Shine Fights CEO Devin Price blasts Virginia Athletic Commission for putting the kibosh on Sept. 10 grand prix
by Jesse Holland on Sep 6, 2010 5:02 PM EDT
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... after word got out that some unclaimed baggage was still on the carousel following the May 15 "Worlds Collide" fiasco.
"I was given verbal approval for our Sept 10 event by the Virginia state commission 32 days prior to the fight date. The commission did not express any problems with our event until certain members of the MMA community accused Shine of having reneged on our responsibilities following the cancellation of our May 15, 2010 "Worlds Collide: Ricardo Mayorga-Din Thomas" fight card in Fayetteville, NC. The Virginia commission was understandably concerned, but instead of allowing us to prove the concerns were unfounded, they refused to provide a license. And we could have proved this since on Friday [Sept 3] the North Carolina commission ruled that Shine HAD met all its obligations from the May 15, 2010 event. It is unfortunate things had to end this way; however, I know we will still have a great show on Sept 10 and we are happy to be working with the First Council Casino."
Shine Fights CEO Devin Price fires back at the Virginia Athletic Commission after getting denied a license to hold the promotion's lightweight grand prix on Sept. 10 at the George Mason University campus in Fairfax. Price claims the sanctioning body was completely on board with their upcoming pay-per-view until they got wind of some recent claims that fighters who were stiffed by the cancellation of the "Worlds Collide" event earlier this year have yet to be paid. The show must go on and Shine will instead bring their card to the First Council Casino in Oklahoma. Is the damage already done? Or will fans still shell out 30 clams for the lightweight tournament on Friday night?
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Ufc and Sf is behind this they hating on smaller promotion
As mma fan i like to watch all the fights i can watch not only ufc and sf
IS DOG EAT DOG WORLD THE ONLY BIG BOYS LIKE UFC RUN MMA
greedy bustards
wtf is with the all caps?
and have you done any research on this promotion? there seems to be a cloud of sketchyness that surounds them and if i were a fighter and signed with shine, i would ask for half of the purse before i started training camp. if a shit load of people are calling you a crack head, then bitch you are smoking crack; and if a shit load of people say that you have not paid your fighters, then you have not paid up and are still trying to run a promotion that seems destined to fail.
big boys like ufc do the shit right. and so do many other smaller promotions like king of the cage, shark fights, tachi, ring of fire, the list goes on, but shite fights shine fights is doing it wrong and must have skipped business ethics in school.
never have any regrets, because at the time, thats all you wanted to do
No to Shine Fights
from what i took from the jason chambers interview on the jordan breen show.they had everything in order.shine fights are just trying to save there image.this company is bad and chambers must have lied.Shine now have given to different reasons why the show was cancel.I can’t believe these guys and won’t watch there show if I got the stream for free.
by TERRENCEFROMSOUTHEAST on Sep 6, 2010 9:31 PM EDT reply actions
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