Forbes.com aligning with unhappy UFC fighters

That's not enough. Every fighter in the UFC should be a millionaire. :bart

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And Monaro, no matter how many anti-Zuffa threads and posts you make, they will still rule the MMA world, M1 will still be up to **** all, and Fedor will still be a legend of the dark ages who is now an irrelevant has-been on the cusp of retirement. :good

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dana white pissed off tirade about how forbes is a hypejob and overrated in 3...2...

 

Every fighter. They are professional athletes, they should all be wearing gold-plated diapers. :bart

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Do we seriously now have like 8 threads on the same god damn topic?

 

Only 2 if you discount Monaro's ravings. :good:good

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People need to stop treating combatants like gladiators fighting to the death and to the victor ALL the spoils.

People need to accept MMA (because boxing there is no chance) as a SPORT where it is all just COMPETITION. Good ol' promoter Chael is always saying we are just friends and he'd fight Okami, Munoz etc

You can die or get hurt in F1, Horseriding, Rugby etc People can't treat these sports as people trying to kill people because its competition where there is a danger. Similarly, MMA is competition and no fighter should have real intentions of killing their opponent though you get the odd few (but then you'll get a few loopy people in other sports).

 

Also, as the UFC continues to grow and we see more cards on more channels then the roster will grow and there is more opportunity for fighters to hit the big stage.

 

Collective Bargaining is the least that a private company should be awarding their fighters. It's a rough game with serious health risks and the people that make the money through their performances should be running the show themselves anyway.

 

But there's no fighters collective.

This is not WWE where the wrestlers tried to form a union and Vince McMahon openly suppressed it. Nobody has even tried to create a fighters union. FFS there's not even a writers association for MMA! People can't expect the benefits of unionization if they're unwilling to take the risks.

 

Randy Couture has been VERY vocal about a fighters union. The UFC aka Dana and Lorenzo openly suppressed it. The question that needs to be asked is why would Zuffa invest millions of dollars into fighter safety away from the cage when there is no pressing need to do so?
The fact is it if you do not toe the UFC line you get the sack. Point blank point simple. It would take a fighter of serious influence and commercial value to lead a crusade like that. Even Randy could be accused of sitting on the fence over this. Although his reasons were very logically:

"There’s going to be a battle. I’d rather sit down with the UFC, [president] Dana White and [CEO] Lorenzo Fertitta and figure out a way to implement some things with their blessing. Health insurance for fighters when they’re not competing is a huge issue. There are a few fighters who could call up the UFC and say, ‘Look, I need some help, I blew out my knee in practice,’ and the UFC is going to help them. They’ve been generous but they can’t do that with everyone. There are over 200 fighters ... There’s a whole bunch of issues when you start unionizing ... There’s a give and take there. [Unions] can sometimes get carried away. It would be great to sit down and figure out a way to take care of the guys in this company so that everybody feels good about it and no one is in a position to have too much power or for a fighter to take advantage of a union and hold out. There’s got to be a way to come together and meet on ground that everyone can live with."