Häromdagen postade den forne tungviktsmästaren Fabricio Werdum en bild på Instagram, där han syntes med en photoshoppad Reebok-tröja som istället hade det rivaliserande företaget Nike:s logotyp.
Werdum valde att göra detta för att uttrycka sitt missnöje med den relativt låga summan pengar fighters får från Reebok efter matcher (5000 dollar). Nu berättar brasilianaren att han förhandlar om ett sponsringskontrakt med Nike.
Via MMAJunkie:
(Nike and I) are negotiating, it’s going to happen – we’ll see if it happens, it depends on figures, it depends on a lot of things. We might close (the deal), we might not. But, I went ahead because I’m not happy with Reebok. I’m not happy because making $5,000 per fight sucks. For a person who made $100,000, $150,000 per fight, going to $5,000, it’s not easy. It was more a protest, but I’m already negotiating with Nike.
I also wanted to say that it’s important that other sponsors know that – sometimes other big sponsors don’t come to you because they think you have exclusivity with Reebok. I have no exclusivity with Reebok, it’s only during the fight and that’s it. Because that’s how it goes and we can’t do anything about it. But outside of the octagon, that’s where things show up the most, at social media, that’s where they show the brand, at training. It’s nice to clarify that, outside the UFC, I can have the sponsors I want.
Werdum möter härnäst Cain Velasquez under UFC 207.
