Akhmat Fight Show:Hw LHw Mw And Ww Grand Prix Semi-Finals - June 11 (OFFICIAL DISCUSSION)

Akhmat Fight Show
June 11 , 2016
Sport Hall Colosseum
Grozny, Russia

Heavyweight GP Semi-Finals:
Marcus Sursa (16-9)              vs.    (37-16) Geronimo Dos Santos
Main Card | Akhmat Gran Prix 2016 Semi-Finals | Heavyweight | 265 lbs (120 kg)

Kazbek Saidaliev (6-1)           vs.                    (15-6) Goran Reljić
Main Card | Akhmat Gran Prix 2016 Semi-Finals | Heavyweight | 265 lbs (120 kg)

Light Heavyweight GP Semi-Finals:
Maxim Grishin (22-6)              vs.                     (6-2) Maxim Futin
Main Card | Akhmat Gran Prix 2016 Semi-Finals | Light Heavyweight | 205 lbs (93 kg)

Artur Astakhov (12-3)             vs.           (6-0) Magomed Ankalaev
Main Card | Akhmat Gran Prix 2016 Semi-Finals | Light Heavyweight | 205 lbs (93 kg)

Middleweight GP Semi-Finals:
Alexey Efremov (16-5)            vs.      (31-21) Xavier Foupa-Pokam
Main Card | Akhmat Gran Prix 2016 Semi-Finals | Middleweight | 185 lbs (84 kg)

Salamu Abdurakhmanov (6-1) vs.                (29-8 ) Delson Heleno
Main Card | Akhmat Gran Prix 2016 Semi-Finals | Middleweight | 185 lbs (84 kg)

Welterweight GP Semi-Finals:
Abubakar Vagaev (11-1)         vs.                       (30-14) Luis Melo
Main Card | Akhmat Gran Prix 2016 Semi-Finals | Welterweight | 170 lbs (77 kg)

Beslan Ushukov (11-2)           vs.                    (7-1) Márcio Santos
Main Card | Akhmat Gran Prix 2016 Semi-Finals | Welterweight | 170 lbs (77 kg)

GDS and Goran in this tournament on this card....impressive. These tournaments are pretty stacked up for this org. They just need a stream. I would try to catch this one if it were available.

They have put on many impressive tourneys unfortunately after the last one im not sure if that will continue..,

They promised x amount of pay but right before semi finals they tried to change the pay dramatically which led to many people pulling out.

^That's some bad business, trying to change pay before event. Surprised they have this many name fighters if they pull those tactics.

So why did Green decided to pull out of the Akhmat Lightweight Grand Prix Tournament? Green explained during Thursday’s edition of “The MMA Report Podcast,” that he decided to pull out of the tournament when the payout structure changed.

“So I am kind of bummed out. What happened was we were promised — so when I first got the contract, it was a tournament format and we were promised a certain amount of money each fight,” Green stated. “That is a main reason why I decided to go over there and compete as opposed to staying home. Because I have a great name in the states and I am in a great place. Going over there, it actually puts me in a bit of jeopardy just being foreign. But the money was well worth it. So that is why I agreed.”

“The first round, boom. They paid us our money,” he continued. “It was $10,000 and second round we were supposed to get $30,000 to win. All of a sudden, they hit us up and they are like ‘listen, we lost a sponsor. We can only pay you $10,000 to win again.’ And they changed the amount in the finals also. Which was also significant. We just made that. It’s a 20 hour travel time. They changed my opponent on top of that and things are just a bit — there is no commission. It was just not worth it for the amount of money they were trying to give again.”

“They would not even budge if you tried to negotiate because you are talking about a $20,000 decrease after trying to pay me for the next round. Even larger decrease for the finals and they never got back to us so we kind of just pulled out. I have me and two other of my teammates in the tournament. When they hit us with that and they were not trying to negotiate or do anything besides pretty much what they said, we all just decided to back out of the tournament and pursue fights back here.”



Akhmat was beginning to be a favorite of mine too bad they decide to pull some BS.

Orgs that pull this stuff usually aren't around very long. Fighters are not going to want to fight for this promotion.