A few weeks ago, we told you that Riverdale, MD heavyweight Horace "The Reason" Grant was going to face Tony Grano on June 26 at Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, CT. According to the Grant camp, both men signed contracts and the bout was scheduled to take place.
However, a week ago, BATB learned that the Grano camp backed out of the bout, according to representatives in the Grant camp. CES Boxing, who was promoting the card, allowed Grano to break his contract for the bout. The Grant camp lodged a protest with the Mohegan Sun Boxing Commission, but the protest was denied.
The following is an invitation to the Grano camp, CES Boxing or the Mohegan Sun Commission to tell their version of why this was allowed to take place. All I ask is that you don't do it anonymously -- identify yourself as a representative of any of the three entities, please.
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DAMN! That shit happens all the time! Sounds like a situation that happened to us. I was working with a guy once in a fight similar to this. We were the out of town guy. The promoter sent us the contract, we signed it and sent it right back. Then I hear about two weeks after that the other guy never signed his contract and the contracts hadn't been turned in to the boxing commission and the fight was a no go for my guy. When I called the commission, they said there was nothing they could do. I'm telling you, the boxing commissions, all of them from here to there to everywhere, need to go! I bet you that the exact same situation happened here to Grant and Doug Rogers! Damn shame!
well grant is a lucky dude bwcause that was gonna be a massacre
As "The Old Timer" used to say in the Fibber McGee and Molly radio series:
"THAT AIN'T THE WAY I HEAR'D IT!"
Unless someone from their camp proves me wrong, Grano's camp took a look at some Grant video and then they were looking for a way out of the contract. That comes from the Grant camp.
I'm sure Grano pulled out of the fight. Grant had a real chance of knocking him out, he's not that good and Grant has power. Grano got stopped by Oak Tree Brown for goodness sakes. Grant is way better than him. He was also losing by a mile to Kauffman, who is also just an average guy imo, and only stopped him when Kauffman got tired. Grano can't fight. Grant had a real chance. I guarantee those guys hadn't signed anything and once they saw the video, they said we ain't signing shit! Get us somebody else! And I bet they still fight, Grano that is, on the date in question.
I'm sure Grano pulled out of the fight. Grant had a real chance of knocking him out, he's not that good and Grant has power. Grano got stopped by Oak Tree Brown for goodness sakes. Grant is way better than him. He was also losing by a mile to Kauffman, who is also just an average guy imo, and only stopped him when Kauffman got tired. Grano can't fight. Grant had a real chance. I guarantee those guys hadn't signed anything and once they saw the video, they said we ain't signing shit! Get us somebody else! And I bet they still fight, Grano that is, on the date in question.
How do you know that he didn't have an injury? or that there was some other unseen reason worthy of pulling out.I hope grant never pulls out of a fight or I will
barbque him on this site.
Remember this! what will make you laugh will make you cry.
I don't think there would have been a protest filed if there was an injury involved. The Grant camp would have understood that type of situation.
Wait, the Mohegan Commission? They don't just use Connecticut's?
Maybe they don't use connecticuts because Mohegan sun is a reservation. Reservations are exempt from many government regulations, and taxes. Just a guess
From Eastsideboxing.com:
The WBF All-Americas heavyweight champion, Grano (17-1-1, 13 KOs), faces former U.S. amateur standout, Nicolai “Stone Man” Firtha (17-7-1, 7 KOs), for the vacant NABO-US heavyweight title.
Told you he would still fight on that date! Grant got screwed big time! Contracts don't mean shit in boxing and boxing commissions are totally and utterly useless!
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