Who do we support in such a situation? People not giving Fedor what he wants or Fedor! I think Fedor is asking for something that can easily be provided however it opens a can of worms with fighters pay rates. Fedor and Couture can easily get 2mil a piece. The fight is HUGE. Fill any stadium and get loads of PPV sales. No prob. Not to mention advertising etc
why do people feel the need to go on a crusade to get the fighters more money, most top guys are all paid well, just watch UFC all access it looks like all the top guys are quite well off. Have you read Fedors last interview, he has no idea about the business side if MMA he just does whatever Finkel tells him is best even if it's not. Look what finkel has done for Fedor the last couple of years....is that the best Fedor could have done?
I tend to think fighters should get more money when I look at the post-career lives of some great fighters of the recent past. Although fighters often make more money than most of us on the forum will ever see, they are often exploited by promoters, managers, wives, drugs, you name it, but the end result is the same - they wind up broke. WOrse than winding up penniless, there are many fighters suffering from pugilistic dementia and other ailments as the result of having one too many wars in the ring. Those fighters that give us blood and guts performances often wind up suffering the most physical and mental deterioration in their later years. Their crime? Not losing their money - but for being willing to engage in brutal battles and putting their health on the line every time they do it. They might battle for glory or honor or money - but for us they battle to satisfy our unquencable bloodlust. We want them to beat the wheels off of each other and we very seldom accept anything less than a massacre. We never know when a fighter will become another Benny Kid Paret or Duk Koo Kim, or Gerald McClellan and suffer an irreparable injury inside the ring. How much should those guys be paid? Did McClellan make enough in his career to sustain him throughout the years that he has been crippled following his titanic battle with Nigel Benn? I'm not posing this as a rhetorical question to you - but one for myself. Knowing how so many fighters end up in their twilight years, I can not in good conscience begrudge one single fighter the right to be compensated for putting their life on the line. I've never given ten bucks to Jerry Quarry or Wilfred Benetiz as they wandered the streets in a broken haze - so I say let these men fighting today - be it in MMA or boxing or the WWE earn what they can - while they can. The title to the Cohen brothers' recent academy award winning film says it all - there's no country for old men.
You can't hold peoples hands through there whole life, smart guys invest there money or spend wisely it's a common sense thing. Heath Herring is getting over 100,000 a fight plus bonuses and sponsers. He is just a contender, how much should they be getting tell me?? how much is enough. I have no prob with fighters getting paid good, good for them they deserve it, but this isn't a charity event these fighters know what they are getting into, the guys at the top make the big money that's the way it works.
$2 million ain't **** when you consider the money Dana White makes on a card, and then that mother****er has the audacity to say that he doesn't think Fedor is even close to the best heavyweight in MMA. Get the **** outta here.
Fedor is easily worth $2 million a fight when you consider how much money he'd be making for whoever decides to sign him up. Dana is just an arrogant, greedy mother****er.
He may not be worth it in elitexc (who is?), but Dana could have signed him and still made out like a fat rat.
yes, but if he pays Fedor that, that will change his whole payroll. If Fedor get's 2 mill then Anderson Silva wants 1.5 mill, then Rampage 1 mill and GSP 1mill, etc etc. Dana knows if he does this it will effect the UFC in the future and that's what he's keeping in mind I'm sure. Do you not think Dana doesn't want him? of course he does and then he could have the Couture-Fedor fight on top of that. It's not just the money anyhow, there is other issues between Finkel and Dana .
Frank Shamrock and Cung Le split shared 500,00 in their last event with Frank getting 300,00. Don't forget Fedor isn't worth 2 mill in North America yet, Besides hardcore fans no one has had the chance to see him fight so he won't be as big of a draw as you think.
