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Below is the letter I sent out to the TBA members and many who I have worked with in the fight game, over the years. I thought I would post it publicly as well, it's long, enjoy!
Hello everyone!
I hope this email finds you all well! This may get lengthy, so I hope you all take the time to read it entirely, as some exciting things are beginning to happen with the T.B.A.
First let me back up a bit: Many of you receiving this email are curently TBA representatives, and many of you are not. Many of you I have worked with on various fighting events, and some of you I only know through forums, and seminars. This email is to inform you all of what is going on with my promotions company AND the future of the TBA sanctioning Muay Thai. Since I know many of you through IKF sanctioned events, let me first start by saying that I, my wife Pam, and Roundkick Promotions are now DONE with the IKF. There is no point in getting into the "he said/she said" garbage and start pointing fingers...I prefer to stay out of the politics. Let me just say a recent turn of events and how it all went down, has left a bad taste in my mouth with the IKF. We had planned to host an IKF Regional event this coming June, but that has now changed. More on our plans later in this email.....
Now on to the heart of the email: Last year at a seminar in Minneapolis, Ajarn Chai and I discussed the possibility of the TBA sanctioning events. I asked why this has not been done yet, since the TBA is so large now, and has literally hundreds of athletes fighting for other sanctioning bodies. Ajarn Chai simply replied with "the time was not right, now it is the right time." So, Ajarn has put me in charge of establishing a sanctioning body for the TBA. He and I discussed this later last July and again this past February in St. Lious. I have been given the green light to move forward. So let this email serve as the introductory letter to the future TBA Sanctioning division. More emails will follow quite regularly now, to set up the advisory board consisting of many of you who are state and regional TBA representatives. I will keep you all posted on progress updates. We will have the exact name of the division shortly, and this WILL be a "Not for Profit organization". This process takes a couple months to finalize.
I will follow later in the week with more details on the TBA and it's sanctioning division. There is much to discuss: members of the advisory board, the website, the rules and regulations (Ajarn would like us to follow the WMTC, as best as possible), rankings, setting up regional promoters in the States, as well as other countries, getting officials trained and certified (I want ALL officials to work the same, so the TBA is consistent across the board). The headquarters will be right here in Iowa where I reside, and we will establish regions, regional promoters, regional tournaments, National tournaments, and even World tournaments.....we will also establish "teams" to travel and compete in Thailand on a regular basis.
There is Much to discuss with the development of the TBA sanctioning division, and I eagerly and humbly await your emails with questions, statements, suggestions, etc.etc....I will also post on the public forums in the near future. But, I wanted to get this out to you all first.
Now for the exciting part: June 16 of this year will be the FIRST TBA sanctioned event in history!! This will be a U.S. "open" tournament. Juniors will have International rules, and adults will have Muay Thai rules (possibly International rules for novices, yet to be determined). Competitors will be fighting for tournament titles belts, and they are NICE belts! The event will be in Des Moines Iowa (actual venue is being negotiated as we speak). The date is set....weigh-ins and meeting will be Friday night June 15th, and the prelims will begin at 9am on the 16th, with finals at night (plus Pro bouts to highlight the night). YES, I realize this is Fathers Day weekend (actually the 17th), and this may affect those of you who would be traveling a long distance. But keep in mind, the event will be done Saturday night, and flights can be arranged for early Sunday morn...those driving can leave Saturday night or early Sunday morning as well....so hopefully all can be with their families by Sunday evening. This IS going to be one of the biggest and best shows in the Midwest in a very long time, if not ever!!
I will follow this email with another one on the event by itself. We will have our website (www.roundkickrumble.com) set up shortly with the event info, along with the registration page. You will be able to sign up online, and email a photo for the bracketed line-up. This will save the envelopes and stamp cost. ALSO, this event wil have NO entry fee, it will be FREE to compete!! Unlike other tournaments, this will ONLY cost you to travel here and lodge and eat. There will be NO cost to compete for the titles!!
Rather than make this letter 10 pages long, lol. I will stop here with the initial notice, and follow up with additinal emails on both the TBA and the upcoming event. I will also be establishing a contact list, so if you know of others, please forward my emails on and let's spread the word.
Thank you, I will stay in touch!
Khuen Khru Pete Peterson
TBA Rep Western Iowa
Roundkick Promotions
Team Roundkick
Carroll Iowa
712-792-8178
cell 712-304-0457
Hello everyone!
