Media UFC no longer offering comp tickets to fighter's families

Reign009 said:
This brings up another interesting point, can regular people even but tickets to the Apex? I don't they can.

If not, for Christ's sake, just give the tickets to the families, it's not like they're taking anyone else's spot.

But of course they wanna squeeze more out of the fighters. Some fighters may not even have their families attend now.

Also, they should have told people way in advance about this change.
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I guess depending on who is fighting, some months back there was a boxing card and apex FN on the same night and Zack Effron was seen on both places, i doubt he paid for either of them, considering his UFC pass/ticket had his picture on it, Apex tickets are probably given away for free.
 
I think they should still offer them.. just impose a limit of like 2 tickets per fighter. I understand the whole UFC is greedy narrative but at the same time you have to look at if from their perspective. If every fighter on a card wants like 5 free tickets for family, that's like 100 tickets just being given away. If tickets are lets say $80, that's $8000 they are losing out on. Yeah you can argue that it's only 8k and that's nothing to the UFC, and you're right. But if it keeps compounding each event that 8k eventually doubles and triples and quadruples that's when it starts to be a problem.
 
Wreckless said:
We often hear Dana say, ''All the fighters are free to do whatever they want. You don't think we pay you enough to fight? Then don't fight''. What he doesn't tell you is he won't let them fight elsewhere.

So they have 2 options.

1. Get a regular job because they can't pursue their passion in another organization.

2. Fight out their ridiculously long contract.

The UFC is a well oiled machine.
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Fighters fight out their contract and leave the UFC all the time, it's simple. Fight out your obligated contract then head over to the other orgs. Most of the starting UFC contracts are 3 fight deals...once that is up it's entirely up to the fighters to extend their contract or not.

Why would fighters not go to another org? They don't have to sign the UFC.
 
I think some of these dummies don’t know what bush league is.
 
Reign009 said:
This brings up another interesting point, can regular people even but tickets to the Apex? I don't they can.

If not, for Christ's sake, just give the tickets to the families, it's not like they're taking anyone else's spot.

But of course they wanna squeeze more out of the fighters. Some fighters may not even have their families attend now.

Also, they should have told people way in advance about this change.
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yes, I know a gent who goes to just about every apex/UFC event in Vegas, I don't recall him telling me the prices but next time I speak to him I'll ask.
 
Do they at least allow family members to stay backstage for free?
 
DW gotta carve out some way to pay for that Ozempic

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I don't think this has anything to do with Dana. It's since Endeavor came in that things have been really getting squeezed to get every penny they can. Especially since going public.

It's a strange one though as I swear they said one of the prelim fighters had their family in attendance on the broadcast.
 
CatchtheseHands said:
I think they should still offer them.. just impose a limit of like 2 tickets per fighter. I understand the whole UFC is greedy narrative but at the same time you have to look at if from their perspective. If every fighter on a card wants like 5 free tickets for family, that's like 100 tickets just being given away. If tickets are lets say $80, that's $8000 they are losing out on. Yeah you can argue that it's only 8k and that's nothing to the UFC, and you're right. But if it keeps compounding each event that 8k eventually doubles and triples and quadruples that's when it starts to be a problem.
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At 40 events a year, that's less than half a million for a company that pulls in over a billion a year.

There's being cost conscious and then there's cutting things to the bone out of avaricious
 
This place gets more bizarre by the day.

Let me see if I have this right.. If somebody gives me a BD present every year for 10 years. I’m allowed to bitch if they stop doing it?

Or a Christmas BONUS every year from work. And they stop doing it. I’m allowed to bitch about that too?

That’s happened in real life to me. Or maybe say us 20 employees get a $50 gift card for Safeway. Yet the company is making a fortune. But can’t afford to spend more than $1000 on Christmas BONUSES. Nobody I know cries about stuff like that.

I’ve also worked for companies that would give me free tickets to NHL, and CFL games. NHL tickets are very expensive. How about the annual Christmas party. Or the annual golf tournament, and shit like that. Some companies did, and some didn’t. None of them were obligated to do any of that. And if they just stopped doing it I didn’t cry about it.

These perks, bonuses, etc were free. I appreciated all those things but didn’t just expect to get them for eternity, or ever in fact. Some did treat us much better than others. That’s the way the real world works. At least since I started working at 13 years old.

These places hired me to do a specific job. That’s it, that’s all. The wages were negotiated before actually being hired. If special PPE was required. Did the company pay for it, or the employee? Renewing safety tickets every year or two to work in Alberta’s Oilpatch. Does the company pay, or do I? A new drivers abstract every year. Who pays for that?

Are you people serious?

The sense of entitlement amongst people born since about 1990 is unbelievable. The disconnect I feel with a LOT of people 35 and under is insane. Apparently a lot of them feel the world owes them something. And they cry when they don’t get it.

No company is EVER required to do anything like this unless it is literally part of a contract. PERKS, and BONUSES are just that. A performance bonus in the real world is one thing. Or even in the contracts of athletes where if they get so many wins, yards, points, etc is one thing and is specifically written into contracts. Or if you sell so many cars, houses, etc.

