[MMA] Centraal MMA topic #454 Dana's blackmail

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Op woensdag 25 oktober 2023 10:56 schreef THEFXR het volgende:

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whut, die is nog nooit geblesseerd uitgevallen

btw, je was vroeg wakker

Dana White Will Never Headline UFC Event With Jon Jones Again

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The event was supposed to be headlined by a UFC Light Heavyweight Championship rematch between champion Jon Jones and Alexander Gustafsson.[4] Jones won their first fight at UFC 165 by unanimous decision.[5] Gustafsson pulled out of the bout due to a torn right meniscus and lateral collateral ligament. He was replaced by Daniel Cormier on July 23.[6] However, on August 12, Jones was forced to pull out of the bout against Cormier citing a leg injury. The fight was rescheduled to take place at UFC 182.[7] As a result, a Flyweight Title fight between Demetrious Johnson and Chris Cariaso was moved from UFC 177 to headline this card.[8]

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Op woensdag 25 oktober 2023 22:59 schreef THEFXR het volgende:

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Stipe heeft toch al jaren niet gevochten, daar zit echt ringrust op en focust zich op zijn gezin.

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Op zondag 22 oktober 2023 19:18 schreef 3rr0r het volgende:
Usman was nogal ontdaan ervan. Twijfels aan zichzelf door nu al 3 keer op rij te verliezen. Beetje te hard voor zichzelf.

Kamaru Usman points to slow start after UFC 294 loss to Khamzat Chimaev | ESPN MMA

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2023 12:17 schreef THEFXR het volgende:

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ben benieuwd of hij nog meer gaat boksen voor veel geld of dat hij bij MMA blijft.

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2023 12:46 schreef over_hedge het volgende:
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Khabib doet nu voetballers trainen

Eric Cantona really said THIS after his infamous 'kung-fu' kick

Pepe RED CARD Sent Off For Kicking & amp; Assaulting Getafe Captain Francisco Casquero

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2023 12:56 schreef Nober het volgende:

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Zlatan vs. Seedorf on PPV.

Co Main
Cantona vs. Pepe

Eric Cantona really said THIS after his infamous 'kung-fu' kick

Pepe RED CARD Sent Off For Kicking & amp; Assaulting Getafe Captain Francisco Casquero

This is number 1 bullshit.

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2023 12:43 schreef _-_ratjetoe_-_ het volgende:

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Hij heeft al gezegd dat volgende gevecht MMA zal zijn. Hij is ook een man van principes en zal wat waard willen zijn voor PFL. Maar daarna zeker vaker boksen.

Wat een prestatie zeg, echt ongelofelijk.

Edit: hij zegt dat hij wil blijven combineren, niet per se het volgende gevecht al MMA. Zal ook afhangen hoe het met zijn knieën gaat, die worden wel veel meer belast in MMA.

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2023 13:22 schreef tja77 het volgende:

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Voorafgaand aan deze bokswedstrijd heeft Fury aangegeven best de uitdaging met Ngannou aan te willen gaan onder MMA regels. Ik zeg doen, maar Fury gaat dan echt finaal gesloopt worden.

Ngannou verbaasde me in positief opzicht, ik had zeker verwacht dat de laatste rondes naar Fury zouden gaan, als het al zo ver zou komen. Ik had vooraf verwacht een (t)ko in het voordeel van Fury binnen een ronde of 6.

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Bloody Elbow has obtained purse details for several top UFC stars and champions like Conor McGregor, Jon Jones, Anderson Silva, and many more.

There’s been a major update into the class action lawsuit against the UFC, with the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denying the promotion’s appeal, and likely setting the wheels in motion for a trial in 2024.

With Judge Boulware previously stating he wants the case to be on a “fast track,” he also indicated that he wanted all records pertaining to the UFC antitrust lawsuit to be unsealed soon, with very limited redactions for health and contact information.

The uptick in activity in the case also included a number of motions and exhibits that were filed with the court over the last week as part of the legal proceedings. Thanks to the Judge’s new orders, most of these filings were unredacted.

Unsealed UFC lawsuit documents reveal financial information
Bloody Elbow has been going through these newly filed unsealed documents and one in particularly was extremely intriguing: Roger D. Blair’s re-filed expert report.

Included in the appendix of this report was all of the payouts made by the UFC to fighters from 2011 to 2016. This “Internal Zuffa Bout Compensation” included not only the show and win bonuses and along with Performance bonuses disclosed to athletic commissions and the public, but also non disclosed payments like pay-per-view bonuses, side letters and discretionary bonuses — all the payments to a fighter related to their bout.

Individual fighter names were not attached to each payout, but the report does include how many bouts that fighter has had in the UFC at that point, along with how many fighters received such a payout. That alone made it easy to identify many of the top earners from the UFC.

While it might be hard to identify one of the 4 fighters who were paid $27,000 for their 7th fight in the UFC in 2016, it’s easier to surmise other the fighter debuting in the UFC in 2016 who was paid $1,042,736 for their match was CM Punk, or that of the two fighters that had their 27th fight in the UFC that same year, one of them would be Jeremy Stephens and the other Frank Mir.

With the help of business expert John Nash, we were able to transpose and identify the payouts of several of the promotion’s key stars from the UFC’s internal compensation list in Roger D. Blair’s expert report.

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$574,720 vs. Liz Carmouche
$1,817,907 vs. Miesha Tate
$870,969 vs. Sara McMann
$1,063,688 vs. Alexis Davis
$1,458,282 vs. Cat Zingano
$2,642,204 vs. Bethe Correia
$4,476,662 or $4,536,932 vs. Holly Holm
$4,879,766 vs. Amanda Nunes

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Recently unsealed lawsuit documents also included Professor Robert Topel’s expert report that cites payouts for Rousey during the class period: “Rousey was compensated $13 million for participation in seven UFC bouts of which she won six.”

This would be from the Carmouche win to the Holm loss, and the total would match the figures we transposed above from the expert report of Roger D. Blair.

Previous disclosures had revealed Ronda Rousey’s contract for her last two fights. She would have been paid a $3 million base purse ($500,000 of it had not been a title fight) along with a PPV bonus, where she gets $1 for every PPV starting at 200-400k buys, $2 for every 400-600k buys, $3 for every 600-900k buys, and $4 over 900k buys.

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$3,285,000 (includes $2.11M discretionary bonus) vs. Chad Mendes*
$4,476,662 or $4,536,932 vs. Jose Aldo — Aldo received $2,377,699
$5,576,315 vs. Nate Diaz 1 — Diaz received $2,838,158, and the PPV event generated $61 million.
$5,615,490 vs. Nate Diaz 2 — Diaz received $4,315,490.
$6,812,374 vs. Eddie Alvarez — the PPV event generated $66 million for UFC.

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*Corrected: We originally had $2,642,204 for the Chad Mendes fight. This is incorrect. We regret the error.

Lawsuit documents also included Professor Robert Topel’s expert report that cites payouts from McGregor during the class period: “Conor McGregor was compensated nearly $20 million for participation in nine UFC bouts of which he won eight.”

This would have covered his first nine bouts in the UFC, from his bout with Marcus Brimage through the second Nate Diaz fight.

It’s worth noting that Conor McGregor is the UFC’s biggest ever draw, and has generated hundreds and hundreds of millions for the UFC during that same time span. The five pay-per-views he headlined during the period combined for over $54 million at the gate alone.

As a side note, much like the older financial figures from lawsuit documents already revealed in the past, these official payouts again pale in comparison to the inaccurate and significantly inflated numbers Forbes kept publishing about Conor McGregor through the years…