Media Ngannou: "Everything was designed for me to fall"

TempleoftheDog said:
Utterly pathetic.

Sure, buddeh. When the UFC hyped your ass to no end, before you fought Stipe the first time. Yes, all designed to make you fail. Or there’s the part where you blew off TC. Just so you could do whatever in France. That worked out really well for Penn, before the rematch with GSP too.

Fucking did it again too. Needing knee surgery, you delayed that for 2 months. Because you needed to go to Cameroon? Apparently surgery and a cast is much worse than doing whatever the fuck for two months on a wonky knee?

Come on man.. I blew out my knee. Just trying to walk was completely ridiculous. Who the fuck delays that shit to go on vacation instead? I had my surgery the next morning.

Playing the victim card is way too fucking much, man. Crying about only getting paid $600K. And yet somehow you left out that whole part where you literally blew off $7M?

Crying about being left on the shelf. So maybe accept that Volkov fight you turned down?

Is there literally anybody on this planet buying this guy’s bullshit anymore?
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They hyped him previouslty but by the time of the Gane fight I think its pretty clear they wanted him to lose.
 
Pierced7681 said:
Cowboy and Alvarez have both said otherwise. Mendes and Diaz took the Conor fights on short notice so the ufc gave them 500k each to show up. Diaz won, so he was able to renegotiate his deal. Mendes lost, so he went back to his regular pay after.
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I just looked up Alvarez pay:

UFC Fight Night 90 $150k
UFC 205 $540K plus PPV points
UFC 211 $105K

So Alvarez did get way more for fighting Conor compared to everyone else. I'm sure it's the same for everyone else including undisclosed bonus pay.
 
Viva said:
A 36 year old coming off an ACL and MCL tear is a harrowing thought.
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I was back to normal in a year... of course my shin didn't look like they opened it with a chainsaw like his does
 
FIghtxIQ said:
I just looked up Alvarez pay:

UFC Fight Night 90 $150k
UFC 205 $540K plus PPV points
UFC 211 $105K

So Alvarez did get way more for fighting Conor compared to everyone else. I'm sure it's the same for everyone else including undisclosed bonus pay.
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so if you look at Álvarez record, the rda title fight was his fourth ufc fight, which means he was either at the end of his contract or nearing the end, so when he won the title his pay was naturally increased. His first title fight was against Conor, which he lost, so then his pay went back down to around what he was getting previously before he held the title. He’d have made similar pay regardless of who he fought in his first title defence.
 
Pierced7681 said:
so if you look at Álvarez record, the rda title fight was his fourth ufc fight, which means he was either at the end of his contract or nearing the end, so when he won the title his pay was naturally increased. His first title fight was against Conor, which he lost, so then his pay went back down to around what he was getting previously before he held the title. He’d have made similar pay regardless of who he fought in his first title defence.
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Thing was his pay as the champion was also negotiated knowing he was going to be fighting Conor because originally Conor was supposed to fight RDA for the title. So all that factors in plus PPV points. Having PPV points in a Conor fight is the extra pay. How drastically his pay changed after fighting Conor shows the reason for the increased pay had to do with fighting Conor.
 
Pierced7681 said:
Well the bonus for Mendes and Diaz was a flat 500k just to show up on short notice, which was a massive pay raise for both. Alvarez likely got ppv points for fighting Conor because he was the defending champ, but that’s about it. Cowboy likely didn’t get any ppv points because he’s never won a title and wasn’t defending a title. He got a standard 200k to show and 200k to win for the Conor fight.
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That was a lot during that time. Conor was the front runner for increasing UFC pay. He was the first to get big pay in mma. All those numbers might not seem like much now, but during that time it was a big deal.
 
FIghtxIQ said:
It is an individual sport. If he gets paid more that opens the door for other fighters to get paid more, because they can use Ngannou's contract/pay as an example. Since they don't have a union this is how fighter pay raises. Conor is also responsible for the increase in fighter pay. He was the first mma fighter making million dollar fight purses. Everyone that fought him made more money and now multiple fighters have made million dollar fight purses.
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Technically Brock was the 1st to have multi-million paydays plus got a higher % of PPV cut then any other fighter. Only a few of he's opponents got some sort of bump to there pay or a bump in the PPV earnings.
 
