10/21/07: Cow Palace DISASTER, MMA Show Canceled & More

A story so good I won't even attempt to paraphrase it - I'm quoting straight from www.F4WOnline.com and Bryan Alvarez.

According to a source close to the situation nearly everybody's checks with the exception of Goldberg and Roddy Piper bounced. All three promoters have disappeared (Chris Salisbury who arranged the convention and MMA promoters David Huerta and Phil Flathers), and the only MMA fight of the weekend involved Don Frye after the entire fight card scheduled for Saturday night was canceled.

Frye apparently got into an altercation with a bodyguard while it was being explained by one of the MMA promoters to the other fighters that because the show was canceled, they weren't being paid. According to a source, Frye, who had been trying to mediate the meeting, challenged the bodyguard to take it outside after the bodyguard had screamed at him and poked him repeatedly in the chest. When Frye turned around he was sucker-punched twice. They got into a brawl, the police were called, and then later Frye and the bodyguard happened to run into each other again and had another fight. There are reports that Don was knocked out, but he was in the hotel shortly afterwards signing autographs for people so that story is likely inaccurate. He did have a huge shiner. We should have more on this story later today.

I am told that ROH officials met with the Cow Palace, and as of Saturday night the 4:00 PM Sunday afternoon show is still on.