PROMOTER & FIGHTER
SUSPENSION & FINE

• Guillermo "Will" Serment, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 3-1, 155, 5'10", 5-18-80, Self, (630) 664-6607, - (1-10-08)
  • 2-1-08: It was discovered after Mr. Serment fought as an Amateur on the ISCF Sanctioned, "FIGHT 2 THE FINISH II" on November 9th, 2007, Kevy Boy Productions at the Congress Theater in Chicago, Illinois, USA, promoted by Kevin Chavers at (630) 664-6607, www.UFFLIVE.com when he defeated Calvin Gladsby Via Tapout Due To Strikes 2:03 of Round 2 that he is actually the PRO Fighter who also goes by the name of Wilson Serment.
  • Serment has been suspended indefinitely and has been find $2,500.00 in accordance to the ISCF Amateur Matchmaking Rule found HERE. - He Falsified his name, as well as lied about his status as an Amateur MMA Fighter.
  • Serment went on after this fight to fight again as an Amateur on the IFC Sanctioned XFO-21 Promoted by Monte Cox and Dan Lardy on December 1st, 2007 at the Lakemoor Banquet Facility in Lakemoor, Illinois, USA fighting Amateur fighter Michael Tucker winning the bout at :16 seconds into the first round by strikes.
• Mr. Kevin Chavers ( Promoter and matchmaker of above ISCF Event Serment fought on) of Matteson, Illinois, USA has also been fined $1,000.00 and suspended indefinitely by the ISCF.
  • Mr. Chavers has also been fined and suspended for failure to meet financial obligations on this event. All of his checks bounced.
  • Mr. Chavers phone number of (630) 664-6607 has been disconnected (Surprise...) but his web site is still up: www.UFFLIVE.com - His e-mail address is kevyboyproductions@yahoo.com

PROMOTER
SUSPENSION & FINE

• May 10th, 2005
  David Oblas
  • ISCF MMA Pro & Amateur Promoter
    Fine & Suspension Confirmed on May 10th, 2005.
    Fine & Suspension Confirmed on February 1st, 2008.

• 5-10-05: $500.00 Fine for Failure to Comply with Mandatory ISCF Sanctioning Requirement after event.
• 5-13-05: Additional Fine added for outright denial in writing to pay first fine.
• 7-11-05: Fine & Suspension re-confirmed on July 11th, 2005.

PROMOTER
BANNED

• September 6th, 2002
  Jamie (James) Levine
  • ISCF MMA Pro & Amateur Promoter:
    Suspension and Lifetime ISCF Ban.
    Ban Confirmed on September 6th, 2002.
    Ban Confirmed on February 1st, 2008.
  • The below infraction happened prior to the ISCF Mandatory CASHIERS CHECK REQUIREMENT rule for all PRO Promoters who are paying Pro Fighter Purses:
    June 29th, 2002, Cobb County Civic Center, Marietta, Georgia: Mr. Levine wrote several bad checks to fighters including Forrest Griffin, Rory Singer, Mike Nelson, Cam McHargue and others. It took these fighters eight months to be paid. This was the "SECOND" time Mr. Levine had problems making good on checks written to fighters on an ISCF event. The decision was made soon after to no longer allow him to sanction any event he is associated with as a promoter, matchmaker, official or even as a fighter with the ISCF. This is a "Lifetime" ban.
    • 12-05-2006: Received from the State of Florida: Added to the reasons for this ban - Levine was convicted of Sex Offender crimes under Florida law.
      For confirmation Click Here. - Type in JAMES LEVINE, Florida.

PROMOTER
SUSPENSION & FINE

• December, 4th, 2007
  Jim Thomas (Right) & Dena Trobridge of Ruff Man Promotions, Marion, Illinois, USA, (765) 939-0780 or e-mail at usnmat@hotmail.com
  • ISCF MMA Amateur Promoter
    Fine & Suspension Confirmed on December 4th, 2007.
    Fine & Suspension Confirmed on February 1st, 2008.

