Sponsor ban is causing fighters to almost kill themselves to gain a competitive advantage

[ineverpost]

Without sponsors, your career hinges on your ability to win, because only with a win bonus does a fighter actually make a respectable amount of money (outside of the top draws and champs). It's gotten so bad that highly skilled fighters like Ragin Al will sit out and explore regular Joe 9-5 gigs, because it isn't worth showing up for 40K to possibly suffer permanent brain damage. Notice all of the cancellations the last few years? It's easy to blame it on USADA and the IV Bans. But few want to take a hard look at how the actual business has changed with the Reebok enslavement.

If you have sponsors that pay you to be on tV with their image, and you pull out of the fight, you don't get paid. Besides the added motivation to train smart, guys will not risk the extra weight cut at the expense of pissing off their sponsors. Guys involved in extreme weight cuts would just fight at their natural weight class and take the extra tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars to take a beating from a bigger man. The solution to the weight cut issue is to bring back sponsors. This was much less an issue during this time, and I don't believe it is all due to guys not being able to low key roid.

 

[Co-Co Zola]

 

[RemyR]

That was fucking random

 

[dim_]

Without sponsors, your career hinges on your ability to win, because only with a win bonus does a fighter actually make a respectable amount of money (outside of the top draws and champs). It's gotten so bad that highly skilled fighters like Ragin Al will sit out and explore regular Joe 9-5 gigs, because it isn't worth showing up for 40K to possibly suffer permanent brain damage. Notice all of the cancellations the last few years? It's easy to blame it on USADA and the IV Bans. But few want to take a hard look at how the actual business has changed with the Reebok enslavement.

If you have sponsors that pay you to be on tV with their image, and you pull out of the fight, you don't get paid. Besides the added motivation to train smart, guys will not risk the extra weight cut at the expense of pissing off their sponsors. Guys involved in extreme weight cuts would just fight at their natural weight class and take the extra tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars to take a beating from a bigger man. The solution to the weight cut issue is to bring back sponsors. This was much less an issue during this time, and I don't believe it is all due to guys not being able to low key roid.

Spoiler

your argument is stupid, because you are ignoring the fact that fighters would kill themselves to make weight, so that they fought, so that they got the sponsor money. (by your logic)

So basically you are saying that when the UFC allowed sponsors everyone was fighting at there natural weight?

 

[BawzMcGee]

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[Blanqa Blanqua]

Spoiler

your argument is stupid, because you are ignoring the fact that fighters would kill themselves to make weight, so that they fought, so that they got the sponsor money. (by your logic)

So basically you are saying that when the UFC allowed sponsors everyone was fighting at there natural weight?

Very effective gifs

Bravo

 

[Blanqa Blanqua]

Dynamic Fasteners 4 Life

Condom Depot 4 LYF

 

[Sonny Qc]

 

[MRT]

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... Guys involved in extreme weight cuts would just fight at their natural weight class and take the extra tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars to take a beating from a bigger man. The solution to the weight cut issue is to bring back sponsors. ...

by your logic, wouldn't fighters in other orgs then not be cutting a lot of weight, since they have sponsor money? yet we routinely see it happening outside the UFC. plenty of Bellator fighters go through extreme weight cuts.

 

[RyuHayabusa]

 

[FleximusPrime]

I can picture you now.

 

[ralphus1]

Al claims he had to beg the UFC for $80 / 50K to make the Felder fight. With camp expenses he'll be lucky to clear $75K.

Wouldn't surprise me if he made more money selling real estate in Long Island.

 

[WallyBear]

Atleast TS put some effort in his troll post

Shades of @Macalpinerules

 

[VIPERdude]

Without sponsors, your career hinges on your ability to win, because only with a win bonus does a fighter actually make a respectable amount of money (outside of the top draws and champs). It's gotten so bad that highly skilled fighters like Ragin Al will sit out and explore regular Joe 9-5 gigs, because it isn't worth showing up for 40K to possibly suffer permanent brain damage. Notice all of the cancellations the last few years? It's easy to blame it on USADA and the IV Bans. But few want to take a hard look at how the actual business has changed with the Reebok enslavement.

If you have sponsors that pay you to be on tV with their image, and you pull out of the fight, you don't get paid. Besides the added motivation to train smart, guys will not risk the extra weight cut at the expense of pissing off their sponsors. Guys involved in extreme weight cuts would just fight at their natural weight class and take the extra tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars to take a beating from a bigger man. The solution to the weight cut issue is to bring back sponsors. This was much less an issue during this time, and I don't believe it is all due to guys not being able to low key roid.

MY BOY ALDO DONT NEEED SPONSORS

 

[Sansnom]

Plus we wouldn't have to look at the ugly and plain looking Reebok gear.

 

[Pitier of Fools]

Guess how you get big sponsorships (and therefore more money)? By WINNING FIGHTS.

This thread is so freaking stupid that I hope for TS's sake that he (or she) is trolling.

 

[Skarsgard]

A lot of the cancellations and weight failures ARE from USADA, though. You can't recover and fight through injuries as easily without PEDs and they also took away IV replenishment.

 

[Frank23]

 

[Locooo]

i dont remember why was the reason behind iv ban ?

 

[Mortigan]

People will joke about having "Condom Depot" emblazoned across a fighter's ass..

But folks, any company that enables a population to have easy, cheap, fun access to safer sex is doing society a favor.

Go Condom Depot, they get a high five from me.