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 More select Dana White quotes on the excommunication of AKA from the UFC:This is not an attack on Jon Fitch. It's not an attack on any one fighter. We have chosen not to do business with this camp called AKA. These guys have never, ever, ever treated us like partners. And you know what? This is more than just AKA. There's other camps out there that we're having trouble doing business with. And at the end of the day, this is a business. We run a business just like any other business. You come in, you do your job with your company and you get paid. Like I said, there's guys that have been partners with us in million ways. Not just on the video game, but on a lot of other things — a lot of other things. This camp (AKA) has not. If it doesn't get handled behind closed doors, like the AKA guys, and they want to run around and cry about it after — believe me, I talked to them five times. And I told them, "Do you guys not want to work with us? Is that want you want to do? Do you not want to work with us? Are you impossible to deal with?" There's a saying that goes something like this: If everyone you meet seems to be an asshole, chances are you're the one who is the asshole. Dana talks about how all these camps are being so unreasonable. Does it ever cross his mind that he's the one who's out of line?  This whole thing might just boil down to where you stand on the whole union/managment debate.GO DANA! ...to a degree.  5oz has a good article on White's response, but this is the best/most interesting part:"“What’s with this whole lives?,” White interjected. “Do you know how much Jon Fitch made for the Georges St. Pierre fight? Where the hell else could Jon Fitch go right now and make the money he made? He made $169,000 for that night for that fight. Where’s he going to make that kind of money in one night?” White would continue with his passionate response but became so angry that the amount of expletives he used exceeded the station’s delay, prompting Carmichael to place the UFC president on hold until the delay could be restarted. When order was restored, White returned and apologized. However, he wouldn’t remain calm for long as he once again started to verbally assail the media and the state of the economy." [Link] sounds to me like he's really stressed out. People keep acting like this is an established sport with tons of raw data and what not to work with and that the deals just get made.The fact is the UFC is in a position right now where it can low ball make demands for it's future and basicaly dictate terms. This is not such a bad thing right now. MMA is in the golden era still. The fighters themselves are disposable comodities and have little bargaining power. I honestly do not see the problem right now in fighters signing on the dotted line want to or not. In order for the sport to grow we need consolidated talent and lotsa money being spen on education regulation and ads. Right now the UFC is doing that in exchange they get most fighters cheap. In 10 years this will be change when the sport is big enough to be Fighter driven instead of Brand driven. But that takes time. These guys are pioneers and alas it's their bity to take one up the hoop for the guys to follow. Sure it's a crooked game but it's the only game in town. Would they rather not play :( Very well put, Suqleg. I've tried to communicate the same thing in another thread, but not as well as you put it. So you think in several years the industry will have matured enough where the "benefit of the doubt" should move from management, who are looking to build the entire industry, to the fighters, who are the ground level drivers of the machine. Right now the UFC is worth 2 billion, I think. Is there a size you have in mind where you think it will represent the industry is mature enough to deal with these issues of basic fairness in fighter rights?  There's a saying that goes something like this: If everyone you meet seems to be an asshole, chances are you're the one who is the asshole.YES. As someone who has signed the rights away to their best work and desperately trying to recover it from the smoldering ruins of ProElite --- having someone else own your work or your shit and do whatever the fuck they want with it is really, really, really shitty. I take it you won't be applying to Zuffa anytime soon then Esther Yeah he's freaking out. I dunno if he's gone mad with power or what, but he seems to be high off of Randy being back, the huge UFC 91 numbers, and all his competition dying off. mmac,I do not know enough about the industry to make much of a guess as to their overall sharehold of the sports/entertainment industries or where to expect it to be. But I do know there is little infastructure to the sport right now, sure each piece of MMA has some of one but outside of college wrestling or BJJ pedigree not much to speak of. The UFC growing the sport (and it's brand) internationally attracting the attention of more of everything in the commerce world it is inevitable that somone else with the money and know how will sieze their piece of it. The longer the UFC is up and running the more data their competitors will have in the future Right now there are like 6 fighters that can carry a card on their own for financial success... When there are 60 it is not so easy keeping them reigned in. And even with the 6 fighters, without the UFC platform it will be hard to leverage them in a way that will bring in the amount of money you paid out to land them. Nah, if there was a job at Zuffa in photography, I'd take it in a heartbeat. Doubt they know I exist.
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