{"id":387830,"date":"2022-05-07T07:15:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T07:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=387830"},"modified":"2022-05-07T07:15:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T07:15:08","slug":"things-r-getting-worse-unless-theres-change-jake-paul-blasts-the-ufc-and-as-he-blames-fighter-pay-for-a-46-decrease-in-parent-company-endeavors-shares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/things-r-getting-worse-unless-theres-change-jake-paul-blasts-the-ufc-and-as-he-blames-fighter-pay-for-a-46-decrease-in-parent-company-endeavors-shares\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Things R Getting Worse Unless There\u2019s Change\u201d- Jake Paul Blasts the UFC and as He Blames Fighter Pay for a 46% Decrease in Parent Company Endeavor\u2019s Shares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The issue of fighter pay is something that has plagued the UFC since its early days. The promotion has been under intense scrutiny over fighter compensation, with multiple fighters, both past and present, coming out in public against the UFC.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This has only increased in recent times, with Jake Paul pouring gasoline on an already burning issue. Ever since Paul has started bashing White and the UFC, a host of fighters including champions such as Francis Ngannou have come out and mentioned some of the draconian clauses in their contract which leave them unable to do anything outside the UFC.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tapology.com\/fightcenter\/fighters\/248054-jake-paul\">Paul<\/a>, who recently became an investor in the UFC\u2019s parent company put out a tweet bashing the UFC for the fall in the stock price of Endeavor. He said, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c-46% happens when u don\u2019t treat employees \/ fighters fairly. I invested in EDR \/ UFC in January. Things r getting worse unless there\u2019s change. UFC fighters have never been more powerful, to band together &amp; not fight. It will CRUSH the stock &amp; force UFC to treat fighters betr!\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">-46% happens when u don\u2019t treat employees \/ fighters fairly.<\/p>\n<p>I invested in EDR \/ UFC in January. Things r getting worse unless there\u2019s change.<\/p>\n<p>UFC fighters have never been more powerful, to band together &amp; not fight. It will CRUSH the stock &amp; force UFC to treat fighters betr! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nXlUsEE8zo\">pic.twitter.com\/nXlUsEE8zo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jake Paul (@jakepaul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jakepaul\/status\/1522582144568156163?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Endeavor went public in April last year. Their IPO set the share price at $24, the stock touched a record high of\u00a0 $35.28 before it started pummelling down. While Paul believes that it is due to the promotion\u2019s poor treatment of fighters, that might not actually be the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:-<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/georges-st-pierre-gives-his-instant-reaction-to-charles-oliveiras-ufc-274-weight-mishap-might-have-a-negative-effect-on-his-performance\/\">Georges St-Pierre Gives His Instant Reaction to Charles Oliveira\u2019s UFC 274 Weight Mishap: \u201cMight Have a Negative Effect on His Performance\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Will Dana White and the UFC succumb to external pressure?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prior to Endeavor\u2019s IPO, the promotion\u2019s financials were a bit of a secret. Now that the UFC\u2019s parent company is a publicly traded company, the promotion is an open book and has to disclose every cent they make, which has further increased the scrutiny on the company.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-387455 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/05\/image01-3.jpeg\" alt=\"Dana White\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/05\/image01-3.jpeg 1400w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/05\/image01-3-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/05\/image01-3-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/05\/image01-3-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/05\/image01-3-768x768.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is reported the other major leagues such as the NFL, NBA etc split their revenue almost equally with the players. However, the UFC distributes just 16% of their revenue among the athletes. Dana White\u2019s recent comments that boxers are overpaid did not sit well with fans either who bombarded White for his comments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The issue of fighter pay is something that has plagued the UFC since its early days. The promotion has been under intense scrutiny over fighter compensation, with multiple fighters, both past and present, coming out in public against the UFC.\u00a0 This has only increased in recent times, with Jake Paul pouring gasoline on an already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":384967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}