I hope this email finds you all well! This may get lengthy, so I hope you all take the time to read it entirely, as some exciting things are beginning to happen with the T.B.A.
First let me back up a bit: Many of you receiving this email are curently TBA representatives, and many of you are not. Many of you I have worked with on various fighting events, and some of you I only know through forums, and seminars. This email is to inform you all of what is going on with my promotions company AND the future of the TBA sanctioning Muay Thai. Since I know many of you through IKF sanctioned events, let me first start by saying that I, my wife Pam, and Roundkick Promotions are now DONE with the IKF. There is no point in getting into the "he said/she said" garbage and start pointing fingers...I prefer to stay out of the politics. Let me just say a recent turn of events and how it all went down, has left a bad taste in my mouth with the IKF. We had planned to host an IKF Regional event this coming June, but that has now changed. More on our plans later in this email.....
Now on to the heart of the email: Last year at a seminar in Minneapolis, Ajarn Chai and I discussed the possibility of the TBA sanctioning events. I asked why this has not been done yet, since the TBA is so large now, and has literally hundreds of athletes fighting for other sanctioning bodies. Ajarn Chai simply replied with "the time was not right, now it is the right time." So, Ajarn has put me in charge of establishing a sanctioning body for the TBA. He and I discussed this later last July and again this past February in St. Lious. I have been given the green light to move forward. So let this email serve as the introductory letter to the future TBA Sanctioning division. More emails will follow quite regularly now, to set up the advisory board consisting of many of you who are state and regional TBA representatives. I will keep you all posted on progress updates. We will have the exact name of the division shortly, and this WILL be a "Not for Profit organization". This process takes a couple months to finalize.
I will follow later in the week with more details on the TBA and it's sanctioning division. There is much to discuss: members of the advisory board, the website, the rules and regulations (Ajarn would like us to follow the WMTC, as best as possible), rankings, setting up regional promoters in the States, as well as other countries, getting officials trained and certified (I want ALL officials to work the same, so the TBA is consistent across the board). The headquarters will be right here in Iowa where I reside, and we will establish regions, regional promoters, regional tournaments, National tournaments, and even World tournaments.....we will also establish "teams" to travel and compete in Thailand on a regular basis.
There is Much to discuss with the development of the TBA sanctioning division, and I eagerly and humbly await your emails with questions, statements, suggestions, etc.etc....I will also post on the public forums in the near future. But, I wanted to get this out to you all first.
Now for the exciting part: June 16 of this year will be the FIRST TBA sanctioned event in history!! This will be a U.S. "open" tournament. Juniors will have International rules, and adults will have Muay Thai rules (possibly International rules for novices, yet to be determined). Competitors will be fighting for tournament titles belts, and they are NICE belts! The event will be in Des Moines Iowa (actual venue is being negotiated as we speak). The date is set....weigh-ins and meeting will be Friday night June 15th, and the prelims will begin at 9am on the 16th, with finals at night (plus Pro bouts to highlight the night). YES, I realize this is Fathers Day weekend (actually the 17th), and this may affect those of you who would be traveling a long distance. But keep in mind, the event will be done Saturday night, and flights can be arranged for early Sunday morn...those driving can leave Saturday night or early Sunday morning as well....so hopefully all can be with their families by Sunday evening. This IS going to be one of the biggest and best shows in the Midwest in a very long time, if not ever!!
I will follow this email with another one on the event by itself. We will have our website (www.roundkickrumble.com) set up shortly with the event info, along with the registration page. You will be able to sign up online, and email a photo for the bracketed line-up. This will save the envelopes and stamp cost. ALSO, this event wil have NO entry fee, it will be FREE to compete!! Unlike other tournaments, this will ONLY cost you to travel here and lodge and eat. There will be NO cost to compete for the titles!!
Rather than make this letter 10 pages long, lol. I will stop here with the initial notice, and follow up with additinal emails on both the TBA and the upcoming event. I will also be establishing a contact list, so if you know of others, please forward my emails on and let's spread the word.
Thank you, I will stay in touch!
Khuen Khru Pete Peterson
TBA Rep Western Iowa
Roundkick Promotions
Team Roundkick
Carroll Iowa
712-792-8178
cell 712-304-0457
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