UFC president Dana White has endured his fair share of criticism over how his organization pays its fighters. The heat on White turned up even more recently when he offered $250 thousand in cash to the Nelk Boys as a birthday present, but White blasted his critics on the Pat McAfee show earlier this week.
While the UFC continues to turn record profits, its pay scale for most of the roster remains minimal. The standard agreement for most fighters is $10 thousand to show up to a fight, and $10 thousand to win.
Dana White Defends $250K Nelk Boys Present: “All these people on the internet, go f*** yourself”
“Let me set this record straight: First of all, all these people on the internet, go f*** yourself. I spend my money however the f*** I want to spend my money. Mind your own f****** business, No. 1.
No. 2, if you look at what Kyle and the Nelk Boys have done as far as Howler Head and a lot of other things that they’ve done, those kids have never asked me for anything, ever.
Never asked me for anything, and they couldn’t be better people; Kyle has done so many things for me, and believe me, the $250,000 that I have him for his birthday does not cover the amount of things that that kid has done for me. So don’t count other people’s money, and mind your own f****** business.”
Dana White reserved particular ire for the “scumbag MMA media”, who he blamed for starting the problem in the first place. “A lot of this is driven by the scumbag MMA media.
So what happens is, they act like there’s this massive safe here at the UFC offices that says, ‘Fighter pay’ on it, and I just go in there and grab whatever I want out of the fighter pay. No, you f****** pieces of s***, this is money that I actually have made over an entire career, and I will spend it however the f*** I want.
What drives them crazy is, they don’t know [about our business].
They don’t like the fact that they don’t know. They want to know f****** everything, like all these other sports, you find out – we’re already hearing what’s going on with the negotiations with the Boston Celtics and possibly [Kevin] Durant. I don’t tell these f****** people anything, ever. You know what they know? What I tell them, and I tell them nothing, because I can’t stand them, and I don’t trust them.”
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