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Deadbeats: California State Athletic Commission stiffing Association of Boxing Commissions on money over MMA information access
By Zach Arnold | October 12, 2012
When Che Guevara’s California State Athletic Commission decided to protect deadbeat promoters in Oxnard last month, no one could understand why the commission wouldn’t produce the $50,000 bondholder information so that fighters who got stiffed on money could recover their purses.
It turns out that Denise Brown, Doreathea Johnson, and Awet Kidane at the Department of Consumer Affairs in Sacramento can sympathize with the deadbeats… because they’re being accused of being deadbeats as well.
Last night, we posted this teaser online about the Association of Boxing Commissions getting fed up with Che Guevara & DCA over the athletic commission not paying fees that they owe.
On background, we talked with a source that has knowledge of a letter that ABC is sending to Sacramento regarding Che Guevara being a deadbeat to ABC in paying the bills. If you don’t pay your water bill, your water service gets cut off. If you don’t pay your electrical bill, the power gets cut off to your residence. Same deal here.
The source claims that ABC is fed up with CSAC not paying for the use of the MMA database (to check for suspensions and other sorts of information). ABC is also going after commissions who are not requiring promoters to register their events and pay the fee owed to ABC. This fits right in with everything we know about how Che Guevara & DCA operate CSAC. So, ABC is giving CSAC an ultimatum — pay your bills or get cut off from the database and have your state be considered as the wild west.
Our source claims that other athletic commissions, who are timely in paying the fees, are pissed off at Che Guevara & DCA because they are using the database without paying for access to it. Freeloaders.
“The commissions who pay their fees on a regular basis, rightfully so, are disappointed that [California] continues to use the database free while other pay for the service,” the source opined. “MMA, LLC the owners of the database, have invested many dollars to develop and maintain this database for the betterment of the sport and to be used as a tool not only to track fighters and approve fights, but protect the health, safety and welfare of each contestant.”
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