F.A.O All professional fighters......

TheRepoMan · 04-12-2011 7:13pm #1

After talking to a few of Ireland's professional mixed martial artists who fight on the cards of some of the top promotions it seems a lot don't get payed what they are promised and are continually chasing after their money. Surely these promoters, who are selling out most of the events they run, charging 20 - 30 quid ahead should be making the lads who put on the show their top priority instead of giving them the runaround? Has anyone else on here come up against this? What's the best method to get payed? I really hope it doesn't come to naming and shaming!

cowzerp · 04-12-2011 7:49pm

Why wouldn't you name and shame?
If this is going on its not on-if a show messes up it will get spoke about and this is no different, 1st thing is make sure this is not a mistake and that the promoter is aware of his mistake, if he is and won't pay up then you have no choice but to pay, last night I ran a charity boxing night and forgot to pay security! Was a mistake and once I was told I fixed it.

A promoter not paying is a big mistake though as its always going to come back on you, most promoters that I know of would never leave a fighter unpaid

TheRepoMan · 04-12-2011 8:35pm

It's definitely not a mistake, he is well aware of the situation, and has promised many times to sort it out but still hasn't come through. Gonna let it go another few days, and see if anyone else is having similar problems.

SDTimeout · 04-12-2011 9:22pm

I like your username, it suits the topic you signed up to boards to discuss about.

Clive · 04-12-2011 9:45pm

It's a small community, if a promoter isn't paying the agreed purse, then they'll soon find it hard to get fighters from any of the established gyms/teams.

Coaches, managers, fighters and promoters are in contact pretty regularly, so word spreads quite quickly from trusted sources.

cowzerp · 05-12-2011 12:13am

If you do decide to name anyone make sure you can prove it so we can validate this claim, otherwise anyone could accuse promoters of this without any proof and that's just not on.

The scene is small and most promoters are well known to most coaches fight wise and usually on a personal level too so this would spread fast if it's legit.

TheRepoMan · 05-12-2011 7:18pm

cowzerp wrote: »

If you do decide to name anyone make sure you can prove it so we can validate this claim, otherwise anyone could accuse promoters of this without any proof and that's just not on.

The scene is small and most promoters are well known to most coaches fight wise and usually on a personal level too so this would spread fast if it's legit.

The promoter has called this evening and has agreed to send on the money, so hopefully that's the issue resolved. I'm gonna let it go for a week but I will update the thread with proof if the money fails to come through this time. Thanks for the advise lads.

TheRepoMan · 08-04-2013 5:28pm

Anyone guess what promoter this was about?

F.A.O All professional fighters......

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