Was a fantastic event and for me it was better than Braehead as a venue.
Just a few things that stood out for me...
Andy H vs the Thai - there was no way that the Thai wasn't working?!?!? Not sure what fight you were watching, but it seemed tit for tat until a really unfortunate injury - it was shaping up to be a cracker. And sitting ringside and hearing(!) the doc trying to put the shoulder back into place was just awful.

I was looking forward to watching Deano vs Varats in the final cos I thought Dean would walk his semi against Dick. As Dean was presented his win against Ocania you could see him covering his rib - obviously in pain. I didn't see the elbow that took out Andy H, but there was an impressive amount of claret very quickly which is never a good sign. I was gutted for Andy - to the extent that I was even consoled by one of the Scots guys on my table!!!

The final between Varats & Seb was brilliant. A real underdog performance. Ocania fought the only way he could against a guy that was massively taller than him. There was no fouling going on, just a very good (rough) grapple - and to be fair, it was well within Varats' capability to not get beaten in the grapple by a much smaller fighter.

Liam R vs John Douglas seemed like a cagey fight to me. Neither fighter wanted to over commit themselves from the outset but I did think that Liam was edging it... UNTIL a fantastic knockdown from an elbow by Douglas in the 4th. What we should be talking about is how the hell Liam managed to even make the count cos on the apron (we were ringside) at the count of 7 his eyes were totally detached from his body. Tony was screaming at him from his corner to get up and it was sheer willpower that he managed to make it to the end of the round. I thought it was fairly even up to the 4th, a massive 4th from Douglas and a fairly even 5th leaving Douglas as the winner, but only just. There was no one walking it from either side. Of course you can judge for yourself when you see the dvd - it always looks different from another angle. (And left Liam with a fantstic bruise over his left brow that looked like a devil horn!)

Ritchie Hocking was brilliant(again). John Mcnamara came out all guns blazing in the first, but Ritchie weathered it and (to me) systematically took him apart over the next 4 rounds.

Very hard to comment on Andy Thrashers fight without getting into a vitriolic rant. The referee was abyssmal. Full stop. How he couldn't have "seen" a blatant straight left that knocked Rab down in his corner beggars belief. Not sure how it works that 3 separate judges and a few thousand spectators can see it, but an official can't? Either way, it shouldn't detract from a fantastic fight with Andy as the deserved winner with Rab competing all the way to the end.

Not sure what happened in the MMA fight..! Just got started, then it finished! Disappointed with the kickboxing fight too, I was expecting a little more to be honest.

I wasn't the only one left rueing not having Tony Myers as the ref. I didn't catch the refs name, but he didn't seem to be able to referee a Thai fight. He was calling fouls where there weren't any; NOT calling fouls that blatantly were; stoppping perfectly good ACTION FILLED grapples way too early and worst of all, his counting of knockdowns was wayward to say the least. To be fair, on any other day with any other ref Liam COULD have been counted out by the time the ref had manage to ramble his way up to 7 (not taking anything away from Liam tho).

Overall it was a fantastic event and can't wait for POS5. Was good to meet Darren Phillips, Andy T and Andy H. Congrats to Gary OB, well done mate

Dave