KJ Noons has sent this to a number of MMA media outlets and it appears to be
legit. Nothing really too exciting–We have no issue with Noons
fighting Eddie Alverez but he’s realistically not going to be able to
fight until later this year. He had a nasty eye injury at the DREAM
LW GP semi finals and is getting married in September meaning that its
going to be hard to focus on training.

Noons may or may not have a legit beef with EliteXC, but the bottom
line is that its time honored prizefighter “etiquette” to offer a
guy a rematch in the event of a controversial decision Most recently
on the last ShoXC card Po’ai Suganuma rematched Jared Hamman in
somewhat similar circumstances. Diaz is a guy who “bleeds easily”,
and there’s not many who are of the opinion that Noon’s win was
convincing or decisive. From the sound of it, he’s trying to
obfuscate the primary issue–that for whatever reason he doesn’t want to offer Diaz a rematch:

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.

Consider when Elite XC gives a couple thousand tickets away at their
CBS show in Stockton.

Elite XC gives me a hard time about comping me one extra ticket for my
cousin that helped me train for my fight. I only get four tickets per
show. I am the main event in Honolulu, my home town! I did not ask
for any tickets for my family and friends and they gave me a hard time
about one extra ticket!

Or how about when Elite XC brought Diaz into the ring after my last
victory in Hawaii to disrespect me and my family.

Chuck Champion (President Elite XC) threatens me, my family and my
manager with lawsuits and how he’s going to sue me. HAHA. Pretty hard
to sue a guy who does not make jack with your company. I’m glad $kala
disclosed how much I make, which breached the confidentiality clause
of the contract. I will break down the real numbers for you. I am the
defending world champ, I have been the main event for Elite XC three
out of four times on Showtime. In almost two years I have made
approximately $83,000?

After paying my trainers and managers fee, I have $50,000 thousand.
After taxes, probably 30 grand. Divide that by two years for $15,000
thousand a year. Divide by 52 weeks that amounts to approximately $300
a week. I do not know anybody that can survive on that amount of
money. My buddies make more money than that in a couple days being a
bus boy or bar back. And yes you can argue I should fight more. Elite
XC doesn’t give me fights or promote me, they ice me. Gary Shaw
Productions only gave me one of the agreed upon four fights per the
boxing contract.

And I do not want to ramble on about all the little small stuff that I
can keep going on about. But the straw that broke the camel’s back is
they want me to fight Diaz for the second time. Diaz is not the
number one contender and they are paying Diaz three times more money
than me. Diaz complained after the Stockton fight, he was not paid
enough. How do you think that made me feel? Yes you can argue that
Diaz gets more for the draw, therefore I do not deserve as much
compensation. If that is the case, it is a result of Elite XC
terrible job promoting me. Instead of promoting me as their champ and
upcoming athlete, Elite XC has resented me for ruining their plans to
make Diaz their champ. That is just total disrespect. So it comes
down to money and what is fair. I am tired of being bent over by
Elite XC with no Vaseline.

I am right when I say Diaz is not the number one contender. Elite XC
is trying to force this fight for their ratings. Eddie Alaverez is the
number one contender and anybody with half a brain knows that a fight
with Eddie is a way harder fight for me than Diaz. I will fight Diaz,
but Elite has to be fair. I’m not ducking Diaz, why the hell would I
be scared of someone I already beat.

With that being said, I am going to focus on my boxing career. I can
make more money doing 6 and 8 rounders every other month and make more
than I did being the Elite XC defending world champ. At least I will
be able to sleep at night and be able to look myself in the mirror
everyday. That right there is worth more than $300 bucks a week or
fighting a guy I cannot stand for less money than him the second time
around.

Will the Diaz fight happen, yes. Will the fight happen on Elite XC on
October 4, 2008, probably not. The way things are being run by Chuck
Champion, a guy whose history is newspapers, not fighting, and $kala,
someone who talks a lot of game, but has never put on a pair of
gloves, never stepped in a ring or cage. $kala has had everything
handed to him with a silver spoon from daddy. Does anyone else but me
think $kala just wants to be famous and stir up all this dirty
laundry? I guess any publicity is good publicity. When I think about
it, it has been good promotion for their October card since nobody is
talking about it until you bring up the Noons vs. Diaz match up.

Before I end, I would like to thank my team, my trainers and workout
partners for helping me prepare for my fights hours every day. I would
like to also thank my manager Mark Dion for standing behind my
decision making. I want to be a fighter who is not doing whatever I am
being told like some kind of mindless puppet.

Thanks for hearing my side.

K.J. NOONS