What if Stipe wins the title then dies on the job as a firefighter?

[Not A Real Fan]

First, calm the fuck down!

There's a reason for my provocative title. I obviously don't want Stipe to die.

I just think it's shameful that a fighter who could possibly be the next HW champion of the biggest and most important organization in the Fastest Growing Sport in the World™ has to have a day job. And not just any day job but a dangerous one.

If he wins the HW title, you think he'll be paid like a real professional athlete going forward? Or would he have to hold on to his steady government job which could lead to his death?

"UFC Champion dies fighting fire in Podunk, Ohio"

Not a good look for the UFC

 

[gimp0]

this is such a dumb thread.

if he dies, then it would be tragic. U already know the answer to this

lock this garbage

 

[PrinceOfPain]

maybe he likes being a firefighter? It's meaningful work.

 

[lsa]

Its Stipes choice to be a firefighter.
Lytle was also a fire fighter during his career in the UFC.

Its nice that you care about UFC and what will happen if their HW champ dies in a fire...

 

[Face Punch]

 

[camelfarmer1]

Then we will all burn to death.

 

[Loko3]

Titles have been vacated before. Wasteland this shit.

 

[BostonToughGuy]

 

[Hans Gercmiov]

I imagine we would be stripped.

 

[lsa]

Stipe is a part-time firefighter near his Cleveland home.
"Of course, fighting's first. That's what I do, that's what pays my bills, you know," he said.

"They are both intense situations ... you've got to be calm, cool, and collected with the whole situation ... but it's been six, seven years, now [working as a firefighter], and I love every day I come in to work ... Saving people, helping people, is just something I always wanted to do.

"When I become champion, you know, I'll never stop being a firefighter."

One would imagine that balancing two high-risk careers, simultaneously, would be a burden on both a man's schedule as well as his adrenal glands. Miocic, however, downplays any difficulty he may have being both a professional fighter and firefighter.

"Things have changed a bit [since becoming a UFC contender], but my scheduled works pretty well for me," he tells us.

So there you have it from Stipe him self.

 

[Not A Real Fan]

maybe he likes being a firefighter? It's meaningful work.

He probably does...all things considering. One of those things being crappy fighter pay.

But If he was paid like a real professional athlete, I doubt he would find much meaning in putting out fires.

 

[Tormund]

You assume that he HAS to have a day job when he's said many times that even if he becomes champion he'll still work as a firefighter.

 

[thefaintjoy]

Like this thread, he'd go down in a ball of flames.

 

[Tormund]

He probably does...all things considering. One of those things being crappy fighter pay.

But If he was paid like a real professional athlete, I doubt he would find much meaning in putting out fires.

Stop trying to use Stipe to passive-aggressively bash fighter pay, he's said multiple times nothing will make him quit his job as a firefighter.

 

[soulsstealer]

If he dies. he dies.

 

[Not A Real Fan]

Titles have been vacated before.

I can't tell if you're going for the cheap laugh or if you're that dense.

 

[lsa]

He probably does...all things considering. One of those things being crappy fighter pay.

But If he was paid like a real professional athlete, I doubt he would find much meaning in putting out fires.

Stipe is a part-time firefighter near his Cleveland home.
"Of course, fighting's first. That's what I do, that's what pays my bills, you know," he said.

"When I become champion, you know, I'll never stop being a firefighter."

-Stipe.

 

[ff]

The real Q is what if he dies then wins the title ?

 

[WouldNotBang]

Dammit I came in here to do that lol.

 

[Smooth Princess]

You think he's working as a part time fire fighter for the money? LMFAO