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Blog Entry: Hello to all, I would like to thank everyone involved in my show this past weekend. The fighters all fought their hearts out, Thank you the coaches for bring their fighters to the show and trainining them as well as the do. I would like to thank Joel Bekker for doing an outstanding job of refing and the crowd for coming out to support the fighters who worked and trained so hard. There was a mixed up with the USMTA officials. Clint sent me a very nice e-mail the next day:
Date April 27 th 2008
To Michael Coleone,
Dear Mr. Corleone, First of all I must apologies to you openly and personally to the unfortunate set of circumstances that caused such a problem at your event. As I was Director of the Judges and Referee’s I must be held accountable and justifiably responsible for the outcome of last night’s debacle. Due to the lack of communication with the Judges and personnel on my part, and because of personal circumstances that were beyond my control, I humbly ask you to accept my personal apologies.
To make sure that this never happens again I have asked a Director, Khun Leon Bonewicz to take over the position as National Director of the Judges and Referees. His guidance will make sure this type of mistake cannot happen again. I also apologize to Referee Joel Bekker who on his own looked after the event.
To all the competitors, coaches, and Instructors who took part in the event, I also ask for your forgiveness and understanding of the personal circumstances surrounding the outcome. Because of this, I was unable to take care and give Mr. Corleone’s event the attention it needed. I apologize and hope you will all forgive me of this.
I hope you will all understand that this is not a regular happening and that the USMTA should not be ostracized because of this.
Once again, I apologize to Mr. Corleone and to Kevin Molina, Derek Oldensmith, Patrick Mahoney, Jeremy Graber, Stoney Morales, Turan Hassanov , Peter Simonelli , Valentin Strestratichuk ,Brandon Walker, George Geller, Tim Berke, Zach Mellot, Peter Barba, Charles Arroyo, Ms. Ariana Dindiyal, and Ms. Ashley May, Peter Kokoska, Tom, Mario Perez , and Guy Lombardo, all who took part in the April 26 th event.
I will understand if Mr. Corleone does not wish to work with the association again, but I ask that he allow me to correct my mistake and let us proceed with the next event.
Sincerely yours,
Clint Heyliger
President USMTA
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