Hi Linda. What a pleasure you and your trainer Ken are to work with. Any other promoter putting Linda into thier show can expect an easy time - no fuss - no problems.

Im sorry that you feel the decision went the wrong way - it went the 'wrong way' for a couple of my fighters too, so at least you know for sure that there was no promoter interference in the decisions! There were a lot of close fights on the night - down to good matchmaking :-)

Re the photographer: There was no money in the pot to hire a photographer + transport + accom, just to give the images away (which I have done on other shows), so I 'sold' the idea of "comission only" to the photographer. If people like the shots, they buy them and if they dont, they dont. At least this way we got a professional photographer there! This is why the images were ready 3 days after the show, cropped and edited and in high resolution.

Ruth Ashdown emailed me that she was probably coming and I offered her a free ticket and ringside access if she took some photos. In the event, she couldnt make it (which is a particular shame from my point of view as I have not yet met her and would like to).

And finaly, I invited one more professional photographer to attend, this time to enrich his own portfolio - free ticket, access to ringside etc. His deal is that I get all the shots to 'give' away, but only at low/medium resolution (fine for websites and small prints). I expect his CD of picis on Monday and these are the shots I can make public.

Nathan mate, you couldnt offend me. I know what you are like! Though if you had phoned me or sent an email, we could have avoided the negativity. When will you learn to trust me?

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