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The Aussie Watch Dog
Posted: 2000-03-22 16:02:32
OK B,

I'll try to give you an unbiased opinion.

Tarik Solak is the biggest promoter in Australia at present. The biggest promoter used to be a guy named Christopher Chronis (leading fashion designer). He promoted Stan to stardom in such fights as Stan vs Branko and Stan vs Alexio. His last big fight promoted was in 1995 (I think that was the year) when he staged Stan vs Satake which ended
At that stage Tarik Solak was an up and coming promoter who mostly promoted his own boys (Turks such as Tibet Hamza, Gerald Ilhan, Gurkan Ozkan and Bader Arafan). Solak hit the big time when he staged Australia's first ever amateur world title show at Festival Hall (traditional fight venue of Melbourne). He packed it out with 4000 people to watch Ozkan and Hamza win world titles off two Englishmen.
That is when the Solak hype really began. He managed and marketed Ozkan into his main drawcard which was a clever move as Ozkan was never a brilliant fighter, just gutsy, powerfully built and with fearsome punching power.
Over the years Solak has definitely been an imaginative promoter. He gave us two Sam Greco fights in one year and was the first promoter to secure the prestigious Crown Casino - the biggest and best Casino complex in Australia and a beautiful venue. He now stages all his fights there. He was also the first promoter to sign a deal with FoxSports TV to have all of his shows shown nationwide.
Most of the big names over the years have fought for him..Stan, Sam, Jacobs, Iosifidis, Vermes, Dawson, Hallford, Behic, Prince Amir, Bannan, Taione, Mangan, May, Soliman, etc etc etc.

Brian, there are many good promoters in Australia...Ultimate, Richard Bradford, Scott Bannan, Phon Martdee, Kelly Seif, Ron Parr...but Tarik Solak's shows are consistently the biggest budgeted productions (that is not to say they always feature the best cards) and the only ones shown regularly on TV (although this year FoxSports are taking on other shows too).

Also, Solak is now the official K1 promoter in Australia and is in partnership with Ishii, so all his events now will probably carry the K1 tag, such as his May 14 show which will be K1 Revenge.

I hope this is an unbiased view for you. I'm sure Nickos can back most of it up.

The Aussie Watch Dog
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