Seems like Conor's haters are allergic to the words "money" and "business"

[AimedWithV]

wow, you're so smart, you must have a lot of money.

Enough to my family, and I'm smart with it

 

[AimedWithV]

Oh fuck off, this money shit has dragged out or flat out ruined a tonne of great fights in boxing for years , that never happened in the UFC which is one of the things that made it great.

Fighters start to understand their value (or some lack thereof).
Sorry, the sport stops being "ass-whoopin" for rednecks in the bar.

UFC , unlike in boxing world, has an option to pay everyone enough. If they start doing it, everyone will fight.

 

[Frankie Baby!]

This is the fight business, you're supposed to fight, Conor hasn't been fighting that much too often. He's also a champion, champs defend their titles to prove themselves as worthy champs. Conor hasn't hardly even mentioned defending any belt. Khabib beats him via TKO in Round 1.

 

[Based Akali]

Nope. But i care about fights. And fighters fighting the best.

Not money or Instagram likes. That means nothing to me.

If so, i would rather be a fan of Bieber or kardashian

So basically you don't care if fighters are compensated for getting brain damage. That's a good outlook and will surely aid the sport growing.

 

[AimedWithV]

This is the fight business, you're supposed to fight, Conor hasn't been fighting that much too often. He's also a champion, champs defend their titles to prove themselves as worthy champs. Conor hasn't hardly even mentioned defending any belt. Khabib beats him via TKO in Round 1.

Not only very black and white and unrelated (unless you count using the word "business" out of its actual meaning), but I like the final conclusion.

You seem to be a very coherent guy

 

[kingJohn]

How is this sentence relevant to the topic?
Or you copy paste it to every thread with the word "Conor"?

How is it not relevant? You said Conor shouldn't fight until the deal is right for him. I said I had no problem with fighters doing that if they don't hold up a division. If Conor wasn't the champ I don't see why anybody would care he's not fighting, but the UFC did gift him a title so while he has it he should be obligated to defend it. Easy solution is vacate the title until the "business" side is worked out, it's not like he won't get an immediate title shot whenever he decides to return.

 

[robotsonic]

TS has a point. in a perfect world for the spectator, none of these guys would get paid anything and fight every other week as they had no other choice. This is not reality.

Business and money is a big part of prize fighting and losers who've never been involved with either just don't understand that so will keep whining about the fact Conor can pick and choose who he wants to fight as though Conor is supposed to give that up for their approval. It's like Drago said in Rocky 4...'I fight to win....for me'.

If you're a guy fighting for money you owe the fans nothing, protect your sel interest first and foremost and the fans and 'legitimacy of the sport' come a distant second. It's like asking some second string NFL player to accept less money for his services out of respect to guys from the 60s who didn't get paid shit. Professional sportsmen don't owe you shit, anyone who has had a bit of success in their life understands and respects this attitude. MMA fans are mostly deadbeat burger flippers who think the world owes them shit though, this is why they think a guy who just made $100 million in his last fight should accept a quarter of that against some nobody. They will never understand the hustle, it's worthless listening to their opinions.

 

[AdamantiumPimmel]

Enough to my family, and I'm smart with it

good luck...

 

[iNoScopedJFK]

I o want to see fights, but not everything is black and white to me.
Because, again, I can understand another grown up man

We all understand. We just dont care because most of us are actual MMA fights that like watching the best fighters fight. I know Conor is holding up for more money. Dude knows he has two killers waiting for him and wants to milk the title as much as he can before losing it. I pretty much predicted he'd never fight again after the Floyd fight and its looking more and more true. Thing is im not his accountant so that doesnt matter to me. I just wanna see him fight. If you understood grown up men you would understand.

 

[Frankie Baby!]

Not only very black and white and unrelated (unless you count using the word "business" out of its actual meaning), but I like the final conclusion.

You seem to be a very coherent guy

What I'm getting at here is if he cares about money so much, he needs to stay in boxing, and not hold up the best division in the UFC.

 

[legedema]

it is obvious that TS is alergic to the word defense

 

[Cairne Bloodhoof]

If Conor doesn't want to fight in a Boxing ring or in the Octagon, then hey, that's his business.

I don't like that he's effectively the "Champion Emeritus". I say strip him of all his belts because he's had more than enough time to do defenses.

Have PPV events between the top ranked guys, pay them well and crown new champions.

The money is an important element of Combat Sports whether we like it or not.

I'm not a fan of the guy, but he does represent opportunities to make quite a lot of money for his opponents (similar to Mayweather in Boxing), which is why fighters continue to call him out.

Regardless, the UFC should just strip him an move on with PPV events between all the other highly ranked guys.

If he wants to sit, he sits. With that contract, where else the fuck will he go once he blows through all that Mayweather money ?