But why do so many of you expect a free ride all the time? I doubt that POTN bonuses are actually written into standard UFC contracts. Yet people say the UFC is cheap for not raising them every year to match inflation, etc.

Again.. Are you people serious?

At least some of you people are smart enough to say WME, or UFC. The rest say Dana.. Like he has autonomy over EVERYTHING in the UFC. He doesn’t even negotiate contracts. So get a grip, alright. The obsession gets creepier and creepier.

Didn’t Emmet go on social media about a year ago complaining that his free UFC tickets were in the nosebleeds or some shit?

Yes, he did..

https://www.mmamania.com/platform/a...6-but-got-dumped-in-the-cheap-seats-left-dead

Give these younger generations an inch and they DEMAND A MILE.

It’s absolutely bizarre to me how so many of you display fake outrage at things that have nothing to do with you. Or that you literally care more about an athlete’s free tickets than how much you get shafted on your own wages, etc.

It’s time for some of you to grow up. This is insane.
 
It's probably to save money on one or two security workers haha.
 
This shouldn't surprise anybody to be honest.
We all know they're trying to absolutely crush the spirit of every fighter.

And when every fighter is crushed, Dana and Ari will smoke their bones.
 
TempleoftheDog said:
This place gets more bizarre by the day.

Let me see if I have this right.. If somebody gives me a BD present every year for 10 years. I’m allowed to bitch if they stop doing it?

Or a Christmas BONUS every year from work. And they stop doing it. I’m allowed to bitch about that too?

That’s happened in real life to me. Or maybe say us 20 employees get a $50 gift card for Safeway. Yet the company is making a fortune. But can’t afford to spend more than $1000 on Christmas BONUSES. Nobody I know cries about stuff like that.

I’ve also worked for companies that would give me free tickets to NHL, and CFL games. NHL tickets are very expensive. How about the annual Christmas party. Or the annual golf tournament, and shit like that. Some companies did, and some didn’t. None of them were obligated to do any of that. And if they just stopped doing it I didn’t cry about it.

These perks, bonuses, etc were free. I appreciated all those things but didn’t just expect to get them for eternity, or ever in fact. Some did treat us much better than others. That’s the way the real world works. At least since I started working at 13 years old.

These places hired me to do a specific job. That’s it, that’s all. The wages were negotiated before actually being hired. If special PPE was required. Did the company pay for it, or the employee? Renewing safety tickets every year or two to work in Alberta’s Oilpatch. Does the company pay, or do I? A new drivers abstract every year. Who pays for that?

Are you people serious?

The sense of entitlement amongst people born since about 1990 is unbelievable. The disconnect I feel with a LOT of people 35 and under is insane. Apparently a lot of them feel the world owes them something. And they cry when they don’t get it.

No company is EVER required to do anything like this unless it is literally part of a contract. PERKS, and BONUSES are just that. A performance bonus in the real world is one thing. Or even in the contracts of athletes where if they get so many wins, yards, points, etc is one thing and is specifically written into contracts. Or if you sell so many cars, houses, etc.

But why do so many of you expect a free ride all the time? I doubt that POTN bonuses are actually written into standard UFC contracts. Yet people say the UFC is cheap for not raising them every year to match inflation, etc.

Again.. Are you people serious?

At least some of you people are smart enough to say WME, or UFC. The rest say Dana.. Like he has autonomy over EVERYTHING in the UFC. He doesn’t even negotiate contracts. So get a grip, alright. The obsession gets creepier and creepier.

Didn’t Emmet go on social media about a year ago complaining that his free UFC tickets were in the nosebleeds or some shit?

Yes, he did..

https://www.mmamania.com/platform/a...6-but-got-dumped-in-the-cheap-seats-left-dead

Give these younger generations an inch and they DEMAND A MILE.

It’s absolutely bizarre to me how so many of you display fake outrage at things that have nothing to do with you. Or that you literally care more about an athlete’s free tickets than how much you get shafted on your own wages, etc.

It’s time for some of you to grow up. This is insane.
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You killed it in that comment, 100% truth!
But do not expect many likes of ridicule.
 
Phisher said:
Literally all of the fighter benefits are being sucked out so that Ari Emanuel and his cronies can stay rich off of their stock options.
Stop watching it, you'll show them then huh
This company is fucking repugnant.
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avenue94 said:
At 40 events a year, that's less than half a million for a company that pulls in over a billion a year.

There's being cost conscious and then there's cutting things to the bone out of avaricious
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You're not wrong but that's how businesses think. They aren't a charity. What you think is avaricious is cost cutting to them. I think the only compromise is to limit tickets to 2-3 per fighter, but that's just me. What do I know?
 
HHJ said:
I really don't get why apex would matter
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It matters because that is what Tim didn't understand about why he didn't get tickets as usual. The standard fighter ticket policy doesn't apply to the Apex because there is only seating for less than 100 people so 4 tickets to each fighter on the card and guest fighters (top 5 or with an approved request) would account for all of the seating.
 
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