Because there were NO mass racist chants from the crowd. There were random individuals who screamed a few things of that nature. The mass obnoxious chants were more along the nature of “Eddie!”, “E-A-G-L-E-S” or “We Want Eddie!” or other Alvarez related material, shouted at very innappropriate times. There were hundreds of people here who just wanted to see Alvarez, didn’t know MMA, and didn’t really care.

I would in fact blame a foreign fighter who wouldn’t fight again on US soil as a result of a few people in a crowd. Sam Caplan can have his opinions, but I think he completely exaggerated the scope of the racial comments. I don’t know what Caplan’s agenda was, but it was not, imo, an accurate picture he painted.

I’ll say again, the crowd was better overall than many I have been in. Better than Sacramento (on TV), and better behaved than many foreign crowds.

It is no different then the UFC or Pride having fighters on the payroll beyond the typical fight purses. To me, that is just as much a conflict of interest for the sport. It will be nice when we see fighters being paid like tennis players, golfers, baseball players, football players, and every other legit sport in America. And I’m not talking about dollar amount. I’m talking about with fully disclosed pay.

Yuki Shoujou choked out number one ranked 123-pounder Masatoshi Abe, nixing the prospect of an Abe-BJ title fight later this year/early next year, and Siyar Bahadurzada defeated Shikou Yamashita to become the first Afghanistani-born, or Dutch-bred Shooto world champ.

The KOTC Canada card was solid, but drew a fairly disappointing crowd in comparison to Peter Martell’s ECC cards in the same venue. The main event was unfortunate, but the other bouts were generally entertaining. It’s no surprise local media ran with the Pour Nick fight; that shit was grotesque.

I guess I could see it as a somewhat valid point but it’s somewhat of a stretch.

Is it that much more of a COI than say UFC having guys who are perceived as their flagbearers/marquee fighters and there being the possibility that they’d make sure everything was done to make sure it stayed that way??

Both are pretty equally implausible – especially seeing as Shamrock has been DQ’d and penalized with point deductions in his last two fights.