 

[Just Creed]

I can understand another grown up man

This surprises me

 

[Loiosh]

And this is why he, a grown man, a business man, should agree to the financial terms that don't suit him? Because he's holding up the division? (how, BTW? They can keep fighting)
Welcome to reality, boy.

It's fine that he wants to leverage his position.

The UFC, in turn, should leverage what they have, which is all the power.

They should require that he honour the contract he signed and accept a fight. If he refuses, they should strip him of his title, allow the division to progress, and continue to offer Conor fights that adhere to the terms of the existing contract.

He can continue to refuse fights, perpetuating his existing contract indefinitely, rotting on the shelf, while the UFC continues to make money on their five hundred other fighters. The UFC doesn't need Conor to fight, contrary to what you may believe, they're making quite a bit of money. They've made quite a bit of money on him already. It's probably best at this point to turn him into a lesson: If you think you're bigger than the sport, you're wrong, and if you want to play hardball we'll bury you without blinking an eye, because we have a full stable.

As for financial terms that suit him, he signed a contract. That was the time to decide what suited him. The UFC gave him some plum opportunities, he made the most of them, increased the value of his brand, and now wants to renegotiate, which is understandable. However, he signed a contract.

Watching you parrot the things Conor says and tell people they don't understand business is amusing.

 

[in the liver]

...which only shows, of course, their level of maturity.

Every time they hear a valid point that Conor looks for business solution, that he brings more money to the UFC thus have the leverage, haters be whining ike:

"are you his accountant"?
"will he leave you something in his will for this post"?
"Are we in sherdog or in UFC financial meeting"?

News, kids:
Money rules the world.
Money owners rule money, world, sports, MMA and your lives.

However, not every person can have enough financial wisdom and thus his decisions won't mean much. For example, Tony Ferguson, or your parents.

Greed is not the same as financial wisdom dummy. And then, greed is not the same as materialism. And further still, materialism is not the same as being a whore.

For most people, sport is a competitive matter. Ask the olympian with the silver medal if he trained like a maniac for 4 years, missed his childs birth, wasnt there for his dying father, and went to bed aching and exhausted every night in the hope of getting sponsor money, or if he did it because he wanted that gold. Is DC crying after he gets beat because of lost earnings, or something more?

Nobody respects conor anymore because he is just a whore. If you have any friends or loved ones or a cause in life you care about, is money more important than them? Does your partner love your money more than she loves you? Maybe she stays because of the money...or your friends hang about with you because of your nice watch?

Have a nice day hanging around with bill gates and donald trump, playa

 

[Jimmy jump]

Fans are definitely detached from the realities of the business.

When your product (in this case, yourself) has hit the nine-figure range of earning capacity, you definitely become protective and political about maintaining the welfare of that product.

Going headlong into the octagon against killers like Ferguson and Nurmagomedov to "defend his title" for the appeasement of the relatively small hardcore audience isn't smart.

What's the point of having a belt and rankings then?

 

[AronaBeatsJones]

What's the point of having a belt and rankings then?

Those are imaginary things.

A "title" is an idea represented by a $500 mass produced belt, and just means you ended up on the right trajectory to stylistically win a series of fights.

McGregor's not the best lightweight in the world. Most of the lightweight top ten would beat him actually, and it would be foolish of him to step back into those waters when he hasn't maximized his earning potential yet.

 

[cooks1]

Of course you do, that's why you're in this thread.
You're the hater. You care and you hate Conor

Probably because you hate money. Usually that happens with those who don't have them and don't know what to do with them



Exactly the same situation. You're not indifferent. You HATE

Nah. I don't hate. I am indifferent. You are just emotional and looking for a battle this morning. Normally I do not award them so early in the morning, but you are just so deserving that I am going to give you todays Pamprin award.

I don't care for Conor's antics. But I sure enjoy watching him fight. No one tooled Eddie like he did. And I hope Conor keeps all the millions he's made. Good on him.

I actually think Conor has a very good chance against Tony. Tony get's hit al lot in fights by fighters not nearly as good as Conor. But if Conor does not want to fight anymore, or does not want to fight for what the UFC want's to pay him. That's OK. If I had $80 million I doubt I would care to do much of anything myself. I just hope they dont hold up the Khabib/Tony fight for the real strap if he drags his ass.

 

[Mga223]

Who is this loser.

Hes made like 5 threads now about Conor, go get a fucking life honestly.

Most Conor fans remind me of the dude from Eminem - Stan.

Just shut the fuck up.

Edit: got him mixed up with gladiator, this dude is just in every thread defending conor. What a sad sad life.

 

[ArtOfDrowning]

Seems like Conor nuthuggers are acting like Conor's money is their money and his success is their success. Weirdest fan base ever.