The UFC Touts International Expansion, While Fighters Struggle

The UFC's public head Dana "Dr. Evil" White today announced more international expansion into markets such as China, India, and Canada with their Trojan Horse show "The Ultimate Fighter" at the pre-fight presser in Montreal, Canada. Dana White can't stop, won't stop singing about how big "this thing is" or how big it will be, but none of that seems to materialize in the form of higher fighter purses.

For someone who talks so Socialist about spreading the wealth around to fighters from the top of the food chain down to the under-card, bottom dollar pugs, he doesn't seem to think that as the sport grows the fighters are entitled to their piece of the pie. That is the problem with monopolies such as the one the UFC has on the MMA game there is no REAL competition to drive fighter purses up to where they should be. With no one out their to tell them otherwise, the UFC will continue to pay barely pay fighters to scrape along and bleed, bend, and break whenever the boss-man calls on them to do so.

Now, all of you Dana White nut-huggers are going to disagree with anything anti-Dana because after all; he can do no wrong right? Wrong! The promotion can still have the lofty expansion goals and pull a hefty profit while at the same time paying the fighters for their blood, sweat, and tears. Green colored money goggles will blind you from the truth as the Fertittas and White have clearly demonstrated through their actions toward fighters.

Disrespect from the bald pasty one has been cited on many occasions by fighters like Couture and BJ Penn. Respect mainly equated to money, which I can respect because the fighters saw how little of the profit they were actually making. For the fighters are the ones who bring the crowds and the fans come to see, not Dana White, Lorenzo Fertitta, or any other company representative. Granted the company puts on the best shows in the business hands down, but the fighters on the card make the show not the acronym that precedes their name on the poster.

I am no a UFC hater by any means. I simply don't agree that some in the combat sports world fight for tens of millions of dollars, while headlining UFC fighters are competing for scraps comparatively.