To Rockhard;

RE:
"IKF - Let me ask you this - How long has it been since he fought? 4 years? How does he still hold the IKF World Title today??? I mean, usually a champion needs to fight and must defend his title every 6 months to a year? Am I missing something?"

Your comments of "USUALlY" are from someone who doesn't understand all the particulars of how a fight is put together. To better understand this, please see this page on our IKF web site;

http://www.ikfkickboxing.com/RulesTitleDefenses.htm

To be brief, in the IkF, unlike other sanctioning bodies, we do not "FORCE" A Champion to pay us sanctioning fees every 6 months and pay their own money to "Promote their own title defense."
In boxing, as an example, there are many neutral promoters, meaning promoters who are not promoting to help their own fighters. Also, in boxing there is a lot of TV and TV Money to make challenges and defenses happen more often. Since winning his title, NO ONE has made any formal challenge towards Dennis. Many have claimed they want to fight him, but all wanted "Dennis" to promote the show, which makes NO SMART Business sense for the person who is the World Champion, in this case, Dennis. These fighters, the few they were, would ask for example, $25,000 to fight him, some as high as $100,000. Keep in mind most of them were fighters who never made over $2,500 in a purse. Sure, a lot of people may claim they want to fight him but getting a promoter together who can promote the show and the purse money needed to pay the fighters is what everyone seems to forget to consider.

In addition, we don't expect someone like Dennis to fight for $2,500.00 on another show which is what another leading organization tried to force him to do. The organization wanted to make their $2,500 in sanctioning fees ( A lot more than IKF Charges for a World Title) so they pressed the issue saying, "If you don't fight for this price, we'll strip you of your title." He said no, and they stripped him, to offer the title to fighter who's trainer was promoting the event... All for MONEY.

Sorry, but the IKF will always side with the Fighter, not the INCOME...

As far as the Cikatic fight in Vegas, we too were there at ringside. We DID NOT like what Dennis did. He should have been DQ'ed for his actions (Hitting Cikatic while the referee was still holding his hand)

don't get us wrong, we are not saying Dennis was a saint, or perfect at all. His personality has hurt him far more than helped him. Anyone who knows him agrees to this.

HOWEVER.... The "FACT" is, he was probably the GREATEST FULL CONTACT FIGHTER EVER. As much as we hate some of the things he's done, we all need to open our eyeas to this. This pond and fish talk is just that... TALK. As already been said, give credit where credit is due...