Alvarez Puts Bellator on Blast.

Eddie Alvarez Blasts Bellator Brass for Bullying Fighters
Posted on May 4, 2013 by Brendhan Conlan

Lightweight Eddie Alvarez has amped up his verbal assault on Bellator after recently acknowledging he would be going to court to settle a contractual dispute and had been forced to jeopardize his savings in order to fight for his freedom to sign with the UFC. This time around, Alvarez pointed a finger at the puppeteers pulling Bellator’s strings for pushing lesser-known competitors around.

According to a series of Tweets from Alvarez, the people running things are “a group of idiots with money who don’t know sh*t about MMA.” Read below for his full comments…

“I am fortunate compared to guys like Cosmo Alexandre. This guy trains day and night to feed his family, and Viacom/Spike TV continue to hurt him. His story of getting shafted might be worse than mine.”

“Not to mention how Zach Makovsky was bullied to take a smaller pay day than contextually agreed or just sit after being champ. I have nothing to complain about. I get paid well enough to keep bills paid, but to bully guys like Makovsky and Alexandre is a sin. Bjorn Rebney’s a grunt in this. It’s Viacom and Spike TV and a group of idiots with money who don’t know sh*t about MMA.”

“I might just dump just real sh*t tonight until I get a call from someone to stop. Soooo much to talk about now that the gloves are off. I’d be more careful in what I said but I was told as long as I truthful then I can say whatever I want.”

Eddie Alvarez Blasts Bellator Brass for Bullying Fighters


.........had been forced to jeopardize his savings in order to fight for his freedom to sign with the UFC.

Eddie Alvarez Blasts Bellator Brass for Bullying Fighters


.........had been forced to jeopardize his savings in order to fight for his freedom to sign with the UFC.

Dagwood wrote:1. As far as Alvarez goes... he is a disgruntled employee who signed a legally binding contract fully knowing what eh was signing and EXACTLY what he'd be signing if he signed with the UFC. Plain and simple. Why was he not brought out all of his injustice claims from he and other fighters before all this???

2. On the pay issue... you have to look at economies of scale. The UFC has like 10X the revenues of Bellator. You can't expect someone like MFC to being paying current UFC scale (still unfair based on ticket-PPV sales et all) wages. Don't tell me the UFC has 10X the overhead percentage per event as Bellator & Spike???.

3. I have no idea what the particulars are with Cosmo & Bellator. What I do know is the majority of fighters under contract to a $2B valued $300M-$400M annual revenue organization have problems making a full time living working for the UFC after their costs. That is sad. Something is wrong there.

4. What would happen if some UFC fighters had the balls to come out and say this...

Any UFC current or former UFC fighter no longer afraid of retribution or blackballing wrote:“I might just dump just real sh*t tonight until I get a call from someone to stop. Soooo much to talk about now that the gloves are off. I’d be more careful in what I said but I was told as long as I truthful then I can say whatever I want.”

Dagwood wrote:

Dagwood wrote:1. As far as Alvarez goes... he is a disgruntled employee who signed a legally binding contract fully knowing what eh was signing and EXACTLY what he'd be signing if he signed with the UFC. Plain and simple. Why was he not brought out all of his injustice claims from he and other fighters before all this???

2. On the pay issue... you have to look at economies of scale. The UFC has like 10X the revenues of Bellator. You can't expect someone like MFC to being paying current UFC scale (still unfair based on ticket-PPV sales et all) wages. Don't tell me the UFC has 10X the overhead percentage per event as Bellator & Spike???.

3. I have no idea what the particulars are with Cosmo & Bellator. What I do know is the majority of fighters under contract to a $2B valued $300M-$400M annual revenue organization have problems making a full time living working for the UFC after their costs. That is sad. Something is wrong there.

4. What would happen if some UFC fighters had the balls to come out and say this...

Any UFC current or former UFC fighter no longer afraid of retribution or blackballing wrote:“I might just dump just real sh*t tonight until I get a call from someone to stop. Soooo much to talk about now that the gloves are off. I’d be more careful in what I said but I was told as long as I truthful then I can say whatever I want.”

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Dagwood wrote:What people who are slamming Bellator on this should do is... ask Dana & Lorenzo what rights do they have to current UFC champions??? Ask them if they can simply leave and move to another promotion when their contract is up???

