LMW87
Lightweight
Posts: 800
Join date: 2009-12-02
Age: 24
Location: Vancouver
 |  Subject: Dan Hornbuckle on being screwed over by WVR Wed Feb 03, 2010 2:23 am | |
| | Quote: | Do you plan on returning to World Victory Road this year?
"As long as Bellator keeps me busy, I don't plan on going back to them. I still have one fight left on my contract with World Victory Road. They stiffed me New Years Eve on fighting for the title over there."
So you're saying that World Victory Road stiffed you? What do you mean exactly, did they just not make the fight?
"Oh yeah man, they didn't make the fight. They had it in writing, had Takimoto as a top contender, myself as a top contender, both of us were going to have a shot at the vacant welterweight title. What really happened is, when I knocked out Gono, they erased Gono's name and put in Dan Hornbuckle's name to become their champion. So I really put a big screw in their plans, so to say, and Takimoto was supposed to lose to the Jae Sun guy and we both ended up winning. Takimoto didn't want to fight me from what I understand."
"They had it set up New Years Eve. I was training for five rounds. Two weeks before the fight I asked them where my visa was, no response. A week later, 'where's my visa?' And at that point, a week out, I can't get my visa and make it out there in time. So they never even sent me a visa for the title fight New Years Eve, but they told me I was going to fight for it." |
From an interview here: http://mmarecap.com/news/Recapping_With_Dan_Hornbuckle_-_Put_Him_Out-975 |
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MR. WILLIE
Featherweight
Posts: 271
Join date: 2009-12-04
Location: puerto rico
| | Subject: Re: Dan Hornbuckle on being screwed over by WVR Wed Feb 03, 2010 3:43 am | |
| they ended up co-promoting with dream, other than ishii vs yoshida there wasnt any sengoku fights! takimoto didnt even fought on nye! there was no title fight for the sengoku belt, so nobody screw him! |
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tastetehrainbow
Featherweight
Posts: 250
Join date: 2009-11-03
Location: the mean streets of yoshida dojo
| | Subject: Re: Dan Hornbuckle on being screwed over by WVR Wed Feb 03, 2010 5:09 am | |
| | MR. WILLIE wrote: | | they ended up co-promoting with dream, other than ishii vs yoshida there wasnt any sengoku fights! takimoto didnt even fought on nye! there was no title fight for the sengoku belt, so nobody screw him! |
They could have at least let him know what was going on. Japanese mma can no longer support the careers of young foreign talent |
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LMW87
Lightweight
Posts: 800
Join date: 2009-12-02
Age: 24
Location: Vancouver
| | Subject: Re: Dan Hornbuckle on being screwed over by WVR Wed Feb 03, 2010 7:35 am | |
| | MR. WILLIE wrote: | | they ended up co-promoting with dream, other than ishii vs yoshida there wasnt any sengoku fights! takimoto didnt even fought on nye! there was no title fight for the sengoku belt, so nobody screw him! |
Of course they screwed him! They made him believe he had a fight, but ignored his requests for information about his visa and generally treated him like shit. |
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GnP4life
Flyweight
Posts: 14
Join date: 2010-01-16
| | Subject: Re: Dan Hornbuckle on being screwed over by WVR Wed Feb 03, 2010 4:05 pm | |
| For some reason, I'm not shocked.... |
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Guest
Guest
| | Subject: Re: Dan Hornbuckle on being screwed over by WVR Fri Feb 05, 2010 1:45 am | |
| Same old shit, whats new? You cant jerk around fighters like this. |
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Twistedbydesign
Beginner
Posts: 4
Join date: 2010-02-05
Location: Dinner with Mika
| | Subject: Re: Dan Hornbuckle on being screwed over by WVR Fri Feb 05, 2010 7:25 am | |
| This is the norm.
Fuck - even VTJ offered guys fights without securing visas and giving them 2 weeks notice lol. |
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Gomi
Bantamweight
Posts: 142
Join date: 2009-11-01
| | Subject: Re: Dan Hornbuckle on being screwed over by WVR Sat Feb 06, 2010 5:19 pm | |
| It's reasons like this I am starting to get tired of WVR. They have all the guidelines and roster in place to make it a great promotion, but they spoil it for themselves with crappy judging (which, to be fair, is probably not their fault), none sellable events, and not taking care of their fighters. |
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