Having read Jamies posts, and all the other posts I was ready to simply type..."why do we bother, and is there any point of an Unleashed 4??" but then I see Deans post and Dawns post, aswell as other posts further above (when you filter past all the negative crap!) and see that people do enjoy them and are behind us.

Our first show I think was the easiest show to put on, and the last 2 shows have been absolute nightmares... and at the end of all 3 put together, we have just broke even. But we carry on as we have been lucky to have put on 3 great fight nights that people recognise and will hopefully help raise kickboxing up to another level... just look at the MSA Thai Event... kickboxing can be there one day! And it is no secret that we would like a return from it one day :)

Saturday morning me and my dad both agreed that we dont want to promote anymore... then at the end of the night we see it all worked out for the best and couldnt have gone any better (bar a couple of niggles). It is such a shame to see so much negativity in kickboxing... I am sure if we look through the thai show threads, we will see very little of this negativeness.

I think just having a couple of people claiming 'biased reffing', 'bad security', 'descrimination against the Scottish' and 'knives being spotted!' can be enough to put off many promoters having these people down again. It happended with that show in Barnsley someone mentioned, 1 fighter with a big crowd that had only a couple of bad people causing trouble, made it difficult for them to find fights as fighters didnt want the hassle and promoters didnt want the trouble!' Please respect your fighter - if there are problems with officials contact Colin at IKF, if there are problems with the venue or running with show then please contact us - rather than publicly air it!' I dont want to fall out with anyone, but hate to see these comments openly aired as it does no one any good... it outs both lots of fans, the show, the fighters, the clubs, the officials, the governing body and kickboxing in general in a bad light to Joe Public reading this!

I would love to have Ronnie down again, as he was a sound guy and good fighter - and Lex was brilliant to deal with (and was great to have the legend visit my gym but thats a different story lol). Just becareful whats posted as it isnt good.

These forums are good to have debates on who should of won etc, but there are certain things that need to addressed to the right people as to not tarnish kickboxing in a bad light!

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On a different note, and keeping it short and sweet (as my fingers are blistering lol)... all the fighters were awesome! Credit to everyone of you! A show cant be good unless the fights are good, and everyone of you were brilliant!

Didnt see all fights but...

- Howard Hogg v Eric Daly was a nice one!
- Chantelle showed why she is the top female amateur in the Country and destined to be a future star.
- Dead chuffed with Murray, still learning and only his 4th FC fight and did soooo well to hold his own with Cathal Manning. I thought he was very close to securing a draw. Was really unsure about taking the fight but did him the World of good.
- Ronnie v Qas was brilliant, a very focused and mature performance by Qas and Ronnie always showing how dangerous he can be - definetley edge of your seat stuff!


Cant wait to start matching Unleashed 4!!!