Your right Dean Perks it takes years to get your respect up and seconds to lose it because the thing is it doesn't matter what you do in the sport of kickboxing who you beat, how much you represent UK what you win there are always the clicks and groups specially here on AX that will moan at what you do because you are not in with their group.

It must be a British FC thing but they never like to see people do well they are always wanting the fighters to mess up or lose, so they can slag them down because they have nothing else better to do.

I had to sit down and think am I still enjoying this sport?
Is this sport going in the right direction?
Is the politics and badmouthing behind closed doors going to stop?
Is it going to be as mainstream as other sports?
Is this sport going to provide for my family?

All answers were NO so I had to make a choice what I wanted to do for myself and my family and unfortunatally for John it came at this time.

I even told IKF UK to get a replacement fighter for John so he could still fight for the World title and you don't know the full story either, so please don't call me unprofessional.

Actually if getting away from politics, doing what I want to do in my life and looking after my families best interests is being unprofessional, then I must be the most unprofessional person in the world. lol

Ask yourself guys if you have been unhappy in your job for years tried to make it better and just get on with it, but no matter what you do you see it going nowhere would you still be there or would you get another job?

This is how I feel about the FC scene IMO.

If people don't like that then it's not my problem. I have been in this sport for too long trying to keep everybody happy apart from myself.