Help Tony Loiseleur Get Out of Japan

by Tomas Rios on Mar 12, 2011 10:41 PM EST

*UPDATE*

Thanks to some donated frequent flyer miles, Tony and his girlfriend will be leaving Japan soon. Thanks to your generous donations we raised $588 which Tony has donated to Global Giving, an organization providing vital relief services in Japan.

Your donations will now help those who need it desperately. Again, on behalf of myself, Tony and his girlfriend, we thank you all for your support whether it be financial, moral or otherwise. You're all some rad people.

*UPDATE*

As you all know, the situation in Japan has gone from bad to worse with news of the terrifying issues going down at one of their nuclear power plants.

Unfortunately, Sherdog writer Tony Loiseleur is in Tokyo with his girlfriend and can't afford plane tickets out of the country. He's still trying to collect all the details and the chaotic situation isn't helping, but two tickets will cost somewhere around $3,000.

If any of you have ever read Tony's work, you know he's a brilliant writer who works one of the hardest beats in the sport. Despite that, he consistently delivers features that are second to none and brings to light the personalities and issues we so rarely hear about in Japanese MMA.

Please help him escape a dangerous situation by donating to his PayPal account at dixie-flatline@hawaii.rr.com

I know most, if not all of us, can't afford a large donation, but if we all chip in whatever we can we'll be making sure Tony and his girlfriend can leave the country safely. I can tell you that your donation would be helping not just one of MMA's best writers, but also one of the best people in the sport. Just ask around, you'd be hard pressed to find anyone with a bad word to say about Tony and it's because he's one of the nicest people you could ever know.

Again, please make a donation and, if you can't make a donation at this time, please help by keeping this thread at the top. Moderators, I'm sure Tony would be grateful if you could make this thread a sticky.

The MMA community has always taken care of their own. Let's keep that tradition alive and well.

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why is the email text white?

looks like it’s missing from the post

dixie-flatline@hawaii.rr.com

by kellly on Mar 12, 2011 10:49 PM EST reply actions

Sent $15. A drop in the bucket, but we just need 199 more drops to fill it.

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by Mike Fagan on Mar 12, 2011 10:52 PM EST reply actions 1 recs

Fixed the funky link text. Not sure why it did that. Anyway, lets keep the momentum going.

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by Tomas Rios on Mar 12, 2011 10:53 PM EST reply actions

Thanks for doing this Tomas.

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by Its Bacon on Mar 12, 2011 10:57 PM EST reply actions

$15 from me

Get home safely, Tony

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by Jedi Master A-Rod on Mar 12, 2011 10:59 PM EST reply actions

Can’t sherdog afford to pay for him to get out and he can just repay them later?

I’d imagine Sherdog must have at least $3k sitting around.

Props to everyone who donates though! was just trying to offer a plausible alternative

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by DirtyML on Mar 12, 2011 11:06 PM EST reply actions

I don’t control Sherdog, none of us do. Know what I do control? My checking account.

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by Tomas Rios on Mar 12, 2011 11:09 PM EST up reply actions

I didn’t mean it like that, just that he writes for Sherdog, so I figured he would have been in touch with them about this.

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by DirtyML on Mar 12, 2011 11:18 PM EST up reply actions

I put it on Jussier Formiga’s Facebook page so people there can see it, also on my Facebook.

I will try to donate as much as I can, just need to check how much that is.

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by Matheus Aquino on Mar 12, 2011 11:14 PM EST reply actions

is there any way to donate without paypal?

my paypal account access has been limited since 2009 – i haven’t had the patience to actually clear it up, so i can’t send money.

by kellly on Mar 12, 2011 11:29 PM EST reply actions

Email address is still wrong

in the main post.

dixe instead of dixie

Sent a few bucks.

by zY on Mar 12, 2011 11:30 PM EST reply actions

Fixed. Thank you.

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by Tomas Rios on Mar 12, 2011 11:42 PM EST up reply actions

Kicked in $15. Hope he gets home safely.

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by Richard Wade on Mar 13, 2011 1:03 AM EST reply actions

Good news, gentlemen

Gents,

Good News: I’m in the process of receiving frequent flier miles which should help my fiance and I get tickets out of Japan. As such, I won’t be needing any more in the way of donations, and for that matter, won’t need what has been donated so far. I’m going to take what has been donated so far and forward it to the greater disaster relief fund. The total at the moment is $573.38

In the meantime, my deepest thanks to those of you who have already donated—you have my eternal gratitude. Should you feel the need to continue donating, please go to www.paypal.com to take your pick from the charities listed there in easy-to-click button form.

My thanks as well to Mr. Tomas Rios, who I like to think of as a kind of elder brother figure in the realm of MMA (regardless of our actual age). Whether it’s regularly inquiring as to the health of my ailing father, giving me diet advice to get in shape, or helping me raise funds to get home in a time of crisis, Tomas has always selflessly offered up his help and support.

I know he has a reputation for being an angry and otherwise unsavory person, but perhaps one of the greatest-kept secrets in MMA is how rad of a human being Mr. Rios is.

Mahalo nui loa, everyone!

by Tony Loiseleur on Mar 13, 2011 4:52 AM EST reply actions 3 recs

Hope you have a pleasant flight, and I hope that the money that is not used for this can be channeled into relief support for Japan!

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by DirtyML on Mar 13, 2011 4:55 AM EST up reply actions

Great great great great great news.

Glad you’re safe and on the way home Tony. Please post any information you have on the best ways to help the relief effort in Japan and the most reliable charities to donate to when you have a chance.

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by pdl on Mar 13, 2011 4:59 AM EST up reply actions