in most other jobs you can just quit. Your boss can’t tell you that you can’t work for another year or so.

Well, it means I won’t see him as much for the next year or so, so he’ll be FAR less likely to get cock-punched I guess.

One of the many rules of life: everything’s negotiable. The deal he signed may have had some nasty clauses, but he could have gotten rid of them, had he been willing to give up on some of his desires.

Let’s have Dana White fight Donald Trump. I’d pay to see Trump get beat up.

and their downfall due to gangster links most of all.
PRIDE’s worst habit IMO was the constant mismatches/freak shows, late bookings, moving fighters up and down in weight seemingly at random.
Sure they put on great great fights but in the end brought themselves down. That’s unforgivable.
Zuffa I’m a huge fan of but if they do something I don’t think is cool I’m going to call them on it.
They benched Arlovski for almost a year before his contract was up and then undercarded him against Jake O’Brien. They booked Tito against Machida for similar malicious reasons.
Vera created many of his own problems, but I still didn’t like the way they dicked him around. I don’t like the way they screw fighters who only have one fight left on their contract.
The problems with Randy were karma for the Vera situation IMO.

Or maybe it’s just disdain for the current system, but for whatever reason, so many people seem to despise Dana & Co for these tactics because they seem to think this is a professional sport, with systems and functional components similar to Football, Soccer, Baseball or Basketball. This may sound inaccurate, but I can’t come up with a better explanation right now: MMA is not a professional sport, not yet anyways.

Currently, MMA is a professional athletic event which is organized, developed, marketed and promoted by solo companies like Zuffa. Zuffa has employees, some of these employees are low-profile, behind-the-scenes people like most of us on this blog. Others are high-profile, front-and-center types such as the Ring Girls and fighters. But they’re ALL employees of the company. There is no autonomy or independence for these people in the current system. There are no third-parties who determine much of anything as it relates to the way the UFC conducts itself internally. About the only interaction UFC has with the outside world is when it goes up against another state sanctioning body. The rest of it is internal.

Basically, the setup is a lot more like the WWE than the NFL or MLB. That will almost certainly change during the next decade, but for today, it is what it is. The Undertaker is an employee of WWE, and they have an enormous investment into his image and career, and it would be absolutely criminal for them to be denied the opportunity to retain his services for fair market value. That’s what it sounds like Tito’s going through right now.

I’m sure I’ve said some stuff people will disagree with here, but the point is pretty clear: the current MMA world doesn’t allow for MLB/NFL-esque contract terms. The pieces to support that structure simply don’t exist today.

lol

Big Business entities are filled with highly qualified, powerful specialists who are exceedingly good at what they do (think Alan Shore from Boston Legal, or the geeksquad from any of the CSI series). These people make their entire living on making sure their area is flawless, and are always ready to deal death to enemies of The Company. So when a team of Zuffa lawyers draft a fighter contract, they’ve done everything they legally can do to ensure The Company is provided for. Fighters hire agents and lawyers of their own, to better understand the contract and decide if it’s acceptable to them (in rare cases, the fighters actually get to make minor alterations to the contract, depending on their acumen and positional leverage). It’s a mismatch, yes, but if the fighters sign the contract then they have to live with the consequences, as detailed in section VI, paragraph C..

Nobody forced $1million/fight down Tito’s throat (or whatever he’s ended up making, I have no idea) for the last couple of years. But if he is further obligated, under the contract to which he agreed, then he needs to fulfill his obligation.

Like you say BJJDenver It happens all he time in sports almost with every big free agent on the market orhigh profile trade especially in baseball. The Red Sox and Yankees do it to one another time and time again. Your competition will offer more money or better trade bait then the other team just to drive up the market price and what the other team has to pay or give up in the end. Nothing worng with that at all its part of sports. Its like Bluffing in poker.

but he’s also managed to make several million dollars fighting for a promotion that he’s been on poor terms with for several years. Give the guy some credit.
Jenna’s no slouch either — she’s the only porn girl in almost 2 decades to become a household name and make a fortune. Talk about a tough business environment. It’s much easier to make it as a musician or fighter than as a porn performer.

I don’t see that really happening given the Lorenzo’s level of involvment in the past with Tito and now on the executive decision making level. Too, if they were to shelve Tito (after a re-signing), they’d be screwing themselves given the fact he is still an above average draw…regardless of his win/loss record the past 2 years. It’s about the bottom line.

Aside from the bottom line and despite Dana and Tito’s differences, Lorenzo is still friends with both. I think he still see’s value in Tito and the potential match-ups…

Although I wouldn’t care if they sat him on the bench….lolol.