Dana White Talks ESPN Outside The Lines Segment

I sent ESPN an email asking them to treat their reporting of MMA/UFC like a real sport if they are going to criticize it. ESPN obviously has some personal vendetta against the UFC.

Did Chuck get a perm

Lorenzo is intelligent as hell. he handled the interviewer, imo. and i side with dana on this one. there is no excuse for espn to pay SO LITTLE to those guys on friday night fights. when fertita called espn out right there, man, those number were startling.

UFC 1, ESPN 0

Frank Shamrock seems to be leading this ESPN reporter in a wild direction.

@jake : Umm.. that’s the UFC’s version.

is sad ,but true, i love ufc, but ,they really dont care about fighters.sorry is true

Hopefully this will educate people on how business is run at the UFC and haters will finally get it. They are a well run company that makes money and spreads it nicely and at the same time are focused on MMA as a sport so that it can spread. What’s the problem? Look what happened to Elite XC. Money alone doesn’t make anything work. You need intelligence and drive behind that money. Fakers who just want to make a buck will come crashing. The UFC has done so well because they have a passion for the sport behind the money. Think about if fighters had to pre sale tickets only showcasing their fight. What would someone like Rani Yahya pull in compared to Anderson Silva? Or even a lesser name like Jake Ellenberger? The UFC doesn’t take a percentage of fighters sponsorship pay, yet creates and produces the events in which make those sponsorships viable. Lets get on the level.

ESPN bitter for not getting the deal FOX got??? Seems like it.

Keep up the great work, Bruno. Thanks for keeping us in the loop with an unbiased report of everything that’s out there.

Like not to show im bias some good things the ufc has done is given people a place to fight and also they pay so all of there fighters can make a decent living. The performance thing makes sense and the bonus. They also helped out bums like ken shamrock and tito ortiz. They help out the army. Another thing too is they basically saved strikeforce it was in the hole and was going under so those fighters would of been screwed. So all the fighters and such would be without a job expecially the female ones. My points on the above comment were my own sorry espn had none of those besides about the monopoly and them not paying any of there fighters which is dumb.

@jake

thats wasnt the edit espn aired

Great job UFC!!!! and F..K ESPN

It’s bad if you look at it in a certain way; ESPN is certainly attacking in the interview, I also don’t think that is the version ESPN aired.

What bothers me the most is that a lot of folks that work in ESPN are in no way shape or form, “bad” journalist and can wrap their heads around what the UFC is and what’s going on but they don’t seem to realize that it’s still a young sport that doesn’t garner as much revenue as the NFL, NBA and MLB, where they can pay their athletes, millions to compete. It’s ridiculous to ask the UFC how come a lot of athletes are making so little; it’s almost in the same category as doing the same piece with the WNBA or AFL.

As a UFC fan, I think that was really well handled by Lorenzo.

That UFC fighter “source” the interviewer has sure sounds like a bitch to me.I think the bonus system is good.And I never saw a guy getting a bonus where I thought he didnt deserved it.Every KO of the night,Sub of the night and fight of the night are not contreversial and never were imo.That guy saying you need to kiss their ass to get a bonus must be a boring fighter who takes people down holds them and never passes,strikes,or attempts subs on his opponent.

The UFC is a BUSINESS just like in the corporate world, you only have the skills to work in the mail room? Guess what you earn s***, you have skills to make the company money? You’re going to make some bank (which benifits the company and EVERYONE in it).

ESPN hating on Fox Sports, end of story.

MMA is not a 9-5 job. Sorry, but you either make it through talent or you don’t. If you’re making 6,000 a fight and not thankful or exceeding that, then this is probably not the sport for you, or its not your time yet, because some because start to rise later in their careers. If your name grows, your sponsorships start to come in and everything else that comes along with it.

Lorenzo did do a great job. I have an issue with the monopoly aspect of it. that is what ESPN seemed to focus on. Yes, the UFC does take care of its fighters and thats great. The UFC do not want to admit they are a monopoly and they dont see themselves that way (because they just outclassed every other org., which is true.) But Microsoft got treated as a monopoly and they were jsut better than everone else. IDK, its very interesting though.

Lorenzo… Like a Boss

With all the sopa/pipa stuff flying around, I’m sure that the UFC is thankful that they can get this info out to the masses through a website like this.