month before the date and then 2 days ago deciding he cant make the weight? what has the flu got to to with that?

Barry.Oglesby

theboxingclinic wrote: »

whats that got to do with taking a fight at an agreed weight almost a month before the date and then 2 days ago deciding he cant make the weight? what has the flu got to to with that?

It would certainly have a serious effect on a weight cut for one thing. I'd also be pretty reticent about putting someone through a weight cut if they'd recently had influenza (not man flu).

hey maybe the guy just likes ice cream too much and is in perfect health, but dragging the club's name through the mud on the internet doesn't seem like the way to resolve anything. You might not believe their excuse but, well, that's Chinatown. It's been happening since fights began.

themandan6611

theboxingclinic wrote: »

whats that got to do with taking a fight at an agreed weight almost a month before the date and then 2 days ago deciding he cant make the weight? what has the flu got to to with that?

maybe barry was taking the p2ss ?

Legends MMA Gym

I always like to give people the benefit of the doubt but over the past few weeks I have phoned EDDIE 12 times and he has not answered one of my calls. The only response I got was, without any disrespect to Eddie, a text message that I could not make sense of. I understand the situation with a passing in his family/friends but I am sure there would have been someone else in the club to stand in under such circumstances. I personally am not going to ask anyone to boycot Eddie or his club but due to his lack of communication and the way things were handled with Paul (Rumble in Rush), I am not taking the chance and will be withdrawing the club from Man of War. I will be open to having Midlands MMA on future shows if they can prove to be reliable and professional in their dealings with clubs and promoters alike.

theboxingclinic

no mention of flu when they refused point blank to cut the weight, so invalid point.

Barry.Oglesby wrote: »

It would certainly have a serious effect on a weight cut for one thing. I'd also be pretty reticent about putting someone through a weight cut if they'd recently had influenza (not man flu).

hey maybe the guy just likes ice cream too much and is in perfect health, but dragging the club's name through the mud on the internet doesn't seem like the way to resolve anything. You might not believe their excuse but, well, that's Chinatown. It's been happening since fights began.

Barry.Oglesby

theboxingclinic wrote: »

no mention of flu when they refused point blank to cut the weight, so invalid point

I'll have it stricken from the record so?

Im not trying to guess right. We're not playing family fortunes here, I'm just saying it might be a better idea to have a more measured and less public response. As a promoter, fighter and coach I've heard some amazing stories and been ****ed over manys a time but if I were to go to the Internet every time I'd never be off it. Sometimes people are arseholes and sometimes there's a genuine breakdown in communication . In either case I don't think anyone benefits from a public call out.

theboxingclinic

I couldn't agree more that nobody benefits from this, however some people benefit less then others from what happened, namely Celtic gladiator and will fleury.
There are many reasons for a fighter to withdraw from a fight which are acceptable and happen all the time. This however is not acceptable and there was no breakdown in communication. Basically it went like this.
Phone call from John Ging the monday after Will fought on mma clinic amateur fight night 2 offering Will a fight with one of morceagos guys. Great lets take it. Fight agreed at 84kgs. No time off for Will straight back into hard training.
2 weeks later, with 10 days left to the fight, when it is very difficult to get a replacement fighter Celtic Gladiator receive call stating that there fighter is refusing point blank to cut from 88 to 84 over the next 10 days. At this stage he did not have the "flu".
Now I really couldn't care less about the fighters diet or why he is refusing to make weight because if he felt 84 was too low fight should not have been accepted 2 weeks previous when John had time to find somebody else to fight Will.
It has left the promoter angry, it has left me angry and Will is angry.
When clubs behave like this then people should know. It might put a stop to this behaviour in future.
Because this kind of behaviour has gone on in the fight game from the beginning is not reason enough to accept it now.

Barry.Oglesby wrote: »

theboxingclinic wrote: »

no mention of flu when they refused point blank to cut the weight, so invalid point

I'll have it stricken from the record so?

