The Asian promotion of ONE FC which a few days ago has reported about signing of the defending champion of M-1 Challenge in semi-lightweight, Marat Gafurov, cancelled the contract with the fighter.
Having studied the documents provided by the Russian organization, the vice-president of ONE FC, Matt Hulme, notified Vadim Finkelstein that his organization was misled as to them recommended Gafurov as the free agent.
Having made sure available existing contract with M-1 Global, heads of ONE FC immediately cancelled the agreement with Gafurov and agreed that Marat has to finish the contract signed by it with the Russian promotion before to conduct negotiations with someone else.
"We were convinced that in ONE FC true professionals who know the price to business relations work and respect someone else's contracts", - quotes Vadim Finkelstein mixfight.ru. "It is a pity that three years ago we didn't see the same understanding in same precisely a situation from the management of Bellator and were compelled to have legal proceedings"
"It is very pleasant to deal with the management of ONE FC and even I can tell that in our today's correspondence we came to the preliminary agreement on a possible exchange of fighters between our organizations. I can't tell, in which form it will be carried out, we will work all possible options and I am sure that it will be the beginning of long-term cooperation between M-1 Global and ONE FC"
"Now we would like to receive comments from Marat Gafurov on all this situation and as actually such situation in general could arise in defiance of all contractual obligations. We can close eyes to this incident and continue our cooperation in a usual key especially as we already planned date and a place of the following title fight for Marat, but valid and business approach to work from both parties" is for this purpose necessary
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