Lorenzo's $250 boxer doesn't exist - he lied

I think it's a little more accurate than an assumption.. See this one from Brent Brookhouse @ bloodyelbow

http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2012/1/16/2710238/lorenzo-fertitta-espn-ufc-pay-fighters

The assumption that I referred to was The UFC on Fox deal, but you have provided some fair responses so far, I'm sorry that some of this discontent I have for monaro rubs off on you :thumbsup

Because he does make assumptions, and on a daily basis almost exclusively about UFC earnings and how they should run business, but fails to back it up because nobody outside the company has access to the books.

 

His statement was clear. I did not need to follow up with him. Try to follow.

Fuel TV does not pay the UFC's fighters. The UFC does.

ESPN does not promote the boxing cards that they are broadcasting. ESPN does not pay the fighters on the boxing cards that they are broadcasting. The boxing promoter, of the card being broadcast, pays the fighters.

Golden Boy, like the UFC, is a promotional company. Lets pretend Golden Boy promoted a boxing event, and ESPN broadcasted it. Now pretend Lorenzo was talking **** about how much the fighters were paid, and blamed it on ESPN. That is similar to what Lorenzo actually did. So, that would be the equivalent to Golden Boy criticizing Fuel TV for purses given out by the UFC.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfUU6coziu4[/ame]

 

These boxing promoter pay the fighters with ESPN money..

This comparison fails because The UFC has given out a minimum of $6,000 long before Fuel TV aired prelims, and nobody could begin to criticize Fox for what they give The UFC because they don't know the details in the contract. It's a waste of time trying to justify a comparison of Golden Boy calling out Fox on fighter pay when nobody but Fox and The UFC know the details of that contract..

How could you possibly be critical of something you have no details on? How could Golden Boy ever criticize Fox on fighter pay if they don't know the details of the contract between Fox and The UFC?

Fertita was off by a few hundred dollars, but he knew how much ESPN gave these promotions.. I'm not going to try and make sense of criticism on UFC fighter pay when nobody involved knows the details of the contract.

I see what your driving at, but such a comparison would never hold weight so long as the details of the Fox contract are kept between the two. You have to operate on a low level to criticize something you have no knowledge about, and try to make sense of such criticisms.

You're trying to make sense out of nothing, and I say nothing because you couldn't begin to criticize what Fox gives The UFC if you don't have any numbers.

 

Nobody outside of Fox or The UFC has any numbers, and good luck getting those numbers..

So any criticism on what Fox gives The UFC, and how much of that influences UFC fighter pay pales in comparison to what Fertita did because nobody outside of Fox or The UFC has those numbers.. They couldn't begin to criticize Fox because they don't know the details in the contract concerning fighter pay.

Just trying to make sense out of nothing, it's all a big what if that would be based on no knowledge of the Fox contract :deal

 

The word for it is ignorance.. Whether you're trying to criticize a network for an organization's fighter pay when you know nothing about the agreement or trying to make sense of such criticism.