Jihad on Art Dore!!

Art Dore. The self proclaimed King of Bay City.

I'm going to make this short and sweet because I feel that if I talk about these guys, I will be giving these assholes free advertisement and I'm much higher then them.

Greg Ahrens did an interview for the Detroit Times talking about how he will ignore the Dept. Labor and Economic Growth (DLEG) prohibiting running the Cobo Arena. Here are the highlights.

These are so slanted it's just....here I'll show you.

State officials said they are considering going to Wayne Circuit Court to request an injunction against the program.

"Mr. Ahrens' events are in violation of the Michigan professional boxing statute," said the state's chief investigator, Barrington Carr, "and are probably a nuisance."

Amateur martial arts events are not covered under the act Carr cited, but the state believes it has jurisdiction over Ahrens' shows anyway because he sometimes pays fighters, and there is "a boxing component" to the bouts.

Ahrens said the purpose is to force state officials to rewrite the boxing regulations to include oversight of mixed martial arts, which are growing in popularity nationwide thanks to a proliferation of pay-per-view events. Then fighters could be paid legally, he said.

That has got to be the stupidest excuse ever on how to get MMA regulated in Michigan. That's like saying I'm going to stab anyone and everyone because there are not specific rules and regulation for blade murder. How about talking to Brett Ratner, Greg? How about sitting down and writing a rough guide on a piece of paper, Greg? How about lobbying Greg?

It goes on.

MMA events "are everywhere now," said Art Dore of Bay City, promoter of Toughman, which has proven a far more dangerous style of ring combat. "In Ohio, I think there are 40 or 41 MMA events this month alone."

Yes, Art. Ohio runs 41 events because they're licenced and regulated. That means they talk and work with athletic commissions. Unlike other people.

If you don't believe me I can get the OSAC Director's email for you. I dare you to talk to him. I triple dog dare you to talk to him. I doubt you have the balls.

No deaths have been reported in MMA events. Fighters, who wear 6-ounce, fingerless, palm-less gloves, are allowed to use any martial art form of striking, grappling, kicking or submission holds.

Dore, however, said at the last MMA event he attended, a down, clearly unconscious opponent was struck three or four times before the referee intervened. "It was pretty brutal," Dore said.

I love this thing that always comes up. You know the thing where the uneducated casual fan yells and screams about how a fight should have ended sooner because the first strike knocked out a fighter and the following strikes that follow seconds after were excessive. And then they go blame the ref for being "too slow" It's like their sense of time is warped and the refs are supposed to have super sharp eyes and super speed to qualify to officiate.

For Art to say something like this either was to show off his ignorance of the sport or a low handed way of bringing MMA down to his level. Either way, it's pretty stupid.

Saturday's MMA event has nothing to do with Toughman, Ahrens said, but "the state is painting me with an Art Dore paint brush." Dore has no part of Saturday night's promotion, Ahrens said, but has been hired as ring announcer "because people love him."

So people love him. If I come and bring the families of the fourteen people who died in his ring, you think they will love him too? How about those five vegetables? You think I can be a buddy of Dore? You think he'll let me frequent his steakhouse/martini and cigar bar if I call him a scoundrel, a liar and a sad waste of water and carbon wasting my planet's resources?

The state also complains that Ahrens does not insure his fighters up to $50,000 for injury, twice that for death, the coverage for boxers. Ahrens said the 50 fighters expected Saturday night will be insured "$5,000 per occurrence."

That's cool. What insurance company you using?

He could not remember which insurance company issued the policies, he said, but both he and Dore said Ahrens frequently purchases such coverage from an insurance company registered in the Cayman Islands owned by Dore.

So the fighters aren't getting insured and they're not getting paid. In fact, you have fighters pay to fight.

Why are they fighting for you again?

Ahrens said Detroit emergency officials would be informed the bouts will be taking place, but will not be present. "Our doctor says those people just get in the way," he said.

You need to fire your doctor then and fast. Show me one instance where emergency officials are "in the way" of an event? Calvin Ayre had emergency officials on call every time he throws a Bodog card. Hell, high school football has an ambulance sitting just outside the field. Why are you denying emergency assistance?

Or are you lying again?

Ladies and gentleman of the MMA community, I urge you, nay, plead with you to call Jihad on Art Dore and Greg Ahrens. They are hurting the sport in the state of Michigan and are trying to make themselves look like martyrs while doing so. Please send kind, helpful mail to Barrington Carr, head of the Enforcement Dept. Here is the address.

Enforcement Division
P.O. Box 30018
Lansing, MI 48909

email: bcsinfo@michigan.gov

Please send kind and helpful mail that not only shows support to Carr, but also helps him at least understand a bit about MMA and how it needs to be protected from the Dore regime. I urge everyone to get everyone and their grandmothers involved. Please! For the sake of the sport!!

We need to stop The advances of Art Dore. If we don't, I'm afraid that we'll have our first fatality pretty soon.