{"id":56065,"date":"2025-08-09T03:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T03:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/56065\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T03:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T03:47:07","slug":"matt-brown-criticizes-fcking-idiot-renato-moicano-laments-fighters-vying-for-dana-whites-love-and-acknowledgement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/56065\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Brown criticizes \u2018f*cking idiot\u2019 Renato Moicano, laments fighters vying for Dana White\u2019s \u2018love and acknowledgement\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lightweight<\/a> veteran Renato Moicano<\/a> made headlines recently after revealing that he was turning down money<\/a> that was going to be paid to him from the recent UFC antitrust lawsuit settlement.<\/p>\n

The $375 million settlement is being dispersed to fighters who competed for the promotion between 2010 and 2017 with Moicano among those due for a payout. While attorneys handling the settlement stated that approximately 97 percent of fighters due funds are getting paid, there are a few holdouts like Moicano who passed on the money.<\/p>\n

UFC legend Matt Brown<\/a> is among those fighters due to get paid from the lawsuit settlement and while he doubts Moicano is actually turning down the money, he believes even the public statement speaks to a bigger issue facing athletes today.<\/p>\n

\u201cI question whether that\u2019s true or not, too. I think Moicano may be saying that in public but I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s truly the case in reality, though,\u201d Brown said on The Fighter vs. The Writer. \u201cI question that strongly knowing some inside things.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s very, very few people that haven\u2019t signed up to get their money. I doubt that Moicano\u2019s one of them to be honest. It doesn\u2019t make him look better saying that. I don\u2019t think anybody is like \u2018wow, bro, you\u2019re f*cking brand loyal, good for you!\u2019 No, everybody\u2019s like you\u2019re a f*cking idiot for this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moicano explained his decision to turn down the money after stating that he \u201cagreed to the terms of the contract\u201d and those terms paid him at a rate that was \u201ca huge deal\u201d for him.<\/p>\n

After spending 15 years in the UFC, Brown understands that loyalty towards the promotion only goes so far, especially with the way things are run now. During the start of his UFC career, Brown felt like the organization was a family with only a few key executives at the top making decisions but that\u2019s no longer the case after Endeavor purchased the organization for over $4 billion back in 2016.<\/p>\n

Since then, Brown says the UFC is no different from any other corporation out there on a mission to make money and treating everything as a business.<\/p>\n

In fact, the $375 million settlement is proof that the UFC is even treating the lawsuit as a business move because the potential losses from going to trial and losing could have been much greater.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a corporation now. You\u2019re not changing Dana\u2019s day at all [by taking the money],\u201d Brown said. \u201cOnce the lawsuit was settled, Dana [White] did not think it for one second after that. He claims he didn\u2019t think about it before that but I doubt that\u2019s actually the case. But after it was settled, it was a drop in the bucket for them, the amount of money. It\u2019s a f*cking write off for them, too, of all things, which is not a write off for us. We have to pay taxes on it but it\u2019s a write off for the UFC, which is insanity to me.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s from a corporation. It\u2019s like if Apple had a class action lawsuit against them and had to pay out and then you said \u2018No, I love my iPhone.\u2019 It\u2019s literally the same thing. The money\u2019s already paid out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brown believes fighters attempting to curry favor with the UFC for any reason speaks to a much bigger problem in the sport.<\/p>\n

Unlike say the NFL with 32 teams all competing against each other and vying for the same pool of players, which then leads to bigger and bigger contracts being offered and paid, the UFC has set up a much different structure.<\/p>\n

As the largest and only profitable MMA company currently operating in the sport, Brown knows fighters are all trying to compete for the UFC and that ultimately gives the organization a massive leg up when it comes to negotiations and how much money is being paid to the athletes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat this sport has become, the way that the UFC has built it is not proper,\u201d Brown said. \u201cWhat it leads to the way it\u2019s built \u2014 if you\u2019re Dana White<\/a>, it\u2019s proper, if you\u2019re on the business side, you sold your business for $4 billion, you did the right thing for yourself and your company. The business doesn\u2019t care about doing things right. The business cares about making money and that\u2019s what the business is there for.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe promoters should be competing for the fighters. With the way the UFC has been structured and built is the fighters are competing for Dana\u2019s acknowledgment and Dana\u2019s love. That is completely opposite the way it should be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brown believes it all boils down to the central problem plaguing fighters right now, especially when somebody like Moicano is just passing on money due to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cMoicano, rather than taking money that he fought for as a prizefighter, he wants Dana\u2019s love and acknowledgment more than the money, thinking that it\u2019s going to get him more money in the future,\u2019 Brown said. \u201cThat should be a very f*cking clear sign of how flipped this script is and how f*cked up it really is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Listen to new episodes of The Fighter vs. The Writer every Tuesday with audio only versions of the podcast available on Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Google Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>, and iHeartRadio<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lightweight veteran Renato Moicano made headlines recently after revealing that he was turning down money that was going…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,37036,329,82,640,702],"class_list":["post-56065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-mmaf-podcast-network","tag-podcasts","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}