Jorge Masvidal Responds to Dana White, Calls For UFC Release
Jorge Masvidal (photo via UFC / YouTube)
By FCF Staff
Recently Jon Jones has been feuding with Dana White and the UFC over his contract, and now Jorge Masvidal is doing the same.
Masvidal was expected to challenge welterweight champ Kamaru Usman next, but the fight has yet to be signed. More recently, Masvidal relayed on Twitter that he’s not going to accept what the UFC’s offered for his next bout.
White was asked to comment on the situation while talking with the media ahead of UFC 250. Here’s some of what he had to say (quotes via MMA Junkie).
“Anybody that doesn’t want to fight doesn’t have to fight, including Masvidal and Jon Jones and all these other guys,” White said. “It doesn’t have to be because of the pandemic. These guys are independent contractors. This isn’t like the NFL where I can make you: ‘You come to practice and you do this or you’re going to get fined or you’re going to get this.’ These guys can do whatever they want. They can say whatever they want.
“… We’re not begging people to fight. We’re offering fights because in our contract, I have to give you three fights a year. You have the ability to turn them down and not take them.”
After seeing White’s comments, Masvidal tweeted out this.
Please don’t compare us to these other leagues. I wish we can negotiate for less pay like the other leagues where the players get half the revenue they generate. We are negotiating from like what 12% to maybe 18% of revenue we generate? We are negotiating down from way under https://t.co/qPmbyWkuaK
— Jorge Masvidal UFC (@GamebredFighter) June 5, 2020
50% of the revenue. I don’t get paid on the hot dog you sell in the arena or the logo on the cage. I’ve never made a dollar on a ticket you sell. I get punched in the face for a living and even I know the pandemic or what’s left of it has nothing to do with it
— Jorge Masvidal UFC (@GamebredFighter) June 5, 2020
I’m not an independent contractor if I can’t go anywhere else to make a living. Let me go and let me see if I’m worth it @espn #supernecessary
— Jorge Masvidal UFC (@GamebredFighter) June 5, 2020
