yes but I think Ariel probably *wanted* a large pay increase. That's kinda normal in my view. The 1million a year figure is just my guess as to what he wanted out of all these multiple new deals. It's just my speculation. I guess if ESPN were trying to cut his pay a bit then yes I can see him refusing that, and clearly they didn't agree and this is the result.I thought ESPN's offer was a pay cut from his original deal? That would be complete opposite to thinking he's getting 1 million USD. The report was his ESPN salary was around 500k.
yes but I think Ariel probably *wanted* a large pay increase. That's kinda normal in my view. The 1million a year figure is just my guess as to what he wanted out of all these multiple new deals. It's just my speculation. I guess if ESPN were trying to cut his pay a bit then yes I can see him refusing that, and clearly they didn't agree and this is the result.
That's quite a statement considering there are dozens or more possible reasons. Lol.Left ESPN so more money is the only reason why..
Yeah him and DC had good chemistry but I preferred the interviews tbh. Also I liked the 3 hours shows which I'm guessing will come back.Idk why everyone was saying Ariel's ESPN show was soooo good. It was terrible in comparison to the MMA Hour. I love Ariel talking to the other MMA Hour journalist and the fighters. Fighters can now swear and say whatever is on their mind, no BEEP.
wow. From MMAFighting ....to ESPN for 3 years.... and now back to MMAFighting.
I guess there's always good value to not burning your bridges.
Sounds to me like he has pitched himself to all and sundry. BT Sport probably pay well, and he has got himself some kind of Spotify deal (and they're rich, as per the Rogan deal) and others too.
I'd like to know what money he was ATTEMPTING to get at ESPN for his contract renewal. I guess we're never gonna find that out.
wow. From MMAFighting ....to ESPN for 3 years.... and now back to MMAFighting.
I guess there's always good value to not burning your bridges.
Sounds to me like he has pitched himself to all and sundry. BT Sport probably pay well, and he has got himself some kind of Spotify deal (and they're rich, as per the Rogan deal) and others too.
I'd like to know what money he was ATTEMPTING to get at ESPN for his contract renewal. I guess we're never gonna find that out.
I think Ariel is so valuable to them he almost can't burn bridges. The funny part of this was he was sabotaging MMAHour when he left by stealing guests last minute when Luke Thomas was hosting it. Thats basically the falling out with Luke Thomas and him. At the end of the day MMAFighting is so desperate at this point that they literally have no one with name value left that they are probably rolling the red carpet out for him.
I think his agents pitched him to almost everyone.
My view is Ariel probably said " I want a million USD or more total revenue per year, go get whatever deals you can to make that happen for me".
Something like that.
CLIFFS:
- taking a break until approx mid-August to kinda rest and recuperate
- Back doing MMA hour show on MMAFighting from mid-August, TWICE per week show, using the old set
- working for BT sport on MMA and WWE and Boxing. Mini-docs, live shows, videos, etc.
- Podcast on Spotify (slash Ringer).
- Own youtube channel will be resurrected and he will be interviewing all kinds of people, nothing necessarily to do with sport. This is his attempt (my view) to do his version of the Joe Rogan Experience. And no doubt he has his eye on Spotify paying him big time in the future if this works well.
- Writing for SubStack (Pro) which will be behind a Paywall. Giving all his $ to a charity for first 12months and then obviously after that, he keeps his money
My view is he wanted a massive pay-rise from ESPN, thought he'd get it, they held firm and said "not happening" so this was Plan B. I think he will see which of these multiple new ventures is most personally profitable after 12months or so and then slim down from these 5 things to maybe a lower number.
Bottom line.... this is all about maxxing money for him.
He is starting multiple ventures, and prob after a year or two he will see which net the most $$$ for him, and which are just a lot of work/aggro and revise his "portfolio" at that point.
you're over estimating how much money can be made on youtube. In order to make good money you need to have ~1M+ subscribers, at that point you can comfortably live off youtube paychecks.I am guessing Ariel could make 6 figures on youtube alone. He gets so many views it's kinda crazy.
I read that he was making 900k a year on his first deal and they wanted to cut 100k per year on the new deal and only give him 800k per year.wow. From MMAFighting ....to ESPN for 3 years.... and now back to MMAFighting.
I guess there's always good value to not burning your bridges.
Sounds to me like he has pitched himself to all and sundry. BT Sport probably pay well, and he has got himself some kind of Spotify deal (and they're rich, as per the Rogan deal) and others too.
I'd like to know what money he was ATTEMPTING to get at ESPN for his contract renewal. I guess we're never gonna find that out.
I think you could be spot on with that.I think what he really wanted from ESPN was some kind of plan to transition him to NBA reporting on a semi-full time basis, and possibly put him on track to one day audition for a program as a talent ala Stephen A Smith. Ariel doesn't care about MMA, he wants to have an audience, he'd cover water polo if it brought him an audience and the kind of money he's looking for. This is a big set back from him.
wow. From MMAFighting ....to ESPN for 3 years.... and now back to MMAFighting.
I guess there's always good value to not burning your bridges.
Sounds to me like he has pitched himself to all and sundry. BT Sport probably pay well, and he has got himself some kind of Spotify deal (and they're rich, as per the Rogan deal) and others too.
I'd like to know what money he was ATTEMPTING to get at ESPN for his contract renewal. I guess we're never gonna find that out.
Good for him, curious how this whole deal got set up with so many different companies
I read that he was making 900k a year on his first deal and they wanted to cut 100k per year on the new deal and only give him 800k per year.