Jacob ”Stitch” Duran blev sparkad från UFC efter att han hade åsikter gällande avtalet mellan organisationen och Reebok, då det påverkade Durans lön kraftigt enligt honom själv då han inte fick bära sina sponsorer inne i oktagonen.
Här kan ni läsa det senaste Duran hade att säga om hela situationen, via ”Off The Ball”:
I don’t know, maybe I’m jabbing a bit too hard and he has to come back with something. But, that’s not much of a counter-punch. He says we have 10 cutmen in UFC. But let me correct that. In the United States, we have 13 cutmen. In Europe there is four or five, in Brazil we have two and Canda has one.
He says he never deals with cutmen. But, he’s the one who started this program and as a general you always know who’s in the frontlines and who’s in the backlines. That’s just good strategy. And if you get Dana to name three cutmen outside of myself and Don House, he has no clue. And he didn’t really appreciate the things that we did.
That’s what made it really impossible for me to continue working with the UFC because the majority of the money I was making was through my sponsors. In the event that I work with the UFC, the pay-scale was definitely not even close to what I was getting in boxing. So when they took the sponsors away that changed the whole landscape of what I have to do because I have a family to support.
I enjoyed working for UFC and I think I did a lot for them as a representative and spoke highly about them. I supported them when the boxing people would try to chastise them. I would put them in check. I did everything that a person that is dedicated to the UFC would do. But, yeah, that changed.
Härnäst kommer Duran att arbeta vid ”World Series of Fighting 22”, som äger rum den 1 augusti.
