“I just found it disgusting, because the reason why it’s supposedly worth $7 billion is because they are underpaying fighters by a factor of four, relative to what they should be paying by any common sense standard,” Yang said. “And also by the standards of other major sports. So Dana White is talking out of both sides of his mouth. He’s like, ‘MMA is going to be the biggest sport in the world, MMA is the biggest thing,’ and then he’s paying people 10, 12 percent of revenues when every other major sport is paying between 47 and 51 percent.
“So, I just got angry about that. That Dana White is such a moron, honestly. Because if you’re going to exploit workers, you might want to keep that valuation under your hat. That to me is fairly common sense.”
Yang believes that White’s recent meeting with Donald Trump in the White House has played a part in the stalling of Smith’s case. Smith’s attorney Lucas Middlebrook has said that Region IV of the NLRB determined that Smith indeed had a case before the complaint was usurped by the NLRB general counsel in Washington, D.C. The NLRB has declined to comment on the case.
“UFC fans may or may not care,” Yang said. “A lot of folks at WME may or may not care. But a lot of these celebrities would care a lot. And a lot of these celebrities know that if it was the case that their fans knew that they were personally profiting from Donald Trump screwing individual fighters, like Leslie Smith, out of their livelihood, that would be a huge problem. Then they would look at their agents and be like, ‘What did you get me into?’”
The UFC declined to comment on Yang’s critiques and theories.
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