Its much more fun to think that people filing lawsuit is proof of wrong doing on the part of those being sued. What good would it do for the UFC to tie up Randy Couture in legal limbo and prevent the fight from coming off if they lose the suit? Amazingly, I am nieve. Comedy ensues.

Are you saying that Zuffa is somehow more ethical than other corporations, much less fight promoters, whom have used lawsuits, even ones they cannot possibly win, to try and protect their interests? Dana White is taking a page out of the Don King playbook and he’s got you going along with it. Its really funny.

Trolling 101: Can’t deal with the answer, change the topic.

Are you saying that Zuffa is somehow more ethical than other corporations, much less fight promoters, whom have used lawsuits, even ones they cannot possibly win, to try and protect their interests? Dana White is taking a page out of the Don King playbook and he’s got you going along with it. Its really funny.

You’re basically saying that Couture has fufilled his contract and Zuffa is sicking their lawyers on him unjustifiably?

If that’s your position, then there’s no point in arguing with you at all, now is there? I’ll just go argue with a wall then.

How many times do I have to say I’m aware of why they’re doing it? Does that mean I have to agree or like it? Oh, wait, I never get that answer. Meanwhile, fighters are bad because they want more money utilizing the free market.

However, making money is not mutually exclusive from the company wanting to grow MMA. Growth of MMA = growth of profit.

Company growth exists independant of the growth of MMA. Wait, that point’s been made a bunch and you never have anything to say about it other than repeating your previous opinions.

I have never derided any fighters from using the free market for their benefit.

Of course you have. You’ve criticized Tito, Couture, and Arlovski numerous times. Especially Couture.

I have always supported fighters’ rights as long as they do within the constraint of the legal system. A contract should not be breached just because a fighter feel he’s underpaid.

What proof do you have that anyone’s breached their contract? Any? Or do you prefer to just keep saying that while alternately talking about how Couture isn’t being honest ot something?

Because its an irrelevant point? Besides, the UFC restricts the ability of its athletes to be endorsed like few, if any, major corporations. The only parallel I can think of is NASCAR refusing Playboy a sponsorship in the sport.

Wow, you’re naive. Of course they’re interested in controlling the whole pie. If I’m a stockholder, I don’t expect anything less from the company. However, making money is not mutually exclusive from the company wanting to grow MMA. Growth of MMA = growth of profit.

I have never derided any fighters from using the free market for their benefit. But lets throw straw man arguments out there why don’t we?

I have always supported fighters’ rights as long as they do within the constraint of the legal system. A contract should not be breached just because a fighter feel he’s underpaid.

The difference is subtle but there is a difference.

I was unaware that these things were specific to MMA as a sport. Silly me, thinking that other athletes had access to endorsement deals.

Then why do all the pundits complaining about fighters not being able to make a living from the purse alone never mention these additional revenue streams?

I was unaware that these things were specific to MMA as a sport. Silly me, thinking that other athletes had access to endorsement deals.

Most haters blame the UFC for doing unseemly things that offend their sense of justice. But that’s how business works. If they run a charity like the wish of most here, we would be still talking about the WWE and not MMA.

I also love how haters don’t realize that the fight purse in only one source of revenue a fighter can make. A lot of fighters teach on the seminar circuit, do endorsements, sell their own merchandise, do appearances and/or open their own gyms. Once you’ve fought in the UFC, that’s huge commodity worth more than the actual purse they get for fighting.