Comments Thread For: Jeff Mayweather Claims UFC Wants 80-20 Split From McGregor

[LacedUp]

Damn. Be your own boss, kids

Dana White is not Mcgregor's boss Conor is an independent contractor.

Regardless, don't believe for a second the UFC are trying to take 80% of his purse

[HanzGruber]

Damn joe deguardia is ahead of the game lol. That's terrible

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

This is why no one does MMA or boxing. You're the one taking the beating but the guy who gets to sit and watch takes home more money than you. As if he's not making enough from other fighters and such.

[-Kev-]

This is nothing strange, UFC takes the majority of revenue from all PPV events. The main event fighters get to see a fraction of the revenue.

Conor McGregor received a then record breaking guarantee of $1 million dollars for UFC 196 vs Nate Diaz, a PPV that sold 1,300,000 PPV's. And the two PPVS McGregor was in before that was 1.3 million and 1.2 million buys, so McGregor was already an established PPV star by the time the first Diaz fight came. Why did he get a guaranteed $1million?

UFC 202, McGregor vs Diaz II sold 1.6 million PPV's. McGregor was guaranteed $3 mill with no win bonus.

80-20 actually sounds generous if you do the math of what main event UFC fighters actually get from PPV revenue of UFC cards. Especially when you take into consideration that McGregor's name was the one selling those PPV's.

UFC = U got ****ed

[Motorcity Cobra]

Dana White is not Mcgregor's boss Conor is an independent contractor.

Regardless, don't believe for a second the UFC are trying to take 80% of his purse

He's an independent contractor in name only. The UFC treats their fighters like employees. It's a violation of federal labor laws. An independent contractor is like someone who does your roof. You come to an agreement on pricing and he does the job within the time allotted.

You can't make the guy doing your roof wear a uniform

UFC makes their fighters wear Reebok

You can't tell the guy doing your roof that he can't do your neighbors roof or anybody else's roof. He must be allowed to offer his services on the open market

UFC doesn't allow Conor to practice his trade with anyone else without their approval

You can't tell your roofer he must show up at a certain time to work. He sets his own hours

The UFC tells Conor when and where he must show up for work, not just the fight and weigh in. I'm talking about the promotions. That was a big problem he had with them after the first Diaz fight.

For more information on misclassification read this

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/independent-contractor-self-employed-or-employee

[LacedUp]

He's an independent contractor in name only. The UFC treats their fighters like employees. It's a violation of federal labor laws. An independent contractor is like someone who does your roof. You come to an agreement on pricing and he does the job within the time allotted.

You can't make the guy doing your roof wear a uniform

UFC makes their fighters wear Reebok

You can't tell the guy doing your roof that he can't do your neighbors roof or anybody else's roof. He must be allowed to offer his services on the open market

UFC doesn't allow Conor to practice his trade with anyone else without their approval

You can't tell your roofer he must show up at a certain time to work. He sets his own hours

The UFC tells Conor when and where he must show up for work, not just the fight and weigh in. I'm talking about the promotions. That was a big problem he had with them after the first Diaz fight.

For more information on misclassification read this

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small...ed-or-employee

That's literally exactly what they do. They agree on a certain number of fights for a certain price.

They don't "make" them wear reebok, they sign a bonus deal with reebok which is beneficial to 99% of all UFC fighters. Fighters like Mcgregor or GSP are either getting a helluva lot more (again, something they've signed) or have a different brand like under armour.

[-Kev-]

[Pigeons]

They'll make a run at 4.6M buys if it goes down.

[THEFRESHBRAWLER]

Dana White is not Mcgregor's boss Conor is an independent contractor.

Regardless, don't believe for a second the UFC are trying to take 80% of his purse

It's the UFC they take 75% of the their fighters purse anyway lol so why is that hard to believe?
A couple UFC fighters said the same thing.

Conor is not a independent contractor and Dana White still controls Conor. Lmao stop lying for no reason.

[THEFRESHBRAWLER]

Floyd has single handedly held UFC hostage lmao this dude a genius. 2 months straight of this fight will never happen then all of a sudden Dana has a change of heart. He'll probably have them put up the money also lol