Comments on: Dana White speaks out about Jon Fitch’s release during emotional radio interview

By: Insansity

Insansity — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:49:14 +0000

@JJ docker and the rest of the mouth breathers.

Did you read the stipulations in that contract? Are you even remotely aware of the power that grants the UFC over its fighters? They would have absolutely no legal ability to dictate their sports career for the remainder of their lives. Regardless of if they were active in the UFC or not. For any purposes what so ever. They could in theory not even describe themselves “verbally” as a former UFC champion without explicit consent from the UFC.

There is absolutely no justification for DEMANDING on pain of being banned and publicly besmirched that all fighters sign that.

UFC wants to be considered a legitimate sport on par with the rest of the professional athletic world. When they are outright strong arming their “athletes” to sell away their rights to every possible marketable aspect of themselves….

for 10-20% of the profits excluding DVD’s and any form of video game….in highly dubious terms that leaves ample room for them to end up paying out far less than even that…..with no contractual obligation for oversite from the athletes……for the eternity regardless if they currently fight with the UFC…..obligated to make at least 6 public appearances with no form of compensation a year…

You cannot possibly think this is anything but thinly veiled blackmail.

You will be BANNED from the UFC if you DARE request any other terms and be made a public example of. Your entire GYM with be blacklisted if they DARE state the very blatant shady nature of the contract. With no regards to the fighters,the sport nor the fans. Taking advantage of a near monopoly to utterly rape your athletes might have worked well with professional wrestling. But for a “sport” striving for recognition and legitimacy its downright pathetic.

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By: Nick Merra

Nick Merra — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:50:42 +0000

ihateemo – you are hot as hell

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By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:57:37 +0000

Did Dana drive to this interview in his Ferrari?

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By: skwirrl

skwirrl — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:30:38 +0000

war run-on sentences

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By: skwirrl

skwirrl — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:29:32 +0000

Don’t forget the majority of MMA fans will side with Dana White on this. Thats because by and large Ultimate Fighting fans are some of the most ignorant people on the face of the earth. They pay to see the shitty kickboxing that Dana is star of and are stupid cattle that will follow him to the ends of the Earth and couldn’t possibly understand Fitch following his principles and refusing a clause that is a slippery slope for all fighters. WAR FITCH FORM A UNION WITH YOU AS PRESIDENT

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By: rich

rich — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:00:11 +0000

Jon Fitch needs to think about this. He made $169,000 for his last fight. The UFC is the top MMA organization and where is he going to fight. Jon use your head. You are making a big mistake. EliteXC and IFL have went out of business and soon in the present economy others will follow. You are a great fighter, but you need to be a better business man.

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By: rich

rich — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:00:10 +0000

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By: JJ Docker

JJ Docker — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:33:42 +0000

“who else thinks D White was a spoiled only child? who cried if things didnt go his way?”

Regardless of whether he was or wasn’t, he’s done a hell of a job in building the UFC into a very profitable organisation in a short space of time.

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By: apapa

apapa — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:16:24 +0000

here’s the deal…dana white has long expressed admiration for vince mcmahon and how he grew the WWE.

essentially the UFC does the same thing, pulls in a lot of revenue while appearing to underpay fighters, making money off the fighters names but not including the fighters in the earnings.

UFC is the top organization and will be the last organization standing in the end Dana knows this, as did Vince McMahon. During the late 90s the WWE’s dominance was “under the gun”, WCW managed to sign a number of top stars (Hogan,Savage,Hart,Nash) and for a brief period defeated the WWE regularly in the Monday night t.v. wars.

But where is WCW now? Basically, Vince did the same thing Dana is doing…not cave to the demands of fighters, look at the brand as bigger than the fighters and wait (patiently) until your competitors go out of business.

Does anyone seriously think Affliction is going to last ??? When they go under what option left will fighters have other than going to Japan, whose MMA scene is a far cry from where it was.

Zuffa knows fighters will come and go, stars will be made, starts will retire
its the nature of any sport. We all know the UFC has the best fighters but they are far past the point of signing the best fighters….if that was their biggest concern
Fitch, Fedor, Aoki, Lindland, Barnett etc. would all be employed by Zuffa.
Zuffa has done a fantastic job of convincing the average/casual MMA fan that any fighter NOT in the UFC isn’t good enough to be there anyway.

As much what happened to Jon Fitch is unfair and a little ridiculous never lose sight the UFC is a business first.

I surprised no blogs (including this one) have ever wrote extensively on the parallels between WWE and the UFC. Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.

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By: red

red — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:14:08 +0000

At the end of the day all these camps make there living off of the UFC and the UFC wont let them dictate what there terms will be. If Fintch and AKK was fighting in Dream all this time he would have never had the pay day he had when he fought GSP because they can not bring in that type of money. I am sure that that agreement had some sort of benfit to the fighters and eve ryone wants more. Maybe Dana has learned from all he mistakes that boxing made over the years and is willing to not cave for the better of his company. But for all of us it is a short term loss because when its all said and done everyone wants to come back to the big game look at Randy.

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