Mark Pavelich Exemplifies Professionalism

by Luke Thomas on Jun 30, 2008 9:56 AM EDT in MMA News

I can't say that I don't sympathize with Pavelich's frustration here. It must be incredibly infuriating to put together a fight card with notable names only to have it ruined because their flakiness and instability jeopardizes their ability to honor contractual demands. On the other hand, threatening to murder them and their management probably isn't the answer either. Especially in digital age where blogs can post notable freakouts such as this for all to hear in the immortalized halls of the world wide web.

Back story to the conniption fit here.

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The only threat he made to Fickett was to “Choke him out”. Did you even listen to the voice message or just read the glaringly inaccurate headline. Not exactly a death threat.
And posting a private message from an employer on the internet has to be at least as unprofessional as swearing a someone who has violated a contract with you.

by MoFaux on Jun 30, 2008 12:00 PM EDT reply actions

Ok

Did you listen to the message? In any court of law, threatening to “choke someone the fuck out” is at a minimum the intention to inflict serious bodily harm. More to the point, there isn’t any referee when you’re applying a blood choke on someone in the street and yes, you can actually die if someone holds the choke too long. Pressure can actually collapse the carotid arteries and prevent them from opening back up.

As for the “unprofessionalism” of posting the voice message, color me unimpressed with argument.

by Luke Thomas on Jun 30, 2008 12:08 PM EDT up reply actions