The reason I think that promotors out for personal gain is a problem is because all to often they are doing it at the expense of the sport.

ie. By putting on poor shows and getting them on TV. OK so you can't guarantee top quality fights but you have to realise the damage that it does to MT when TV bosses watch 2 novices bitch slap each other.

Thats why Sky Sports has taken MT of the air. They gave it its chance and the promotors failed to deliver.

If the promotors worked together, IMO, they could put on much better shows. Sky gave them the chance to get their shows seen on a top quality channel and all they gave in return was far too many novice fights.

If, for eg, a promotor knew that his show was going to be shown on Sky, then he could easily contact other trainers of A class fighters and together they could put on a great show with enough full thai fights so show on TV. How difficult is that? Fighters relish the chance of fighting on big shows and on TV and would welcome an invitation.

However, they were content to have a show full of novice fights and had the audacity to send it off to Sky to be shown. Using last minute pullouts etc for excuses is not acceptable.

The chance for MT to take off on satellite TV was blown by the drivel that was given to Sky to air. You really can't blame them for pulling out.