Hello... Randy.. it's me Somnio.

They own their current champions chained down in perpetuity and they have no choice to leave even when their contracts are up. They have auto-renew til eternity clauses. There is such a bullshit double standard here it's unbelievable. The UFC is the one who has incredibly one-sided heavy handed fighter contracts. All Bellator did was match the exact UFC written contract. The terms and are the UFC's.

Viacom's legal department has more lawyers than the UFC has fighters under contract. Fortune 500 companies have to get legal opinions, legal sign off, or compliance checks on most everything they do. That's one of the biggest risk management factors big companies have. That means managing liability for litigation and law suits. Their job is to make sure that their companies contracts are air tight and leave little room for lawsuits and large settlements. It would seem Alvarez is accusing these guys of fraudulent behavior in regard to the contract. This kid is more than a bit stupid.

Even if he thinks he has evidence to back this up... he better win the lottery. He's gonna get sued upon sued in perpetuity until he's homeless, wifeless, childless, toothless, & more.

Then he'll really be seeing the VIACOM $$$.

Somnio wrote:

Dagwood wrote:What people who are slamming Bellator on this should do is... ask Dana & Lorenzo what rights do they have to current UFC champions??? Ask them if they can simply leave and move to another promotion when their contract is up???

Hello... Randy.. it's me Somnio.

They own their current champions chained down in perpetuity and they have no choice to leave even when their contracts are up. They have auto-renew til eternity clauses. There is such a bullshit double standard here it's unbelievable. The UFC is the one who has incredibly one-sided heavy handed fighter contracts. All Bellator did was match the exact UFC written contract. The terms and are the UFC's.

Viacom's legal department has more lawyers than the UFC has fighters under contract. Fortune 500 companies have to get legal opinions, legal sign off, or compliance checks on most everything they do. That's one of the biggest risk management factors big companies have. That means managing liability for litigation and law suits. Their job is to make sure that their companies contracts are air tight and leave little room for lawsuits and large settlements. It would seem Alvarez is accusing these guys of fraudulent behavior in regard to the contract. This kid is more than a bit stupid.

Even if he thinks he has evidence to back this up... he better win the lottery. He's gonna get sued upon sued in perpetuity until he's homeless, wifeless, childless, toothless, & more.

Then he'll really be seeing the VIACOM $$$.

Not every second of your life has to be focused on hating Zuffa. Stop distracting from the topic at hand and please stick to the correct subject matter. This is not about how much you hate Zuffa or their shady business. It is about Eddie speaking out on what he feels is an injustice and Viacom's shady bussiness. Once again, please stick to the topic.

PRIDE NEVER DIE wrote:For his sake hope he does well in ufc or else he may be finding himself fighting somewhere he doesn't want to be.

Eddie Alvarez Blasts Bellator Brass for Bullying Fighters


.........had been forced to jeopardize his savings in order to fight for his freedom to sign with the UFC.

Somnio wrote:
Not every second of your life has to be focused on hating Zuffa. Stop distracting from the topic at hand and please stick to the correct subject matter. This is not about how much you hate Zuffa or their shady business. It is about Eddie speaking out on what he feels is an injustice and Viacom's shady bussiness. Once again, please stick to the topic.

Sodak wrote:I think its important because Zuffa purposely fucked this up. They could have offered him straight money but instead tried the scheisty move of offering PPV money knowing full well Bellator doesn't do PPVs. Thats whats screwed everything up.

monaroCountry wrote:

Sodak wrote:I think its important because Zuffa purposely fucked this up. They could have offered him straight money but instead tried the scheisty move of offering PPV money knowing full well Bellator doesn't do PPVs. Thats whats screwed everything up.

From what I understand, Zuffa didnt even promise any PPV or PPV money. They just hinted that he may be in PPV event and may get money, without actually putting any of that on paper, and Eddie believed them .

Sodak wrote:

If this is true Alvarez' claims hold absolutely no water.

monaroCountry wrote:

Sodak wrote:

If this is true Alvarez' claims hold absolutely no water.

If Zuffa guaranteed it and put it in their contract then Bellator wont be able to match it. But this was not the case. Talk of PPV events and PPV money is meaningless.