Bloody Elbow<\/a>. \u201cThere is a monumental change for the swing of the business. They\u2019ve got to be careful, because at the end of the day, I\u2019m not going to let Tom Aspinall fight for the kind of money that\u2019s in his contract, to be involved in a fight against [Alex] Pereira or [Ciryl] Gane for literally one fiftieth of the revenue for that show. F*ck that! I won\u2019t let him do it.<\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s time those UFC fighters stop being mugs and start to understand that these people are taking advantage of them. They deserve better. They don\u2019t mind paying these [boxers] all this money, but they won\u2019t do it for the UFC fighters.\u201d<\/p>\n
The conversation around the difference in pay between boxing and MMA has been a source of contention for years in the combat sports world, but has particularly come to a head recently as White and TKO have begun their push into boxing while also attempting to change the Ali Act.<\/p>\n
The presence of the Ali Act and the lack of one dominant controlling force is one of the primary reasons top boxers make so much of the revenue generated from their fights, and as he\u2019s now more involved in MMA, Hearn believes his client is getting screwed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m saying my advice to Tom Aspinall will be, \u2018Don\u2019t you dare take that fight for the money that\u2019s in your contract. You are one of the biggest stars in UFC. That fight against Pereira or Gane is one of the biggest fights the UFC can make,\u2019\u201d Hearn said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will tell you the number in time, if we get to that. UFC fans, everybody will be sick to their stomach about the money Tom Aspinall is supposed to get for that fight, for the revenue that exists for that fight. It\u2019s not fair.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not trying to be unreasonable, but my advice to him is, \u2018Mate, you don\u2019t need them. You nearly lost your eyesight. You had four operations on your eyes, and you want to go back and fight for virtually nothing in this fight, in a rematch?\u2019 He knows no better; he\u2019s a fighter. Trust me when I say I know what I\u2019m talking about, and it\u2019s outrageous. And I will do everything I can to not allow it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Aspinall still has no set return date, but he\u2019s expected to defend his heavyweight title in a unification bout against the winner of the interim title fight between Alex Pereira and Ciryl Gane that takes place next Saturday at UFC White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn is bringing new energy to UFC fighter management. Earlier this year, Hearn signed on to manage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-717581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}