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News: Bodog Fight Until 2014
Peter Karroll,
President of Bodog Fight, Dispelled rumors Saturday
evening that the MMA organization would be
disbanding.
"We have big plans and we will be around through
2008, 2009, all the way to 2014," Karroll insisted.
Bodog Fight founder
Calvin Ayre reiterated late Saturday night following
an after party for his fighters in Vancouver.
The semi-inebriated Ayre told Sports911.com "This is
my hobby. I love the MMA fighting and we have
big plans for the future."
Both Karroll and Ayre
responded to rumors that Bodog Fight would be
dismantling in the not-so-distant future. The
two diffused the rumors and expressed their
respective commitment to the sport. Ayre is
still a billionaire who has not trouble paying for
fighters.
Following another shot of Jägermeister,
Sports911.com was able to get more information out
of Ayre in regard to some very big name fighters who
he simply said "they were working on". One
could not help but wonder if Bodog Fight could be
actively pursuing the likes of Tito Ortiz and Fedor
Emelianenko. Ayre is a fan of both fighters.
This useful
information comes on the heels of news that Ayre and
other online gambling operators may soon be
permitted to enter the United States once again.
Though there is nothing to suggest he is banned from
entering the States, a handful of colleagues at
online gambling establishments (Bodog's big
business) have been detained in the US over this
past year.
As for the shooting
of Bodog Fight 7, which will air some time in
October or November, Sports911.com was there and can
honestly say there was not a single boring fight.
Sports911.com was
scouting for fighters to sponsor for the next Bodog
Fight pay per view event.
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Christopher Costigan,
Sports911.com
Originally
published August 27, 2007 5:41 pm ET
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