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I wouldn't blame a new guy if he said that Dana sounds like a straight shooter kind of guy. Someone who tells it like it is. He doesn't stumble over his words, he looks someone right in the eye and gives them a confident answer. Are there any new guys in this forum who think he is honest or recently discovered how much he lies?
It's crazy how often you catch him lying. It still shocks me how often he does it. I just watched a recent interview with Landsberg where he was asked what percentage of the revenue goes to the fighters and Dana of course answered that he doesn't know the exact number and won't give a number until he knows it 100%. He claimed that he is not a numbers guy and won't get into it. Then on the UFC unfiltered podcast he got upset with Patrick Cummins because he made some remarks about how bad the pay is in the UFC.
Dana claimed that Cummins made 300,000 for his first fight against DC alone. I was surprised that he might have the gull to throw out that number if it wasn't accurate soon after refusing to give numbers in the other interview. I quickly checked the payouts at the event (UFC 170) and the disclosed payout to Cummins was 8k. So was Cummins given a mythical back room bonus of 292,000k??
Of course no surprise Cummins says that number was BS and that he received 58k total for the fight against DC. Did Dana really have to embellish the number to make Patrick look worse? IMO he should have just said that it was 58k and made somewhat of a point. But he's probably to embarrassed that Patrick has been with them for 3 years and probably hasn't made a whole lot more than what he could have pulled in at Starbucks (once you factor in costs).
It's crazy how often you catch him lying. It still shocks me how often he does it. I just watched a recent interview with Landsberg where he was asked what percentage of the revenue goes to the fighters and Dana of course answered that he doesn't know the exact number and won't give a number until he knows it 100%. He claimed that he is not a numbers guy and won't get into it. Then on the UFC unfiltered podcast he got upset with Patrick Cummins because he made some remarks about how bad the pay is in the UFC.
Dana claimed that Cummins made 300,000 for his first fight against DC alone. I was surprised that he might have the gull to throw out that number if it wasn't accurate soon after refusing to give numbers in the other interview. I quickly checked the payouts at the event (UFC 170) and the disclosed payout to Cummins was 8k. So was Cummins given a mythical back room bonus of 292,000k??
Of course no surprise Cummins says that number was BS and that he received 58k total for the fight against DC. Did Dana really have to embellish the number to make Patrick look worse? IMO he should have just said that it was 58k and made somewhat of a point. But he's probably to embarrassed that Patrick has been with them for 3 years and probably hasn't made a whole lot more than what he could have pulled in at Starbucks (once you factor in costs).