Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-2A00:23C0:764A:A700:6D54:8EF3:61D2:981B-20180127013553/@comment-108.63.11.115-20180201132557

Justme28 wrote: @Nya

Yes Till is most probably sick because of his weight cutting. The MMA guy in Ireland who looks after fighter weight reported that at his last weight cut he couldn't even speak. And Till himself brags that he is a LHW.

Its high time the UFC adopt the same methods as One Championship. They banned weight cutting in 2015. Fighters fight at their walk around weight and are weighed in as latest as 3 hours before the fight. Also, they test the hydration levels in urine samples. More details - https://www.mmamania.com/2017/5/25/15693052/one-championship-abolished-weight-cutting-in-mma

I don't watch TUF anymore but I hear post 2010 the ratings are down, that nobody watches it anymore? Probably because there is no longer heated rivalries like Tito-Shamrock? Or volatile characters like Rampage? So, with dipping ratings I don't know if the TUF stint is really going to promote Stipe much. But Stipe mentioned that he is excited to coach, that he wants to be part of the new guys' path to victory. Perhaps, emotionally the TUF stint will be satisfying for him but financially I don't see much changing for Stipe. He is a champ just in the wrong era. No trash talk, no twitter battle = no money in the Mcgregor era. In the Liddell/Hughes/BJ Penn era Stipe would have been huge.

Sometimes I just get sick when I see Mayweather posting a photo of a $100 mill cheque and Mcgregor replying "yum yum" and in the midst of all this the fans fighting over who got more money as if they own the money themselves. Whilst Mcgregor remains relevant through twitter battles active champs like Stipe, Max get nothing. Poor Max is on a shit card like UFC 222 and will make under 500k again. Somebody like a Sage Northcutt gets $75k to show while Rory got $59k for his war with Lawler. Don't get why the fighters don't form a union and come up with minimum pay stipulations? MM, T-Wood, Stipe could be at the forefront?

You said the truth here, bottom line is you will drive yourself nuts judging how much a fighter should be paid based on fighting merit.

I am a purist but I know there is no real "sport" here any longer. It's the entertainment business now.

I cannot pay you more than what you draw period. It does not matter how much legit fight cred you have it's how many eyes want to see you period. It's literally like which actors will make the biggest box office draw not who has the best acting chops.

It's said but like Sonnen says, it's a boys club and the boys know who the best it.