Im not trying to guess right. We're not playing family fortunes here, I'm just saying it might be a better idea to have a more measured and less public response. As a promoter, fighter and coach I've heard some amazing stories and been ****ed over manys a time but if I were to go to the Internet every time I'd never be off it. Sometimes people are arseholes and sometimes there's a genuine breakdown in communication . In either case I don't think anyone benefits from a public call out.

theboxingclinic

update: Fight is now back on, promoter received a call this morning saying they will take the fight at 86. no mention of flu. strange to say the least

Niall0

Barry.Oglesby wrote: »

I'm just saying it might be a better idea to have a more measured and less public response. As a promoter, fighter and coach I've heard some amazing stories and been ****ed over manys a time but if I were to go to the Internet every time I'd never be off it. Sometimes people are arseholes and sometimes there's a genuine breakdown in communication . In either case I don't think anyone benefits from a public call out.

In fairness its just bringing a situation to light to the mma community in Ireland, Sometimes people are arseholes and maybe other promoters should know who the arseholes are? So maybe some people would benefit?

cowzerp

Niall0 wrote: »

In fairness its just bringing a situation to light to the mma community in Ireland, Sometimes people are arseholes and maybe other promoters should know who the arseholes are? So maybe some people would benefit?

Agreed, If it can be dealt with privately that's how it should be in my opinion-but if it can't I don't think just accepting it is good enough for me, that just allows for bad situations to keep arising without any comeback at all.

RoboRat

Agreed, If it can be dealt with privately that's how it should be in my opinion-but if it can't I don't think just accepting it is good enough for me, that just allows for bad situations to keep arising without any comeback at all.

Thats the problem with this country, we just go 'ah well' and move on. There is never any consequences and until there is, the same **** will keep on happening.

Yourwellcum

cowzerp wrote: »

Agreed, If it can be dealt with privately that's how it should be in my opinion-but if it can't I don't think just accepting it is good enough for me, that just allows for bad situations to keep arising without any comeback at all.

Which in your case was fine, but I think the boxing clinic scenario was premature which is evident considering the fight is now back on.

theboxingclinic

Lol, premature!! Do you think the fight would be back on if I hasdbt brought this to light!



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cowzerp wrote: »

Agreed, If it can be dealt with privately that's how it should be in my opinion-but if it can't I don't think just accepting it is good enough for me, that just allows for bad situations to keep arising without any comeback at all.

Which in your case was fine, but I think the boxing clinic scenario was premature which is evident considering the fight is now back on.[/Quote]

Yourwellcum

theboxingclinic wrote: »

Lol, premature!! Do you think the fight would be back on if I hasdbt brought this to light!



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Which in your case was fine, but I think the boxing clinic scenario was premature which is evident considering the fight is now back on.

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I think thats my point. Maybe more discussions with the team in question would of yielded the same result. If all it took was a few lines on a forum, I dont think the obstacles to the fight were that great

theboxingclinic

Discussion: we refuse to cut 4kgs, cool cut 2 we will fight at 86, no we have the flu.
The expectation would have been that I and the promoter would have moved on.
Guess they were wrong!!
Your welcome to your opinion but this fight would not have happened if not brought up on fb and boards, those involved in organising this fight of which your are not 1 would agree with me on this.

Yourwellcum wrote: »

theboxingclinic wrote: »

Lol, premature!! Do you think the fight would be back on if I hasdbt brought this to light!



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Which in your case was fine, but I think the boxing clinic scenario was premature which is evident considering the fight is now back on.

I think thats my point. Maybe more discussions with the team in question would of yielded the same result. If all it took was a few lines on a forum, I dont think the obstacles to the fight were that great[/Quote]

Yourwellcum

theboxingclinic wrote: »

Discussion: we refuse to cut 4kgs, cool cut 2 we will fight at 86, no we have the flu.
The expectation would have been that I and the promoter would have moved on.
Guess they were wrong!!
Your welcome to your opinion but this fight would not have happened if not brought up on fb and boards, those involved in organising this fight of which your are not 1 would agree with me on this

Im sure they would but your basing all this on your own opinion and trying to pass it off as fact.

There is no point discussing this further sufficied to say your idea of being professional does not rank along with mine and I doubt I am on my own on this one.

theboxingclinic

so you are saying that I am the unprofessional one? lol, who the hell are you?
Unfortunately for you it's exactly what happened and is indeed fact, I have an unbiased witness in the promoter and John Ging, so basically your spouting off about something u know nothing about.
Anyways the fight is back on, job done as far as I am concerned

mmmm...not sure

Its a joke this fight is back on why put a fighter in the cage that clearly doesnt want to be there he has obviously been ordered to fight by his coaches to save their reputation, plenty of fighters looking to get on a big show like celtic gladitor why give a fighter like this a second chance

SBG Ireland

mmmm...not sure wrote: »

plenty of fighters looking to get on a big show like celtic gladitor

no there's not, especially at 84kg.

