Comments on: Jon Fitch sounds off on getting fired, rehired and the infamous dotted line (video)

By: THORAZINE

THORAZINE — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 02:50:55 +0000

Just got in, I don’t know if you’re going to get back to this thread. These fighters sign their contracts staggered 1 or more yrs apart. How do you get them all together at once? Many have already signed. Fighter’s career that are going up at the peak of making big $$$ they’ve waited to make for yrs, how do they say no and miss that window of opportunity? They don’t have multi-millions like other athletes to sit on the sidelines and protest it out. Not many can do what Couture did. They need their signing bonuses & fight $$$. Now that Pride is gone, where else is there to go?

Couture did tell dana where the sun could shine on the likeness contract long time ago, and I think it’s a safe bet Lesnar has something with the WWE or negotiated with Dana about his likeness.

It really comes down to options, there aren’t any, the UFC is the place to fight and make your name and $$$. They’ll make more $$$ for fights in the UFC than anywhere, get more name recognition to start their own gyms or anything they may want to do with their likness by asking the UFC’s permission. Unfortunetly they’re getting robbed on the back end… DVD’s, Video games, they should make some $$$ here it is a huge, huge, industry. Who makes $$$ off of somebody elses likness for zero compenstation and tie it up for a lifetime? I’m not really sure if this will hold up under litigation, but who’s going to try to fight the UFC in later yrs?

You’re right, these guys are terrified of Dana, not to many of them can afford to miss a ‘fight’ or more. The guys that can are making enough fight $$$ are doing just that, trying not to rock the boat and keep winning, remember Josh Koscheck’s post?… fighters are almost forced to have that attitude, because of White’s willingness to cut them off.

Sad but true, Dana White really robbed me of enthusiasm for MMA this week, he’s the perfect guy to run the UFC, but I hate to this and the way he handled it… as much as he doesn’t want to be a douchebag boxing promoter…. his boxing background is seeping through.. I read about the stuff Don King did back in the day, and I bet White took a few lessons away from him.

By: ironfist_55

ironfist_55 — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:49:27 +0000

LOL so true. that’s hilarious!

By: chefdaddy

chefdaddy — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:20:48 +0000

Thorazine, yeah, I read that link when you put it earlier. Thanks for the info. This whole situation is ……..isn’t right. There has to be a great deal that we simply aren’t privy to. If what that link says is correct, noone, not even short bus riders, would sign that. But then again, why aren’t we hearing about it from other fighters? I know most are terrified of dana, but there are some (Penn, GSP, Couture, Lesnar, the Silvas and more) who could tell dana to shove it where the sun don’t shine and dana couldn’t do squat w/o looking the fool. What’s your take on this?

By: SilasM

SilasM — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:51:42 +0000

I hear ya’! Dana has down a ton for MMA, but I think he may be letting his ego run the show.

By: SilasM

SilasM — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:50:30 +0000

I think overall both parties handled this poorly, but without a doubt Dana thinks he is an MMA God and will strike down anyone that opposes him. It’s time for Dana to start acting like a corprate CEO; if you have to play hardball, play it! That said, everything is open to negotiation and only a jackass would fire a top “employee” because he wanted to negotiate a contract.

By: LOKIE

LOKIE — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:37:26 +0000

Damn Im glad I have a career/education rather than just a job. If my employer pulled that kind of crap, I would tell him to fuck off. Noone has control over me. John Fitch,s boss is an idiot

By: BNF

BNF — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:05:07 +0000

Brenda the troll… That was incredibly unclever. Douche…

By: THORAZINE

THORAZINE — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:50:33 +0000

Chefdaddy, from what I read, it’s much more than video games n’ CDS, what is Fitch to do? Explain all the contract clauses to us regarding likeness and how unfair it is? What he did in that interview was the safe & rational thing to try to appease the powers that be and move on with his career as a MMA artist and avoiding another termination.

If u really want to get a better idea of what is in that contract regarding video games, CD’s & likeness read this link (sounds like u have), and internet surf Randy Couture’s issues with the likeness contract… it seems to be an account of what’s really up. I understand this is a site about opinions and very few on here spend this kind of time researching, I do once in awhile, Sean Sherk’s CSAC appeal, Couture’s legal issues, and now Fitch.

http://www.tapoutlive.com/images/mags/ufc_legal.pdf

I think you’re dead on Chefdaddy, I haven’t read 1 thing that would make me think otherwise, and I’m pretty open to listening.

By: jamie

jamie — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:16:10 +0000

dana sucks

By: jamie

jamie — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:14:53 +0000

i always stuck up for dana white i liked him reading this jon fitch stuff it makes hard to like dana dana white dosent care about the people that made him a rich idiot come on dana ufc should fire his ass what sealed the deal for me is letting the russian pitbull go come on lets see tito vs white i hate tito but i hate dana more