Exclusive Contracts for MMA. Good or bad? Graham Boylan blog.

JayF · Oct 19, 2011

Cage Warriors director Graham Boylan pens his first blog for www.yourmma.tv and he asked for suggestions on what people would like to hear.

The first issue he decided to tackle was exclusive contracts - are they good or bad for an MMA fighter?

You can find it here:

http://www.yourmma.tv/blog/

I’m sitting on a plane back to London, so let’s hit exclusive contracts. Are they good or bad? If you were a fighter — not a hobby fighter there for the t-shirt but a fighter that wants to make a career out of fighting and train to be the best — would you want to have a path? Would you want to know exactly what’s happening with you for the next 18 months? Would you want your career structured?

I know I would. Without structure and goals in training, fighting or life, you have nothing.

You’re just floating along, going nowhere, talking about those who are going somewhere. Talking about those with structure and goals.

I’ve seen the boys in the gym train like animals for weeks on end waiting to see if something comes up, asking every day, ‘is there a fight for me yet?’ Waiting to see if some promotion can fit them in (“how many tickets can he sell?&#8221 .

I’ve walked into the gym to see them on the floor gasping for air after just finishing a sparring session. I’ve walked in to tell them ‘your fight is off, they don’t have a replacement and they’re not interested in rematching you’ or ‘sorry pal, no-one has any fights for you’.

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