• 12-4-07: $750.00 Fine for Failure to Comply with Mandatory ISCF Amateur Matchmaking Rules
  • Jim Thomas had shown the ISCF Representative, Robert Hinds, registration forms for 3 fighters that had not been correctly registered within the required time lines to fight on his fight card on June 23rd, 2007 in Marion, Illinois, USA. Mr. Thomas claimed he had registered all three and that he had paid by credit card to the ISCF. However, this was not true. No credit card was ever provided and none of these three fighters had ever been approved to fight on the event. After the event, Mr. Hinds contacted Mr. Thomas about this and Thomas said he would re-send the registration forms, but still, never sent in any registration fees.
    • The fighters were
      • Don Thompson
      • Damian Jeffro
      • Jonathon Cortney
  • December 4th, 2007: As of this date, neither Jim Thomas or Dena Trobridge have sent in any of the required registration forms or fees they collected from these three fighters.
  • December 4th, 2007: Jim Thomas has been fined in accordance with the ISCF Amateur Matchmaking Rules $250.00 Per Fighter, $750.00 and has been suspended 6 months from todays date or until fine has been paid.
  • December 4th, 2007: Jim Thomas has been fined an additional $250.00 for not following through in trust with this matter, and the fact that it is now almost 6 months and this issue has still not been cleared up.
  • December 4th, 2007: ISCF has Registered the fighters despite Mr. Thomas never paying their fighter registration fees or sending in their Fighter Registration paperwork.

Jim Thomas or as he likes to be called, Dr. Jim Thomas is also associated with the US National Martial Arts Team - Alliance. He has quite a history of bad deeds including what he did to Pam Delafield of Wisconsin who wrote below.

Pam Delafield wrote...
My husband has been doing Martial Arts for over 20 years and competing in various Martial Art tournaments thru out the United States. In 2002 we receive a packet from the above organization (US National Martial Arts Team - Alliance) stating that he had been appointed to the United States Martial Arts Team. That he could participate in the United States National Martial Arts Team World Cup Tournament in Cancun Mexico in January of 2003. The top four competitors would then advance to Athens Greece in 2004 to represent the USA during an open Karate competition to be held as an opening event to the 2004 Summer Olympic Games to be held in Athens Greece.

We thought this sounds to good to be true so we went on the Internet and checked out the Better Busienss Buerau and found nothing. So we decided to go thru with it. We scraped up the money and went. We thought that this would be a once in a lifetime opportunity for my husband and a dream to participate in the Olympics. So we went to the compition and my husband finished in the top four. We were excited he is going to the Summer Olympics we told friends and family. We have gone to many tournaments and never received your metals but we were told in Cancun that customs was holding the metals and Mr Thomas was working on getting them to us before we left for the US. We never received the metals before we left.

When we returned home we did not hear anything from Mr. Thomas or even the metals months went by nothing finally my husband contacted Mr. Thomas and he said that he would mail them... nothing.

After my husband had talked to Mr. Thomas he had a bad feeling so I E Mail the Olympic Commitee and asked them if they knew anything about this, they said no. Then we received a packet from Mr. Thomas and it was for Greece Athens but it was going to be held at the end of March 2004 and it is a World Tournament. It has nothing to do with the Olympics.

My husband contacted Mr. Thomas and asked him and he said that he never said that this had to do with the Olympics. But we have the documentation that he sent us Stating this. We had contacted other people who had patricipated in this Cancun tournament and they told us that they want nothing to do with him either. Also, we found out that he never order the Medals for the tournament and that he made that up about the medals being held up in customs. When we signed up for this trip we had to go thru SideKick Travel that is affiliated with Mr. Thomas.

I beleive that is fraud and misrepsentation and we have been Embrassed to tell our friends and co workers that were taken by this conartist. I hope someone can help us get our money back and put this organiztion out of business.

The above article can also be found by clicking HERE

The event in Cancun explained above was actually sanctioned by the sister organization of the ISCF for kickboxing, the IKF. Read about the event by clicking
HERE.
Results From IKF Cancun Mexico
Sunday, JANUARY, 26th 2003

Thomas also promoted an event some time ago called RUFFMAN in Indiana and surrounding States.

1-25-2008:
FOUND POST: DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH A GUY NAMED JIM THOMAS!!!
The IKF has been getting loads of calls about this guy! He is out of the Midwest, Illinois... He has been RIPPING people off for years! His latest claim is that he has a lot of karate equipment to sell for CHEAP! He gets the orders, and the $$, but NEVER sends the stuff out!
WATCH OUT PEOPLE!!!!!!
His last known contact number was; 765-939-0780 Anyone else here ever delt with this guy?

Sounds like Jim has went from Hallof Fame to Hall of Shame...