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The most hilarious thing about the Dana situation is him doing an interview and saying that the “shame” of the situation is enough of a punishment lol.

Dana is a piece of shit person for reasons well beyond slapping his wife, but UFC/MMA fans aren’t exactly the crowd to want people punished for domestic violence. A big portion of the fan base has been passionately defending him. So he’s sadly going nowhere, but even if he did the problems with the UFC like fighter pay won’t actually get better. There just won’t be a loud tomato screaming obscenities whenever he gets questioned on the subject.
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Miller4Prez64 wrote: Fri Jan 13, 2023 3:00 pm The most hilarious thing about the Dana situation is him doing an interview and saying that the “shame” of the situation is enough of a punishment lol.

Dana is a piece of shit person for reasons well beyond slapping his wife, but UFC/MMA fans aren’t exactly the crowd to want people punished for domestic violence. A big portion of the fan base has been passionately defending him. So he’s sadly going nowhere, but even if he did the problems with the UFC like fighter pay won’t actually get better. There just won’t be a loud tomato screaming obscenities whenever he gets questioned on the subject.
Yeah fuck Dana on this and on the fighter pay. MMA rivals football for my fan love, but the way fighters are treated makes it harder and harder to enjoy.
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The fighter pay stuff is ridiculous. It’s hard for me to watch prelim cards knowing guys are getting their faces beat in for like $5k.
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That's probably significantly more than the morons getting crippled on his other show.
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Snake wrote: Mon Jan 23, 2023 2:12 pm The fighter pay stuff is ridiculous. It’s hard for me to watch prelim cards knowing guys are getting their faces beat in for like $5k.
What makes it worse is the PPV prices keep going up while fighter pay stays the same.

The revenue split is straight up criminal in the UFC. Athletes take home 12-15%. I’m not saying it should be a near 50-50 split like the NFL, but they can do way better than that. The UFC isn’t a small time organization trying to find their footing, they are the major selling point of ESPN+ and the prices to watch the top cards are getting near $100 a pop.

Sadly for the fighters, they will never be united enough to ever fight this. If a few fighters want to stand up and ask for more, Dana calls some young hungry dude training with bears in Dagestan or whatever and pays him 10K to take your spot and the fans won’t care because it’s all about the UFC brand and Dana White and not the actual athletes we are watching.
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Miller4Prez64 wrote: Mon Jan 23, 2023 4:09 pm
Snake wrote: Mon Jan 23, 2023 2:12 pm The fighter pay stuff is ridiculous. It’s hard for me to watch prelim cards knowing guys are getting their faces beat in for like $5k.
What makes it worse is the PPV prices keep going up while fighter pay stays the same.

The revenue split is straight up criminal in the UFC. Athletes take home 12-15%. I’m not saying it should be a near 50-50 split like the NFL, but they can do way better than that. The UFC isn’t a small time organization trying to find their footing, they are the major selling point of ESPN+ and the prices to watch the top cards are getting near $100 a pop.

Sadly for the fighters, they will never be united enough to ever fight this. If a few fighters want to stand up and ask for more, Dana calls some young hungry dude training with bears in Dagestan or whatever and pays him 10K to take your spot and the fans won’t care because it’s all about the UFC brand and Dana White and not the actual athletes we are watching.
Nothing will cha he until Congress forces it. The same thing happened with boxing. These organizations will not simply do the right thing.
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Volk vs Islam is probably the highest level fight I’ve ever seen. No exaggeration.

Won’t spoil it.
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Shevchenko looked beyond mortal.
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I’m genuinely surprised Usman didn’t get the belt back, I thought his first loss to Leon was flukey. The welterweight division needs some new damn blood already though because Covington is already getting yet another title shot. It feels like all the top guys in that division rarely fight and it’s the same people fighting for the belt all the time.
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Didn't want to start a new topic for this, but being as Gotti III is/was? an MMA fighter, this should fit here okay...

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John Gotti III Warns Mayweather: You Signed To Fight Me - It’s Kill or Be Killed!
BY JAKE DONOVAN
Published Sun Apr 30, 2023, 09:23 AM EDT

As far back as he can remember, John Gotti III always wanted to be a relevant fighter.

The multi-combat sports athlete now has a chance to put his name on the map for reasons other than his famous bloodlines. Gotti is the next opponent on the exhibition tour of Floyd Mayweather, Jr., the Hall of Fame former five-division champ and the sport’s all-time box-office king whom the Long Island native admired long before heading down a path to become a boxer.

“I’ve been following him since I was eight years old,” Gotti told the assembled media during a press conference at The Gabriel Miami Downtown Hotel in Miami to formally announce their upcoming event. “This was my idol. This was a guy I did school projects on. It was a guy I looked up to. The fact that I’m in a position to stand across the ring from Floyd is a tremendous honor.

“But make no mistake, June 11 I’m bringing bad intentions to that man. I don’t care if it’s an exhibition or not. You signed to fight me, there’s no quarter. It’s kill or be killed.”

Their scheduled eight-round exhibition contest will headline a June 11 Zeus Network Pay-Per-View event from FLA Live Arena, home to the NHL’s Florida Panthers in Sunrise, Florida.

Gotti was one month shy of his sixth birthday when Mayweather (50-0, 27KOs) won his first major title in October 1998. It was more into his early teen years when Gotti bought all the way into the brilliance of Mayweather following his systematic dismantling of Arturo Gatti in June 2005 to become a three-division champ.

“This was someone who was legitimately my hero in boxing growing up,” noted Gotti, who has long sought to live a cleaner, safer lifestyle than experienced by his father and former reputed mob boss, John A. Gotti and notorious grandfather John Gotti. “I’m not just saying that because I’m here. I did a school project on Floyd. I watched every one of his fights since the Arturo Gatti fight on.

“When I seen that fight, I always said I never seen anyone throw combinations with the intent, speed and the accuracy of that man. I was captivated from that night on. I’ve been Team Mayweather since I was eight, nine years old. But when it’s time to get to business, we’re gonna get to business. We’re gonna fight.”

Gotti (2-0, 1KO) ventured into mixed martial arts, where he holds a 5-1 record. His desire to enter boxing first stemmed from a prior conversation between Mayweather’s team and John A. Gotti more than two years ago. The fight never materialized but the younger Gotti began the transition from MMA to boxing to be ready for the moment whenever it arrived.

From there came his boxing pro debut last October in Huntington, less than 20 minutes from his hometown in the Oyster Bay section of Long Island, New York. Gotti went the distance in a four-round, unanimous decision victory before he earned a first-round knockout on January 21 at Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Connecticut.

Even in the exhibition world, facing the likes of Mayweather is on an entirely different level. Another layer comes with the youngest Gotti sharing the ring with a lifelong sports hero.

“It’s going to be a pinch-me moment for sure,” admitted Gotti. “But… I established my own identity in mixed martial arts and now boxing. I’m not here to play. I’m all business. I’m here to fight. That’s it.”
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