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Jon Fitch 🏴☠️ retweeted
So let me guess, not one person there asked White if Strickland had to sign this new deal in order to get his title shot? You’d think that’s something you’d want to confirm.
I’m back on the road for another seminar this weekend. Oct 17th I’ll be at @griffonrawl_combat_sports GriffonRawl combat sports and fitness in Mentor, Ohio. The gym is owned by UFC veteran Jason Dent. We will be covering wrestling for MMA & BJJ plus some time spent on wall work. Come through and learn something.
On the road again this weekend for another seminar. I’ll be in Dalton, Georgia at @dalton_combatives for a 2 hour seminar. We will be going over some MMA and BJJ with some Wrestling flavor sprinkled on top. Come through and check it out.
Jon Fitch 🏴☠️ retweeted
But Power Slap is A-ok.
These ACs are shameless.
Andy Foster explains why he believes it’s time for MMA to ban oblique kicks:
“This is a kick that has a long, long healing time and can really have a lifelong effect. Fighters have a short window... Somebody could have a lifelong injury from this... It’s not worth it.
I don’t think the public loses anything if this kick is banned. There are plenty of other techniques if you’re using it for distance.
There are other things that we’ve banned over the years. I think it’s time.”
I’ll be back on the road for another seminar this weekend in Branson Missouri. I’ll be at @doghousemma_fitness Saturday September 26 at noon for two hours of mma and nogi jiujitsu instruction.
Come through and learn something. 💪
Jon Fitch 🏴☠️ retweeted
Very good day for plaintiffs in the UFC Antitrust hearing. Mick Maynard was on the stand. Plaintiffs showed evidence Maynard was clearly deleting texts while under litigation hold. When the defendants questioned Maynard the judge reamed them leading repeatedly!
Jon Fitch 🏴☠️ retweeted
When we call them UFC house managers, it is quite literal... this manager and the ufc matchmaker literally shared a house together, we're roomies... situation more incestuous than those stepsister chudai vids on X...
Jon Fitch 🏴☠️ retweeted
“American wrestlers aren’t willing to exploited by our monopsony”
Daniel “DC” Cormier says America has no male UFC champions because the best wrestlers would rather coach for $200,000 than fight
“We might’ve done so much to grow the sport everywhere else that the American wrestler isn’t as available right now”
“There are RTCs in wrestling where guys are making a little more money. How many times did I go right when I should’ve gone left?”
“Now it is $200,000 a year to coach. And most wrestlers think $200,000 is a lot of money, especially living in those small towns like Stillwater, Happy Valley, Raleigh”
“It’s a lot of money. So the American wrestler isn’t as open to fighting as we need him to be”
Jon Fitch 🏴☠️ retweeted
When UFC claim Super Bowl numbers, but can't even pull Puppy Bowl numbers... 😆
They trashed the White House, used the entire federal government to promote this spectacle, and they only got 7 million viewers? For context, not only is this a lot less than other fights, the Puppy Bowl drew 15.3 million viewers this year. global.espn.com/ufc/story/_/…
Jon Fitch 🏴☠️ retweeted
Still as fake as the “committee” in college football pre-playoffs and adopted for the exact same reasons.
UFC broadcast announces the new ranking system will launch Monday.
It is:
“… an objective, data-driven approach, rather than based on opinion or popularity. … Designed to reward performance.”
I thought that was always supposed to be the case, but alas. Long overdue. I still maintain real human beings stopped voting about 5-6 years ago so this is welcome.
Jon Fitch 🏴☠️ retweeted
Fighter endangerment and fighter exploitation is what you get with promoter controlled rank and title.
It is exploitation and dangerous.
That @abcboxing and Andy Foster and Tim Shipman and AnnMaria De Mars sponsored this bill to bring this model to boxing (& slap)-corrupt.
Jon Fitch 🏴☠️ retweeted
They aren’t even hiding corruption.
