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Din Thomas stands up for Shine fights promoter in whole cancellation mess

By Zach Arnold | May 19, 2010

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Din Thomas, who was scheduled to fight boxer Ricardo Mayorga in an MMA bout in Fayetteville, North Carolina last Saturday night, ended up getting the raw end of the deal with his fight being canceled. The state athletic commission said that there wasn’t a doctor in place for the show and also had a dispute about the promoter (Devin Price) having the sufficient funds to pay everyone what they would be owed. Dave Meltzer reported on Sunday night that the commission allegedly gave fighters the option to sign a waiver indemnifying the NC athletic commission if the fighters would allow the promoter (Shine Fights) to pay by check instead of cash. The commission reportedly wanted nothing to do with checks being used to pay fighters because of the track record of promoters in the fight game who gave fighters checks that bounce.

Josh Gross invited Din Thomas on his radio show this week and was asked to give his thoughts on what happened. Surprisingly, Thomas was not angry at the event promoter for what happened.

“Man, I tell you the truth, man, you know, a lot of people are giving the promotion and Shine a hard time but I really legitimately you know stand behind these guys. I really don’t think it was their fault and I really think they did everything they could to try to keep this card together. You know, I just think that things got out of their hands and they didn’t have the manpower or the resources to keep it together, but I mean I’ve watched these guys for months you know try to make this fight go down and then at the last you know the last possible hour, up until like an hour before the show started, they were still trying and trying and trying and then when the commission said something’s not going to happen, man there’s nothing you can do about it.”

In regards to whether there was enough funds to pay the fighters, Thomas said that all he heard was speculation and nothing concrete.

“I’m not 100% sure, I mean that’s what kind of the speculation was around the hotel and at the venue was that they didn’t have the funds there. You know I can’t say that’s what it was for sure but that’s kind of what the speculation was. But also there were saying that Devin Price was the one you know the President of the company was the one who had the funds and if he was the one who had the funds he was in court trying to keep the fight alive so I mean if he was the one with the money you know he was in court, so I mean it was impossible for you know for the funds to be there, Devin was in court.”

When asked if it was worse getting no pay day or not being able to fight Mayorga, Din almost sounded melancholy about not getting able to beat up the boxer.

“I think really, I mean kind of both. I mean I think what everybody was kind of looking forward to was seeing you know Mayorga get beat up, so I mean I think in that perspective I think everybody was robbed of that. You know as far as you know not getting a pay day, I mean that sucks but it wasn’t like… I mean, yeah, I lost money, I mean you lose money in the fact right because if you take time to train and you know you sacrifice so much to train and then you expect to get paid and it doesn’t happen, you know, that kind of sucks. However, you know, I did talk to them, well I didn’t talk to them personally but my management did talk to them and they did say they were going to be, you know I didn’t really get to talk to my management too much on the details on it but they just kind of gave me the thumbs up that everything was OK and that they were going to square up with me, so hopefully by tomorrow I’ll be squared away and I’ll get paid so I mean, so then if we do this interview again I’ll be telling you the worst part was that you guys didn’t get to see Mayorga get beat up.”

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4 Responses to “Din Thomas stands up for Shine fights promoter in whole cancellation mess”

  1. edub says:

    The question that keeps going around in my mind is did King not know about this fight until last week, or did he deliberately wait until the proverbial last minute just to get as much press from it as possible.

    The judge who decided it is also a not the best person in the world. He is the same guy that let a convicted child sex offender in Florida post bail until the appeals process is complete( a process which could take years.)

    • jj says:

      King waited until the last week in hopes that he could extort money out of Shine Fights. And when he realized they had no intentions of paying him anything he filed for the injunction.

  2. Fluyid says:

    And so Shine Fights goes the way of Yamma and many others before.

    🙁

  3. Its incredible. Shine books a guy, doesn’t do their due diligence, gets taken to court and loses because they shouldn’t have booked him, and people are acting like it is a tragedy they didn’t get to put on a freakshow bout. What a sport.

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