Apparently UFC fighters have trouble finding sponsors

When I signed with the UFC this is what I was told:

We can’t pay you much but you can have any sponsors you want.
Then: We need to approve your sponsors.
Then: You can’t have any conflicting sponsors.
Then: You can’t thank your sponsors after fights.
Then: We are not approving any sponsors that we don’t like their product.
Then: Your sponsors have to pay us a fee of $50,000 for the pleasure to sponsor you.
Then: Your sponsors have to pay us a fee of $100,000 for the pleasure to sponsor you.

If a sponsor has a budget of 10k to sponsor a fighter, they are then out.

If there are 5 shorts companies in the UFC you can only go to them for a sponsorship. If they have spent their budget or don’t want to support an up and coming fighter they give you shorts instead of money.

If you’re fighting for $6,000 to show and fighting 3 times a year, even $500 makes a big difference. When there is no competition they don’t have to pay you. I lost And1 as a sponsor when the UFC enacted the tax.

A fighter gets to use the gym at the hotel he’s fighting at for free. The cornermen and everyone with him have to pay. So I’m helping Leben make weight the day of weigh ins and have to pay to go sit in the sauna with him.

With every little bit they try to squeeze out of the fighters, the more the other organizations will look more attractive.

- Nate Quarry
(read more on his take on the proposed uniform policy here(https://www.facebook.com/MMAbox/posts/10151945197463388))

Sidenote: “helping” and supervising a fighter during weight cut is a medical necessity. No fighter is unsupervised for these few days. There is someone actively watching him 24 hours a day.  I noted some fighters’ corner & coaches schedule 3-4 hour shifts to watch over him for three days. They emerge from each shift depressed and mentally drained from “keeping him company.”  This should give you some indication of how weight cutting feels to the guy who has to make the number, not to mention exactly how potentially dangerous it is to every fighter.

stu3ufc wrote:

I dont know whether to laugh or cry at this one

then they insist on their fucking uniform ???? seriously

Golden Age wrote:

stu3ufc wrote:

I dont know whether to laugh or cry at this one

then they insist on their fucking uniform ???? seriously

He´s thinking: How the f#ck will I be able to pay the rent?