K.J. Noons is mad because EliteXC didn't make a baseball card of him
by Zak Woods on Aug 28, 2008 4:31 PM EDT
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EliteXC lightweight champion K.J. Noons finally broke his silence over refusing to fight Nick Diaz at EliteXC's next CBS show. Noons sent this email to bloodyelbow.com,
"It is not about being scared to fight Diaz, who I previously defeated, it is about the fight I am currently in with Elite XC regarding my career.
I would first like to address all the false allegations and insults from Jared Shaw, aka $kala, VP of Elite XC. You will see why I am so disgusted of how Elite XC treated me and how it applies to this proposed fight and my career.
$kala says:
Honor my contract. Elite XC wants to talk about honoring the contract. How about when Elite XC honored the contract and my pay to fight Edson Berto went down after I lost my first fight. That was not part of my contract. Or how about the contract Gary Shaw breached by not promoting my boxing career? Gary Shaw only gave me one out of four of the agreed upon fights. I have not boxed for over a year. When I signed with Elite XC, I was promised they would promote both my boxing and MMA careers. I could have signed with another MMA only company, but I wanted to box too.
Elite XC does me a favor after I lose, by putting me on the first ShoXC against Edson Berto? Berto’s father is good friends with Jared’s father, Gary Shaw who wants Berto’s brother on a boxing contract. Berto was the next guy Elite XC wanted to build. But I win that fight and now I am 1-1. Elite XC gives me an opportunity to fight Diaz. Elite XC puts me against Diaz because Elite XC’s roster was so light and there was nobody else to fight him.
Elite XC creates a new weight class for Diaz because he beat Gomi. Giving Diaz a belt and creating a weight division (160) he can make, will make your belt legit. Sorry to ruin Elite XC’s plans and beat him.
Elite XC never promoted or took care of me as their champion.
Examples:
In the Elite XC’s DVD where Diaz and I fought there are two (2) baseball cards of Diaz and Kimbo. Hello! I won the fight and Elite XC’s promoting Diaz after I beat him? Or how about the day Elite XC flew Diaz in to do a signing on the DVD where he lost. Wow, that must have been uncomfortable Nick? Signing a DVD, and it is a fight that you lost. Why wasn’t I flown in for the signing?
Elite XC has never promoted me on either of their websites, EliteXC or Pro-Elite.
Elite XC offered me a fight on the first CBS show, but only if I signed a new long-term contract. Instead of promoting their best fighters on CBS, you have to be on a long term contract for them to promote you. That was not our deal."
First Noons is a horrible writer and I can't quite understand everything he is saying and I feel like this is a GRE prompt. Second it seems that he is mad that his contract is not being 'honored' yet he provides no evidence besides lucid accusations and two examples.
The accusations are derived from petty ideas, such as 'they like this guy better than me'. Noons is mad a Gary Shaw, who has been recently forced to the sidelines in ProElite, for not promoting boxing matches involving Noons. I wasn't aware that Noons was going to challenge Floyd Mayweather for something.
K.J. is also mad because he believes that EliteXC is showing favoritism for Nick Diaz and Edson Berto. No shit they are favoring Nick Diaz because he, Kimbo Slice, Gina Carano, Robbie Lawler, Antonio Silva and Jake Sheilds are their best most marketable fighters. So a freshman in a marketing class could figure that out.
That brings us to the first bits of hard evidence Noons mentions. Apparently he doesn't feel he is being promoted enough. The two examples Noons uses as evidence are not being featured on a baseball card in an EliteXC DVD and not being at a DVD signing!
Wow, holy shit is this guy petty. K.J. Noons was nothing before he beat Diaz who is EliteXC's darling at 160lbs. Why is Diaz EliteXC's darling? because they have so few legit fighters (see above list). K.J. Noons needs to be riding the wave of success of defeating the poster boy by milking it for everything its worth (basically a rematch). So take the rematch, beat Diaz again (unless you are scared) and get paid before EliteXC folds.
The best part though, when Noons says the lightweight division is so 'light', in other words thin. In essence he is validating the whole point of a rematch. Guess what Noons there is no one for you to fight except Diaz and you just made EliteXC's point. So either you are being petty or are being a pussy. Either way it is not pretty.
If Noons is truly being taken advantage of he needs to offer some real evidence besides a freaking baseball card.
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