From Master Alby Bimpson:

I did not want to air my opinion in this way but it looks like I have to, so here it goes.

We originally set out to put on a great show, and we feel we did achieve this, despite what felt like obvious attempts to destroy the show by many different sides.

We prepaid a large amount of money to the Thailand party, and had an agreed amount of fighters. We hold our hands up and admit that we had to cancel one of the fighters (Lerdsila) as we could not match him and stay within the strict budget we had.

We were shocked and disappointed when the party was collected in Liverpool minus one fighter (Parinya), which we had paid for, and were not informed that he would not be coming to fight.

This then let down Parinya's opponent, which we deeply regret. We formally apologise to Aliksandr Kutsen from Belarus, and to Mr Paul Sutton who went out of his way to help us match this fight.

The World Title fight was arranged between Liam and Antuan under the weight category of 74.5-67kg.

On the evening of the weigh in (Friday) Liam came in bang on weight. Antuan came in at 69.9kg.

We informed Antuan and his father Serge, that to fight for this World Title that he was allowed one hour to make the weight. This is standard practise.

One sweat suit and skipping later, Antuan weighed in at 69kg and sat down.

Obviously this did not then meet the weight category required.

This is when the fun started.

With Antuan sat down and refusing to lose any more weight, his father began to shout and scream uncontrollably at times, with quotes such as "This does not happen in Thailand, we would be allowed to fight" and "give a bottle of water to Liam and reweigh him, and then we can fight".

We tried to explain the strictness of weight categories, and that this had been organised many months ago, and that to fight for the World Title Antuan must make the weight, no discrepencies.

We were then threatened by Serge, that if we did not allow the fight as the weights stood, he would destroy the name of the Golden Belt in Thailand, and that we would never be allowed to bring a fighter from Thailand again, and Golden Belt would be disrespected in Thailand.

At this point we must point out that Liam Robinson and his trainer Tony Myers were complete gentlemen and did what they could to make this fight happen.

Inbetween negotiations to and from the weigh in room and the lounge, myself and Mark Wilson were approached by Serge, who said "Can you not just say that you have seen Antuan make the weight, and this will make the fight, as this is how it is done in Thailand".

He also approached someone he believed to be one of the judges and said that if Antuan was to win, he would make Golden Belt big in Thailand as he would go back and publicise the Golden Belt, having the belt to do that with.

This is a total disgrace to Thai Boxing and to Thailand.

You can imagine the responses he was met with, as I would rather pack in everything than go against what I stand for and have worked so hard to achieve.

After many hours, it was agreed that Liam would win the Title by default, but that if Antuan could lose more weight, Liam would fight him (giving away both weight and experience). One condition of this would be that Antuan forfeit £250 of his purse to Liam. We (the Golden Belt) agreed this to be fair and proper.

Unfortunately this was met with hostility and some four letter words, and that they would forfeit nothing.

A lot of cursing and disrespect happened, evident to everyone, including those who could not speak French. We found it incredibly disrespectful that this was happening infront of Golden Belt representatives (one of which does speak french) behind my back.

To date we have received no apology for their behaviour, and we have received no refund, either for Liam or for fighters that we have paid for who did not come. We have been told that if we attempt to enforce this that Serge would again discredit us in Thailand.

It is my opinion that Serge is a disgrace to the sport of Thai Boxing and to Thailand, and very unprofession in both his actions and his attitude.

Something that is sadly rubbing off on his son Antuan, which was clearly evident by his sulky attitude, disprespect, bad language, and the reaction to the decision of the fight - which can be seen on P4TV.

Yes Antuan is a very good fighter, and has great potential, but we do not believe that his father is the right person to take that forward, and will ultimately alienate this fighter from all promoters and countries.

I am happy to speak to all other Associations regarding this, and any contacts throughout the World.

We have worked with other promoters in Thailand, one which being Mr Thakoon, whose attitude is a credit to Thai Boxing and could not be further from the experiences we have had in the last week.

More on the fight itself in a moment.