Bruce Buffer announced the Association of Boxing Commissions (a trade organization) as "sanctioning" #UFCFreedom250 with Gaethje vs. Topuria. Marc Ratner hired ABC. Andy Foster, Mark Relyea, and Tim Shipman.
ABC will gain big power if the Ali American Boxing Revival Act passes.
Jon Fitch 🏴☠️ retweeted
This was UFC 182. DC got $1.14m & Jones got $3,637,500. The event sold almost 750k PPVs, had a gate of $3.7m and generated over $30m in revenue for the UFC.
Daniel "DC" Cormier says he made just $80,000 fighting Jon Jones until Dana secretly sent him $1,000,000 check
"Back in 2015, I fought Jon Jones for the first time. We had this great build, and I was making $80,000 to show up and $80,000 to win. I lost"
"So I left that arena thinking, Man… all that, and I made $80,000. And I made like $80,000 in sponsorships that night, back when we could wear those patches on our shorts. For all that, I'm gonna make $150,000, it's crazy"
"Dana calls me two days later. Hey man, y'all killed it. Numbers were out of this world. We're gonna send you $1,000,000. Dude sent me a million-dollar check the next day, just because he said I did a great job"
"And then it was Lorenzo Fertitta at the time, the owner. Lorenzo liked his champions making a million dollars. So even if your fight purse was $350,000 and you sold another $300,000 in pay-per-views, Lorenzo would give you an extra $400,000 to make sure you made $1,000,000 every time you stepped in the Octagon"
Jon Fitch 🏴☠️ retweeted
We know how this story ends.
So does anyone beyond the age of 30.
Evergreen theft from fool investors or naive founders who don’t understand the sport-or both.
This won’t change-until we change structure of the sport.
Isn’t the definition of insanity doing the same thing?
Jon Fitch 🏴☠️ retweeted
Any comparison that doesn't start and end with boxing is trying WAY to hard.
Dana White once mocked golf as
“a bunch of rich d**ks walking around in stupid clothes.”
Maybe he’d like it more if the golfers were all forced to wear the same exact thing. Maybe some Venum golf kits.
Ultimately, the closest structural comp to the UFC is the PGA Tour.
Same independent contractor model.
No union.
Same antitrust scrutiny.
Completely different outcomes.
⛳ Golfers:
▪️ Equity
▪️ Uncapped sponsors (on + off course)
▪️ Transparent pay
▪️ ~26% of revenue
🥊 UFC fighters:
▪️ No equity
▪️ No sponsors in cage/fight week (Venum $4K–$42K)
▪️ Very little transparency on pay
▪️ ~15–18% of revenue
▪️ % of revenue will drop if pay doesn’t scale with the $7.7B Paramount deal
⏳ 30–40 events a year vs ~2 fights per year
📉 Playing careers that can last decades vs ~3 year average UFC tenure
🏆 ~$4.2M guaranteed at The Masters
vs undisclosed purses in the UFC. UFC 327 likely saw fighters earn anywhere from $12k - ~$500K.
It’s not about just this one weekend. It’s the entire system.
One sport plays for majors.
The other fights for minimums.
Jon Fitch 🏴☠️ retweeted
What can possibly go wrong with promoter controlled matchmaking, promoter controlled ascension, and promoter controlled injury and performance metrics?
Just in time for AI introduced rankings. (Gotta shield from liability and corruption.)
Jon Fitch 🏴☠️ retweeted
Nothing like the justice department partnering with a company a federal judge has found is using:
“These coercive tactics in conjunction with the restrictive provisions of the contracts
themselves had a devastating effect on fighters’ compensation.”
Oligarchy. #Corruption
Thanks to the great partnership with @ufc we’ve seen about 300 agents come through and learn amazing tactics so they can safeguard American lives🇺🇸
Jon Fitch 🏴☠️ retweeted
Bragging about views in a combat “sport” where you literally cannot defend yourself is the epitome of corruption and regulatory capture.
Andy Foster, Tim Shipman, Dr. Andrea DeMars —the fake opposition and voice of reason-to making the motion to approve slap.
Totally corrupt.