Comments on: Exclusive Interview With Chris Stolzman, former CEO of Knuckle Up!

By: France Reder

France Reder — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:28:48 +0000

Well it’s always good to have someone else’s perspective on things don’t you think? Makes you start to think properly and also freely, therefore i value your slant on things, although I may not go along with all you say.

By: David

David — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:08:00 +0000

Chris is not “brilliant”. He is a somewhat nice guy who made a lot of mistakes. The BJJ program was decimated when 5 top instructors were fired, and many many students left the school. Duvera tried to put many people into collections, refusing to honor legitimate medical reasons for canceling a contract. I know of someone currently who signed up at Gwinnett, and is still being harassed by Duvera even though he has no gym to train at. Many things were done to members that were not cool, and should not be legal.
As far as CJ being such a “great manager”, I personally witnessed many cases where he literally yelled at people working at the desk in front of customers, and also yelled at customers themselves. And you wonder why people wanted to leave the gym? Maybe those leased Escalades should have been handed to disgruntled customers instead of being driven around by the “partners” in the gym..

By: Shana Stolzman

Shana Stolzman — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:18:15 +0000

Chris Stolzman is one of the most brilliant and talented men in this industry. He is known for taking risks, a lot of which have been tremendously successful, with many other people riding the coat tails of that success and making a lot of money, and getting their careers off to a great start. Chris is generous to a fault, (as MANY people can attest,) and he gave up more than anyone can imagine to try and save KnuckleUp and keep his KnuckleUp families employed and his members in their gyms. Everyone who has not been under public scrutiny and responsible for a lot of employees’ livelihoods can talk trash all they want. – I know the real Chris Stolzman, and I know the truth.

By: dizzy

dizzy — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:05:17 +0000

All knuckleups suck, man. They’re too small and their made for a bunch of thug life “studs” who need somewhere to beat their puny chests. Lousy places all of them.

By: shc

shc — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:55:51 +0000

i know the problem the owner thought he was a rockstar and blowed alot of money i cancelled my membership about 3 years ago then when they went bankrup the fuckers sent us bills saying they needed new banking info and that i had payed my contract infull but there was a fee of $5.00 well damn guess what that was bullshit i didnt have a membership payed in full and even if i did the bitches closed down. but thanks to steve at douglasville he does his guys good chris is a thief and liar bottom line oyeah your not a rockstar now huh

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:19:33 +0000

I just want to know how to get out of the contract. I don’t think I should be forced to train at LA Boxing because of mistakes he made. I signed a contract with Knuckleup not LA Boxing. I am tired of the run around from ABC financial and Duvera.

By: Phillipe

Phillipe — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 06:44:50 +0000

It’s easy to talk negatively about how someone runs their business when you clock in for a living. Running a company is very difficult and as a business owner myself, I have made decisions that I regret as well. No one makes perfect decisions always. Life is about learning and growing and I’m sure Chris has learned a lot that will make him succesful again. The gym I trained at went down with this whole thing as well but, life goes on. I admire anyone that puts it on the line like Chris did in this interview and I wish him the best of luck.

By: Warren THompson

Warren THompson — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:43:09 +0000

i like Chris. he was a great guy and was allways nice to me and him and Carrie gave me my start in this business in which i will allways be grateful. Did he make sum mistakes sure. but havent we all sumtimes. I hope hope he bounces back stong and does well, and admin is right show some respect and stop being a d-bag. its sooo easy to talk crap on the internet as im falling into now so ima stop

By: Jerome

Jerome — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:55:24 +0000

Chris Stolzman was a good businessman had it not been for him, there would be less jobs in the ATL. He should open some gyms up in other states like Arizona, California and Vegas! His style could really boost the excitement to have less fat people and more bada$$es!

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:51:51 +0000

Respect? how can respect be shown? Oh you mean hide the facts? Sure ok Mr. Administrator.