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I had already put Tim on standby months ago and said if we had any home fighters pullout, he’d have first refusal, so I kept to my word on it. I understand the situation with Tim and other promoters isn’t good just now and understand why he is getting a hard time. I need to point out, that Tim not fighting on the other promotion had nothing to with us, we only approached Tim on Thurs/Friday last week (the week after he pulled out the fight with Michael Wakling). I have to admit that we had our concerns and I've spoken to some of the promoters/managers involved. It is not my place to comment on the other situations, but with only a couple of weeks to go we needed a good replacement. You’ve got to understand that tournaments are difficult to keep matched and to be fair, Tim and Jon have always been very professional with us, fighting on both of the shows I’ve promoted with John. Tim also really wanted to be involved and his involvement should add to the draw, with some good potential domestic fights.
The draw was done by BBC Radio Scotland last year the day before and Radio Scotland are also wanting to do more coverage of the event, as is Reporting Scotland on BBC 1, which will feature a 2min report after the event, so we might use the Radio angle for some pre-event publicity. We're also going over some options for doing it on the day at the start of the event, we'll let you know.