Dana White has always had a hate/hate relationship with agents, but this latest example of banning an entire fight camp on account of their agent is a disturbing new escalation in the situation. Ivan Trembow has an awesome diatribe on the whole situation that lays out what's so fucked up about all this:
It's crystal clear in USA Today's interview with Dana White that what the UFC is trying to do is separate the fighters from their managers, whose job is to look out for the best interests of the fighter (as opposed to just signing whatever the UFC orders the fighters to sign).
White cites Mike Swick as an example of a model employee, a “partner” as he words it, who called White personally and said to forget about his management because he's with the UFC.
White says in the same interview that if Fitch would just call him and do the same thing (ie, separate himself from his management and agree to sign what the UFC wants him to sign), that White would do that in two seconds.
The message to fighters is clear: If you want to keep fighting in the UFC, but your manager or lawyer advises you against signing the merchandising agreement, you can just ditch your manager, contact me directly, and sign whatever I tell you to sign.
That happens all the time in sports look at what A-Rod did when Scott Boras told him to not sign with the Yankees. Anyways it looks like AKA and its fighters are now in talks with the UFC again just look at sherdogs front page maybe Dans hard ball that so many of you talked shit about worked after all yet again ?
From the looks of it now with bolth sides talking again this will be over by the end of the week and everybody will have gotten all upset over nothing. What are your guys thoughts do the AKA fighters come back or not ?
I was wondering the same thing. I wouldn't be surprized if Lorenzo has gotten involved or even taken over the situation by now before shit really gets out of hand.
Dana White has always had a hate/hate relationship with agents, but this latest example of banning an entire fight camp on account of their agent is a disturbing new escalation in the situation. Ivan Trembow has an awesome diatribe on the whole situation that lays out what's so fucked up about all this:
That happens all the time in sports look at what A-Rod did when Scott Boras told him to not sign with the Yankees. Anyways it looks like AKA and its fighters are now in talks with the UFC again just look at sherdogs front page maybe Dans hard ball that so many of you talked shit about worked after all yet again ? 
pretty much, with no auditing clause in the merchandising contract and Dana wanting to talk to fighters directly, what's the point of having an agent? 
I wonder why they're talking? You think Lorenzo had a little sitdown with Dana and calmed him down a bit? 
I was wondering the same thing. I wouldn't be surprized if Lorenzo has gotten involved or even taken over the situation by now before shit really gets out of hand. 
