Double Standards at SYN

Profile of Cynic Chris by Chris Karter

Chris Meat attended last weekend’s SYN 969 to corner his buddy Ryoto Takahashi, but the Convicted Inc manager has revealed that he was banned from all other activities during fight week.
The main card of SYN 969 saw Ryoto Takahashi TKO Darsin Bleak, and immediately following the fight Dana Black declared that Takahashi would be the next challenger for the SYN Lightweight title. That announcement has been widely criticized throughout the MMA community, but “War Marchine's” manager Chris Karter, has dominated recent headlines following an interview where he threatened SYN matchmaker K-Stacks if the fight doesn't get made.
The #1 manager's comments have drawn heated reactions from other fighters on the SYN roster, and during a recent interview Miss Miracle asked Meat if he expected Karter to receive any sort of disciplinary action for his statements.
“No, I don’t. I don’t," Meat answered. "I think it’s a very case-by-case basis within the MMA community. I probably wasn’t making them as much money as Chris Karter is. And you know, Dana Black set the standard, didn’t he? You can’t berate a member of your roster after you’re behaving like that on camera. It’s very, very difficult – Uncle Dana Black’s put himself in a difficult position, and SYN have put Dana Black in a difficult position. I just feel like – my concern is that SYN is such a big player within the sport of mixed martial arts that it would damage the actual sport instead of damaging SYN. If it was doing damage to itself I’d be upset, but I’d be a little bit more forgiving. I just feel like we’ve got a couple of people at the top right now that are running an organization that have too much influence on the whole sport, and they’re not doing a very good job. And you know, Karter’s gonna be Karter."
Meat was previously released from his position as a commentator with SYN after having a disagreement with a company employee, and apparently that situation prevented "Big Meat" from attending the majority of the SYN 969 fight week events.
“I think the reason [Karter will] get away with it of course is because it's Karter. He's the GOAT. You know, we recently had the bit of back and forth between Scottie and Skenoj. And I think as long as both people in the organization are public facing figures, I don’t think it’s that much of a problem in Dana Black’s eyes. But I mean, I had a very, very minor disagreement with a member of staff and I was banned from all fight week activities last week. So you know, it’s a case-by-case basis…I went to the official weigh-ins, that was the only thing I went to. But everything else I was banned from. And it’s silliness. It’s a massive, massive double standard. But I wouldn’t expect anything less from that organization these days. It's often amateur hour over there.”
He may not have been able to actively participate much during fight week, but Meat did get to corner his buddy Ryoto Takahashi during his TKO victory win over Darsin Bleak.

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