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UFC boss blasts Boston politician, asks where outrage stands on NFL, Hernandez

BAD MMA News — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 18:50:00 +0000

BOSTON – Dana White is no stranger to political battles, but the latest efforts from Boston City Council President Steve Murphy – a man White refers to as a “jackass” – have left the UFC president particularly incensed. “The ball-kicking continues, even once we get here,” White told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). “This Murphy guy. You elect a politician to hopefully go out and bring in jobs, create revenue in your city, bring in events that bring revenue toy our city

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Somewhere between complaints and apologies, real discussion on fighter pay waits

BAD MMA News — Sun, 30 Jun 2013 23:20:00 +0000

There’s a predictable script that comes with complaints about fighter pay these days. Actually, maybe it’s more like a flowchart. Is the complaining fighter in question a former UFC employee, now making his living elsewhere? If so, then you can count on hearing UFC president Dana White dismiss him as another UFC washout still smacking his lips over sour grapes. Is the fighter retired or inactive or so high up the food chain that he can’t be brushed off as an inconsequential malcontent? In that case, hey, everyone wants to make more money. But in the case of current UFC fighters, such as Tim Kennedy , who recently compared MMA fighter pay – unfavorably, just in case you were wondering – to a job “empty[ing] trash cans,” that’s when we can sit back and wait for the inevitable backtracking . Two days after Kennedy called that state of fighter pay “pathetic” in an interview with the GrappleTalk podcast, he apologized in a Facebook statement where he called his own choice of words “poor” and “not properly informed.” He also claimed his comments were “taken out of context,” which is athlete-speak for, “I didn’t realize I was going to get in trouble.” Just so we’re all clear, the context was Kennedy being asked whether fighters who have outside jobs can still be fully committed to MMA, and then responding by saying that they kind of need them, since the current state of fighter pay is “pathetic.” Kennedy was the one who brought up the issue in the first place , and it seems logical to assume that he didn’t spontaneously change his position in the two days between when his comments went public and when he issued the apology.

Tim Kennedy apologizes for fighter pay comments, says taken out of context

BAD MMA News — Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Two days after directing pointed criticism at the pay of UFC fighters, Tim Kennedy has apologized to the fight promotion’s executives. “The intent of these statements was to highlight that professional fighters incur significant expense associated with their preparations to fight and that fighter compensation is still not on par with other major sports,” wrote the middleweight on his official Facebook fan page . Kennedy (15-4 MMA, 1-1 UFC), 33, is scheduled to meet Roger Gracie (6-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC) next Saturday at UFC 162, but as of late, most of the MMA media’s attention has been focused on a controversial interview he gave this week with the Grapple Talk podcast . It was during the appearance that the decorated soldier said it was “pathetic” that fighters had to take second jobs to support their careers, and mused that he’d be better off collecting trash than accepting low pay for his services.

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Tim Kennedy apologizes for fighter pay comments, says taken out of context – MMA Junkie