Mark Miller vs. Deray Davis update: Miller’s management team speaks on canceled Strikeforce fight

by ultmma on Nov 9, 2009 2:09 PM EST

From a email with Mark's management at www.KOreps.com

"He (Mark Miller) obviously wanted to fight. I can't charge his sponsor since he didn't actually fight. We will try and transfer most of them to his next fight. One problem is that 2 of the sponsors were Chicago based, hopefully they will still support his next bout.

Strikeforce did pay him his 'show' money, but they still took out the 'corner man fee'."

According to various onsite media reports Miller and Davis were informed their fight was being pushed back until after the main event so that Strikeforce could insure that the Marloes Coenen vs. Roxanne Modafferi was finished prior to the CBS telecast.

Following the Fedor vs. Rogers bout the Miller-Davis was officially canceled by Strikeforce officials. For Miller and Davis this is a tough pill to swallow after putting in a full training camp for your opponent, securing sponsors, and getting amped to compete in the cage.

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shameful

I'm old school hating Lesnar, I've been hating Lesnar since '08

by MicahW on Nov 9, 2009 2:22 PM EST reply actions

Are they required to take out the “corner man fee”?

by MMAWrestling on Nov 9, 2009 3:08 PM EST reply actions

I bet that’s a pre-fight licensing fee, not a fee for physically standing cageside. If that’s the case, it’s totally possible he just told the AC or whoever to take the fee out of his purse.

It’s still a completely fucked situation though.

by Tedd Welch on Nov 10, 2009 5:39 PM EST up reply actions

If the UFC did this, there would be a riot across the blogosphere.

The silence about this is damning.

by Michaelthebox on Nov 9, 2009 3:09 PM EST reply actions

this is true..

they should’ve had the respect to at least give both guys their win bonuses..

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by Anton Tabuena on Nov 9, 2009 3:30 PM EST up reply actions

Or at least half win bonus each. They lost money by not fighting. Quite a bit. They could take legal action, I am guessing.

by szucconi on Nov 9, 2009 3:34 PM EST up reply actions

i would assume it is breach of contract when a fighter willingly doesnt fight and that its breach of contract when CBS is inept and doesnt run their time right and cancels a fight.

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by MicahW on Nov 9, 2009 3:46 PM EST up reply actions

When Nover couldnt fight that wasnt the UFCs fault and they paid both fighters their win bonus I believe, this was ALL Strikeforces fault and they didnt…

by xbuckeyex05 on Nov 9, 2009 5:28 PM EST up reply actions

Pretty shitty move by Strikeforce

they need to move this fight to the Challengers card on the 20’th. And apologize profusely for something so lacking in professionalism

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by ElliotMatheny on Nov 9, 2009 3:28 PM EST reply actions

i am looking foward to answers. hopefully someone from strikeforce responds to brent’s inquries about the matter. i’m interested to see what happens

by ironic sumo on Nov 9, 2009 3:32 PM EST reply actions

I like this piece, and more people should be talking about this crap strikeforce/cbs pulled…. but I don’t think you’re allowed to re-post your entire article (exact title, exact contents)..

PS
why’d you hat tip yourself?

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by Anton Tabuena on Nov 9, 2009 3:33 PM EST reply actions

I’m updating the main story with this. thanks for the tip

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by Brent Brookhouse on Nov 9, 2009 4:01 PM EST reply actions

This bout was cancelled because it was forgotten. They forgot to make an announcement in the house, the TV people forgot and started tearing down, and with the crowd leaving and the work starting, they were kind of stuck.

Unfortunate to say the least.

by Jonathan Snowden on Nov 9, 2009 4:10 PM EST reply actions

I was standing there and some guy came on the headset and said “Isn’t there suppsoed to be another fight?” And there was just silence for a second…

by Jonathan Snowden on Nov 9, 2009 4:11 PM EST up reply actions

Wow…

A man should never waste an opportunity to keep his mouth shut.

by iiowyn on Nov 9, 2009 4:56 PM EST up reply actions

If this is true, it’s below bush league. Forgetting a fight? For Pete’s sake, it’s not like they had twenty fights on the card (they had 10, Miller-Davis included). One would assume that someone would actually have a list of fights and be able to check them off (God forbid actually planning ahead so that they’d run the matches in a certain order) as the event went on.

Being unable to have a match because of some kind of force majeure reason (medical, whatever…) is one thing. .This is asinine.

by Monday Morning Martial Artist on Nov 10, 2009 5:43 AM EST up reply actions

I understand that they were also prepared to give Davis & Miller their win bonuses checks, but ‘the dog ate it’.

by Steve4192 on Nov 10, 2009 7:53 AM EST up reply actions

Amateur Hour...

….who is at fault, Strikeforce, CBS or both? Just a disgrace….

by BrothersGottaAndyHug on Nov 9, 2009 4:33 PM EST reply actions

Living up to the Strikefarce moniker…

by Sliup on Nov 9, 2009 5:17 PM EST reply actions 1 recs

This is a shame, Strikeforce needs to take a long hard look at the UFC and copy what they do right. And improve upon what the UFC does wrong or lacks behind in. This is just a sad.

by Riney on Nov 9, 2009 6:24 PM EST reply actions