So more and more people fighters are speaking out - but not committing career suicide - about the Reebok deal.
Essentially here are the numbers:
Now I thought this would only restricted fighters from appearing at UFC events with competing apparel sponsors, but no. It affects ALL sponsorships. No more shorts sponsors, no more pre-fight banners. No more tech companies, no more supplement brands, no more beers. And it includes every aspect of the UFC, right down the UFC expo where fight gear brand Hayabusa is banned from.
Every logo that will appear on fighters, mats, ring posts, will be UFC approved.
Brendan Schaub has spoken out a bit, stating has made up to $100k a fight from endorsements (something which was verified by Joe Rogan), but now with his 11 fight UFC career, the best he's going to get is $10,000.
Miesha Tate has also pointed out that this penalizes female fighters given how new the Bantamweight and Strawweight divisions are. And that despite herself benefiting from a few fights in Strikeforce that fall under the Zuffa banner, she will still be substantially worse off, only netting $5000 a fight. A far cry from the near $65,000 she has made in the past.
The thing that s--ts me the most these comparisons people make to the NFL and NBA. Its not even close. MMA isn't a team sport, and they don't have an equivalent players association. Otherwise the fighters would have been consulted when this deal was made.
Being in the UFC is more in line with being on the ATP or PGA tour.
Finally there's this
Despite Dana White's continued bleating that everything in the deal is going to the fighters, there's been a bit of noise about how that is far from the truth.
Essentially here are the numbers:
Now I thought this would only restricted fighters from appearing at UFC events with competing apparel sponsors, but no. It affects ALL sponsorships. No more shorts sponsors, no more pre-fight banners. No more tech companies, no more supplement brands, no more beers. And it includes every aspect of the UFC, right down the UFC expo where fight gear brand Hayabusa is banned from.
Every logo that will appear on fighters, mats, ring posts, will be UFC approved.
Brendan Schaub has spoken out a bit, stating has made up to $100k a fight from endorsements (something which was verified by Joe Rogan), but now with his 11 fight UFC career, the best he's going to get is $10,000.
Miesha Tate has also pointed out that this penalizes female fighters given how new the Bantamweight and Strawweight divisions are. And that despite herself benefiting from a few fights in Strikeforce that fall under the Zuffa banner, she will still be substantially worse off, only netting $5000 a fight. A far cry from the near $65,000 she has made in the past.
The thing that s--ts me the most these comparisons people make to the NFL and NBA. Its not even close. MMA isn't a team sport, and they don't have an equivalent players association. Otherwise the fighters would have been consulted when this deal was made.
Being in the UFC is more in line with being on the ATP or PGA tour.
Finally there's this
Despite Dana White's continued bleating that everything in the deal is going to the fighters, there's been a bit of noise about how that is far from the truth.