Barry.Oglesby

theboxingclinic wrote: »

I couldn't agree more that nobody benefits from this, however some people benefit less then others from what happened, namely Celtic gladiator and will fleury.
There are many reasons for a fighter to withdraw from a fight which are acceptable and happen all the time. This however is not acceptable and there was no breakdown in communication. Basically it went like this.
Phone call from John Ging the monday after Will fought on mma clinic amateur fight night 2 offering Will a fight with one of morceagos guys. Great lets take it. Fight agreed at 84kgs. No time off for Will straight back into hard training.
2 weeks later, with 10 days left to the fight, when it is very difficult to get a replacement fighter Celtic Gladiator receive call stating that there fighter is refusing point blank to cut from 88 to 84 over the next 10 days. At this stage he did not have the "flu".
Now I really couldn't care less about the fighters diet or why he is refusing to make weight because if he felt 84 was too low fight should not have been accepted 2 weeks previous when John had time to find somebody else to fight Will.
It has left the promoter angry, it has left me angry and Will is angry.
When clubs behave like this then people should know. It might put a stop to this behaviour in future.
Because this kind of behaviour has gone on in the fight game from the beginning is not reason enough to accept it now.

I'm sure Morcegao team will have a different story to yours. perhaps it would be better to hear their one and then make an informed decision about whether to come to the internet. 6 posts ago you would never deal with Morcegao ever again and now the fight is back on.

You're relatively new to this so you're going off on one very publicly. With thousands of Irish MMA fans reading on, you have gone and blackballed a club, only to unblackball them a day later. A phone call directly to them could have sorted this out one way or the other. We've all had fighters miss weight and if you haven't, some day you will, guaranteed. It happens. It's not always anyone's fault and it's not always innocent either. If you want to make a point, why not email clubs and promoters? Half of the coaches and promoters don't read this board anyway.

If it happened as you said it did then that's not cool, don't get me wrong. But one day you'll be the guy on the other end of the phone explaining that your guy is heavy. Imagine if someone went scurrying to boards every time that happened?

Barry.Oglesby

SBG Ireland wrote: »

no there's not, especially at 84kg.

Exactly. And we all make mistakes and sometimes for the sake of a fight you just bite your lip!

theboxingclinic

1) I'm most concerned with my fighter staying active and getting the fight that he has trained for. When saying I wouldn't deal with this team I was referring to my own shows.
2)there fighter was not heavy, he was 4 kgs over the weight ten days out from weigh in and point blank refused to lose the 4kgs. We offered to take the fight at 86 to assist the fighter and make sure the fight went ahead. More then generous on our behalf.
3) all info was relayed to me via John Ging a respected coach from a very good club. I trust what he told me to be 100 percent accurate.
4) your right I am relatively new to the mma scene. We do not seem to be doing too badly though.
5) I will never accept a fight at a weight and ring up 10 days beforehand with 4 kgs to cut and refuse to do so. It may happen that I have a fighter that misses weight but it won't be because he didn't try his best to make it.
6) I don't actually disagree with everything u say, in fact I enjoyed your article on the 3 coaches to avoid and agreed with all of it but I do disagree with you on this topic big time. The **** is going to hit the fan at some stage with some show having to cancel because of the amount of pull outs from shows. Do we have to wait for that to happen before acting?

I spoke to a promoter of 1 of Ireland's biggest shows 2 weeks ago who commented that the way things are going that in future they may have to have 3 fighters for every fight on the card, the 2 original guys and 1 to fall in in case of a drop out.

Barry.Oglesby wrote: »

theboxingclinic wrote: »

I couldn't agree more that nobody benefits from this, however some people benefit less then others from what happened, namely Celtic gladiator and will fleury.
There are many reasons for a fighter to withdraw from a fight which are acceptable and happen all the time. This however is not acceptable and there was no breakdown in communication. Basically it went like this.
Phone call from John Ging the monday after Will fought on mma clinic amateur fight night 2 offering Will a fight with one of morceagos guys. Great lets take it. Fight agreed at 84kgs. No time off for Will straight back into hard training.
2 weeks later, with 10 days left to the fight, when it is very difficult to get a replacement fighter Celtic Gladiator receive call stating that there fighter is refusing point blank to cut from 88 to 84 over the next 10 days. At this stage he did not have the "flu".
Now I really couldn't care less about the fighters diet or why he is refusing to make weight because if he felt 84 was too low fight should not have been accepted 2 weeks previous when John had time to find somebody else to fight Will.
It has left the promoter angry, it has left me angry and Will is angry.
When clubs behave like this then people should know. It might put a stop to this behaviour in future.
Because this kind of behaviour has gone on in the fight game from the beginning is not reason enough to accept it now.

