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MMABAY CEO Crashes the Radio Programming of Fight Net Radio

(EMAILWIRE.COM, March 29, 2011 ) Los Angeles, CA -- The saga continues between MMABAY and Fight Net Radio but this time Michael Pepper chimes in on recording of Fight Net Radio and ridicules the official launching of MMABAYNEWS (www.mmabaynews.com).

MMA Bay UK or MMA Bay Area, CA, would the real owner please stand up? When there is bad blood between former partners with each one claiming to be the inventor, one would expect certain repartee, however, the MMABAY CEO brings "bad blood" to a new level. One needs only to listen to the latest broadcast to understand the harshness of the name calling, slander, and defamation directions towards both Chris Greenman and Lee Honish from Fight Net Radio as it is not fit for print.[1]

Michael Pepper, the MMABAY CEO, is no stranger to controversy nor being politically correct, in fact just two months ago he accused Aaron Tru, a respected MMA journalist of performing lewd acts to get a nomination for a MMA award. He also used defamation accusations to attempt to ban ProFightNetwork from its hosting provider. Unfortunately, both of these unimaginable events were recorded and did not help the CEO's reputation or character. Numerous respected and award winning news websites reported this unfortunate incident, including CBS, The First Reporter and Emailwire.[2]

One must first realize the history before passing judgment. International Journalism Review (IJR) made attempts to talk with all parties involved in order to make sense to this on-going feud between former partners who are all MMA industry icons, in order to sort out the 1000 piece puzzle. We were able to secure statements from Lee Honish and Chris Greenman, and were unsuccessful in our attempt to reach Michael Pepper. IJR confirmed all facts it could which included listening to an archive of Podcasts, printed reports, and other public statements.

Lee Honish recently launched his newest website, MMA Bay Area News (www.MMABAYNEWS.com) which according to Honish he has envisioned since working with Greenman approximately four years ago. Greenman helped Honish spotlight the "Bay Area" in Northern California about five years ago and helped bring the broadcast to top rankings and this is where the real history was made. The Bay Area of course was home to StrikeForce, and most of their fighters, who at that time were the only real competition to the UFC (StrikeForce was just bought by the UFC).

Fight Net Radio brought in Greenman as a co-host and MMA insider because of his history and relationship with top MMA fighters. Greenman would do seamless interviews, give fighter insight, and even broadcast from his own MMA gym in Livermore, CA. Honish would often talk about his MMABAYAREA concept on the radio because he believed half of the MMA world was in the Bay Area (This was confirmed in the radio archive provided by Podamatic). Honish suggested MMABAY Radio but was hesitant on giving up the Fight Net Radio name at that time.

According to Honish, he was notified about three years ago by Michael Pepper who advised him he was going to borrow the name MMABAY for a little website in the UK as it seemed fitting with the name. Honish told IJR that he agreed to it because he only really wanted to launch his MMABAYNEWS website and his radio name was established already. This is where the name rights really begin. To further complicate things, some two years later Greenman suggests adding Michael Pepper and MMABAY to their radio show to further their European reach. Depending on who you ask, all three parties claim rights to name MMABAYRADIO, thus adding speed to this car crash.

Greenman and Honish claim Fight Net Radio made MMABAY grow to its current level so the name rights are naturally theirs. Both Honish and Greenman told us that Pepper doesn't concur with their theory. There could be credibility as when out of the blue, Michael Pepper, chimed in on Skype during the regular recording broadcast of Fight Net Radio. It was no surprise that Honish and Greenman allowed the show to continue recording as history indicates they don't hold the truth back. In fact Greenman told us this, "We can always count on Pepper digging his own grave, we don't have to plan anything because he always does something stupid and does it in a fashion where he can't deny it. It's almost like he wants to get caught for attention. Attention is great, I am not sure if this is the kind of attention I would want, he must not think highly of our sport?"

However you cut this cake, it seems never to run out of pieces, the MMA world is highly anticipating Pepper's next move as each historical move seems to gather interest from around the world. From admittedly being drunk during recordings of radio shows to accusing people of sexual acts in order for recognition, the European website owner seems to not know the meaning of tact nor does he feel his acts tarnish his website.

In regards to the new MMABAYNEWS website launch, IJR reported that MMABAYNEWS.com is unlike most other MMA news sites in that it is funded entirely on its Google ads. In fact the writers aren't paid unless enough "clicks" are made which CEO Lee Honish claims is the biggest motivator to his journalist. Honish said, "It's like the best motivator I could think of, write great content and people will come back, all of our Google ads are MMA related so people are bound to click on ads of their liking. I think I might be on to something what do you think?"

Michael Gingino Editor in Chief
International Journalism Review
InternationalJournalismReview@gmail.com



1 http://flpoindexter.podomatic.com/
2 http://investor.news.com/bnet/news/read?GUID=16871077
http://www.thefirstreporter.com/press-releases/mmabay-ceo-defamation-accusations/
http://www.emailwire.com/release/56833-MMABAY-CEO-uses-defamation-accusations-to-attempt-to-ban-ProFightNetwork-from-its-hosting-provider-.html
3 http://www.topix.net/forum/sports/T3DKG4VC6PRQ2FI6P




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InternationalJournalismReview@gmail.com

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