More information on Gabe Ruediger and his status with the CSAC

Posted by Caleb Newby on 05.31.2007

The story gets more and more interesting...

As reported earlier, Gabe Ruediger was taken off the K-1 Dynamite! show that many did not even know he was a part of.

Since then a few more news bits have become available. Gabe posted on the Underground forum:

"I haven't been here in some time. An attorney and friend of mine told me about this particular thread. I cant say much about the situation, but I am not happy about it.

"I trained hard for this fight. My weight last night was 169 (4 pounds below the weight I started cutting from on the show), with another 3 days until weigh-ins. I am extremely disappointed that I will not be fighting. In this fight I wasn't concerned about winning or losing (of course I felt I was going to win, and expected to win), just fighting. Now I don't even get to do that.

"You can say what you want about me. You can ridicule me and make your little gifs and pictures (I thought some of them were actually really funny), but this situation goes well beyond the show.

"Once again, I can't talk about what is happening, but I'm not going to allow this to just be."


Additionally, Sam Caplan contacted Armando Garcia (California's head of the State Athletic Commission) today. According to Caplan, Garcia denied that Gabe Ruediger was denied a license the Dynamite card but refused to comment further.