FIghtxIQ said:
Thing was his pay as the champion was also negotiated knowing he was going to be fighting Conor because originally Conor was supposed to fight RDA for the title. So all that factors in plus PPV points. Having PPV points in a Conor fight is the extra pay. How drastically his pay changed after fighting Conor shows the reason for the increased pay had to do with fighting Conor.
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Nah it had to do with holding the title. You don’t get to renegotiate your contract because the ufc wants you to fight Conor, only if you agree to take the fight on short notice like Mendes and Diaz did.
 
TempleoftheDog said:
Utterly pathetic.

Sure, buddeh. When the UFC hyped your ass to no end, before you fought Stipe the first time. Yes, all designed to make you fail. Or there’s the part where you blew off TC. Just so you could do whatever in France. That worked out really well for Penn, before the rematch with GSP too.

Fucking did it again too. Needing knee surgery, you delayed that for 2 months. Because you needed to go to Cameroon? Apparently surgery and a cast is much worse than doing whatever the fuck for two months on a wonky knee?

Come on man.. I blew out my knee. Just trying to walk was completely ridiculous. Who the fuck delays that shit to go on vacation instead? I had my surgery the next morning.

Playing the victim card is way too fucking much, man. Crying about only getting paid $600K. And yet somehow you left out that whole part where you literally blew off $7M?

Crying about being left on the shelf. So maybe accept that Volkov fight you turned down?

Is there literally anybody on this planet buying this guy’s bullshit anymore?
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How much money did you lose on the Gane fight?
<Waaah>
 
FIghtxIQ said:
That was a lot during that time. Conor was the front runner for increasing UFC pay. He was the first to get big pay in mma. All those numbers might not seem like much now, but during that time it was a big deal.
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It was a huge pay raise because they agreed to the fights on short notice. They wouldn’t have gotten that pay if it was a regular fight against Conor.
 
Pierced7681 said:
Nah it had to do with holding the title. You don’t get to renegotiate your contract because the ufc wants you to fight Conor, only if you agree to take the fight on short notice like Mendes and Diaz did.
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Nah it's because he negotiated that champion pay after he won the belt. RDA was originally supposed to fight Conor for the belt. That was ALWAYS in the cards in negotiations. Alvarez knew that. He knew his first defense would be vs Conor.
 
FIghtxIQ said:
Nah it's because he negotiated that champion pay after he won the belt. RDA was originally supposed to fight Conor for the belt. That was ALWAYS in the cards in negotiations. Alvarez knew that. He knew his first defense would be vs Conor.
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That’s true the Conor fight was scheduled, but he still would have made comparably the same regardless of who he fought, which is why Álvarez was upset about his pay for the fight.
 
1AM said:
Technically Brock was the 1st to have multi-million paydays plus got a higher % of PPV cut then any other fighter. Only a few of he's opponents got some sort of bump to there pay or a bump in the PPV earnings.
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Conor was the first million dollar fight purse at UFC 196. Not million dollar including PPV points. Conor got 3 million plus at UFC 202, Brock got $2.5 million at UFC 200. But yes Brock also contributed to fighters getting paid more. Since he was also an example to use for higher pay due to PPV numbers.
 
Pierced7681 said:
That’s true the Conor fight was scheduled, but he still would have made comparably the same regardless of who he fought, which is why Álvarez was upset about his pay for the fight.
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He thought he would get an extra bonus on top of that, but the reason it was negotiated like that in the first place is because the Conor fight was in the works. He got PPV points, that's really the main bonus right there. If he would've fought someone else instead of Conor and lost the belt, he would've lost out on a shit load of money.
 
FIghtxIQ said:
He thought he would get an extra bonus on top of that, but the reason it was negotiated like that in the first place is because the Conor fight was in the works. He got PPV points, that's really the main bonus right there. If he would've fought someone else instead of Conor and lost the belt, he would've lost out on a shit load of money.
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Well he was the champ he gets ppv points based off that alone regardless of who he fights. Definitely sold more ppvs because of Conor though you’re right about that
 
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