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18th December show at Liverpool Olympia Cancelled

VIP Promotions have had to cancel the above event due to Mike Robinson pulling out of the Top of the bill CA title contest against Paul Edwards with a back injury. The show had also lost its chief support fight when Brett Flourney withdrew with flue from his 8 round contest against Kevin McKintyre and with Carl Dilcs out to take a Commonwealth title opportunity it left a very weak . VIP like all other promotion Companies are very much aware of the difficulties of matching fighters at this moment and were concerned at not giving value for money in what are difficult times

Yeah, sounds like a sensible decision.

MacIntyre V Flourney looks a good bout- hope that is re-made and not forgotten.

i feel sorry for edwards

Hi Diggler ,

I feel sorry for Paul too and also for the other fighters.

Just so hard to match kids up at the lower weights and was also concerned that if we lost any other fights the show would not have been value for money . Had to run the Colne show last month with just 4 fights and was not really happy about that , got away with it as all fights turned out good and it is a small venue.

It was just not working out for the Olympia so even though we hate pulling shows it was the only real option left - going to start next year with 2 mega shows and therefore no chance of having to pull them

STEVE WOOD

i understand and agree with your descion to cancel show with losing the dilks fight aswell edwards v robinson and the macintyre V flourney, i meant i felt sorry for edwards missing out on the fight as hes not fought for a while

Hi Steve seems that matching seems to be a struggle matchmaking at the moment as you said the Muni bill worked out ok even with 4 fights. Assume that one of the "specials" coming up next year is the Matvienko V Gumati rematch bill. Went to the first fight & TBH looking forward to the rematch should be a good fight.