LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL!!

Well yeah, if you’ve built something up, bought out your only (japanese) competition, and expanded to europe, why would you sell. MMA is in it’s early stages! But now with the emergence of other organizations willing to spend money to get exposure with top tier fighters, don’t be surprised if they do sell. It’s been long rumored that shane mcmahon is a huge mma fan and interested in buying the UFC. As long as he kept it straight mma, and I’m NOT a WWE fan, but the mcmahons no how to market to the 18-40 year old male.

275 fighters? does that include WEC??

making money like that we should get a few more fight nights

I’ve been pretty upset at times with Dana, but he, along with the Fertita’s have really done something incredible. And I’m sooo happy they’re not selling, especially to friggin’ private equity firms.

DAM!!!!!!!! Thats for all the Dana haters, there’s your proof of what he’s done for the sport.

Ok Dana has done a good job of promoting MMA, but we all know that the majority of people where sick with boxing and their money grabbing fight fixing ways, so MMA had a was revived at the right time.

just the fact that they paid $2 mil for the UFC is mind boggling to me. i wonder what Chuck was making back then. that was back when UFC was in its 30s (30-34, i think), so Chuck was fighting for them back then.

Just imagine where the jackass who sold UFC for $2 mil. is now… Probably the weird drunk dude at the bar telling everyone he used to own the UFC… or he’s already jumped.

Well the Jackass that sold the UFC is doing Age in the cage at YAMMA Fighting. The fighting that will revolutionize MMA. Tongue firmly in Cheek

Its amazing to see the growth of the UFC. I think that the fertitas and Dana white have done a remarketable job, overall. I greatly appreciate all that Dana has done for the UFC, my beef with him is how he has run the company in the past year or so. I never had a problem with how he ran things prior to the UFC’s aquisition of PRIDE. Since then new organizations have been emerging and making noise and the industry has changed. My problem is that Dana hasn’t made the proper adjustments needed to operate in the new industry. The UFC is starting to sign a lot of international fighters, and Dana hasn’t always been the best at negotiating with foreign cultures. Also, is infelxability with fighter contracts is causing him to loose some Big Time fighters to lessor organizations. I think he has been trying too much to control foreign fighters and its backfiring in some cases. I think a fair compromise would be to make all his fighters fight exclusively in the UFC. Meaning they cant go compete in EliteXC, Strikeforce, Icon or any other USA based orgainzation that is in the same direct market as the UFC.

Also I would not let my fighters compete under DREAM because they are using most of the executives from PRIDE (a company that they spent a lot of $ buying out). However, occasionally cross promoting events would make the UFC a more desired destination for Foreign established fighters giving them a better chance to compete close to home, and would set up Big Fights fans can only dream about. If they did cross promote, I do not think it would hurt the UFC has much as Dana seems to think.

My beef with Dana is he needs to stop trying to control fighters lives. He should have no say over fighters competing in anything other than mma. He should have no control over a fighters decision to compete in:
Wrestling
Submission Grappling
sambo

the only thing the UFC should be able to block its fighters from is competing in mma in other organizations and maybe Kickboxing because its easier to get hurt doing that than it is any of the above mentioned ARTS.

These guys are always bragging about how much money their making, and how little they paid for the UFC.
“VIVA LAS VEGAS”!
So it made me think, how much money are other sports making and how much are they paying their athletes. I checked out FOrbes miami heat revenue, here’s what i saw.

Miami Heat Revenue $119 mil
Player Expenses $63 mil
Team Value $415 mil
NBA minimum wage 07-08 season: $427,163

UFC estimated 2008 sales: $250 million
Most make more than $100,000 a year.
Superstars make millions.
Value today: $1 billion-plus
UFC minimum wage : 3,000.00

Randy Couture said it best: “I’m Tired of Being Taken Advantage Of”
Most of the guy’s on the UFC roster should feel the same way.

UFC pay is not fine. Its fine for chuck, rampage and the top 3-5 percent! or itw as fine maybe a few years ago but not now!a billion dollar company that only employs roughly “275 employees” and is outdoing boxing in PPV deserves to pay the “rest” a little more. Most billion dollar companies employ thousands of people not “275” and still come out on top, so where is all the money going…you guessed it, FERTITTAS DANA and 2 or 3 ELITE FIGHTERS. BTW, i somehow doubt that “almost all the fighters” are making over 100k as mentioned..i mean how often do u see otherS fight that dont have the name LIDELL fighting constantly??? If UFC doesnt learn the art of cross promoting, then they will suffer at some point because fighters will leave for more money! (i think its slowly starting to happen now). SO i dont buy this ufc is paying “most”(not just lidell or rampage) of their employees fine…

GREAT JOB RANDY COUTURE on starting a movement that prob wont b appreciated by ur typical UFC fan for years to come. You will be thanked by future up and coming MMA fighters for breaking the mold and speaking up for the ones hat truly matter, the FIGHTERS!

it doesnt mean they have a billion dollars in the bank, just that the company and all its assests are probably worth that much. the fact that they didnt sell means that dana and the fertittas do care about their sport and not just the money. i think it will mean more money for fighters in the future. the new tuf guys are already seeing the divedends. 5g to win and 5g to sub or ko is alot of money compared to previuos seasons. they used to only get bonuses to ko or sub a fighter. so it does pay to go on this show wether you win or lose the contract.