I'm sure Morcegao team will have a different story to yours. perhaps it would be better to hear their one and then make an informed decision about whether to come to the internet. 6 posts ago you would never deal with Morcegao ever again and now the fight is back on.

You're relatively new to this so you're going off on one very publicly. With thousands of Irish MMA fans reading on, you have gone and blackballed a club, only to unblackball them a day later. A phone call directly to them could have sorted this out one way or the other. We've all had fighters miss weight and if you haven't, some day you will, guaranteed. It happens. It's not always anyone's fault and it's not always innocent either. If you want to make a point, why not email clubs and promoters? Half of the coaches and promoters don't read this board anyway.

If it happened as you said it did then that's not cool, don't get me wrong. But one day you'll be the guy on the other end of the phone explaining that your guy is heavy. Imagine if someone went scurrying to boards every time that happened?

Barry.Oglesby

Okay well look there's nothing more to say here. I'm glad your guy gets to fight in the end.

I'm not being Mr. High and Mighty here by the way. Just sharing my experience. I've gone off on a couple on the internet (very publicly and loudly I might add) and with the exception of possibly one incident, I regret them all! There's no doubt that some people lack professionalism and respect for others but dragging it out in public just drags you down to their level I think.

Yourwellcum

theboxingclinic wrote: »

so you are saying that I am the unprofessional one? lol, who the hell are you?
Unfortunately for you it's exactly what happened and is indeed fact, I have an unbiased witness in the promoter and John Ging, so basically your spouting off about something u know nothing about.
Anyways the fight is back on, job done as far as I am concerned

A few things.

1, Never said you were unprofessional, I said our ideas on what constitutes it are different in this instance. I would never make wild accusations based on information I dont have. I am sure you are quite professional in your business as you seem to be doing quite well.

2, Unfortunatly for me how?? I was merely voicing my opinion. As You say I am not a stakeholder in this situation. You however chose to take it to a public forum, therefore I am permitted to comment within the rules of the forum.I wasnt spouting at all. You dont seem to like being disagreed with though.

3, As for who I am. I dont think it really matters all that much as I am making no accusations or saying anything controversial. You dont know me anyway. But as a fan of irish mma, I am a potential customer considering you are also a promoter. One who you kind of jumped on for voicing an opinion.

This is the point about airing things on a forum like this. You are going to get unwelcome opinions and people who in your opinion are spouting off.
Maybe a reason for keeping things private until you have exhausted all other options.

theboxingclinic

We did exhaust all avenues and of course I do not like being disagreed with, name me one person who does.

Yourwellcum wrote: »

theboxingclinic wrote: »

so you are saying that I am the unprofessional one? lol, who the hell are you?
Unfortunately for you it's exactly what happened and is indeed fact, I have an unbiased witness in the promoter and John Ging, so basically your spouting off about something u know nothing about.
Anyways the fight is back on, job done as far as I am concerned

A few things.

1, Never said you were unprofessional, I said our ideas on what constitutes it are different in this instance. I would never make wild accusations based on information I dont have. I am sure you are quite professional in your business as you seem to be doing quite well.

2, Unfortunatly for me how?? I was merely voicing my opinion. As You say I am not a stakeholder in this situation. You however chose to take it to a public forum, therefore I am permitted to comment within the rules of the forum.I wasnt spouting at all. You dont seem to like being disagreed with though.

3, As for who I am. I dont think it really matters all that much as I am making no accusations or saying anything controversial. You dont know me anyway. But as a fan of irish mma, I am a potential customer considering you are also a promoter. One who you kind of jumped on for voicing an opinion.

This is the point about airing things on a forum like this. You are going to get unwelcome opinions and people who in your opinion are spouting off.
Maybe a reason for keeping things private until you have exhausted all other options.

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