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Originally Posted by cbboy
I think his problem is that he signed the contract when they were allowed to get sponsorships for their fights. So if he signed the contract under the thought process that he is able to get 100k per fight in sponsorship and he is fine with that. However, after a fight or two, they change the contract and tell him he is not allowed to get any more sponsorship money. They changed the rules and basically took money from him without changing what they pay him per fight.
No doubt, that's definitely a problem for him. but what Al is failing to realize is he doesn't sell tickets so his threats have zero leverage.
It doesn't matter if Dana likes Conor or not. He's forced to negotiate with Conor because Conor sells tickets. The difference between Conor fighting and not fighting is millions of literal dollars in UFC's bank account.
Al will sell somewhere between 7-37 combined tickets and PPVs, assuming his fight takes place within a 100 mile radius of NY. If he died in a horrible tragic accident tomorrow, the UFC would send out a tweet and business wouldn't be affected one iota.
This would be an interesting stat, I wonder how many fighters the UFC loses money on. I would bet it's most, like 90-95%.
It feels like MMA has been built on the backs of a very very small group of stars and everyone else is essentially a meat-dummy meant to take up time.