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02-25-2014, 05:27 PM
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#826 | | My dinner reheated before my turbo spooled
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Originally Posted by RRxtar  The one arguement that could be made is that the UFC insists they should be in the same group as major league sports like MLB, NFL, NHL, NBA, but all of those leagues have agreements to pay the players ~50% of revenue. All of those leagues assume the costs of training the players as well as promotion/logistics/running the league.
The UFC, by my estimation, pays fighters 5-15% of revenue. And the fighters are responsible for their own training, and up until 2 years ago, were even responsible for their own medical insurance. And at any given time, their employer may simply tell them to fuck off and fire them.
Granted, running a league with teams vs paying contractors to fight are different, but that is still a huge discrepancy. | True, but that's similar to the WWE, and it still hasn't stopped people from joining that company as well. I mean from a "real world" perspective yes they're comparatively underpaid but it's still a fair price is what they're paying still attracts lines of people trying to join the UFC.
Also, given the career arcs of most fighters, their prime probably doesn't last more than 5-10 years, making it so much harder to market fighters instead of their own brand. The NBA can milk Lebron for 15-20 years, they've been milking Kobe for 18
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02-25-2014, 05:36 PM
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#827 | | Hacked RS to become a mod
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02-25-2014, 07:09 PM
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#828 | | I told him no, what y'all do?
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Originally Posted by MarkyMark "You gotta understand, we've only been making money at this since 2006" -Dana White anytime someone brings up fighter pay.
Posted via RS Mobile | Don't forget "we were in the hole 40 million" Posted via RS Mobile | |
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02-25-2014, 07:10 PM
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#829 | | I told him no, what y'all do?
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Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp Vitor's new hairdo | Holy shield against shots to the back of the head Posted via RS Mobile | |
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02-25-2014, 07:37 PM
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#830 | | My dinner reheated before my turbo spooled
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^ That may be a T for testosterone and not a cross
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02-26-2014, 06:12 PM
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#831 | | Hacked RS to become a mod
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Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp I predict this one will do 350K, and Bones will be around 300K. Weidman/Belfort will be around 250K |
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02-27-2014, 01:03 PM
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#832 | | Rs has made me the woman i am today!
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Originally Posted by RRxtar wow Gil got a huge deal! and will coach against pettis in tuf 20 | Damnnn.. no Aldo vs Pettis??
Check out Aldo and his buddies singing about Pettis lol http://instagram.com/josealdojunioroficial#
"Aldo and his crew sing, “e o Zumbi eu nunca vi, Ricardo Lamas la la la, Anthony Pettis seu viado, a sua hora vai chegar!” The original soccer song goes: “Cadê você? Cadê você? E no Maraca eu nunca vi, no Engenhão não estava lá, os jogadores todos choram, não têm torcida para apoiar.”
Crudely translated it goes, “the Zombie I have never seen, Ricardo Lamas la la la, Anthony Pettis you f**got, your time will come.”
They adapted a song from Flamengo’s supporters (Flamengo is the most popular soccer team in Brazil and Aldo is a Flamengo fan). Basically, it says that Anthony Pettis is a f**got and his time is going to come. They are clearly joking, but that is what they are saying.
The original song says: “Where are you? Where are you? In Maraca (the abbreviation of Maracanã, the biggest soccer stadium in Brazil) I have never seen, in Engenhão (the other big stadium of Rio de Janeiro) they weren’t there, all their players cry, they have no supporters to stand for them” Flamengo supporters sing this because Botafogo has a lot less supporters. -
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02-27-2014, 06:04 PM
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02-27-2014, 06:10 PM
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#834 | | I told him no, what y'all do?
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I read Nevada banned it too
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02-27-2014, 06:12 PM
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NSAC are the ones who banned it
No other commissions have yet
UFC said that when they travel to areas where they act as commission, they will follow NSAC rules.
So if fighters are on TRT they will just fight in Texas or wherever. Other guys will just go back to doing it carefully and passing the piss tests. For some guys this will be harder than others obviously.
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02-27-2014, 06:38 PM
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#836 | | Diagonally parked in a parallel universe
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02-27-2014, 07:49 PM
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#837 | | Rs has made me the woman i am today!
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Lol. Wand looks like he got taken down already haha
As for the trt ban. Bisping reaction was the best
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02-27-2014, 08:23 PM
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Originally Posted by 411ken As for the trt ban. Bisping reaction was the best | ya?
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02-27-2014, 09:02 PM
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#839 | | Hacked RS to become a mod
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02-27-2014, 09:13 PM
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#840 | | Hacked RS to become a mod
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02-27-2014, 09:33 PM
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#841 | | i like gifs
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Probably Vitor being out of the main event fight HAHA
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02-27-2014, 10:07 PM
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If that's the case, it sure makes the TRT ban look really sketchy
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02-27-2014, 10:34 PM
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02-27-2014, 10:36 PM
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#844 | | i like gifs
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Vitor is so roided up that he can't get his levels down to an acceptable one before the fight?
There's no way. ABSOLUTELY NO WAY that he gave up that shot willingly. There has to be more to this
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02-27-2014, 10:37 PM
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#845 | | what manner of phaggotry is this
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Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp | Todd fucking Duffy at age 24?!
side note: if you're wondering where duffee is, he was diagnosed with Parsonage-Turner syndrome which can take 18-24 months of treatment to beat.
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02-27-2014, 10:40 PM
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#846 | | what manner of phaggotry is this
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Originally Posted by Ch28 Probably Vitor being out of the main event fight HAHA |   
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02-27-2014, 10:48 PM
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#847 | | what manner of phaggotry is this
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wonder what the post TRTitor will be like?
TRTitor > old vitor > new old vitor > new vitor > sisterless vitor
i think he will slot in somewhere better than new vitor but worse than new old vitor.
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02-27-2014, 10:49 PM
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02-27-2014, 10:50 PM
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#849 | | Hacked RS to become a mod
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Originally Posted by RRxtar wonder what the post TRTitor will be like?
TRTitor > old vitor > new old vitor > new vitor > sisterless vitor
i think he will slot in somewhere better than new vitor but worse than new old vitor. | I think he'll be slightly above New Vitor but below New Old Vitor
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02-27-2014, 10:53 PM
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Nothing will beat TRTitor
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