That is true, no one is forced to enter their contract, it's up to themselves and their managers to make sure they are compensated as well as possible. Fighters may make the show go round, but it takes more than a few complaining to get anything done, simply because there is so much young up and coming talent that would take half the pay to fight in the UFC and would take that small pay and use it as an opportunity to prove themselves and their worth, and then increase it. And you're right, Mayweather is his own promotion, no UFC fighter or any other organization for that matter will ever be able to co-promote with the UFC, if they haven't done it yet, they won't do it now, they are the top organization, they benefit 0 from co-promotion with any other MMA org.
Sorry to do this cause I agree with so much of what you said, but I disagree with the last part, I mean really none of the fight game has any to do with us, not their camps, not their training, not their wins or losses, so I think it's kinda silly to say it has nothing to do with us and dismiss it, it's a forum for us fans of a common interest just to talk about our ideas of the fights or fighters. I mean really who else would we talk to? This sport is so small it sucks leaving the gym if you train and want to talk about it further, because you cant, because you usually run into guys that think Chuck or Tito is still the lhw champ. Then we come to the forums and half the time you just get blasted by people with insults. Other than that, I agree with everything you said, and I like the Mcdonalds analogy lol, I'll probably steal that from you haha.
