White Sold His 9% of UFC?

[McNulty]

At 8:57 Radio Rahim says that White sold his portion (9%) of Zuffa LLC. I can't seem to find anything on the sale, anybody know about this?

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If he did then ouch! Must mean talks with Mcgregor fell through

[McNulty]

If he did then ouch! Must mean talks with Mcgregor fell through

In a video I just watched there is some controversey with McWelfare and UFC and he won't be fighting this year. White said McWelfare may never fight again, video below (10 days old).

[RedZmaja]

UFC is only going to go downhill from now on. The Fertittos were intelligent to sell when it was at its peak.

Sooner or later the Ali act is going to be forced to the MMA as well and the fighters will have more leverage when negotiating.

After other fighters saw for how much the UFC sell for and how much McGregor (supposedly) made, they want their share now. UFC fighters have started to act like boxers, cherry picking their opponents, protecting their records, ducking and looking for the best reward-risk ratio fights. Their champions barely fight these days. They just come up with fake injury excuses and wait for half a year until the most dangerous challengers are eliminated.

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UFC is only going to go downhill from now on. The Fertittos were intelligent to sell when it was at its peak.

Sooner or later the Ali act is going to be forced to the MMA as well and the fighters will have more leverage when negotiating.

After other fighters saw for how much the UFC sell for and how much McGregor (supposedly) made, they want their share now. UFC fighters have started to act like boxers, cherry picking their opponents, protecting their records, ducking and looking for the best reward-risk ratio fights. Their champions barely fight these days. They just come up with fake injury excuses and wait for half a year until the most dangerous challengers are eliminated.

Especially if the UFC and / or Dana White start getting involved with boxing promotion - if it is under the same banner / parent company (UFC and Boxing promotion) that is going to muddy the waters a hell of a lot with the Ali act.

Plus Bellator is gaining ground

[RedZmaja]

Especially if the UFC and / or Dana White start getting involved with boxing promotion - if it is under the same banner / parent company (UFC and Boxing promotion) that is going to muddy the waters a hell of a lot with the Ali act.

Plus Bellator is gaining ground

UFC got lucky in the 00s because their stars were guys from the pioneer era of MMA when people fought for peanuts because they just wanted to fight. They just fought each other and didn't duck and helped the company grow. But the new generation won't settle for that, they want their share. They see what the boxers make, they see what Conor made and so on.

The UFC can't force anybody to fight. A lot of ducking goes on in the UFC too. Fighters pull out with imaginary injuries to avoid other guys. Their top guys fight like once a year.

Another thing that you see the new MMA prospects doing is padding their records and protecting the 0. It did a lot of good to Khabib who has a boxing-style padded record full of nobodies and is constantly in the title shot talks just because of it despite not fighting regularly.

Especially fighters from Europe can build themselves up in the local promotions, pad their records and get the sponsors. KSW is pretty big in Poland. Michael Venom Page build a name for himself without going to the UFC as well.

MMA will become like boxing where big fights will take longer to make and they will probably have to co-promote.

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UFC got lucky in the 00s because their stars were guys from the pioneer era of MMA when people fought for peanuts because they just wanted to fight. They just fought each other and didn't duck and helped the company grow. But the new generation won't settle for that, they want their share. They see what the boxers make, they see what Conor made and so on.

The UFC can't force anybody to fight. A lot of ducking goes on in the UFC too. Fighters pull out with imaginary injuries to avoid other guys. Their top guys fight like once a year.

Another thing that you see the new MMA prospects doing is padding their records and protecting the 0. It did a lot of good to Khabib who has a boxing-style padded record full of nobodies and is constantly in the title shot talks just because of it despite not fighting regularly.

Especially fighters from Europe can build themselves up in the local promotions, pad their records and get the sponsors. KSW is pretty big in Poland. Michael Venom Page build a name for himself without going to the UFC as well.

MMA will become like boxing where big fights will take longer to make and they will probably have to co-promote.

Khabib's record is insane, as in insanely padded. There was a website that went through all his 16 wins prior to the UFC, and it was WORSE than a boxer's padded record. Literally fighting guys with zero pro fights in his 8th or 9th, guys on losing streaks and with more losses than wins. Now his inactivity in UFC...

Looking forward to Barboza fight, but it seems the UFC REALLY want him in Russia to open up the market there. Would be massive.

And yeah UFC has gone down hill, understandably so from the fighter's perspective. They don't won't anymore peanuts and crappy Reebok deals.