@JedKMeshew Everyone makes mistakes. But, It's the sheer arrogance of his tweets that gets me. Plus, IIRC, his father died young from heart complications. A condition that probably would have made his dad a high risk person.
@NinaAnsaroff@MMAFighting@MikeChiappetta Nina, that is exactly what the article is criticizing. The UFC underpays and undervalues you fighters. Fighters, by UFC design, are put in financial positions to HAVE to fight under awful circumstances.
@heynottheface This may end up being a case where a business stimulus package is needed. They (businesses) wonโt just be facing recession minded consumers, but social distancing instructed consumers as well.
@lthomasnews My GF texted me this morning she met Carmouche & Kattar doing charity hospital visits. Can confirm Carmouche was not acting like someone just fired.
@lthomasnews Havenโt watch your post fight special(bad fan I know), but the Masvidal Diaz fight actually ended well. Masvidal gets to say he was winning, and Diaz gets to say he would have made a vintage Diaz comeback. Their stock holds, right? Can still make big fights for both.
@The_MMA_Rundown@heynottheface@lthomasnews Your underlying premises are flawed and your representation of my arguments are deeply distorted. Shoot me an email if you want. Can respond next week.
@The_MMA_Rundown@heynottheface@lthomasnews You just state that this is highly debatable and move along. I explicitly highlighted "sole or primary" on slide five to address a previous tweet of yours where you express a common misbelief. Regardless, new info shows all other orgs have ~5% of total rev https://t.co/kNtTtP8rPl
Uhh, even though they redact Bellator's revenue we can pretty easily determine what it was from 2010-2013 using with the other unredacted numbers
2010 3.4m
2011 6.5m
2012 10m
2013 15.4m
@zackg0323@lthomasnews Quote from Osborne & Gaebler's 1992 "Reinventing Government". Was a big push for more neoclassical econ in gov. Public Administration (my field) has somewhat moved on from this, but you should check it out if you're interested.
@ZidanSports That is strikingly similar to a line in Shakespeare's Macbeth:
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
Any relationship?
@heynottheface@JedKMeshew@joerogan@MoTownPhenom I think you're mistaken/undervaluing the leverage of a UFC union. However, you may be right about separating those functions. I have not thought enough about this to speak to it, though. I would ask how you'd plan to accomplish this separation and offer Unionize as an answer.
@heynottheface@JedKMeshew@joerogan@MoTownPhenom So to be clear, I am not advocating for a particular revenue split. i have only said that UFC fighters are being exploited under the current situation (beyond what you have previously identified as a monopsony). i am stating that a Union *could* negotiate any number of things...