Två MMA-legendarer gick match i helgen. den forne UFC-fightern Chuck Liddell tog sig an en annan forne UFC-fighter i Tito Ortiz. De båda hade ställts mot varandra två gånger tidigare där Liddell hade gått segrande ur båda. Den här gången var det Ortiz som drog det längsta strået då han knockade Liddell redan i första ronden.
UFCs VD Dana White var inte alls imponerad över spektaklet mellan de två tidigare forna lätta-tungviktsmästarna i UFC. White skrev följande om Oscar De La Hoya som står bakom organisationen Golden Boy Promotions.
Listen, I love Chuck Liddell and I don’t ever want to badmouth Chuck Liddell or even let people think I’m remotely badmouthing Chuck Liddell. But the reality is, first of all, I heard last week the cokehead, ‘Oscar De La Weirdo,’ is talking s—, that I don’t have any place to tell guys when to retire It’s called friendship. It’s friendship, you f—ing cokehead. I’ve been friends with Chuck Liddell for 20 years and the reality is Chuck Liddell retired when he should have retired eight or nine years ago.
Oscar fucking De La Hoya says, ‘Oh, come over to Golden Boy where we respect the fighters and it makes me sick what these fighters were paid’ and all this shit. Out of 14 fights on the card, five bouts were amateur fights. Which means he didn’t pay them jack shit, right? What the fuck are you talking about you cokehead junkie? Some of the guys on the card made $1,000 and $1,000. And he respects the fighters so much, he couldn’t remember their fucking names at the press conference.
Tito Ortiz har nu svarat White och skriver följande.
I appreciate everything you have done for me & the sport, in my humble opinion I don’t feel Chuck & I were compensated correctly for all that we gave & sacrificed for the company. When you sold the company for over 4.5 billion dollars how much of that did Chuck and I get ? Nothing.”
I’m trying to build something new and rewarding for the sport! This is not about you, it is not about me… I want it to be about the fighters & giving them the opportunity to share in all the rewards this business has to offer to where they don’t have to fight when they are 43 & 48.
Nedan kan ni ta del av den fullständiga lönelistan efter galan.
Chuck Liddell: $250,000 (no win bonus)
Tito Ortiz: $200,000 (no win bonus)
Tom Lawlor: $25,000 (no win bonus)
Deron Winn: $5,000 ($5,000 win bonus)
Efrain Escudero: $10,000 ($10,000 win bonus)
Gleison Tibau: $10,000 ($10,000 win bonus)
Walel Watson: $5,000 ($5,000 win bonus)
Ricardo Palacios: $5,000 ($5,000 win bonus)
Albert Morales: $2,500 ($2,500 win bonus)
James Barnes: $2,500 ($2,500 win bonus)
Oscar Cota: $5,000 ($5,000 win bonus)
Jay Silva: $5,000 ($5,000 win bonus)
Fernie Garcia: $1,500 ($1,500 win bonus)
Joe Roye: $1,250 ($1,250 win bonus)
Jose Huerta: $1,250 ($1,250 win bonus)
Francisco Estrada: $1,000 ($1,000 win bonus)
Keith Berry: $3,000 ($3,000 win bonus)
Joseph Henle: $3,000 ($3,000 win bonus)
Craig Wilkerson: $1,500 ($1,500 win bonus)
Joshua Jones: $1,500 ($1,500 win bonus)
Johnny Cisneros: $2,000 ($2,000 win bonus)
Dave Terrel: $2,500 ($2,500 win bonus)
