Does this cluster**** at HW pretty much confirm Stipe’s career is over?

Stipe was really inactive to begin with, so it's not a big change now.

He averaged 2+ fights a year until Cormier detached his retina with eye pokes. Then he had to wait for Cormier's Lesnar money fight to fall through, then there was Covid. Stipe is as active as anyone else.
 
Well, HWs tends to have longer careers because they can get away with not having as high a skillset if the power is still there. He still has the wrestling and boxing to compete with the top guys, but champ? I don’t know
 
Stipe was criticized for his patience after the DC loss but waiting paid off, & I believe it will here as well.

Ngannou vs Gane/Lewis winner by January.

Stipe fights the champ after that, as Jones continues to price himself out
 
Sure he is. When you become champ, you no longer get paid at the regular schmoe rate. Each championship event gets negotiated. Dana is trying to lowball him, for sure.
That's what he does. That's all he does.



Can't be lowballed by the top org that will pay you the most money. He'll het paid similar to what Stipe was getting.
 
Then he had to wait for Cormier's Lesnar money fight to fall through, then there was Covid. Stipe is as active as anyone else

Yeah he just had to jerk off for a whole year waiting for a fight he didn't deserve
 
Can't be lowballed by the top org that will pay you the most money. He'll het paid similar to what Stipe was getting.
"Pay you the most money" - not really. They are the top promotion, but they aren't paying better than their major rival organizations. Ryan Bader, for instance, saw his pay rate go up when he moved to Bellator.

He'll get paid what he's able to negotiate. When experts in sports were able to finally look at agreements fighters sign with the UFC, they were stunned at how poorly fighters did, especially compared to other sports, in terms of how tiny a share of revenue they get.
 
Stipe was really inactive to begin with, so it's not a big change now. Presumably he wants time off after Ngannou murdered him.
Can you blame him? People make him out to be this puss, but he's just a heavy handed medic with some wrestling pedigree. He's gone far with little
 
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