Conor McGregor can indeed legally book a Boxing match without Zuffas permission (proof inside)

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Brock Tober said:
Conor would get KO'd the first counter from Floyd.
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I would guess between rounds 3-5. Mayweather is a very careful fighter who does not take risks. Of course he would easily win each round. But I would guess at some point McGregor would take big risks because he'd so badly be outboxed and that's when Mayweather would put him away. But yeah, maybe round 1 too haha.

I wish the UFC would come to an agreement with McGregor and let him fight Floyd and take a piece of the action. Of course they won't do it because it would expose how bad a lot of the striking is in MMA.
 
here's what they should do and it would make hundreds of millions. Set up 2 fights with them, about a month apart. The first one, a boxing match and the second one an mma match. All parties win big from it.
 
By the time the court case was settled Floyd would be like 45 years old. lol
 
So the plan would involve never fighting for the UFC again, getting embarrassed as a fighter ..in exchange for a 10/90 cut?

Even if you accept the fantasy that Floyd sees a fight with an amateur boxer - turned plumber - turned mma fighter as a nice way to beat Marciano's record, the above scenario seems pretty far-fetched.
 
7th said:
here's what they should do and it would make hundreds of millions. Set up 2 fights with them, about a month apart. The first one, a boxing match and the second one an mma match. All parties win big from it.
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Dietrich Häling said:
If Conor has an official license to box, he is covered by the Ali act... It's that easy.
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But Conor didn't have a license to box when he signed the contract with Zuffa....I don't think the law would retroactively apply that way.
 
helltoupee said:
But Conor didn't have a license to box when he signed the contract with Zuffa....I don't think the law would retroactively apply that way.
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As long as the law is there in black and white, it's untouchable.
 
Seems like a lot of risk on Conor's part, as it's pretty likely that the UFC would never have him back after that.

So he'd be risking it all for one pay day and I think we all know (and that dumb sun article stated) that Floyd is going to take 90% of the income from the fight. So that leaves 10% for Conor. So for him to even match what he's making at the UFC the fight would need to make 100 million dollars income after all expenses (including promotion which would be huge and other fighters on the card's wages).

Mayweather Pac made 410 million PPV revenue (before expenses) and it sold 4.6 million PPVS at like $100 each here in North America (I assume it was a lower price elsewhere and that's why the math doesn't add up).

So for Conor to match what he makes in the UFC he'd need to do at least 1/4 of what that fight did. Is that even possible? Like they won't be able to get away with charging $100. THere's no way. So that means that it has to at least 2.3 million PPVs for Conor to get paid 10 million like he did for UFC 196. Is that gonna happen? It MIGHT, but even then he's just matching what he'd make in one UFC fight and giving up all the potential future UFC fights.

It would not seem like a prudent financial decision to piss off the UFC and leave for this fight.
 
dimspace said:
Really annoys me when people just copy/paste an entire article and act like its their own thoughts...

most of the more respected forums actually have rule against that. like 2 paragraph max copy paste.

really not cool to take an entire article that BE have put time in writing and just copy the whole thing
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It is a rule here.

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I'm going to assume that's not the only section of the contract talking about boxing and such.
 
that looks interesting and I'm going to read it later. But as another solution, is there anything to stop McGregor retiring from mma, having a boxing match, then re-entering mma?
 
Dietrich Häling said:
http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2016/5/1...or-vs-floyd-mayweather-without-ufc-permission


3.5 During the Term, ZUFFA shall have the exclusive right to promote all of Fighter's bouts and Fighter shall not participate in or render his services as a professional fighter or in any other capacity to any other mixed martial art, martial art, boxing, professional wrestling, or any other fighting competition or exhibition, except as otherwise expressly permitted by this Agreement.

Step 1 would be for Conor McGregor to attain a boxing license, preferably in New York or California.


Step 2 would be for Mayweather and McGregor to book a match against each other. Again it was suggested that New York or California would be the preferable location.

As soon as it was announced that Mayweather vs McGregor was booked the UFC would likely file an injunction, claiming a breach of contract, with a court in Nevada. As all UFC contracts stipulate that all such disputes are to be settled in Nevada this is pretty much a given. But before they can do that it's recommended that McGregor move on to

Step 3 and immediately file for declaratory relief against the UFC citing the Muhammad Ali Reform Boxing Act's provision against coercive contracts to make the claim that the restrictive provision in the UFC's contract is restraining McGregor from boxing and that he is a licensed boxer under an applicable boxing commission falling under the jurisdiction of the ABC.

This might sound absurd, but remember as a licensed boxer McGregor would now (theoretically) be covered by the Ali Act. Sec. 10 of the Act offers protection from coercive provisions, and a provision that prevents someone from boxing at all could possibly be interpreted as a restraint of trade. This is reinforced by the fact that the promoter has a provision in their own contracts claiming exclusive rights over any "mixed martial art, martial art, boxing, professional wrestling, or any other fighting competition or exhibition" the fighter engages in. This would seem to make the UFC a promoter of all combat sports, including boxing. In which case, the contract would be illegal (or at least illegal in part) under existing Federal law.

Furthermore, if the contract is illegal does any hearing on it have to take place in Nevada as required by the (possibly illegal) contract? If not, then not only can another state preside over the dispute, but that state's laws can also come into play.

New York §208.17 has the following restrictions on contracts between a boxer and a promoter:

(a) No contract between a promoter and a boxer entered into on or after the effective date of this regulation shall be for a fixed term of more than three years, excluding any time that a boxer is unable to compete due to injury or other cause.

(b) No contract between a promoter and a boxer shall contain a provision permitting the contract to be automatically renewed or extended. Notwithstanding the foregoing, such contracts may contain a provision granting the promoter an option to renew for a period not to exceed one year, excluding any time that a boxer is unable to compete due to injury or other cause. Such contracts may not contain more than two such options.

(c) In the event that a boxer's execution of an agreement with a specific promoter is a condition of the boxer being allowed to participate in a specific bout, the term of the contract shall be limited to one year, and shall not contain an option to renew.

(d)No person shall be permitted to box professionally within the State of New York if on or after the effective date of this regulation he or she enters into any contract with a promoter for a term aggregating more than five years, inclusive of any options to renew.

While I don't have access to McGregor's contract, based on what information is available, it would seem that the length of his current deal, rumored to be 8 fights and 42 months, and the wording of the typical champions clause which adds the longer of 3 fights or one year if the fighter is a champion, would mean that his UFC deal is in violation of New York boxing regulations.

If the McGregor and Mayweather fight is instead booked in California then a pair of regulations concerning contracts may come into play. Under § 222 of the California Code of Regulations

Unless otherwise directed by the commission, a contract between a boxer and a manager or a boxer and a promoter is not valid unless both parties appear at the same time before the commission or a commission representative and it receives written approval. No contract shall be approved between a manager and a boxer or a promoter and a boxer for a period exceeding five years. No option to extend the initial period shall be permitted.

§ 230 further stipulates that a) No verbal agreement or written agreement other than a contract on the commission's official form shall be accepted by the commission.
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The thing is, Mayweather only fights in Vegas. So that's a no. Then you saw the contract. He can't do it. Then you spout some shit about lawsuits. The UFC contract has already been contested in court. The fighters lost.

It's not happening period.
 
Is this 2006? Is Randy trying to fight Fedor? Come on, let's live in reality
 
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